British Journal of Sports Medicine

Can fitness apps work long term? A 24-month quasiexperiment of 516 818 Canadian fitness app users

Objective To examine whether a multicomponent commercial fitness app with very small (‘micro’) financial incentives (FI) ...
IEEE

Iterative Regression Algorithm for Parameter Estimation for Nondestructive One-Shot Devices Under Cyclic Accelerated Life Test With Adaptive Proportion of Failure Design

Abstract: One-shot devices, such as automotive airbags, fire extinguishers and ammunitions, pose significant challenges in their reliability analysis due to their inherently unobservable lifespans.
Wall Street Journal

The Curriculum Flowchart That Has Texas Professors Up in Arms

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...
IEEE

Prediction of Wind Power Generation using Novel Linear Regression Algorithm Compared over Lasso Algorithm for Improving Accuracy Rate

Abstract: This paper is a novel approach to improving the accuracy of wind power generation predictions by using linear regression (LR) algorithm differentiated with the Lasso regression (LaR). The ...