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Do support groups members disclose less to their partners? the dynamics of HIV disclosure in four African countries

24/06/2013 Journal Papers Publications No Comments
To appear in BMC Public Health. Background: Recent efforts to curtail the HIV epidemic in Africa have emphasized preventing sexual transmission to partners through antiretroviral therapy. A component of current strategies is disclosure to partners, thus understanding its motivations will help maximise results. This study examines the rates, dynamics and consequences…
mathematics

Parsimonious Relevance Models

16/07/2008 Conference Papers Publications No Comments
Relevance feedback is often applied to better capture a user’s information need. Automatically reformulating queries (or blind relevance feedback) entails looking at the terms in some set of (pseudo-)relevant documents and selecting the most informative ones with respect to the set or the collection. These terms may then be reweighed…