CONCLUSION: There was no difference between L-TAP and PSI. L-TAP was feasible, easy to earn, and safe. We recommend that it be considered in clinical protocols and local guidelines as part of the peri-operative analgesia regimen, especially when ultra-sound guided blocks are unavailable. Overall, patients with uncomplicated appendicitis who undergo LA have low VAS scores… →
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) transform natural language understanding, multimodal integration, and complex reasoning tasks. Yet, one critical limitation remains: current models cannot efficiently handle extremely large contexts. This challenge has prompted researchers to explore new methods and architectures to improve these models’ scalability, efficiency, and performance. Existing models typically support token… →
Advances in large language and multimodal speech-text models have laid a foundation for seamless, real-time, natural, and human-like voice interactions. Achieving this requires systems to process speech content, emotional tones, and audio cues while giving accurate and coherent responses. However, challenges remain in overcoming differences in speech and text sequences, limited pre-training for speech tasks… →
Scientific metadata in research literature holds immense significance, as highlighted by flourishing research in scientometrics—a discipline dedicated to analyzing scholarly literature. Metadata improves the findability and accessibility of scientific documents by indexing and linking papers in a massive graph. Today, the research community has realized the importance of metadata. However, its awareness and consideration were… →
CONCLUSION: A positive exposure-response relationship between vedolizumab trough concentrations and UC outcomes suggests that monitoring drug levels may be beneficial. While thiopurine did not influence vedolizumab levels, its withdrawal may necessitate higher vedolizumab trough concentrations to maintain remission. →
CONCLUSIONS: ^(18)F-PSMA PET/CT was able to detect several pancreaticobiliary cancers, including PDAC. However, uptake was generally low, not specific to PDAC and no tracer uptake was observed in lymph node or distant metastases. The added value of PSMA PET in this setting appears to be limited. →
CONCLUSIONS: Among the tested agents, the CPP-ACP group demonstrated the most notable reduction in DH symptoms by week 8, highlighting its potential as an effective method for alleviating DH symptoms in a home-use agents. →
Introduction Python is everywhere, from data science to web development. It’s beginner-friendly and versatile, making it one of the most sought-after skills for 2025 and beyond. This article outlines a practical, step-by-step roadmap to master Python and grow your career. Learning Time Frame The time it takes to learn Python depends on your goals and… →
Speech processing systems often struggle to deliver clear audio in noisy environments. This challenge impacts applications such as hearing aids, automatic speech recognition (ASR), and speaker verification. Conventional single-channel speech enhancement (SE) systems use neural network architectures like LSTMs, CNNs, and GANs, but they are not without limitations. For instance, attention-based models such as Conformers,… →