WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, Dec. 18 [Category: Materials Management] -- ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, which develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for materials, products, systems and services, issued the following news release: ASTM International's environmental assessment, risk management, and corrective action committee (E50) has presented its 2024 Robert Brink Memorial Award to Mark S. Johnson. The award was estab more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Campaign for Accountability issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2024: Today, Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a non-profit watchdog group, wrote to attorneys general in five states, highlighting new information relevant to earlier complaints CfA filed with their offices about apparently deceptive behavior of "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs) in their states, requesting investigations under states' unfair trade and deceptive practices acts. In April, CfA detail more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute issued the following news release: Machine learning (ML) models are powerful but brittle components of intelligent software systems. Developers strive to select model training data that is as close as possible to the deployment environment. If the input data from the deployment environment drifts away from the training data, the model can produce incorrect outputs, endangering the system's mission.  more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 19 -- Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute issued the following news: Machine learning (ML) models are powerful but brittle components of intelligent software systems. Developers strive to select model training data that is as close as possible to the deployment environment. If the input data from the deployment environment drifts away from the training data, the model can produce incorrect outputs, endangering the system's mission. The SEI  more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Dec. 18 -- The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression issued the following news release: JACKSON HOLE, Wy. Dec. 18, 2024 Picture three people standing next to each other in Yellowstone National Park. One's an ordinary tourist, one's a news reporter, and the third's a documentary filmmaker. They're all filming Old Faithful, using the exact same iPhone, and without disturbing anyone around them. Under federal law, the tourist and the reporter are doing nothin more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * University of Pittsburgh study investigates assessing and reducing environmental impact of ACL reconstruction * * * A University of Pittsburgh study inspired by the late Freddie H. Fu, MD, one of the world's leading orthopaedic surgeons, is tackling a significant contributor to climate change- the healthcare sector./1 Engineers and physicians examined how  more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Dec. 19 -- Community Legal Services issued the following news: In this article, written for MIE, Chi-Ser shares her experience of caring for her father through an illness, describing how the language services that were provided lacked the dignity that would have made a huge difference for her family. Chi-Ser also shares some of the ways that the Language Access Project at CLS works to implement systemic change for limited English proficient (LEP) communities, within more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 18 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Shannon Stanek '93, DVM '97 Owner and head veterinarian: Exton Vet Clinic and Exton Vet Rehab (Pennsylvania) How VMCVM equipped me for the 'real world'... The ability to know where to look for answers when I see something I haven't seen in real life before. This month I did my first perineal hernia repair with bladder and colon pexy's after watching a YouTube video to refresh my brain on the anatomy and technique. I re more PR