Optimizing radical prostatectomy for the early recovery of urinary continence. by Dev, H, Sooriakumaran, P, Srivastava, A, Tewari, A

“…A plethora of individual technical maneuvers exist to optimize early recovery of continence, but as yet there is no composite technique that incorporates the relevant anatomic principles of minimizing damage to the urinary sphincters and their nerves, maximizing functional urethral length, creating a secure and watertight vesicourethral anastomosis, providing circumferential fascioligamentous support to the anastomosis and external sphincter, and ameliorating postoperative bladder descent. Our ten-step approach to collating these individual maneuvers into a unified technique could be used by surgeons to obtain the best possible early recovery of urinary control for their patients, without risking their oncologic outcomes.…”

Mars Climate Sounder: An investigation of thermal and water vapor structure, dust and condensate distributions in the atmosphere, and energy balance of the polar regions by McCleese, D, Schofield, J, Taylor, F, Calcutt, S, Foote, M, Kass, D, Leovy, C, Paige, D, Read, P, Zurek, R

“…In particular, there is a need for detailed measurements of the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature, water vapor, dust, and condensates to understand the intricately related processes upon which the surface conditions, and those encountered during descent by landers, depend. The most important of these missing data are accurate and extensive temperature measurements with high vertical resolution. …”

Ethnic return migration, exclusion and the role of ethnic options: ‘Soviet Greek’ migrants in their ethnic homeland and the Pontic identity by Pratsinakis, M

“…In so doing it highlights the situational and processual character of ethnic identification, which should not be treated as a direct function of one's descent and culture. At the same time, it shows the constraining role of available ethnic options delimiting this process. …”

Coalescence times and FST under a skewed offspring distribution among individuals in a population. by Eldon, B, Wakeley, J

“…This leads to high probability of identity by descent within subpopulations and results in genetic heterogeneity between subpopulations even when Nm is very large. …”

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. by Yusuf, I, Craig, P, Karunaratne, I, Sallam, A, Yeh, S, Jogi, R

“…<p>A 42-year-old male refugee of North African descent presented to ophthalmology department with a 2-year history of reduced vision in his right eye, noted by the optometrist. …”

‘Its native surroundings’: Marianne Moore, England, and the idea of the ‘characteristic American’ by Stubbs, T

“…Marianne Moore claimed that she was ‘Irish by descent, possibly Scotch also, but purely Celtic’. …”

An approximate sampling formula under genetic hitchhiking by Etheridge, A, Pfaffelhuber, P, Wakolbinger, A

“…In particular we see that, with this order of accuracy, in a sample of fixed size there are at most two nonsingleton families of individuals which are identical by descent at the neutral locus from the beginning of the sweep. …”

Implicit regularization for optimal sparse recovery by Vaškevičius, T, Kanade, V, Rebeschini, P

“…We investigate implicit regularization schemes for gradient descent methods applied to unpenalized least squares regression to solve the problem of reconstructing a sparse signal from an underdetermined system of linear measurements under the restricted isometry assumption. …”

Large scale meta-analysis identifies new genetic risk loci for esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) and the first EA risk locus independent of Barrett’s esophagus by Palles, C, Tomlinson, I, Chegwidden, L, Gharahkhani, P, MacGregor, S, Vaughan, T, Schumacher, J, Jankowski, J, Fitzgerald, R, Gockel, I, Buas, M, Knapp, M, Noethen, M, Becker, J, Pharaoh, P, Whiteman, D

“…We performed the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis for BE and EA to date, using 6,167 BE cases, 4,112 EA cases, and 17,159 unscreened controls, all of European descent. We identified eight new genome-wide significant associated (P&lt;5×10-8) risk loci for BE and/or EA within or near CFTR, MSRA, BLK, KHDRBS2, TPPP/CEP72, TMOD1, SATB2, and HTR3C/ABCC5 genes. …”

Auditory localizing acuity during acute exposure to altitude. by Rosenberg, M, Barson, J, Pollard, A

“…The effect persisted during descent (p &lt; 0.001 at 12,000 ft). Directional bias (mean signed error) was also substantially affected in four subjects, in that sounds originally presented in the lateral quadrants were mislocated further to the rear (p &lt; 0.05). …”

Systematic variation in the depths of slabs beneath arc volcanoes by England, P, Engdahl, R, Thatcher, W

“…This depth does, however, exhibit an inverse correlation with the descent speed of the subducting plate, which is the controlling factor both for the thermal structure of the wedge of mantle above the slab and for the temperature at the top of the slab. …”

Mean field analysis of neural networks: a law of large numbers by Sirignano, J, Spiliopoulos, K

“…We analyze one-layer neural networks in the asymptotic regime of simultaneously (a) large network sizes and (b) large numbers of stochastic gradient descent training iterations. We rigorously prove that the empirical distribution of the neural network parameters converges to the solution of a nonlinear partial differential equation. …”

Marvels and pitfalls of the Langevin algorithm in noisy high-dimensional inference by Sarao Mannelli, S, Biroli, G, Cammarota, C, Krzakala, F, Urbani, P, Zdeborová, L

“…Gradient-descent-based algorithms and their stochastic versions have widespread applications in machine learning and statistical inference. …”

The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism, early and recent life stress, and cognitive endophenotypes of depression by Kruijt, J, Putman, P, Van der Does, W

“…In the current study, it was assessed whether interactions of 5-HTTLPR with childhood emotional abuse (CEA) and recent negative life events (RNLE) affect possible cognitive endophenotypes of depression, namely, attention-allocation bias and the ability to recognise others' mind states in 215 young adults of North-West European descent. The ability to classify others' negative mind states was found to be increased with increasing RNLE in carriers of low-expressing Serotonin Transporter Linked Polymorphic Region (5-HTTLPR) alleles. …”

Learning linear regression models over factorized joins by Schleich, M, Olteanu, D, Ciucanu, R

“…We propose a new paradigm for computing batch gradient descent that exploits the factorized computation and representation of the training datasets, a rewriting of the regression objective function that decouples the computation of cofactors of model parameters from their convergence, and the commutativity of cofactor computation with relational union and projection. …”

Numerical inverse scattering for the Korteweg–-de Vries and modified Korteweg–-de Vries equations by Trogdon, T, Olver, S, Deconinck, B

“…Borrowing ideas from the method of nonlinear steepest descent, this method is demonstrated to be asymptotically accurate. …”

Relativistic Monte Carlo by Lu, X, Perrone, V, Hasenclever, L, Teh, Y, Vollmer, S

“…Based on this, we develop relativistic stochastic gradient descent by taking the zero-temperature limit of relativistic stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. …”

The Western Sahara conflict: the dilemma of National Liberation War, Referendum and Terrorism in Africa`s last colony, 1973 – 2013 by Mordi, Emmanuel Nwafor

“…It concludes that only the UN implementation of its resolutions on the matter since 1963 could avert a descent into terrorism.…”
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A rare occurrence of suspected delayed malignant hyperthermia in a young patient undergoing an orthopaedic surgery by Lin, H.J., Halim, N.A., Joey, C., Ming, T.K., Katiman, F., Dintan, N.A., Yeap, Boon Tat

“…We report a rare case of desflurane-induced MH in a Malay descent immediately following an uneventful exposure to sevoflurane. …”
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A new gradient method via least change secant update by Leong, Wah June, Abu Hassan, Malik

“…The Barzilai–Borwein (BB) gradient method is favourable over the classical steepest descent method both in theory and in real computations. …”
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