Optimization of task scheduling for computing reuse in computing power network by Yunxiao MA, Zhonghui WU, Zuyun XU, Lujie ZHONG, Changqiao XU

“…To cope with the challenges posed by the future explosive growth in computing power demand, computing reuse technology was introduced into the computing power network to reduce service latency and computational resource consumption by reusing the results of computational tasks.Based on this, a service federation-based context-aware online learning algorithm was proposed.First, the reuse index was designed to reduce the extra lookup latency.Then, online learning was performed based on the service federation mechanism to make computational task scheduling decisions according to contextual information and historical experience.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the baseline algorithms in terms of service latency and computational resource consumption.…”
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Investigating the relationship between thought interference, somatic passivity and outcomes in patients with psychosis: a natural language processing approach using a clinical reco... by Robert Stewart, Anna Kolliakou, Jyoti Sanyal, Rashmi Patel, Thibault Thierry Magrangeas

“…Objectives We aimed to apply natural language processing algorithms in routine healthcare records to identify reported somatic passivity (external control of sensations, actions and impulses) and thought interference symptoms (thought broadcasting, insertion, withdrawal), first-rank symptoms traditionally central to diagnosing schizophrenia, and determine associations with prognosis by analysing routine outcomes.Design Four algorithms were developed on deidentified mental healthcare data and applied to ascertain recorded symptoms over the 3 months following first presentation to a mental healthcare provider in a cohort of patients with a primary schizophreniform disorder (ICD-10 F20-F29) diagnosis.Setting and participants From the electronic health records of a large secondary mental healthcare provider in south London, 9323 patients were ascertained from 2007 to the data extraction date (25 February 2020).Outcomes The primary binary dependent variable for logistic regression analyses was any negative outcome (Mental Health Act section, >2 antipsychotics prescribed, >22 days spent in crisis care) over the subsequent 2 years.Results Final adjusted models indicated significant associations of this composite outcome with baseline somatic passivity (prevalence 4.9%; adjusted OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.37 to 1.88), thought insertion (10.7%; 1.24, 95% CI 1.15 to 1.55) and thought withdrawal (4.9%; 1.36, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.69), but not independently with thought broadcast (10.3%; 1.05, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.22).Conclusions Symptoms traditionally central to the diagnosis of schizophrenia, but under-represented in current diagnostic frameworks, were thus identified as important predictors of short-term to medium-term prognosis in schizophreniform disorders.…”
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Investigating the Efficacy of an Individualized Alpha/Delta Neurofeedback Protocol in the Treatment of Chronic Tinnitus by Dominik Güntensperger, Christian Thüring, Tobias Kleinjung, Patrick Neff, Martin Meyer

“…First attempts have demonstrated that the application of alpha/delta neurofeedback in the treatment of chronic tinnitus leads to a reduction of symptoms at the group level. …”
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Big pictures after Dawn: ‘ontology’ for historians and utopians by John Tresch, James Poskett

“…It draws on two recent developments in anthropology: first, Graeber and Wengrow's sweeping overview of social forms in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, and second, the controversial ‘ontological turn,’ which takes seriously ethnographic reports of alternate realities, refusing any shared metaphysical baseline for evaluation. …”
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Real-World Long-Term Experience on Endoxifen in Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Symptoms by Vikas Thanvi

“…This report presents a severe case of a BPAD patient with a baseline Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) score of 49, associated family history and addiction to psychostimulants, with no improvement by the first and second-generation antipsychotics. …”
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Enhancing Health Equity and Patient Engagement in Diabetes Care: Technology-Aided Continuous Glucose Monitoring Pilot Implementation Project by Madhur Thakur, Eric W Maurer, Kim Ngan Tran, Anthony Tholkes, Sripriya Rajamani, Roli Dwivedi

“…Their clinical characteristics included an average BMI of 29.91 kg/m2 and a mean baseline HbA1c level of 9.73%. Results indicate that the CGM program reduced HbA1c levels significantly from baseline to first follow-up (P<.001) and second follow-up (P<.001), but no significant difference between the first and second follow-up (P=.94). …”
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Impact of prolonged one or more natural menstrual cycles on the outcomes of ovulation induction intrauterine artificial insemination pregnancy: a single-centre, retrospective study... by Shuai Zhang, Han-Han Tang, Ming-Lian Zhou

“…Study participants were assigned into continuous and discontinuous groups. Differences in baseline clinical pregnancy and abortion rates were compared between the groups. …”
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Whitefringed Beetles, Naupactus (= Graphognathus) spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“… Naupactus leucoloma Boheman, the whitefringed beetle, was first collected in North America near Svea, Florida in 1936 (Buchanan 1939). …”
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Whitefringed Beetles, Naupactus (= Graphognathus) spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“… Naupactus leucoloma Boheman, the whitefringed beetle, was first collected in North America near Svea, Florida in 1936 (Buchanan 1939). …”
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A distributed expectation maximization-principal component analysis monitoring scheme for the large-scale industrial process with incomplete information by Xuanyue Wang, Xu Yang, Jian Huang, Xianzhong Chen

