MIT Technology Review

The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...
BMJ Open

Foot self-care knowledge, practices and associated factors among individuals diagnosed with diabetes attending clinics at base hospitals in Colombo, Sri Lanka: an analytical ...

Background Diabetic foot is an infection, ulceration or destruction of the tissue of the foot of a person diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM). Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a major and preventable ...
BMJ Open

Global prevalence and risk factors of probable sarcopenia in older adults: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction With the acceleration of the global ageing trend, sarcopenia has become a major public health problem. Probable sarcopenia, characterised primarily by decreased muscle strength, ...
IEEE

Modification of systematic sampling: A comparison with a conventional approach in systematic sampling

Abstract: Systematic sampling is a nonbiased method in recruitment selection process since it is a probability sampling. However, due to slow recruitment, we modified the systematic sampling and ...
BMJ

Respiratory problems in rowers: outcomes from a systematic assessment of an elite squad

Objectives To characterise the respiratory health of elite rowers using a systematic screening approach to assess respiratory health (SARAH) and identify the associations between SARAH findings and ...
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A problem so hard even Google relies on random chance

Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a dataset. It does this by tracking the longest run of zeros in a binary ...
Live 5 News

LIVE 5 DEEP DIVE: Episode 6: Jail suicide reveals systematic problems in mental health care

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - An investigation into a suicide in the Charleston County jail revealed a disturbing problem about how mental health issues are being handled in the state’s jails and prisons.
The Conversation

Children can be systematic problem‑solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research

I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – solution to the ...
New Haven Register

Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research

(THE CONVERSATION) I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – ...
The Diplomat

BIGD’s Pulse Survey Was About Voicing Citizens’ Hopes and Concerns, Not Predicting the Election Outcome

The BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), a Bangladesh-based research institute, took an initiative to track citizens’ perceptions through a Pulse Survey amid the fast-evolving ...
IEEE

Random Sampling of Permutations Using Quantum Circuits

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a classical algorithm for random sampling of permutations, drawing inspiration from the Steinhaus-Johnson-Trotter algorithm. Our approach takes a comprehensive ...