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Reinterpretation of the results of randomized clinical trials

Background Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) shape our clinical practice. Several studies report a mediocre replicability rate of the studied RCTs. Many researchers believe that the relatively low replication rate of RCTs is attributed to the high p value significance threshold. To solve this problem, some researchers proposed using a lower threshold, which is inevitably associated with a decreas...
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Electrophysiological grading scale for polyneuropathy severity

Objective To establish a simple electrophysiological scale for patients with distal symmetric axonal polyneuropathy, in order to promote standardized and informative electrodiagnostic reporting, and understand the complex relationship between electrophysiological and clinical polyneuropathy severity. Methods We included 76 patients with distal symmetric axonal polyneuropathy, from a cohort ...
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Welfare costs of suboptimal retiree decisions

We make a novel investigation of welfare costs associated with various suboptimal decisions made by retirees, both analytically and numerically. We utilize a unique framework that incorporates recursive utility with housing, and also encompasses expected utility and recursive utility without housing as special cases. Our findings indicate that under-investment in stocks incurs lower welfare costs ...
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Discovering why people believe disinformation about healthcare

Disinformation–false information intended to cause harm or for profit–is pervasive. While disinformation exists in several domains, one area with great potential for personal harm from disinformation is healthcare. The amount of disinformation about health issues on social media has grown dramatically over the past several years, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study des...
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Neural flip-flops I: Short-term memory

The networks proposed here show how neurons can be connected to form flip-flops, the basic building blocks in sequential logic systems. The novel neural flip-flops (NFFs) are explicit, dynamic, and can generate known phenomena of short-term memory. For each network design, all neurons, connections, and types of synapses are shown explicitly. The neurons’ operation depends only on explicitly stat...
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Stochastic attractor models of visual working memory

This paper investigates models of working memory in which memory traces evolve according to stochastic attractor dynamics. These models have previously been shown to account for response-biases that are manifest across multiple trials of a visual working memory task. Here we adapt this approach by making the stable fixed points correspond to the multiple items to be remembered within a single-tria...
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Michaelis–Menten kinetics during dry etching processes

The chemical etching of germanium in Br2 environment at elevated temperatures is described by the Michaelis–Menten equation. The validity limit of Michaelis–Menten kinetics is subjected to the detailed analysis. The steady-state etching rate requires synergy of two different process parameters. High purity gas should be directed to the substrate on which intermediate reaction product does not ...
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Comparative Investigation of Pressure Effect on Structural Stability, Electronic and Optical Response of LaXO&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; (X = Al, In, Ga) for Optoelectronic Applications

A first principle study intense on the density functional theory with Heydscuseria-Ernzerhof screened hybrid functional hybrid function (HSEO6) is used to assess the structural, Electronic, elastic, mechanical and optical responses of LaXOlt;subgt;3lt;/subgt; (X = Al, In, Ga) perovskite materials. The compressive investigation under the external static isotropic pressure (P= 0 to 80GaP), phase sta...
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Reducing low-value imaging - stakeholders’ assessment of an intervention to improve imaging services

Abstract Background An intervention to reduce low-value magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was designed and implemented in private imaging centres in Norway in October 2022. The intervention used return letters for poor referrals of MRI of the lower back, brain and knee at private imaging centres in Norway. The study aimed to investigate key stakeholders’ experien...
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Long short-term memory (LSTM)-based news classification model

In this study, we used unidirectional and bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) deep learning networks for Chinese news classification and characterized the effects of contextual information on text classification, achieving a high level of accuracy. A Chinese glossary was created using jieba—a word segmentation tool—stop-word removal, and word frequency analysis. Next, word2vec was used...
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