St Xavier’s College

A fairness audit of the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method: format-specific and gender-differential bias, with an interpretable calibration layer for cricket target revision

Abstract The Duckworth–Lewis–Stern (DLS) method has set revised targets in rain-interrupted limited-overs cricket since 1999, yet no large-scale empirical audit of its prediction bias has been published. Using ball-by-ball data for 8,150 international matches from Cricsheet, we a...

Technological and analytical advancements in liquid biopsy for multiomic profiling of lymphomas and immunopathological conditions

This is a review of up to date technological and analytical innovations in liquid biopsy to lymphomas, and its role in multi-omics-based disease characterisation, enhanced diagnostic accuracy, minimal residual disease (MRD) detection and how it can be used to support personalised...

A Novel Three-Layered Security Framework for Enhancing Data Confidentiality in Cloud Storage Environments

Objectives: Cloud data confidentiality is conventionally achieved by increasing the computational strength of a single encryption algorithm, which raises processing time and ciphertext size in proportion to security level. This study aims to achieve high confidentiality with low...

Does experience of emotional invalidation in childhood lead to growth – a qualitative enquiry using Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Abstract Background Severe abuse is not the only variant of unpleasant experiences in childhood. Childhood maltreatment in the form of emotional invalidation is potent in shaping future behaviors, both adaptive and maladaptive. Traumatic experiences in childhood are such occurren...

Traditional agroecological calendar, phenology, and biotic indicators among the Lepchas of Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya

Traditional ecological knowledge plays a crucial role in understanding ecological processes, seasonal forecasting, and sustainable agroecosystem management among indigenous communities.The present study documents and analyzes the traditional agroecological calendar and biotic eco...

SwinDent-Seg: Hybrid Swin transformer-CNN with cross-scale feature fusion for automated detection and segmentation of dental pathologies in panoramic radiographs

Background: Automatic detection and segmentation of dental diseases from panoramic x-ray images have been a difficult task to achieve due to the problems of class imbalance and varying sizes of lesions, as well as the inconspicuous nature of early caries. This paper introduces Sw...