“…Case studies on the Tennessee Eastman process is applied to show the effectiveness and performance of our proposed approach.…”
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Repeatability, reproducibility, and the effects of radiotherapy on radiomic features of lowfield MR-LINAC images of the prostate by Parker Anderson, Nesrin Dogan, John Chetley Ford, Kyle Padgett, Garrett Simpson, Radka Stoyanova, Matthew Charles Abramowitz, Alan Dal Pra, Rodrigo Delgadillo

“…This work investigated baseline repeatability of radiomic features (RFs) by comparing planning MR images (pMR) with first-fraction setup images (FX1) taken with onboard MRI. …”
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Study protocol for a hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial of Game Changers for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Uganda. by Glenn J Wagner, Laura M Bogart, Joseph K B Matovu, Violet Gwokyalya, Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya, Allison Ober, Harold D Green, Sylvia Nakami, Margrethe Juncker, Eve Namisango, Emmanuel Luyirika, Ryan K McBain, Kathryn Bouskill, Rhoda K Wanyenze

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>This is one of the first studies to use a network-driven approach and empowerment of CC screened peers as change agents to increase CC screening. …”
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The efficacy and safety of MARS-PD: Meridian activation remedy system for Parkinson's disease-A single-center, assessor and statistician-blinded, parallel-group randomized, control... by Miso S Park, SangSoo Park, Jie-Yoon Kang, In Chul Jung, HoRyong Yoo

“…<h4>Trial registration</h4>cris.nih.go.kr KCT0006646 -First posted on 7 October 2021; ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05621772 -First posted on 11 November 2022.…”
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Psychogenic Equinovarus Caused by Dislocation of the Chopart Joint Complex by Ichiro Tonogai, Koichi Sairyo

“…On further history taking, he reported that he was under psychological stress because of being required to play baseball against his will. When he was given permission to withdraw from this stressful situation, the equinovarus improved without the need for surgical invention. …”
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Lumbar Spondylolysis in Juveniles from the Same Family: A Report of Three Cases and a Review of the Literature by Atsuhisa Yamada, Koichi Sairyo, Isao Shibuya, Ko Kato, Akira Dezawa, Toshinori Sakai

“…The second boy, a 10-year-old baseball player, had terminal stage right side unilateral spondylolysis. …”
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Efficacy and safety of combined low‐dose rituximab regimen for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy by Ying Du, Qi Yan, Chuan Li, Wenping Zhu, Chao Zhao, Yunfeng Hao, Lin Li, Dan Yao, Xuan Zhou, Ying Li, Yuting Dang, Rong Zhang, Lin Han, Yuanyuan Wang, Tao Hou, Juan Li, Hailin Li, Panpan Jiang, Pei Wang, Fenying Chen, Tingge Zhu, Juntong Liu, Shuyu Liu, Lan Gao, Yingjun Zhao, Wei Zhang

“…Methods Total 73 patients with CIDP were enrolled for the retrospective cohort study, and divided into conventional first‐line therapy cohort (n = 40) and combined low‐dose rituximab (100 mg per infusion) cohort (n = 33). …”
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Cancer Stem Cells from Tumor Cell Lines Activate the DNA Damage Response Pathway after Ionizing Radiation More Efficiently Than Noncancer Stem Cells by Heriberto Abraham Valencia-González, Graciela Ruíz, Elizabeth Ortiz-Sánchez, Alejandro García-Carrancá

“…We observed a higher baseline expression of activated response sensor proteins of DNA damage, such as ATM, H2A.X, and PARP1, in untreated CSC cultures. …”
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Protocol for faecal microbiota transplantation in irritable bowel syndrome: the MISCEAT study – a randomised, double-blind cross-over study using mixed microbiota from healthy dono... by Lenka Kramna, Ondrej Cinek, Jakub Hurych, Jiri Vejmelka, Lucie Hlinakova, Vladyslav Larionov, Michal Kulich, Pavel Kohout

“…The primary outcome is the change in the IBS-SSS between the baseline and 4 weeks after the intervention for each patient compared with placebo. …”
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A Multicentric, Retrospective Efficacy and Safety Study of Nanosomal Docetaxel Lipid Suspension in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer by Aseem Samar, Srikant Tiwari, Sundaram Subramanian, Nisarg Joshi, Jaykumar Sejpal, Mujtaba A. Khan, Imran Ahmad

“…The study endpoints were prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response (>50% PSA decline from baseline), PSA progression (PSA increase from baseline beyond 12 weeks: ≥25% and ≥2 ng/mL), median PSA decline, and time-to-treatment failure (TTF). …”
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Comparison of the accuracy of procalcitonin, neutrophil CD64, and C-reactive protein for the diagnosis and prognosis of septic patients after antibiotic therapy by Qingteng Zhu, Hui Wang, Liang Chen, Yang Yu, Miao Chen

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