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View article: A Narrative Review of Mesh Suture in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Biomechanics, Early Outcomes, and Proposed Clinical Algorithm
A Narrative Review of Mesh Suture in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Biomechanics, Early Outcomes, and Proposed Clinical Algorithm Open
Background Suture repair of abdominal wall defects is prone to failure due to suture pull-through. In contrast, planar mesh reinforcement improves durability but is limited by increased foreign body burden, need for additional tissue disse…
View article: RECODE: Reasoning Through Code Generation for Visual Question Answering
RECODE: Reasoning Through Code Generation for Visual Question Answering Open
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with precise reasoning for structured visuals like charts and diagrams, as pixel-based perception lacks a mechanism for verification. To address this, we propose to leverage derendering -- …
View article: VoCap: Video Object Captioning and Segmentation from Any Prompt
VoCap: Video Object Captioning and Segmentation from Any Prompt Open
Understanding objects in videos in terms of fine-grained localization masks and detailed semantic properties is a fundamental task in video understanding. In this paper, we propose VoCap, a flexible video model that consumes a video and a …
View article: Blind Mice, African Clawed Frogs, and the Missing Link Between Circadian Rhythms and Psychiatry
Blind Mice, African Clawed Frogs, and the Missing Link Between Circadian Rhythms and Psychiatry Open
View article: Malaria chemoprophylaxis provision in the UK: a call to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and equity implications of universal provision
Malaria chemoprophylaxis provision in the UK: a call to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and equity implications of universal provision Open
This position paper advocates for the re-evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and equity of National Health Service-subsidized malaria chemoprophylaxis, considering changes in UK malaria epidemiology, travel patterns, updated travel medici…
View article: MALT Diffusion: Memory-Augmented Latent Transformers for Any-Length Video Generation
MALT Diffusion: Memory-Augmented Latent Transformers for Any-Length Video Generation Open
Diffusion models are successful for synthesizing high-quality videos but are limited to generating short clips (e.g., 2-10 seconds). Synthesizing sustained footage (e.g. over minutes) still remains an open research question. In this paper,…
View article: <span>Tax Court of Canada’s (Mis)application of the Beneficial Ownership Concept</span>
<span>Tax Court of Canada’s (Mis)application of the Beneficial Ownership Concept</span> Open
View article: A density version of a theorem of Banach
A density version of a theorem of Banach Open
The S-measure construction from nonstandard analysis is used to prove an extension of a result on the intersection of sets in a finitely-additive measure space. This is then used to give a density-limit version of a representation theorem …
View article: Reaching adolescents with health services: Systematic development of an adolescent health check-ups and wellbeing programme in Ghana (Y-Check, Ghana)
Reaching adolescents with health services: Systematic development of an adolescent health check-ups and wellbeing programme in Ghana (Y-Check, Ghana) Open
Background Routine health check-ups may improve adolescent health, but global guidelines are lacking. Phase 1 of the WHO-coordinated Y-Check Research Programme involved three African cities to co-produce a programme of adolescent health ch…
View article: Video Foundation Models for Animal Behavior Analysis
Video Foundation Models for Animal Behavior Analysis Open
Computational approaches leveraging computer vision and machine learning have transformed the quantification of animal behavior from video. However, existing methods often rely on task-specific features or models, which struggle to general…
View article: Pooled, Growth-Based Assays v1
Pooled, Growth-Based Assays v1 Open
This protocol outlines a pooled, growth-based assay for measuring the fitness of a library of variants in E.Coli. This protocol defines paths for either: only measuring a pool of control variants or an entire library of variants pooled in …
View article: Linear equations and multiplicative polynomial equations in infinitely many variables
Linear equations and multiplicative polynomial equations in infinitely many variables Open
This paper describes infinite sets of polynomial equations in infinitely many variables with the property that the existence of a solution or even an approximate solution for every finite subset of the equations implies the existence of a …
View article: Leveraging neuroscience education to address stigma related to opioid use disorder in the community: a pilot study
Leveraging neuroscience education to address stigma related to opioid use disorder in the community: a pilot study Open
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose deaths are a public health crisis. One contributing factor is stigma towards people who use opioids. We developed and conducted a public-facing, half-day educational event designed to challenge misper…
View article: Assessment of Brief Online Approaches for Teaching Neuroscience in Psychiatry
Assessment of Brief Online Approaches for Teaching Neuroscience in Psychiatry Open
View article: From Social Isolation to Social Justice: The Neuroscience of Solitary Confinement
From Social Isolation to Social Justice: The Neuroscience of Solitary Confinement Open
