Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Margot Robinson
Summary: Through reflecting on another mother's death and her own personal experiences, the author deeply understands the pain of loss and empathizes with others emotionally.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Aleksandar Jevremovic, Mladen Veinovic, Milan Cabarkapa, Marko Krstic, Ivan Chorbev, Ivica Dimitrovski, Nuno Garcia, Nuno Pombo, Milos Stojmenovic
Summary: Parents want to protect their children from online threats, and our CASPER agent analyzes screen captures and audio signals in real time to make decisions for content classification. Utilizing deep learning techniques, CASPER demonstrates high accuracy in classifying text and pornography content.
Article
Business, Finance
Sylvain Catherine
Summary: Based on French administrative data, this study finds that job-creating entrepreneurs have the option to return to paid employment, which is highly valuable to them and can be worth 6.4 times the average net wage. The unobserved benefits of entrepreneurship also have a significant impact and can be equivalent to 38.6% of the average net wage.
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Review
Medicine, Legal
Aya Spitzer, Liron Elkayam Sapir, Merav Amiel
Summary: This case report describes a sexual assault incident in which the male victim's DNA profile suggested he may have Klinefelter syndrome, a genetic disorder related to the sex chromosomes. The use of QIAGEN Investigator Argus X-12 kit was proposed as a practical forensic tool for detecting potential genetic syndromes related to the sex chromosomes.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Remi Gribonval, Antoine Chatalic, Nicolas Keriven, Vincent Schellekens, Laurent Jacques, Philip Schniter
Summary: Compressive learning aims to leverage the information content of huge data sets while keeping computational resources under control, by massively compressing the data set before learning. This technique helps to improve performance and solve privacy issues.
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Dalia Almaghaslah, Abdulrhman Alsayari
Summary: The Saudi Arabian government has implemented a labor reform initiative to nationalize the pharmacy profession in pharmaceutical companies in order to provide more job opportunities for Saudi pharmacists. A study was conducted to determine the motivations for choosing this career pathway, address misconceptions about the sector, and assess job satisfaction, work commitment, and intentions to leave. The results showed that participants were motivated by the socially important nature of the job, high salary, and potential for career development. They also reported high job satisfaction, strong work commitment, and low intentions to leave the sector.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Timothy Crisci, Zeynep N. Inanc Salih, Ndidi Unaka, Jehanna Peerzada, Armand H. Matheny Antommaria
Summary: Disagreements are common in medicine, and it is important to train interns in communication and conflict resolution skills. Differences in decision ownership between attending and resident physicians can lead to conflicts. Shared decision-making with patients and their families is crucial, and family-centered rounds can facilitate this process.
Article
Ethics
F. Laguardia
Summary: This article investigates the lack of acknowledgment in legal opinions on abortion rights regarding the bodily ramifications of pregnancy and childbirth. Through content analysis of over 220 cases, it suggests that this absence of rhetoric may reflect and reinforce assumptions about women's roles, their sacrifices in childbirth, and the disregard of their individual interests as whole persons.
JOURNAL OF LAW AND THE BIOSCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eugene A. Permyakov, Vladimir N. Uversky
Summary: This article introduces the structure, physical properties, and physiological functions of Parvalbumin (PA). Although the structure and properties of PA have been extensively studied, its physiological functions are still not well known. It is believed that PA acts as a slow calcium buffer and accelerates muscle relaxation in fast skeletal muscles. Additionally, PA may protect fast muscles from reactive oxygen species (ROS) damage and regulate calcium-dependent metabolic and electric processes in gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurons. The OM isoform of PA is thought to maintain auditory function in sensory cells.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Lorcan Carnegie, Max Reuter, Kevin Fowler, Nick Lane, M. Florencia Camus
Summary: The study examines the mother's curse hypothesis through a large Drosophila mitonuclear genetic panel and finds high levels of mitonuclear epistasis, revealing that mitochondrial genetic variance is larger in male than female Drosophila for eight out of the nine nuclear genetic backgrounds used. This suggests that maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA does indeed modulate male life history traits in a more generalizable way than previously thought.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Deborah A. Forst, Judith A. Restrepo, R. Gilberto Gonzalez, Pamela S. Jones, Michael S. Marshall
Summary: A 65-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with depression, recurrent falls, and inability to care for herself. After reporting weakness on the left side and displaying a monoplegic gait, diagnostic testing was performed due to progressive neurologic decline.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Sterling G. Baird, Taylor D. Sparks
Summary: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are the future, but they require substantial capital and expertise. This article introduces a low-cost and accessible approach for optimizing tasks using optics instead of chemistry. While not materials-based, the core principles of SDLs, such as adjusting physical parameters and utilizing cloud-based simulations, are retained in this cross-domain example. The accessible, extensible, modular, and repeatable demo is ideal for low-cost prototyping and learning SDL principles in a low-risk setting.
Article
Engineering, Geological
T. Lansivaara, K. K. Phoon, J. Ching
Summary: The choice of characteristic values in civil and geotechnical engineering is crucial, requiring a balance between statistical, mechanistic, and practical considerations to avoid overly simplistic approaches leading to unsafe designs. Engineers need to increase the value of data in decision-making to push the industry towards a more digital economy.
GEORISK-ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK FOR ENGINEERED SYSTEMS AND GEOHAZARDS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Teresa Sanz, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos
Summary: This paper analyzes the impact of creative actions on the relational values in the socio-spatial restoration of Quintero and Puchuncavi communities in Chile, revealing the significance of art in interpersonal relations and socio-spatial transformations.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Biological
Lea-Maria Schmitt, Jonas Obleser
Summary: A new study introduces a method to estimate neural integration windows in the human auditory cortex and shows that category-specific and more generic computations operate on different timescales.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
