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Head-to-head comparison of 10 plasma phospho-tau assays in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease Open
Plasma phospho-tau (p-tau) species have emerged as the most promising blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Here, we performed a head-to-head comparison of p-tau181, p-tau217 and p-tau231 measured using 10 assays to detect abnorma…
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GLP-1 Analogs and DPP-4 Inhibitors in Type 2 Diabetes Therapy: Review of Head-to-Head Clinical Trials Open
The incretin hormones glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) are released from enteroendocrine cells in response to the presence of nutrients in the small intestines. These homones facilitate…
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Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of HeadStart* Open
We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start draws roughly a third of its participants from competing p…
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Neural News Recommendation with Multi-Head Self-Attention Open
Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Suyu Ge, Tao Qi, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCN…
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MakeltTalk Open
We present a method that generates expressive talking-head videos from a single facial image with audio as the only input. In contrast to previous attempts to learn direct mappings from audio to raw pixels for creating talking faces, our m…
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Light-Head R-CNN: In Defense of Two-Stage Object Detector Open
In this paper, we first investigate why typical two-stage methods are not as fast as single-stage, fast detectors like YOLO and SSD. We find that Faster R-CNN and R-FCN perform an intensive computation after or before RoI warping. Faster R…
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Deep learning to achieve clinically applicable segmentation of head and neck anatomy for radiotherapy Open
Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year worldwide. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires manual time consuming delineation of radio-sensitive organs at r…
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Predicting Head Movement in Panoramic Video: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach Open
Panoramic video provides immersive and interactive experience by enabling humans to control the field of view (FoV) through head movement (HM). Thus, HM plays a key role in modeling human attention on panoramic video. This paper establishe…
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Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) Dataset: A Large and Diverse Dataset of High-Resolution RGB-Labelled Images to Develop and Benchmark Wheat Head Detection Methods Open
The detection of wheat heads in plant images is an important task for estimating pertinent wheat traits including head population density and head characteristics such as health, size, maturity stage, and the presence of awns. Several stud…
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The influenza virus hemagglutinin head evolves faster than the stalk domain Open
The limited ability of current influenza virus vaccines to protect from antigenically drifted or shifted viruses creates a public health problem that has led to the need to develop effective, broadly protective vaccines. While current infl…
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Head-to-Head Comparison of <sup>64</sup>Cu-DOTATATE and <sup>68</sup>Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT: A Prospective Study of 59 Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors Open
Somatostatin receptor imaging is a valuable tool in the diagnosis, follow-up, and treatment planning of neuroendocrine tumor (NET). PET-based tracers using 68Ga as the radioisotope have in most centers replaced SPECT-based tracers as the g…
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MiniLMv2: Multi-Head Self-Attention Relation Distillation for Compressing Pretrained Transformers Open
We generalize deep self-attention distillation in MINILM (Wang et al., 2020) by only using self-attention relation distillation for taskagnostic compression of pretrained Transformers.In particular, we define multi-head selfattention relat…
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Subconcussive Head Impact Exposure and White Matter Tract Changes over a Single Season of Youth Football Open
Purpose To examine the effects of subconcussive impacts resulting from a single season of youth (age range, 8-13 years) football on changes in specific white matter (WM) tracts as detected with diffusion-tensor imaging in the absence of cl…
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Communication quality between the medical team and the head coach/manager is associated with injury burden and player availability in elite football clubs Open
Objectives We investigated medical staff interpretations and descriptions of internal communication quality in elite football teams to determine whether internal communication was correlated with injuries and/or player availability at trai…
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A review of wearable technology in medicine Open
With rapid advances in technology, wearable devices have evolved and been adopted for various uses, ranging from simple devices used in aiding fitness to more complex devices used in assisting surgery. Wearable technology is broadly divide…
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Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research Open
Virtual environments that promote positive stimuli combined with health knowledge could prove to be a valuable tool for public health and mental health. The current state of research highlights the importance of the nature and content of V…
