Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes by Philip M Bath, Jonathan Ball, Matthew Boyd, Heather Gage, Matthew Glover, Maureen Godfrey, Bruce Guthrie, Jonathan Hewitt, Robert Howard, Thomas Jaki, Edmund Juszczak, Daniel Lasserson, Paul Leighton, Val Leyland, Wei Shen Lim, Pip Logan, Garry Meakin, Alan Montgomery, Reuben Ogollah, Peter Passmore, Philip Quinlan, Caroline Rick, Simon Royal, Susan D Shenkin, Clare Upton, Adam L Gordon

“…Multiple delays significantly delayed the start date, such as: (1) reduced prioritisation of pandemic trials in 2021; (2) cumbersome mechanisms for choosing the investigational medicinal products; (3) contracting between National Institute for Health and Care Research and the investigational medicinal product manufacturers; (4) publicising the investigational medicinal products; (5) identification of sufficient numbers of care homes; (6) identification and contracting with several thousand general practitioners; (7) limited research nurse availability and (8) identification of adequate insurance to cover care homes for research. …”
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Reinforcement learning for vehicle-to-grid: A review by Hongbin Xie, Ge Song, Zhuoran Shi, Jingyuan Zhang, Zhenjia Lin, Qing Yu, Hongdi Fu, Xuan Song, Haoran Zhang

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RICE AlgebraBot: Lessons learned from designing and developing responsible conversational AI using induction, concretization, and exemplification to support algebra learning by Chenglu Li, Wanli Xing, Yukyeong Song, Bailing Lyu

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Exploring Transfer Learning for Anthropogenic Geomorphic Feature Extraction from Land Surface Parameters Using UNet by Aaron E. Maxwell, Sarah Farhadpour, Muhammad Ali

“…Semantic segmentation algorithms, such as UNet, that rely on convolutional neural network (CNN)-based architectures, due to their ability to capture local textures and spatial context, have shown promise for anthropogenic geomorphic feature extraction when using land surface parameters (LSPs) derived from digital terrain models (DTMs) as input predictor variables. …”
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Artificial Intelligence Driven Smart Farming for Accurate Detection of Potato Diseases: A Systematic Review by Avneet Kaur, Gurjit S. Randhawa, Farhat Abbas, Mumtaz Ali, Travis J. Esau, Aitazaz A. Farooque, Rajandeep Singh

“…The most widely used algorithms incorporate Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and MobileNet with accuracy rates between 64.3 and 100%. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…We used the multivariate imputation via chained equations algorithm with 100 imputations. We carried out three sensitivity analyses for the primary outcome to investigate the impact of the changes on our findings: (1) estimating causal effect of ECHOMANTRA receipt rather than of offer, (2) excluding three patients who did not meet eligibility criteria of BMI < 18.5, (3) excluding patients recruited after pandemic start (after 11 March 2020). …”
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The Multicentre Acute ischemic stroke imaGIng and Clinical data (MAGIC) repository: rationale and blueprint by Hakim Baazaoui, Stefan T. Engelter, Stefan T. Engelter, Stefan T. Engelter, Henrik Gensicke, Henrik Gensicke, Henrik Gensicke, Lukas S. Enz, Lukas S. Enz, Marios Psychogios, Marios Psychogios, Matthias Mutke, Matthias Mutke, Patrik Michel, Davide Strambo, Alexander Salerno, Henk A. Marquering, Paul J. Nederkoorn, Nabila Wali, Stephanie Tanadini-Lang, Björn Menze, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Kaiyuan Yang, Gian Marco De Marchis, Gian Marco De Marchis, Tolga D. Dittrich, Tolga D. Dittrich, Francesco Valletta, Francesco Valletta, Manon Germann, Carlo W. Cereda, João Pedro Marto, Lisa Herzog, Patrick Hirschi, Zsolt Kulcsar, Susanne Wegener, Susanne Wegener

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