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Does creatine cause hair loss? A 12-week randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: This study was the first to directly assess hair follicle health following creatine supplementation, providing strong evidence against the claim that creatine contributes to hair loss. →
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Efficacy of lactoferrin in preventing recurrent urinary tract infections in pregnant Egyptian women: a randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: Findings of this study suggest that Lf may play an important preventive role against asymptomatic bacteriuria and symptomatic urinary tract infections in pregnant women. Further multicenter studies on a larger number of patients are needed to improve the generalizability of the results. →
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Buccal Acupuncture Reduces the Dose of Sufentanil Needed in Laparoscopic Gynecological Surgery
BACKGROUND This study assessed the effects of buccal acupuncture on perioperative analgesia and serum inflammatory factors in patients undergoing laparoscopic gynecological surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighty patients who underwent elective laparoscopic gynecological surgery were selected and randomly allocated to the control and buccal acupuncture groups, with 40 patients in each group. Hemodynamic indices and dosages… →
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Image Thresholding using OpenCV
Image thresholding is one of the most essential and widely used techniques in image processing and computer vision. It transforms a grayscale image into a binary image by setting pixel values to either a maximum or minimum based on a defined threshold. This simple yet powerful method is commonly used in applications such as object… →
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How to Make Cold Nutritional Breakfast Bar for Dogs at Home
How to Make Cold Nutritional Breakfast Bar for Dogs at Home If you& looking for a healthy breakfast idea for your dog, a Nutritional Breakfast Bar for Dogs is the way to go. These nutritious and simple-to-make bars are made at home. Dogs love them, and they can be a great way to ensure your… →
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Effects of Spirulina platensis supplementation on quality of life, severity of disease and serum total antioxidant capacity, malondialdehyde and zonulin in constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: protocol for a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial from Iran
INTRODUCTION: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common chronic gut-brain interaction disorders. Nevertheless, there is currently no treatment for IBS. Low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress are contributing factors to the increased perception of abdominal pain and heightened sensitivity of the nervous system in these patients. Spirulina platensis is a rich source of… →
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Muon Optimizer Significantly Accelerates Grokking in Transformers: Microsoft Researchers Explore Optimizer Influence on Delayed …
Muon Optimizer Significantly Accelerates Grokking in Transformers: Microsoft Researchers Explore Optimizer Influence on Delayed Generalization Revisiting the Grokking Challenge In recent years, the phenomenon of grokking —where models exhibit a delayed yet sudden transition from memorization to generalization—has prompted renewed investigation into training dynamics. Initially observed in small algorithmic tasks like modular arithmetic, grokking reveals… →
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LLMs Can Now Learn without Labels: Researchers from Tsinghua University and Shanghai AI Lab Introduce Test-Time Reinforcement Le…
LLMs Can Now Learn without Labels: Researchers from Tsinghua University and Shanghai AI Lab Introduce Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) to Enable Self-Evolving Language Models Using Unlabeled Data Despite significant advances in reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning (RL), most large language models (LLMs) remain fundamentally dependent on supervised data pipelines. RL frameworks such as RLHF have… →
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Open-Source TTS Reaches New Heights: Nari Labs Releases Dia, a 1.6B Parameter Model for Real-Time Voice Cloning and Expressive S…
Open-Source TTS Reaches New Heights: Nari Labs Releases Dia, a 1.6B Parameter Model for Real-Time Voice Cloning and Expressive Speech Synthesis on Consumer Device The development of text-to-speech (TTS) systems has seen significant advancements in recent years, particularly with the rise of large-scale neural models. Yet, most high-fidelity systems remain locked behind proprietary APIs and… →
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Meet VoltAgent: A TypeScript AI Framework for Building and Orchestrating Scalable AI Agents
Meet VoltAgent: A TypeScript AI Framework for Building and Orchestrating Scalable AI Agents is an open-source TypeScript framework designed to streamline the creation of AI‑driven applications by offering modular building blocks and abstractions for autonomous agents. It addresses the complexity of directly working with large language models (LLMs), tool integrations, and state management by providing… →