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Tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking at diagnosis of head and neck cancer and all‐cause mortality: Results from head and neck 5000, a prospective observational cohort of people with head and neck cancer Open
Tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption are well‐established risk factors for head and neck cancer. The prognostic role of smoking and alcohol intake at diagnosis have been less well studied. We analysed 1,393 people prospectively enrolled…
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Design and manufacture AR head-mounted displays: A review and outlook Open
Augmented reality head-mounted displays (AR-HMDs) enable users to see real images of the outside world and visualize virtual information generated by a computer at any time and from any location, making them useful for various applications…
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Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism Open
Attention mechanism has become a popular and widely used component in sequence-to-sequence models. However, previous research on neural generative dialogue systems always generates universal responses, and the attention distribution learne…
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Passive driver gaze tracking with active appearance models Open
"Passive gaze estimation is usually performed by locating the pupils, and the inner and outer eye corners in the image of the driver's head. Of these feature points, the eye corners are just as important, and perhaps harder to detect, than…
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DM3Loc: multi-label mRNA subcellular localization prediction and analysis based on multi-head self-attention mechanism Open
Subcellular localization of messenger RNAs (mRNAs), as a prevalent mechanism, gives precise and efficient control for the translation process. There is mounting evidence for the important roles of this process in a variety of cellular even…
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Real time observation of binder jetting printing process using high-speed X-ray imaging Open
A high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging technique was used to investigate the binder jetting additive manufacturing (AM) process. A commercial binder jetting printer with droplet-on-demand ink-jet print-head was used to print single lines o…
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Meta-Analysis of the QTLome of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Bread Wheat: Refining the Current Puzzle Open
Background: Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a worldwide devastating disease of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Genetic resistance is the most effective way to control FHB and many QTL related to this trait have been mapped on the wheat g…
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Follow-up in Head and Neck Cancer: Do More Does It Mean Do Better? A Systematic Review and Our Proposal Based on Our Experience Open
As the patients population ages, cancer screening increases, and cancer treatments improve, millions more head and neck carcinoma (HNC) patients will be classified as cancer survivors in the future. Change in epidemiology with human papill…
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Avascular Necrosis of Femoral Head—Overview and Current State of the Art Open
Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head is caused by disruption of the blood supply to the proximal femur. The alterations in the blood supply may occur following a traumatic event or result from a non-traumatic cause. Femoral neck fr…
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A Steady-State Head-to-Head Pharmacokinetic Comparison of All FK-506 (Tacrolimus) Formulations (ASTCOFF): An Open-Label, Prospective, Randomized, Two-Arm, Three-Period Crossover Study Open
This two-sequence, three-period crossover study is the first pharmacokinetic (PK) study to compare all three innovator formulations of tacrolimus (twice-daily immediate-release tacrolimus capsules [IR-Tac]; once-daily extended-release tacr…
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Risk factors for head injury events in professional rugby union: a video analysis of 464 head injury events to inform proposed injury prevention strategies Open
Objectives The tackle is responsible for the majority of head injuries during rugby union. In order to address head injury risk, risk factors during the tackle must first be identified. This study analysed tackle characteristics in the pro…
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An update on the immune landscape in lung and head and neck cancers Open
Immunotherapy has dramatically changed the treatment landscape for patients with cancer. Programmed death–ligand 1/programmed death‐1 checkpoint inhibitors have been in the forefront of this clinical revolution. Currently, there are 6 US F…
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Automatic planning of head and neck treatment plans Open
Treatment planning is time‐consuming and the outcome depends on the person performing the optimization. A system that automates treatment planning could potentially reduce the manual time required for optimization and could also provide a …
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What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality Open
Based on the cross- and intra-linguistic distribution of Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects, this paper shows that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features (PERSON, NUMBER, GENDER/NOUN-CLASS) which systematically lacks a morpho-phonologic…