Medical Xpress

Mathematical model recreates muscle movements to explain swallowing disorders

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it? Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have started to tackle these questions by ...
The Lancet

Characterising non-household contact patterns relevant to respiratory transmission in the USA: analysis of a cross-sectional survey

Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Interpersonal contact has a crucial role in the transmission of infectious diseases. Characterising ...
Frontiers

Longitudinal changes in bodyweight, body condition, and muscle condition in ageing pet cats: findings from the Cat Prospective Ageing and Welfare Study

Body composition metrics such as bodyweight, body condition score (BCS) and muscle condition score (MCS) can be readily recorded as part of veterinary examinations in ageing cats. However, the ...
Benzinga.com

1Richard Werner Tells Tucker Carlson Wrong To View Banks As 'Intermediaries,...

Renowned economist Richard Werner says popular textbooks miscast banks as mere middlemen and ignore their central "power to create money," an omission he claims distorts debates over credit just as ...
Frontiers

A hybrid long short-term memory with generalized additive model and post-hoc explainable artificial intelligence with causal inference for air pollutants prediction in ...

1 Centre for Global Change, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South Africa 2 Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Sol Plaatje University ...
IEEE

Generalized Sparse Additive Model with Unknown Link Function

Abstract: Generalized additive models (GAMs) have been successfully applied to high dimensional data. However, most existing methods cannot capture the high level feature patterns from complex data.
IFLScience

Are We In An Enormous Void? It Could Explain What’s Wrong With Our Model Of The Universe

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
JSTOR Daily

Biodiversity Congruence Across Lake-Watershed Landscapes: Insights From an Analysis of 615 Canadian Sites

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 31, No. 5 (May 2025), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) Aim: The rapid decline in freshwater biodiversity and growing disturbances in adjacent terrestrial systems (deforestation, ...
PC Gamer

Finally, a news outlet explains the US tariffs in a way even I can understand: with a map covered in Warhammer models

As I was digging into just last week, the new US tariffs stand to have a devastating impact on the tabletop gaming industry specifically—so it feels particularly appropriate that the UK's Channel 4 ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Wood, S.N. (2003) Thin Plate Regression Splines. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 65, 95-114.

ABSTRACT: Soil pH is a critical indicator of soil health and fertility, influencing nutrient availability and crop productivity. Leveraging real-time sensor technology allows for high-resolution data ...
BMJ

Comparison of statistical modelling methods for population-level gestational weight gain trajectories in ethnically diverse women in southeast Melbourne, Australia

Objectives Adverse lifestyle promotes escalating excess gestational weight gain (GWG) driving poor maternal and neonatal health outcomes. Recommended pregnancy lifestyle interventions rely on accurate ...