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Building an AI Platform for the Future
Photo courtesy of Grammarly Shishir Mehrotra joined Grammarly as CEO following its December 2024 acquisition of Coda, the AI productivity platform he founded in 2014. The MIT graduate began his career by cofounding Centrata and subsequently spent several years at Microsoft and then at Google as chief product officer/chief technology officer for YouTube. MIT Sloan… →
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How Close Is Commercial Quantum Computing?
Peter Hansen/Getty Images The recent spate of news in the quantum computing space is raising hopes that we’re finally on the cusp of broad commercial availability of this game-changing technology. Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google have unveiled chips billed as major advances, while scientific journals have reported some impressive results relevant to commercial… →
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Comparison of hypnosis plus sedoanalgesia and sedoanalgesia alone methods used in the ERCP procedure: A prospective randomized study
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an interventional procedure that is often performed under sedation anesthesia and that is used in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatopancreaticobiliary diseases. The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of hypnosis in conjunction with sedoanalgesia and sedoanalgesia alone in the context of outpatient anesthesia prior to ERCP.… →
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Screening and Care for Emotional and Cognitive Problems After Ischemic Stroke: Results of a Multicenter, Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Evidence regarding effectiveness of screening for emotional and cognitive problems after stroke is lacking. The primary aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that an intervention focusing on screening and care for emotional and cognitive problems after stroke would improve societal participation at 1 year. Second, we tested the hypotheses… →
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Docosahexaenoic acid benefits on growth and body composition of septic neonates. Randomized trial
CONCLUSIONS: Enteral DHA administration reduced the retarded growth and undernourishment in neonates with late sepsis. →
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Effects of the Laying on of Hands on Brain Electrical Activity in Epileptic Patients: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that the laying on of hands with healing intent as adjuvant therapy can promote changes at the neurophysiological level by increasing the alpha rhythm in patients with epilepsy. However, further studies with long-term follow-ups are warranted. →
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Comparative study between intralesional acyclovir versus intralesional 5-flurouracil in treatment of recalcitrant warts
CONCLUSION: Intralesional acyclovir and 5-FU are safe and effective methods in treatment of recalcitrant cutaneous warts. →
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia With Prolonged Exposure Compared to Sleep Hygiene and Prolonged Exposure: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: Co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and insomnia disorder is common and associated with greater psychiatric and functional problems than either condition alone. Evidence-based PTSD treatment often does not effectively decrease insomnia, and insomnia may interfere with the mechanisms underlying PTSD treatment. This study compared the efficacy of integrated cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia… →
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Optimizing muscle mass and function in advanced lung cancer patients: randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial protocol using High Eicosapentaenoic acid and PROtein (HEPRO) to modulate epigenetics, reduce toxicity and improve gut microbiota
CONCLUSIONS: The HEPRO study aims to evaluate a viable dietary intervention strategy to improve MM and function in patients with lung cancer. →
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Yandex Releases Alchemist: A Compact Supervised Fine-Tuning Dataset for Enhancing Text-to-Image T2I Model Quality
«`html Yandex Releases Alchemist: A Compact Supervised Fine-Tuning Dataset for Enhancing Text-to-Image T2I Model Quality Despite the substantial progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation brought about by models such as DALL-E 3, Imagen 3, and Stable Diffusion 3, achieving consistent output quality — both in aesthetic and alignment terms — remains challenging. While large-scale pretraining provides… →