CONCLUSIONS: The APPROACH intervention was successfully implemented and shows promise for increasing brisk walking, potentially through promoting habit formation and enabling self-monitoring. Contextual factors will be important to consider when interpreting outcomes in the larger APPROACH randomized controlled trial. →
CONCLUSION: Suction pressure levels during bronchial obstruction were predictive of BAL recovery rate failure, suggesting that a weak bronchial wall may be more prone to collapse under suction pressure. →
Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has made significant strides in recent years, but challenges remain in creating natural, expressive, and high-fidelity speech synthesis. Many TTS systems struggle to replicate the nuances of human speech, such as intonation, emotion, and accent, often resulting in artificial-sounding voices. Additionally, precise voice cloning remains difficult, limiting the ability to generate personalized… →
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a globally recognized competition that challenges high school students with complex mathematical problems. Among its four categories, geometry stands out as the most consistent in structure, making it more accessible and well-suited for fundamental reasoning research. Automated geometry problem-solving has traditionally followed two primary approaches: algebraic methods, such as… →
Large language models (LLMs) must align with human preferences like helpfulness and harmlessness, but traditional alignment methods require costly retraining and struggle with dynamic or conflicting preferences. Test-time alignment approaches using reward models (RMs) avoid retraining but face inefficiencies due to reliance on trajectory-level rewards, which evaluate full responses rather than guiding token-by-token generation. Existing… →
Background: Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in traumatized refugees and often persist despite treatment, and adapted scalable interventions are needed. The group intervention ‘Sleep Training adapted for Refugees’ (STARS) is a culturally- and context-sensitive approach based on evidence-based treatments for sleep disturbances (e.g. CBT-I, IRT). This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of STARS.Method:… →
focused on patients living with metastatic cancer. We examined the feasibility of the SleepNow intervention combining cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) with physical exercise in men with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). →
CONCLUSIONS: Early fast-track care was associated with high levels of viral suppression among adults initiating same-day TLD, despite severe civil unrest in Haiti. Completion of 48-week viral load testing was suboptimal, due to the need for participants to leave Port-au-Prince during peak periods of gang-related violence, and the lack of availability of viral load testing… →
CONCLUSIONS: The combination of the monitoring dietary biomarkers and providing vegetable juice was suggested to be effective in improving dietary habits and metabolic syndrome components including waist circumference in Mongolian adults with an overweight or obese BMI. →