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Calcitonin and procalcitonin measurement after cholecystokinin-2/gastrin receptor agonist stimulation in patients with advanced medullary thyroid cancer: results from the GRAN-T-MTC study
CONCLUSION: Procalcitonin concentrations after CP04 stimulation were highly correlated with calcitonin concentrations. Unlabeled CP04, if available commercially, may be considered an alternative stimulating agent in MTC patients, even in lower mass amounts. Further studies, including healthy controls, are required to prove this concept and calculate the diagnostic thresholds. →
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Effectiveness of Pharmacist Interventions in Improving Medication Use in Hospitalised Older Patients Diagnosed With Cardiovascular Diseases: INFAR Before-and-After Study
CONCLUSION: This study emphasises the role of medication reviews by clinical pharmacists in reducing polypharmacy, prescribing omissions, and inappropriate prescribing in older adults with cardiovascular diseases, demonstrating that targeted pharmacist interventions improve medication safety. →
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Influence of Electro-Acupuncture on Diplopia in Patients With Oculomotor and Abducens Nerves Palsy
BACKGROUND: Diplopia (DP) can have a significant negative impact on one’s quality of life, many clinical investigations lend credence to the notion that acupuncture could be used to treat DP symptoms, randomized controlled trials are lacking, and only clinical observational studies have assessed the effectiveness of acupuncture in managing DP. →
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How Leaders Fight Back Against Overwork
Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images For the past few years, many headlines have been telling us we’re all a little checked out at work. From passive-aggressive quiet quitting to spooky-sounding “ghost working,” people are asleep at the wheel, or at least dozing off every few miles, this line of thinking maintains. But what if that’s not… →
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New Job, Different Industry. How to Succeed When You Make the Leap.
Over the course of a career, most executives will take jobs with a variety of companies. These job switches mean not just adjusting to a new job but occasionally leaping from a familiar sector to a new, unfamiliar one. According to Rob Apatoff, a clinical professor at the Kellogg School and executive director of the… →
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Building Advanced Multi-Agent AI Workflows by Leveraging AutoGen and Semantic Kernel
«`html Understanding the Target Audience for Advanced Multi-Agent AI Workflows The target audience for the tutorial on building advanced multi-agent AI workflows using AutoGen and Semantic Kernel primarily consists of business professionals, data scientists, and AI developers. These individuals are typically involved in implementing AI solutions within their organizations and seek to enhance efficiency and… →
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TabArena: Benchmarking Tabular Machine Learning with Reproducibility and Ensembling at Scale
«`html TabArena: Benchmarking Tabular Machine Learning with Reproducibility and Ensembling at Scale Understanding the Importance of Benchmarking in Tabular ML Machine learning on tabular data focuses on building models that learn patterns from structured datasets, typically composed of rows and columns similar to those found in spreadsheets. These datasets are used in industries ranging from… →
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LongWriter-Zero: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Ultra-Long Text Generation Without Synthetic Data
«`html LongWriter-Zero: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Ultra-Long Text Generation Without Synthetic Data Introduction to Ultra-Long Text Generation Challenges Generating ultra-long texts that span thousands of words is becoming increasingly important for real-world tasks such as storytelling, legal writing, and educational materials. However, large language models still face significant challenges, including length limits and quality… →
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SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams
SAM4D introduces a 4D foundation model for promptable segmentation across camera and LiDAR streams, addressing the limitations of frame-centric and modality-isolated approaches in autonomous driving. Key Highlights: Promptable Multi-modal Segmentation (PMS) – Enables interactive segmentation across sequences from both modalities using diverse prompts (points, boxes, masks), allowing cross-modal propagation and long-term object tracking. Unified Multi-modal Positional… →
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Vector Embeddings Explained
You’ve just finished listening to your favorite high-energy workout song on Spotify, and the next track that automatically plays is one you’ve never heard, but it’s a perfect fit for your playlist. Is it magic? Not quite. It’s a clever AI concept called vector embeddings, and it’s the secret sauce behind much of the smart… →