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Short- and Longer-Term Effects of Three Intensive Straw Phonation Interventions on the Voice of Female Speech-Language Pathology Students With Mild Dysphonia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
CONCLUSIONS: Positive effects were found for the three SP interventions. The most promising results were found for SP in 2 cm water, suggesting an optimal impedance match between the glottis and the vocal tract in this specific population of female SLP students with mild dysphonia. →
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Better Code Merging with Less Compute: Meet Osmosis-Apply-1.7B from Osmosis AI
Better Code Merging with Less Compute: Meet Osmosis-Apply-1.7B from Osmosis AI Osmosis AI has open-sourced Osmosis-Apply-1.7B, a fine-tuned variant of Qwen3-1.7B, designed to perform highly accurate and structured code merging tasks. This model is optimized for context-sensitive, function-level code edits. It achieves strong performance with fewer parameters compared to larger foundation models by leveraging code-specific… →
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Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation
CONCLUSION: Participant-reported success in the urodynamics arm was not superior to the comprehensive clinical assessment only arm at 15-months follow-up. Urodynamics is not cost-effective at a threshold of £20,000 per quality-adjusted life-year gained. Longer-term follow-up is required to explore need for further interventions and treatments and their effect on the clinical and cost-effectiveness analyses. →
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Urodynamics tests for the diagnosis and management of male bladder outlet obstruction: long-term follow-up of the UPSTREAM non-inferiority RCT
CONCLUSIONS: Five-year follow-up does not support the introduction of invasive urodynamics in reducing lower urinary tract symptoms or rates of prostate surgery, from a clinical or cost-effectiveness perspective. →
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Ultrasound-Guided Pleural Needle Biopsy Which Needle for Which Patient: A Prospective Randomized Study
CONCLUSION: US-CNPB should be preferred in patients with pleural thickness ≥ 1 cm on US. MT is recommended for patients with pleural thickening < 1 cm or those presenting with pleural effusion without pleural thickening. However, in the absence of MT, US-ANPB is the preferred alternative because of its superior diagnostic accuracy and procedural safety. →
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Impact of RoSCo-based preoperative risk stratification on early mobilization and short-term outcomes following robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma: a single-center prospective study
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the RoSCo preoperative risk scoring system, which incorporates the RENAL Nephrometry Score, the Charlson’s Comorbidity Index, and body mass index to quantify surgical risk, in guiding individualized early mobilization protocols and to assess associated early postoperative recovery outcomes in patients undergoing robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) for renal… →
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Endobiliary radiofrequency ablation in recurrence and unresectable Perihilar cholangiocarcinoma
CONCLUSION: The EBRFA, when combined with SEMS placement, demonstrated procedural feasibility and acceptable outcomes as a potential palliative approach for patients with unresectable pCCA. →
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ByteDance Just Released Trae Agent: An LLM-based Agent for General Purpose Software Engineering Tasks
«`html ByteDance Just Released Trae Agent: An LLM-based Agent for General Purpose Software Engineering Tasks ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok and other global platforms, has officially released Trae Agent, a general-purpose software engineering agent powered by large language models (LLMs). Designed to execute complex programming tasks via natural language prompts, Trae Agent offers… →
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Getting Started with Agent Communication Protocol (ACP): Build a Weather Agent with Python
Getting Started with Agent Communication Protocol (ACP): Build a Weather Agent with Python Getting Started with Agent Communication Protocol (ACP): Build a Weather Agent with Python The Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) is an open standard designed to enable seamless communication between AI agents, applications, and humans. As AI systems are often developed using diverse frameworks… →
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SynPref-40M and Skywork-Reward-V2: Scalable Human-AI Alignment for State-of-the-Art Reward Models
Understanding Limitations of Current Reward Models Although reward models are crucial in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), many of today’s top-performing open models struggle to reflect the full range of complex human preferences. Even with advanced training techniques, meaningful progress has been limited. A major reason for this is the shortcomings in current preference… →