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View article: Fine Tuning Methods for Low-resource Languages
Fine Tuning Methods for Low-resource Languages Open
The rise of Large Language Models has not been inclusive of all cultures. The models are mostly trained on English texts and culture which makes them underperform in other languages and cultural contexts. By developing a generalizable meth…
View article: Measuring Stereotype and Deviation Biases in Large Language Models
Measuring Stereotype and Deviation Biases in Large Language Models Open
Large language models (LLMs) are widely applied across diverse domains, raising concerns about their limitations and potential risks. In this study, we investigate two types of bias that LLMs may display: stereotype bias and deviation bias…
View article: Treatment-specific interrupted time series analyses of judicial deference to health technology assessment in Brazil
Treatment-specific interrupted time series analyses of judicial deference to health technology assessment in Brazil Open
Background The use of health rights litigation as a parallel decision-making venue to bypass health technology assessments (HTA) has resulted in unintended inequitable impacts on Latin American health systems since the 1990s. Brazil create…
View article: Hiding behind a curtain of dust: Gas and dust properties of an ultra-luminous strongly-lensed z = 3.75 galaxy behind the Milky Way disk
Hiding behind a curtain of dust: Gas and dust properties of an ultra-luminous strongly-lensed z = 3.75 galaxy behind the Milky Way disk Open
We present a detailed analysis of J154506, a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy behind the Lupus-I molecular cloud, and characterisation of its physical properties using a combination of new and archival data, including VLT/MUSE and FORS…
View article: Judicial claims for access to treatment in the private health insurance sector in Brazil
Judicial claims for access to treatment in the private health insurance sector in Brazil Open
While the literature has largely focused on legal challenges to public healthcare rationing decisions, claims against private insurance companies in voluntary health insurance (VHI) schemes have received less attention. This paper aims to …
View article: Phonetic Approximation in Bilingual Pun and Their Impact on Response Times for Young Chinese-English Bilinguals
Phonetic Approximation in Bilingual Pun and Their Impact on Response Times for Young Chinese-English Bilinguals Open
This study, integrating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, investigates bilingual puns with phonetic approximations between two languages, Chinese and English, as a medium for humour and identity expression, and how phoneti…
View article: HOMER: Homography-Based Efficient Multi-view 3D Object Removal
HOMER: Homography-Based Efficient Multi-view 3D Object Removal Open
3D object removal is an important sub-task in 3D scene editing, with broad applications in scene understanding, augmented reality, and robotics. However, existing methods struggle to achieve a desirable balance among consistency, usability…
View article: Comparing Fairness of Generative Mobility Models
Comparing Fairness of Generative Mobility Models Open
This work examines the fairness of generative mobility models, addressing the often overlooked dimension of equity in model performance across geographic regions. Predictive models built on crowd flow data are instrumental in understanding…
View article: Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans: Findings from Round 5 of an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative
Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans: Findings from Round 5 of an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative Open
Because employer-sponsored spending comes from employee wages and benefits, employers have a fiduciary responsibility to administer benefits in the interest of participants. The lack of transparency of prices in the health care market limi…
View article: Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans: Findings from Round 5.1 of an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative
Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans: Findings from Round 5.1 of an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative Open
Because employer-sponsored spending comes from employee wages and benefits, employers have a fiduciary responsibility to administer benefits in the interest of participants. The lack of transparency of prices in the health care market limi…
View article: Decidindo não decidir
Decidindo não decidir Open
This article is based on a representative and randomly selected sample of 396 individual criminal decisions from the Federal Supreme Court, issued between January 1, 2020, and June 22, 2021, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We tracked the…
View article: Why Has a Progressive Court Failed to Protect the Prison Population against COVID-19? Mass Incarceration and Brazil's Supreme Court.
Why Has a Progressive Court Failed to Protect the Prison Population against COVID-19? Mass Incarceration and Brazil's Supreme Court. Open
Despite acknowledging the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic for the prison population, Brazil's Supreme Court declined to issue structural injunctions during the health crisis ordering lower courts to consider these risks when making incarcer…
View article: Paper 1: The JWST PEARLS View of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster and of the Structure It Magnifies
Paper 1: The JWST PEARLS View of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster and of the Structure It Magnifies Open
The massive galaxy cluster El Gordo (z=0.87) imprints multitudes of gravitationally lensed arcs onto James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) images. Eight bands of NIRCam imaging were obtained in the ``Prime Extraga…
View article: Incorporating medical claims data in the Consumer Price Index
Incorporating medical claims data in the Consumer Price Index Open
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of consumer goods and services.The CPI measures inflation as experienced by consumers in their da…
View article: Improving response rates and representativity in the CPI medical care index
Improving response rates and representativity in the CPI medical care index Open
Respondents’ low response rates that affect not only sample size but also sample composition have emerged as a central challenge in measuring consumer price change for medical care. In the case of medical care, insufficient responses from …
View article: Analyzing the Efficacy of Flexible Execution, Replanning, and Plan Optimization for a Planetary Lander
Analyzing the Efficacy of Flexible Execution, Replanning, and Plan Optimization for a Planetary Lander Open
Plan execution in unknown environments poses a number of challenges: uncertainty in domain modeling, stochasticity at execution time, and the presence of exogenous events. These challenges motivate an integrated approach to planning and ex…
View article: Moldable and transferrable conductive nanocomposites for epidermal electronics
Moldable and transferrable conductive nanocomposites for epidermal electronics Open
Skin-inspired soft and stretchable electronic devices based on functional nanomaterials have broad applications such as health monitoring, human–machine interface, and the Internet of things. Solution-processed conductive nanocomposites ha…
View article: Is Mandatory Vaccination for COVID-19 Constitutional under Brazilian Law?
