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Today, the Council approved the EU’s statement of intent on its post-2030 NDC, outlining its intention to submit an NDC ahead of COP30.

The Council adopted a decision on the position that the EU will take in the EU – Moldova Association Committee in Trade Configuration as regards increasing market access for some exports not yet liberalised.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Defence investment: Council authorises negotiations with UK and Canada on their participation in SAFE.

Council amends existing regulations to address current and emerging challenges in the context of the mid-term review of EU cohesion policy.

Today, the Council approved the EU’s statement of intent on its post-2030 NDC, outlining its intention to submit an NDC ahead of COP30.

The Council adopted a decision on the position that the EU will take in the EU – Moldova Association Committee in Trade Configuration as regards increasing market access for some exports not yet liberalised.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Today, the Council approved the EU’s statement of intent on its post-2030 NDC, outlining its intention to submit an NDC ahead of COP30.

The Council adopted a decision on the position that the EU will take in the EU – Moldova Association Committee in Trade Configuration as regards increasing market access for some exports not yet liberalised.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Er will sie loswerden. Trumps Begehren, die Vorständin der US-Notenbank Fed, Lisa Cook, zu entlassen, wurde aber abgeschmettert. Nun wendet er sich an eine Etage höher.

Amidst different global food insecurity challenges, like the COVID-19 pandemic and economic turmoil, this article investigates the potential of machine learning (ML) to enhance food insecurity forecasting. So far, only few existing studies have used pre-shock training data to predict food insecurity and if they did, they have neither done this at the household-level nor systematically tested the performance and robustness of ML algorithms during the shock phase. To address this research gap, we use pre-COVID trained models to predict household-level food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda and propose a new approach to evaluate the performance and robustness of ML models. The objective of this study is therefore to find high-performance and robust ML algorithms during a shock period, which is both methodologically innovative and practically relevant for food insecurity research. First, we find that ML can work well in a shock context when only pre-shock food security data are available. We can identify 80% of food-insecure households during the COVID-19 pandemic based on pre-shock trained models at the cost of falsely classifying around 40% of food-secure households as food insecure. Second, we show that the extreme gradient boosting algorithm, trained by balanced weighting, works best in terms of prediction quality. We also identify the most important predictors and find that demographic and asset features play a crucial role in predicting food insecurity. Last but not least, we also make a contribution by showing how different ML models should be evaluated in terms of their area under curve (AUC) value, the ability of the model to correctly classify positive and negative cases, and in terms of the change in AUC in different situations.

Amidst different global food insecurity challenges, like the COVID-19 pandemic and economic turmoil, this article investigates the potential of machine learning (ML) to enhance food insecurity forecasting. So far, only few existing studies have used pre-shock training data to predict food insecurity and if they did, they have neither done this at the household-level nor systematically tested the performance and robustness of ML algorithms during the shock phase. To address this research gap, we use pre-COVID trained models to predict household-level food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda and propose a new approach to evaluate the performance and robustness of ML models. The objective of this study is therefore to find high-performance and robust ML algorithms during a shock period, which is both methodologically innovative and practically relevant for food insecurity research. First, we find that ML can work well in a shock context when only pre-shock food security data are available. We can identify 80% of food-insecure households during the COVID-19 pandemic based on pre-shock trained models at the cost of falsely classifying around 40% of food-secure households as food insecure. Second, we show that the extreme gradient boosting algorithm, trained by balanced weighting, works best in terms of prediction quality. We also identify the most important predictors and find that demographic and asset features play a crucial role in predicting food insecurity. Last but not least, we also make a contribution by showing how different ML models should be evaluated in terms of their area under curve (AUC) value, the ability of the model to correctly classify positive and negative cases, and in terms of the change in AUC in different situations.

Ohne US-Präsident Donald Trump verbrachte dessen Ehefrau Melania am Donnerstag einige Stunden mit Prinzessin Kate. Die beiden Frauen wirkten gelöst und entspannt, scherzten viel und Melania lächelte sogar.

Auf der Ferieninsel Mallorca gibts einen Immobilien-Boom! Jetzt wird sogar eine Geistersiedlung wieder zum Leben erweckt, die eigentlich längst vergessen war.

Dramatische Szenen in Au SG: Ein leerstehendes Haus gerät am frühen Donnerstagmorgen in Brand, Nachbarn mussten fluchtartig evakuiert werden. Anwohnerinnen berichten von der Nacht.

Dramatische Szenen: Ein leerstehendes Haus in Au gerät am frühen Donnerstagmorgen in Brand, Nachbarn mussten fluchtartig evakuiert werden. Der Hausbesitzer ist traurig, er kann sich den Brand nicht erklären. Die Ermittlungen zur Brandursache laufen.

Eine chinesische Airline startet bald die längste Passagierstrecke der Welt. Wer hier einsteigt, sitzt bis zu 29 Stunden im Flieger – ein neuer Rekord.

Sebastian Meier freute sich auf die Familienferien, als er die Swiss-Flüge nach Sizilien buchen wollte. Doch dann ging etwas schief. Seine Kreditkarte wurde insgesamt dreimal belastet. Das Geld war in Sekunden weg. Aber zurück kommt es nicht so schnell.