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Master of ScienceWood TechnologyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/114072/1/39015003267112.pd

Fabric-formed concrete beams

This article looks at the use of fabric as flexible formwork for concrete structures. Much of this work stems from the fundamental work carried out by West(1) in Canada, although significant advances in the technology are presented here. Patents exist from the late 1800s, which started to moot the idea of fabrics being used as formwork (Lamberton(2)), and while various projects have incorporated the use of fabric formwork over the subsequent years, it is West, in particular, who is now looked at worldwide as the driver of this technology

Identifying Early Help Referrals For Local Authorities With Machine Learning And Bias Analysis

Local authorities in England, such as Leicestershire County Council (LCC), provide Early Help services that can be offered at any point in a young person's life when they experience difficulties that cannot be supported by universal services alone, such as schools. This paper investigates the utilisation of machine learning (ML) to assist experts in identifying families that may need to be referred for Early Help assessment and support. LCC provided an anonymised dataset comprising 14360 records of young people under the age of 18. The dataset was pre-processed, machine learning models were build, and experiments were conducted to validate and test the performance of the models. Bias mitigation techniques were applied to improve the fairness of these models. During testing, while the models demonstrated the capability to identify young people requiring intervention or early help, they also produced a significant number of false positives, especially when constructed with imbalanced data, incorrectly identifying individuals who most likely did not need an Early Help referral. This paper empirically explores the suitability of data-driven ML models for identifying young people who may require Early Help services and discusses their appropriateness and limitations for this task