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On the importance of using standardized anatomical terminology in palaeoanthropology: The missing StW 431 pubic body
Publication · March 05, 2025
A cluster of Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast
Publication · March 05, 2025
BaBE: Enhancing Fairness via Estimation of Explaining Variables
Abstract
We consider the problem of unfair discrimination between two groups and propose a pre-processing method to achieve fairness. Corrective methods like statistical parity usually lead to bad accuracy and do not really achieve fairness in s...
Publication · March 05, 2025
Causality Is Key to Understand and Balance Multiple Goals in Trustworthy ML and Foundation Models
Publication · March 05, 2025
Threats to energy democratization: Examining the structure of decision-making processes and new spheres of procedural (in)justice in energy transitions
In parallel with recent community-led action, published research within energy democracy [1,2] and energy justice [3,4] has proliferated over the past decade. Though nascent, advancements are being made rapidly in both sets of literature, which in...
Publication · March 04, 2025
Encouraging green infrastructure at Ontario universities: What’s policy got to do with it?
In this paper, and via a case study in Waterloo, we explore policy's role in encouraging green infrastructure (GI) adoption in Ontario universities. More specifically, we evaluate the relationship between policy and GI, and determine the policy le...
Publication · March 04, 2025