Is Mandatory Vaccination for COVID-19 Constitutional under Brazilian Law? Open
Mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 has been the object of heated debate in Brazil. This article discusses the legality and constitutionality of such a policy. First, it analyzes the laws, regulations, and Supreme Court decisions that provi…
View article: Are the SUS and the Right to Health Incompatible with Universal Health Coverage? Challenging Misconceptions around the Concept of UHC in the Public Health Scholarship in Brazil
Are the SUS and the Right to Health Incompatible with Universal Health Coverage? Challenging Misconceptions around the Concept of UHC in the Public Health Scholarship in Brazil Open
The literature on public health in Brazil has criticized the idea of universal health coverage (UHC), arguing that UHC is incompatible with the universal health system and the right to health. This article assesses that criticism and concl…
View article: COVID-19 in prisons: a study of habeas corpus decisions by the São Paulo Court of Justice
COVID-19 in prisons: a study of habeas corpus decisions by the São Paulo Court of Justice Open
Brazil has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South-a pandemic that disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, especially those detained and imprisoned. Legal institutions are struggling to respond. In this…
View article: Priority-Setting and the Right to Health: Synergies and Tensions on the Path to Universal Health Coverage
Priority-Setting and the Right to Health: Synergies and Tensions on the Path to Universal Health Coverage Open
There is a growing consensus that fair priority-setting and the right to health contribute to achieving universal health coverage. The right to health creates legal entitlements to receive care and fair priority-setting promotes efficient …
View article: Are the SUS and the Right to Health Incompatible with Universal Health Coverage? Challenging Misconceptions around the Concept of UHC in the Public Health Scholarship in Brazil
Are the SUS and the Right to Health Incompatible with Universal Health Coverage? Challenging Misconceptions around the Concept of UHC in the Public Health Scholarship in Brazil Open
The literature on public health in Brazil has criticized the idea of universal health coverage (UHC), arguing that UHC is incompatible with the universal health system and the right to health. This article assesses that criticism and concl…
View article: Health technology assessment and judicial deference to priority-setting decisions in healthcare: Quasi-experimental analysis of right-to-health litigation in Brazil
Health technology assessment and judicial deference to priority-setting decisions in healthcare: Quasi-experimental analysis of right-to-health litigation in Brazil Open
The constitutional right to health in Brazil has entitled patients to litigate against the government-funded national health system (SUS), claiming access to various health treatments including those excluded from the health system's benef…
View article: Priority-setting and the Right to Health: Synergies and Tensions on the Path to Universal Health Coverage
Priority-setting and the Right to Health: Synergies and Tensions on the Path to Universal Health Coverage Open
There is a growing consensus that fair priority-setting and the right to health contribute to achieving universal health coverage. The right to health creates legal entitlements to receive care and fair priority-setting promotes efficient …
View article: COVID-19 nas prisões: um estudo das decisões em habeas corpus no Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo
COVID-19 nas prisões: um estudo das decisões em habeas corpus no Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo Open
Brazil has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South-a pandemic that disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, especially those detained and imprisoned. Legal institutions are struggling to respond. In this…
View article: COVID-19 in prisons: a study of habeas corpus decisions by the São Paulo Court of Justice
COVID-19 in prisons: a study of habeas corpus decisions by the São Paulo Court of Justice Open
Brazil has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South-a pandemic that disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, especially those detained and imprisoned. Legal institutions are struggling to respond. In this…
View article: Withdrawing Treatment from Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness: The Wrong Answer Is What the Wrong Question Begets
Withdrawing Treatment from Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness: The Wrong Answer Is What the Wrong Question Begets Open
In a recent paper, Charles Foster argued that the epistemic uncertainties surrounding prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) make it impossible to prove that the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment can be in a patient’s best inter…