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Glucose-based fluid creep or maintenance fluids in critically ill adult patients: a scoping review of the available evidence related to blood glucose control

Abstract Background Fluid therapy is a fundamental aspect of intensive care unit treatment, encompassing resuscitation, maintenance, nutrition, and hidden fluid "creep" to keep lines open or dilute drugs. While most research has focused on resuscitation fluids, maintenance and fl...

Scoping review of the environmental conditions under which cold injuries occur: study protocol

Aim: to map the peer-reviewed literature on associations between meteorological conditions and cold injuries and the exposures studied. Research Question: What meteorological conditions have been investigated in relation to cold injuries and what associations have been reported w...

Non-invasive detection of obstructive sleep apnea from speech in a limited clinical dataset

Abstract This study investigates non-invasive detection of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) from daytime speech in a limited polysomnography-labeled clinical cohort. The objective was to evaluate whether speaker-verification-inspired representations can support robust speech-based O...

Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Alarm-Triggered Interventions in Pediatrics

BACKGROUND: Alarm fatigue in pediatric wards stems from frequent, nonactionable alarms that do not lead to clinical intervention. Predicting alarm-triggered clinical interventions is essential for optimizing monitoring strategies. OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with al...

ClusterAttention: A training-free speedup of bidirectional attention

This paper introduces ClusterAttention, a general training-free speedup of bidirectional attention layers. Existing sparse attention methods either rely on structure in the input, such as order in language or spatial proximity in images, or use slow clustering processes amortized...

Oversubscribing One TEE: 512 Registered Tenants, a 1.22× Gain, and Isolation at 0.54 Percent

One confidential GPU serves a limited number of concurrent tenants. This reportmeasures what happens when registration exceeds that number: idle tenants'key-separated KV state is parked to disk and revived on activation, on an AzureH100 confidential instance with SEV-SNP active a...

Quantum counterdiabatic driving enhanced by two-stage local control

Abstract Counterdiabatic driving can suppress diabatic losses during adiabatic ground state preparation. As its implementation necessitates the generation of an adiabatic gauge potential, which requires knowledge of the spectral gap of instantaneous Hamiltonians and involves high...

Label-free ovarian cancer histopathological diagnosis using two-photon autofluorescence microscopy with a joint denoising and segmentation framework

Two-photon autofluorescence (TPAF) microscopy is a promising modality for rapid, label-free assessment of unstained tissue, but is fundamentally limited by the poor visibility of nuclei, which are one of the gold-standard cancer biomarkers, due to their negative contrast nature....

Introduction and validation of OSCAR—optimal stent choice algorithm

Abstract Purpose Standardization and international guidelines for stent size selection are lacking. In this study, we introduce and validate an artificial intelligence (AI)- and image processing-supported, modular software algorithm trained on a multicentric vascular segmentation...

Real-rootedness, palindromicity, and gamma-positivity of antichain polynomials for [2] x [m] x [n]

For all positive integers m and n, this manuscript proves that the antichain generating polynomial of [2] x [m] x [n] has only negative real zeros. It also proves that the polynomial is palindromic exactly when |m-n|=1, and that every gamma coefficient is strictly positive in pre...

Psychometric properties of the Peruvian version of the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ)

Abstract Background Musculoskeletal problems are frequent in the adult population. The Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) assesses the presence of musculoskeletal symptoms across nine body regions, and its total score represents an index of symptom burden across regions;...

Developing a Novel Grading System for Building Health Assessment

Abstract Urban decay in many cities, including Hong Kong, has been exacerbated by aging buildings and building neglect. Proper maintenance is essential to ensure building safety and health. A building assessment is necessary to evaluate building conditions, helping stakeholders m...

Modified Strain Gradient–Based Finite-Element Approach for the Analysis of Size-Dependent Higher-Order Microshells

Abstract This study developed a comprehensive framework for size-dependent higher-order microshells by incorporating the modified strain gradient continuum theory (MSGT). The microshell formulations integrate higher-order kinematics and explicitly account for size-reduction effec...

Implementing digital health transformation policies in Latin America: insights from four national case studies

Abstract Digital health transformation (DHT) policies can improve the performance of health systems. However, there are few empirical studies on how these policies are implemented in practice. This article examines four national cases of implementing DHT policies in the Latin Ame...

Distinct gut viral communities across life stages in dairy cattle

Abstract Background Ruminant gut microbial communities influence host health, productivity, and methane emissions, yet viral communities across life stages remain uncharacterized. Whilst bacteriophages shape microbial communities in many ecosystems, their role across dairy cattle...

The Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives Knowledge Graph: an Open RiC-O 1.1 Dataset from a Thai Buddhist Archive

Data paper. We publish the archival description of the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives (BIA, Bangkok) as an open dataset conforming to the International Council on Archives' Records in Contexts Ontology (RiC-O) 1.1: 97,852 triples describing 3,728 records, 1,088 record sets, 1,995...

Mira Genesis II: When an Acquired Improvement Makes Things Worse — Bounded Machinery Self-Modification and the Limits of Its Transfer

Mira Genesis II reports the M107–M112 research sequence of the Mira Genesis project, extending earlier work on persistent cumulative capability acquisition toward the machinery that performs acquisition itself.Across a series of frozen, auditable experiments, the lineage first ac...

Nanomolecularly imprinted polymer–surface plasmon resonance platform for monitoring trace-level Bisphenol A in drinking water

Abstract Bisphenol A is a widespread endocrine-disrupting contaminant frequently detected in aquatic environments, creating a need for rapid and reliable methods for water quality monitoring. Here we show that a solid-phase-synthesized nanomolecularly imprinted polymer (nanoMIP)...

Multiscale network reorganization during the multidimensional recollection of naturalistic events

Abstract The recollection of complex events is multidimensional. Recent work has gathered evidence for varying degrees of functional specialization for different memory dimensions across the main cortical networks involved in cued recollection. However, how functional brain netwo...

The integration of self-reproduction, cell cycle and cell load—analysis of growth space and boundaries

Abstract One of the most significant achievements in describing and understanding the cell cycle in bacteria was the development of the Cooper-Helmstetter-Donachie theory. But this theory and very successful constraint-based metabolic network models have existed in parallel: the...