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How Design Became a Boardroom Bystander
Doval/Ikon Images In November 2022, Meta laid off 13% of its workforce — 11,000 employees. Among the hardest hit: the design and user experience teams. Just months later, Twitter’s new ownership eliminated most of its design staff. Amazon, Netflix, and dozens of other tech giants followed suit. Executives are questioning whether design is still delivering… →
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Take 5: Feeling Stuck? Try a Career Makeover.
Regardless of where you are in your career, it can be challenging to figure out the next move. Whether you’re looking for a big swerve or just feel stalled in your current role, the choices you make may very well dictate your trajectory for years to come. So, it’s often well worth your while to… →
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Effects on chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by moderate strength training in combination with whole-body vibration in breast cancer patients
CONCLUSION: Both strength training alone and combined with WBV are feasible and safe during chemotherapy. Although WBV did not provide additional benefits over strength training alone, both interventions showed potential protective effects against CIPN symptoms. →
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Google AI Research Releases DeepSomatic: A New AI Model that Identifies Cancer Cell Genetic Variants
Google AI Research Releases DeepSomatic: A New AI Model that Identifies Cancer Cell Genetic Variants A team of researchers from Google Research and UC Santa Cruz has introduced DeepSomatic, an AI model designed to identify genetic variants in cancer cells. In collaboration with Children’s Mercy, DeepSomatic successfully identified 10 genetic variants in pediatric leukemia cells… →
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A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten
Although seminal studies from the early 1960s suggested quality preschool can have lasting positive effects, agreement is lacking on the efficacy of different preschool models. The Montessori model is longstanding but lacks rigorous impact studies; prior random lottery studies included just one or two schools, among other compromises. Here, we report on end-of-kindergarten (age 5… →
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What’s Your Edge? Rethinking Expertise in the Age of AI
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images A CEO recently posed a question to me that’s been keeping executives awake: “If my junior analyst can get the same AI-generated insights as my senior strategist, why am I paying for expertise?” It’s not hyperbole to say that we’re witnessing an unprecedented democratization of knowledge. Information that was… →
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DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion
«`html DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion DeepSeek-AI has launched the 3B DeepSeek-OCR, an end-to-end OCR and document parsing Vision-Language Model (VLM) system. This model compresses long text into a small set of vision tokens and decodes those tokens using a language model.… →
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Comparative efficacy of high intensity laser therapy (Class IV) and ibuprofen gel phonophoresis in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis among people living in hilly terrain: A randomized controlled study
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) commonly causes pain and functional limitations, especially in hilly areas where mobility demands increase stress on the knee joint. High-Intensity Laser Therapy (HILT) and Ibuprofen Gel Phonophoresis (IGP) are both effective treatments, though comparative data is limited. Hence, we aimed to determine the effect of high-intensity laser therapy (HILT) (class-IV) and ibuprofen… →
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Efficacy of Transfer Energy Capacitive and Resistive Therapy Combined With β-Hydroxy-β-Methylbutyrate Nutritional Supplementation in Older Adults With Sarcopenic Obesity
CONCLUSION: TECAR therapy combined with HMB supplementation significantly enhances physical function, activities of daily living, and body composition in elderly patients with sarcopenic obesity, demonstrating a synergistic effect. →
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Effect of Back Optical Zone Diameter of Orthokeratology Lens on Visual Quality in Myopic Children
CONCLUSION: In myopic children, wearing ortho-k lenses with different BOZD results in improved subjective satisfaction, with no difference in subjective visual quality. However, objective visual quality declined in both groups, with a greater impact observed in the 5 mm group. →
