Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...

From advanced nickel alloys to subsea monitoring systems, this article examines how materials science, surface engineering, ...

New delivery model applies AI across engineering, testing, DevOps, and analytics to improve speed, transparency, and ...

Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive condition involving movement and muscle tone difficulties due to injury to the developing brain. Most cases arise around birth, but a smaller ...

Older adults lose their ability to hear concrete sounds first, and with this loss come the more difficult aspects of hearing: the fuzzy edges of speech. As your hearing deteriorates, you are likely ...

Introduction The diversity of treatment options for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and the high uncertainty about the benefits and risks of different treatment modalities necessitate shared decision-making ...

Our findings indicate that a large commercial insurer is increasingly covering acupuncture for its beneficiaries. Unlike Medicare Part B, which limits acupuncture coverage to chronic low back pain, ...

This study presents a potentially valuable exploration of the role of thalamic nuclei in language processing. The results will be of interest to researchers interested in the neurobiology of language.

Background Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) is associated with a poor prognosis but is difficult to diagnose non-invasively. In a recent paper, ST-segment depression on exercise-ECG was found ...

Introduction Perinatal depression poses substantial risks to both mothers and their offspring. Given its chronic and ...

Mouse primary motor and somatosensory cortices contain detailed information about the many time-varying arm and paw joint angles during reaching and grasping, implying a 'low-level' role in ...