Quantum algorithm beats classical tools on complement sampling tasks

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

Cumulative lead exposure linked to increased Alzheimer's and dementia risk, study finds

As dementia cases continue to rise in the United States, new research from the University of Michigan School of Public Health reveals that older Americans with cumulative lead exposure face a ...
Tobacco Control

Pro-tobacco legislative representation and current smoking: an individual-level panel study of older adults in Japan

Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...
The Lancet

Emerging radar-based technologies for cuffless blood pressure monitoring—a systematic review

Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death worldwide. Less than half the people with high blood pressure are aware of their diagnosis, and only ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Second- and Third-Generation BCR-ABL Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and the Risk of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Prevalent New-User Design

BACKGROUND: BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been increasingly linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) since 2009, although supporting evidence is limited. Our objective was to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Without Pointers or Recursion Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...
Heart

Prognostic importance of exercise electrocardiography in patients with suspected microvascular disease

Background Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is associated with a poor prognosis but is difficult to diagnose non-invasively. In a recent paper, ST-segment depression on exercise-ECG was found ...
Hackaday

Microsoft Uses Plagiarized AI Slop Flowchart To Explain How Git Works

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people ...
Educators Technology

Top 10 AI Rubric Generators for Teachers

Rubrics are one of the most useful assessment tools a teacher can have. A well-designed rubric tells students exactly what ...
Investopedia

Artificial Intelligence (AI): What It Is, How It Works, Types, and Uses

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and ...
RMD Open

Dental infection is associated with early relapse in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis

Objectives Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a systemic autoimmune disease where infections ...
IEEE

Sample Denoising and Optimization Technique Based on Noise Filtering and Evolutionary Algorithms for Imbalanced Data Classification

Abstract: Imbalanced data remains a challenge in classification research and significantly influences classifier performance. The strategy that is widely used to address this issue is the data-level ...