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Symptom Attribution, Help Seeking and Willingness to Undergo Diagnostic Investigations for Bowel Cancer Symptoms in People With Anxiety and/or Depression-A Vignette Study
CONCLUSIONS: People with A/D should be encouraged to take bodily changes typical of cancer seriously and be proactive in help seeking and taking tests. Clinicians need to be aware that people with A/D may misattribute bodily changes associated with cancer and support them to seek help and undergo testing. →
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Measuring cognitive change in secondary progressive MS: an analysis of the ASCEND cognition substudy
CONCLUSIONS: Improvements in SDMT and PASAT performance were observed regardless of treatment arm. These findings are consistent with prior studies in MS. As it is unlikely that cognition improves over time in people with a chronic neurologic disease, these results support the need for cognitive outcomes that overcome practice and learning effects to accurately quantify… →
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Effects of Pomegranate Extract on Inflammatory Markers and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults Aged 55-70 Years: A Randomised Controlled Parallel Trial
Background: Chronic inflammation increases morbidity in older adults and significantly impacts healthy ageing. Pomegranate extract (PE), rich in polyphenols, has been suggested to reduce inflammation and could prevent cardiovascular disease. However, there is limited research examining the potential of PE in disease prevention in ageing. Methods: A two-arm double-blind parallel trial was conducted, in which… →
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A Coding Implementation on Introduction to Weight Quantization: Key Aspect in Enhancing Efficiency in Deep Learning and LLMs…
A Coding Implementation on Introduction to Weight Quantization: Key Aspect in Enhancing Efficiency in Deep Learning and LLMs In today’s landscape, optimizing models for deployment in resource-constrained environments is more important than ever. Weight quantization addresses this need by reducing the precision of model parameters, typically from 32-bit floating point values to lower bit-width representations,… →
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NVIDIA A Releases Introduce UltraLong-8B: A Series of Ultra-Long Context Language Models Designed to Process Extensive Sequences…
NVIDIA A Releases Introduce UltraLong-8B: A Series of Ultra-Long Context Language Models Designed to Process Extensive Sequences of Text (up to 1M, 2M, and 4M tokens) Large language mdoels LLMs have shown remarkable performance across diverse text and multimodal tasks. However, many applications, such as document and video understanding, in-context learning, and inference-time scaling, demand… →
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Step by Step Guide on Converting Text to High-Quality Audio Using an Open Source TTS Model on Hugging Face: Including Detailed A…
Step by Step Guide on Converting Text to High-Quality Audio Using an Open Source TTS Model on Hugging Face: Including Detailed Audio File Analysis and Diagnostic Tools in Python In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete end-to-end solution to convert text into audio using an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model available on Hugging Face. Leveraging the… →
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DAIM Research vs Siemens: AI Robotics for Faster Product Fulfillment
DAIM Research Material handling systems optimize warehouse logistics with AI-driven robotics This improves order fulfillment speed and accuracy leading to higher customer satisfaction and increased sales Lowering labor costs through automation of repetitive tasks cuts operational expenses Equivalent products from the list include Siemens Digital Industries or Tesla AI →
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Impact of an oral care intervention protocol on oral health outcomes in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation or chemoradiation therapy
CONCLUSION: These data suggest that the OCIP is clinically helpful in maintaining overall oral health among cancer patients receiving head and neck radiation/chemoradiation. The OCIP effectively delays the incidence of oral complications arising from head and neck radiation therapy/chemotherapy but does not prevent them. The findings of this study can also contribute to providing evidence… →
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Effect of Tadalafil on cardiac function and left ventricular dimensions in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: safety and cardiac MRI substudy results from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial
CONCLUSIONS: No adverse effects of tadalafil on cardiovascular function were evident based on adverse events, echocardiograms, ECG, or vital sign measurements through 48 weeks in patients with DMD. The small mean increases in LVID and LV volume observed with tadalafil are consistent with PDE5 inhibitor pharmacology, but their clinical relevance in the context of LV… →
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A proof of concept study on digital interventions for reducing socio-evaluative stress and anxiety in youth
Youth often struggle with heightened sensitivity to social judgement, increasing their vulnerability to fear in social situations. This study investigates brief digital interventions aimed at regulating cognitive and affective disturbances related to social anxiety, specifically focusing on fear responses in a social-evaluative threat context. One-hundred-twenty healthy youth were randomly assigned to one of four conditions:… →
