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Efficacy and safety of Saccharomyces boulardii as adjunct therapy with Vancomycin in treating Clostridioides difficile infection: A randomized controlled trial
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a significant cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea, leading to high morbidity, recurrence, and healthcare costs. Probiotics like Saccharomyces boulardii show potential as an adjunct therapy to standard CDI treatment, but further trials are needed to confirm their efficacy. This study assessed the efficacy and safety of S. boulardii combined with vancomycin… →
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Mistral AI Introduces Codestral Embed: A High-Performance Code Embedding Model for Scalable Retrieval and Semantic Understanding
Mistral AI Introduces Codestral Embed: A High-Performance Code Embedding Model for Scalable Retrieval and Semantic Understanding Modern software engineering faces significant challenges in accurately retrieving and understanding code across diverse programming languages and large-scale codebases. Existing embedding models often struggle to capture the deep semantics of code, leading to poor performance in tasks such as… →
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Hands-On Guide: Getting started with Mistral Agents API
Hands-On Guide: Getting Started with Mistral Agents API The Mistral Agents API enables developers to create smart, modular agents equipped with a wide range of capabilities. Key features include: Support for a variety of multimodal models, covering both text and image-based interactions. Conversation memory, allowing agents to retain context across multiple user messages. The flexibility… →
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Meta Releases Llama Prompt Ops: A Python Package that Automatically Optimizes Prompts for Llama Models
Meta Releases Llama Prompt Ops: A Python Package that Automatically Optimizes Prompts for Llama Models The growing adoption of open-source large language models such as Llama has introduced new integration challenges for teams previously relying on proprietary systems like OpenAI’s GPT or Anthropic’s Claude. While performance benchmarks for Llama are increasingly competitive, discrepancies in prompt… →
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The Business Cost of the Shrinking STEM Research Pipeline
Alex Nabaum/theispot.com The United States’ dominance in STEM research and innovation is at a critical crossroads as the country’s STEM research industry faces unprecedented erosion that will be difficult to reverse. At the heart of this challenge lies a growing crisis in human capital: the weakening pipeline of international doctoral talent that has historically powered… →
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Merit-Based Management Demands DEI
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR Recent harsh backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices marks a pivotal moment for organizations worldwide. Once seen as essential to social progress and organizational success, these programs now face intensified scrutiny, with critics challenging their fairness and many seeking to dismantle them entirely. In this contentious climate, organizations must grapple… →
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This AI Paper Introduces LLaDA-V: A Purely Diffusion-Based Multimodal Large Language Model for Visual Instruction Tuning and Multimodal Reasoning
Introducing LLaDA-V: A Purely Diffusion-Based Multimodal Large Language Model Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are designed to process and generate content across various modalities, including text, images, audio, and video. These models aim to understand and integrate information from different sources, enabling applications such as visual question answering, image captioning, and multimodal dialogue systems. The… →
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Preoperative enema for anal surgery: randomized clinical trial
CONCLUSION: Preoperative enema in anal surgery did not yield additional benefits or reduce complications when compared with patients who did not undergo enema before anal surgery. Based on the study findings, its use can be omitted in anal surgery, especially for patients undergoing stapled haemorrhoidopexy and anal fistula surgery. →
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A Coding Guide Implementing ScrapeGraph and Gemini AI for an Automated, Scalable, Insight-Driven Competitive Intelligence and Market Analysis Workflow
A Coding Guide Implementing ScrapeGraph and Gemini AI for an Automated, Scalable, Insight-Driven Competitive Intelligence and Market Analysis Workflow In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to leverage ScrapeGraph’s powerful scraping tools in combination with Gemini AI to automate the collection, parsing, and analysis of competitor information. By using ScrapeGraph’s SmartScraperTool and MarkdownifyTool, users can extract… →
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Comparative study of different treatment modalities for melasma: introducing a novel nanotechnology-based tranexamic acid microemulsion
Melasma therapy remains challenging due to limited effectiveness, side effects, and relapses. Topical tranexamic acid (TXA) is promising but requires further research to optimize its formulation. Alongside the therapeutic benefit of fractional CO2 laser (FCL) in melasma, FCL and microneedling (MN) are recognized methods for transepidermal drug delivery. Nanotechnology-based topicals can enhance drug penetration and… →