View article: Innovative Professional Development for Multisectoral Policy Making and Programming for Adolescent Wellbeing
Innovative Professional Development for Multisectoral Policy Making and Programming for Adolescent Wellbeing Open
The global movement to promote adolescent wellbeing is gathering momentum, with the development of a conceptual framework [[1]Ross D.A. Hinton R. Melles-Brewer M. et al.Adolescent well-being: A definition and conceptual framework.J Adolesc…
View article: The Distinguished Dozen: 2023 Journal of Adolescent Health Articles Making Distinguished Contributions to Adolescent and Young Adult Health
The Distinguished Dozen: 2023 Journal of Adolescent Health Articles Making Distinguished Contributions to Adolescent and Young Adult Health Open
View article: VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation Open
We present VideoPoet, a language model capable of synthesizing high-quality video, with matching audio, from a large variety of conditioning signals. VideoPoet employs a decoder-only transformer architecture that processes multimodal input…
View article: Leveraging neuroscience education to address stigma related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in the community: A pilot study
Leveraging neuroscience education to address stigma related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in the community: A pilot study Open
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose deaths are a public health crisis. One contributing factor is stigma towards people who use opioids. We developed and conducted a public-facing, half-day educational event designed to challenge misper…
View article: Language Model Beats Diffusion -- Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation
Language Model Beats Diffusion -- Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation Open
While Large Language Models (LLMs) are the dominant models for generative tasks in language, they do not perform as well as diffusion models on image and video generation. To effectively use LLMs for visual generation, one crucial componen…
View article: From Foot-Bread to Flip-Flop Circuits: What History Can Teach Us About Sleep and How to Treat It
From Foot-Bread to Flip-Flop Circuits: What History Can Teach Us About Sleep and How to Treat It Open
View article: SPAE: Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder for Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs
SPAE: Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder for Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs Open
In this work, we introduce Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder (SPAE) for enabling frozen LLMs to perform both understanding and generation tasks involving non-linguistic modalities such as images or videos. SPAE converts between raw pixels and i…
View article: AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent
AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking with Large Language Model Agent Open
In this paper, we propose an autonomous information seeking visual question answering framework, AVIS. Our method leverages a Large Language Model (LLM) to dynamically strategize the utilization of external tools and to investigate their o…
View article: DaTaSeg: Taming a Universal Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Segmentation Model
DaTaSeg: Taming a Universal Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Segmentation Model Open
Observing the close relationship among panoptic, semantic and instance segmentation tasks, we propose to train a universal multi-dataset multi-task segmentation model: DaTaSeg.We use a shared representation (mask proposals with class predi…
View article: Routine health check-ups for adolescents in Mwanza City, Tanzania: stakeholders’ recommendations on its content, venue, and mode of delivery
Routine health check-ups for adolescents in Mwanza City, Tanzania: stakeholders’ recommendations on its content, venue, and mode of delivery Open
Background Routine adolescent health screening aiming at the detection of unnoticed medical problems may increase awareness among policy makers and contribute to improved health in this population. Research is needed to inform the World He…
View article: The Hidden Side of Addiction: Allostatic Load, Health Disparities, and Opioids in the Time of COVID
The Hidden Side of Addiction: Allostatic Load, Health Disparities, and Opioids in the Time of COVID Open
View article: Circulating cell-free messenger RNA secretome characterization of primary sclerosing cholangitis
Circulating cell-free messenger RNA secretome characterization of primary sclerosing cholangitis Open
Background: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare chronic cholestatic liver disease characterized by multifocal bile duct strictures. To date, underlying molecular mechanisms of PSC remain unclear, and therapeutic options are limi…
View article: Barriers in Ophthalmology Residency Applications for Students Identifying as Underrepresented in Medicine: A San Francisco Match Analysis
Barriers in Ophthalmology Residency Applications for Students Identifying as Underrepresented in Medicine: A San Francisco Match Analysis Open
View article: The Sweet Taste of Progress—The Evolving Role of Electroencephalography in Psychiatry
The Sweet Taste of Progress—The Evolving Role of Electroencephalography in Psychiatry Open
View article: IC3: Image Captioning by Committee Consensus
IC3: Image Captioning by Committee Consensus Open
If you ask a human to describe an image, they might do so in a thousand different ways. Traditionally, image captioning models are trained to generate a single "best" (most like a reference) image caption. Unfortunately, doing so encourage…