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The Costs of Misdiagnosis

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RMD Open

Therapist effects in real-world rehabilitation outcomes: a cohort study of the nationwide GLA:D osteoarthritis management programme in Denmark

Objective Unlike several other fields of healthcare, little is known about the size of ‘therapist effects’ on patient ...

Human Evolution May Be Undergoing a Major Shift Right in Front of Our Eyes

"Today, your wellbeing is determined less and less by your personal biology and more and more by the cultural systems that surround you – your community, your nation, your technologies. And the ...
The Straits Times

‘Some flourish while others struggle’: NIE study finds five different paths of lower-income students

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...
IEEE

Iterated Watersheds, A Connected Variation of K-Means for Clustering GIS Data

Abstract: In this article, we propose a novel algorithm to obtain a solution to the clustering problem with an additional constraint of connectivity. This is achieved by suitably modifying K-Means ...
Electronic Design

Can EIS Measure Self-Discharge of a Lithium-Ion Battery Cell?

Self-discharge is a normally occurring phenomenon in lithium-ion battery cells. A normal cell may have a self-discharge rate of 1% state of charge (SOC) per month. The normal self-discharge rate is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Process Variation In The Era Of Scaling: Improving Uniformity With Dummy Fill

As semiconductor patterning continues to scale, even small layout nonuniformities can lead to noticeably different process outcomes. Real chip layouts contain a mix of dense regions, large open ...
The Conversation

Silicon Valley’s AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ obsession has a big problem – and philosophers saw it coming

Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...
The New York Times

It’s Still Demoralizing to Teach a Classroom of Scrolling Students

Dr. Oster is the founder and chief executive of ParentData and a professor of economics at Brown University. In the past several years, about three dozen states have instituted phone bans in schools, ...
UNDP

Human Development Data

Global, regional, and country/territory-level data on key dimensions of human development, with interactive insights and publications. The human development data are globally comparable, linked to the ...
Space.com

Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms

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qualitysafety.bmj

The problem with red, amber, green: the need to avoid distraction by random variation in organisational performance measures

Centre for Diagnostic Investigatin, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Dr Jacob Anhøj, Centre for Diagnostic Investigatin, Rigshospitalet, University of ...