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Effect of drama-education for alcohol/substance user on attitudes toward violence against women: randomized controlled design
CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that creative drama education may have a beneficial effect on improving attitudes toward VAW among men with alcohol and substance use disorders. Further studies with larger and more diverse samples are recommended to confirm the generalizability and long-term impact of this approach. →
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Akita Japan population-based colonoscopy screening trial: report of initial colonoscopy
CONCLUSIONS: Adequate performance in compliance, ADR, and safety was confirmed in the intervention arm of the RCT evaluating the efficacy of screening colonoscopy. The high quality of screening colonoscopy observed in the trial suggests its feasibility as a population-based screening approach. →
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Effects of an interprofessional care concept in nursing homes evaluated in the SaarPHIR project: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: All-cause hospitalization was not significantly affected in the relatively short duration of the intervention. Nevertheless, secondary outcomes suggest some positive effects for the intervention group. However, participation in the intervention group was lower than expected at both the nursing home and resident levels, limiting the validity of the results. →
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Meet LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm: A Python Library for Creating Swarm-Style Multi-Agent Systems Using LangGraph
«`html Meet LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm: A Python Library for Creating Swarm-Style Multi-Agent Systems Using LangGraph LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm is a Python library designed to orchestrate multiple AI agents as a cohesive “swarm.” It builds on LangGraph, a framework for constructing robust, stateful agent workflows, enabling a specialized form of multi-agent architecture. In a swarm, agents… →
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DanceGRPO: A Unified Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Visual Generation Across Multiple Paradigms and Tasks
«`html DanceGRPO: A Unified Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Visual Generation Across Multiple Paradigms and Tasks Recent advancements in generative models, particularly diffusion models and rectified flows, have significantly improved visual content creation. Integrating human feedback during training is crucial for aligning outputs with human preferences and aesthetic standards. However, current methods, such as ReFL,… →
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Managing Supply Chains in a Tariff-Fueled Trade War
Alice Mollon/Ikon Images Companies routinely retune their supply chains in response to market changes, but the gyrations caused by the Trump administration’s on/off tariff regime are far from routine. How do supply chain planners address the immediate challenges, and what are the long-term implications they should consider? Many larger companies can cope with the new… →
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ByteDance Introduces Seed1.5-VL: A Vision-Language Foundation Model Designed to Advance General-Purpose Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
«`html ByteDance Introduces Seed1.5-VL: A Vision-Language Foundation Model ByteDance has developed Seed1.5-VL, a vision-language foundation model that integrates visual and textual data to enhance multimodal understanding and reasoning. This model is designed to address the limitations of current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in tasks requiring complex reasoning and interaction in both digital and real-world environments. Advancements… →
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Comparison of two maneuvers to identify Carnett’s sign in patients with chronic abdominal pain. Randomized controlled clinical trial
CONCLUSION: The two ways of exploring the Carnett sign have similar efficacy. Infiltration with 2% lidocaine produced rapid and significant improvement of pain with minimal side effects. Not knowing the Carnett sign increases health costs. →
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Anaerobutyricum soehngenii improves glycemic control and other markers of cardio-metabolic health in adults at risk of type 2 diabetes
Anaerobutyricum soehngenii (previously Eubacterium hallii) is a butyrate-producing next-generation beneficial microbe generally recognized as safe. Several short-term intervention trials by A. soehngenii L2-7 have shown improvement of insulin sensitivity in prediabetic subjects and type 2 diabetes patients. To determine the long-term cardiometabolic benefits and safety, we performed a 3-month double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled intervention in 98… →
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Non-Inferiority of Subcutaneous Efepoetin Alfa Compared to Methoxy Polyethylene Glycol-Epoetin Beta in Stage 3 or 4 CKD Patients: Insights From a Phase 3 Trial
CONCLUSION: Efepoetin alfa demonstrated non-inferiority to methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta in correcting anaemia and maintaining haemoglobin (Hb) levels among stage 3 and 4 CKD patients. Moreover, the safety profile of efepoetin alfa was comparable to methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta. →
