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The Palestinian primary ciliary dyskinesia population: first results of the diagnostic and genetic spectrum
Published 2023-04-01“…Patients had a median age of 10.0 years at diagnosis, were highly consanguineous (93%) and 100% were of Arabic descent. Clinical features included persistent wet cough (99%), neonatal respiratory distress (84%) and situs inversus (43%). …”
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Differentiated genomic footprints suggest isolation and long-distance migration of Hmong-Mien populations
Published 2024-01-01“…We identified a direct and recent genetic connection between Chinese inland and Southeast Asian HM people as they shared the most extended identity-by-descent fragments, supporting the long-distance migration hypothesis. …”
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COVID vaccine evaluation of barriers and resources among families of children with diagnosed allergies
Published 2023-05-01“…Hesitant families were more likely to be parents of children aged 6–10 years, be of Asian descent, report that mRNA vaccines are riskier than traditional vaccines, and report that the vaccine should not be given if the child has a history of allergic reaction to vaccines.ConclusionVaccine hesitancy exists mainly among certain ethnic groups and families with young children. …”
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Oxygen isotope trajectories of crystallizing melts: Insights from modeling and the plutonic record
Published 2020“…In order to quantify the change in melt δ18O due to crystallization, we develop a detailed closed-system fractional crystallization mass balance model and apply it to six experimentally- and naturally-determined liquid lines of descent (LLDs), which cover nearly complete crystallization intervals (melt fractions of 1 to <0.1). …”
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Toward Microtransit: Design and Operations of Reservation-based Systems
Published 2023“…We formulate a novel two-stage decomposition with a new solution approach combining tailored coordinate descent, parsimonious second-stage evaluations, and interpolations using special ordered sets. …”
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Advanced topics in learning to hash for large-scale retrieval
Published 2020“…However, the gradient descent based optimization used in deep hashing models would potentially cause hash codes of a pair of training instances to be updated towards the directions of each other simultaneously during optimization. …”
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Ultra-wideband-aided localization for autonomous robots
Published 2023“…Based on these analyses, an estimation-trajectory optimization framework is presented which consists of an estimator, which is designed based on gradient-descent or semidefinite programming (SDP) optimization, and a trajectory optimization approach that minimizes the uncertainty volume and can be easily adapted to different scenarios. …”
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Topology-aware differential privacy for decentralized image classification
Published 2024“…One common defense direction is to adopt Differential Privacy (DP) to secure the optimization algorithms such as Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). Those DP-based methods mainly focus on standalone systems, or centralized distributed learning. …”
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Eunapius of Sardis
Published 1978“…He then returned to Sardis and studied philosophy with Chrysanthius, for he was a Neoplatonist and a member of the school of Pergamon which traced its descent from Iamblichus. Eunapius also possessed a good enough knowledge of medicine to be regarded as a iatrosophist. …”
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Williams-Beuren syndrome in diverse populations
Published 2018“…The phenotype of WBS has been well described in populations of European descent with not as much attention given to other ethnicities. …”
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Comparison of Mortality Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients With or Without Standard Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Published 2022-04-01“…In contrast to Chinese and Malay patients, SMuRF-less patients of South Asian descent had a two-fold higher risk of in-hospital all-cause mortality even after adjusting for features of increased disease severity.ConclusionSMuRF-less patients had an increased risk of mortality with STEMI, suggesting that there may be unidentified nonstandard risk factors predisposing SMuRF-less patients to a worse prognosis. …”
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Associations between Genetically Predicted Circulating Protein Concentrations and Endometrial Cancer Risk
Published 2021-04-01“…We studied 12,906 cases and 108,979 controls of European descent included in the Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium, the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium, and the UK Biobank. …”
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Updated Radiative Transfer Model for Titan in the Near-infrared Wavelength Range: Validation against Huygens Atmospheric and Surface Measurements and Application to the Cassini/VIM...
Published 2023-01-01“…Our updated radiative transfer model is validated against the in situ spectroscopic measurements of the Huygens probe during its descent and once landed. We confirm that aerosols with a fractal dimension of 2.3–2.4 provide the best fit to the observations. …”
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Karanga rua, karanga maha: Māori with lived experience of disability self-determining their own identities
Published 2024-01-01“…Also used to include the complex of buildings; mātauranga: knowledge, wisdom; māuiui: illness, disorder; moemoeā: to have a dream, have a vision; ngāti Turi: Māori Deaf; Pākehā: foreign, New Zealander of European descent; Papatūānuku: Earth Mother; pēpi: baby, infant; rangatahi: younger generation; rangatira: chief/chieftainess; rohe: boundary, territory; rongoā: medicine, remedy; tamariki: children; tāngata: people; tāngata Turi: Māori Deaf; tāngata whaikaha: an empowering umbrella term used to encompass people (of all ethnicities) with lived experience of disability (literally: people striving for enablement); tāngata whaikaha Māori: an empowering umbrella term used to encompass Māori people with lived experience of disability (literally: people striving for enablement); tāngata whenua: people born of the land - of the placenta and of the land where the people's ancestors have lived and where their placenta are buried; tapu: sacred; te ao Māori: the Māori world; te ao Pākehā: the Pākehā (foreign) world; te ao tawhito: the ancient world; te reo Māori: the Māori language; Te Tiriti o Waitangi: the Māori version of the Treaty of Waitangi; forms the foundation of the contractual relationship between two internationally recognised sovereign nations – Māori, as tāngata whenua (people of the land), and the British Crown; tino rangatiratanga: absolute sovereignty, self-determination; tūrangawaewae: standing, place where one has the right to stand; tikanga Māori: customary system of values and practices developed over time and deeply embedded in the social context; tīpuna/tupuna: ancestors; wairua: spirit, soul; wānanga: to meet, discuss, deliberate, consider; Whaikaha: Te Reo Māori name of the Ministry of Disabled People; whakamā: to be ashamed, shy, bashful, embarrassed; whakapapa: ancestry, genealogy, familial relationships; whanau: to be born, extended family, family group; whānau hauā: a name for Māori with lived experience of disability; wharekai: dining hall; wharenui: meeting house, large house; whenua: placenta, ground, land.…”
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A founder COL4A4 pathogenic variant resulting in autosomal recessive Alport syndrome accounts for most genetic kidney failure in Romani people
Published 2023-02-01“…The estimated population frequency of autosomal recessive AS from these variants and consanguinity by descent is at least 1:11,000 in Czech Romani. This corresponds to a population frequency of autosomal dominant AS from these two variants alone of 1%. …”
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Ensemble of optimised machine learning algorithms for predicting surface soil moisture content at a global scale
Published 2023-10-01“…GradientBoosting (GB), Multi-layer Perceptron Regressor (MLPR), Stochastic Gradient Descent Regressor (SGDR), and RFR achieved a median <span class="inline-formula"><i>r</i></span> score of 0.6 in 12, 11, 9, and 9 climate zones, respectively, out of 15 climate zones. …”
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