From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending was highest and grew most rapidly among Americans in the top income quintile. During this period, age- and health-adjusted real spending grew 1.8 ...

Department of Biomaterials Science (BK21 Four Program), Life and Industry Convergence Institute, Pusan National University, Miryang 50463, Republic of Korea School of Chemical Engineering, Pusan ...

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has announced the results of the recruitment examinations for Group A, B, and C positions. Candidates who appeared for roles such as Assistant Director, Assistant, ...

School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China ...

Abstract: Due to lack of data, overfitting ubiquitously exists in real-world applications of deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose advanced dropout, a model-free methodology, to mitigate overfitting ...

Nonpharmaceutical interventions such as mask wearing play a critical role in reducing disease prevalence. Under the dueling dynamics of mask wearing and disease, we observe a robust nonmonotonic ...

We propose MaskCut approach to generate pseudo-masks for multiple objects in an image. CutLER can learn unsupervised object detectors and instance segmentors solely on ImageNet-1K. CutLER exhibits ...

Patterns of media use have also been associated with acceptance of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. Here we ask whether the type of media on which a person relies increased, decreased, or had no ...

We need to ensure that in our response to covid-19, the rights of those with hearing loss are not forgotten, say Helen Grote and Fizz Izagaren We are two deaf doctors who rely on lipreading in our ...

It's difficult to keep your distance in a grocery store or pharmacy, so now the CDC says we should wear a homemade mask in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus — particularly in areas with ...

A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic.