Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, or sleeve gastrectomy for severe obesity: the By-Band-Sleeve multi-centre, open label, three-group randomised controlled trial by Agrawal, S, Ahmed, A, Andrews, RC, Fermont, JM, Koleva-Kolarova, R, Pouwels, K, Wordsworth, S

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The GBD 2021 disease and injury burden analysis estimated years lived with disability (YLDs), years of life lost (YLLs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries using 100 983 data sources. …”

Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese by Peck, Jeeyoung, Lin, Jingxia

“…放在桌子上 fàng zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘put on the table’), the postverbal position in Modern Mandarin Chinese can only be filled by limited types of adjunct locative prepositional phrases (e.g. 跳在桌子上 tiào zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘jump onto the table’). …”
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An energy-efficient self-adaptive duty cycle MAC protocol for traffic-dynamic wireless sensor networks by Zhao, Yi Zhi, Ma, Maode, Miao, Chun Yan

“…When network experience with very low or very high traffic load, the protocol further adjusts duty cycle dynamically based on the traffic load, thus reducing inefficient duty cycle or reduce end-to-end delay. …”
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Cogency of Suggestion System in Managing Innovation: Reducing Progressive Die Change Over Time in Auto Stamping Operations by Baluch, Nazim Hussain, Mohtar, Shahimi, Nordin, Norani

“…The paper concludes that idea management systems don't replace traditional departments and processes involved in new services, products, or strategies. They serve as an adjunct to them and provide a framework that can help organizations turn innovation into an enterprise-wide discipline-and a sustainable process that drives growth in good times and bad…”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…First, we study the service unbundling issue of a seller who separates the sales of a fixed-priced add-on and dynamically adjusts the price of the capacitated basic service along the horizon. …”
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Exploring accountability: memory, object, metaphor and common sense by Mustafa, Hasri

“…This interpretation allows the issues raised by BIMB to represent an authentic Malaysian voice rather than to be read merely as an adjunct to western accounting history. Originality/value The paper explores the translations of concepts that the self probes and attempts to describe accountability, as well as how these translate into common sense.…”

HST.921 / HST.922 Information Technology in the Health Care System of the Future, Spring 2007 by Bergeron, Bryan, Sands, Daniel, Blander, Jeffrey, Yoo, Julie, Locke, Steven

“…Students' proposed solutions will draw upon understanding of tools and principles acquired and will be presented as an application design during the final days of the course. Adjunct Faculty Mirena Bagur Sherri Dorfman Paul Heinzelman Gary Hirsch David Lash…”
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Universal Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems by Lopez, Brett T., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.

“…This letter develops a new direct adaptive control framework that extends the certainty equivalence principle to general nonlinear systems with unmatched model uncertainties. The approach adjusts the rate of adaptation online to eliminate the effects of parameter estimation transients on stability. …”
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A preliminary study looking at the use of mindful compassion and cannabis suppositories for anodyspareunia among men who have sex with men (MSM) by Banbury, Samantha, Chandler, Chris, Erridge, Simon, del Rio Olvera, Javier, Turner, John, Lusher, Joanne

“…Participants were randomly allocated to one of four groups based on whether they were using cannabis suppositories: adjunct cannabis suppository and mindful-compassion (CSMF), cannabis suppository-only (CS), mindful-compassion-only (MF) and care-as-usual/control (CAU). …”
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The augmented human — seeing sounds by Lim, Nicole Sze Ting

“…Through a user-friendly web interface, a user uploads a video and adjusts settings for its processing. Speech separation and speech recognition models are then applied to produce an annotated video with captions differentiated by speaker. …”
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The effects of angiotensin-receptor blockade on mood and vigilance behaviour in a gamified foraging task by Morse, L

“…This supports suggestions that losartan may be useful as an adjunct to exposure therapy, acting synergistically to improve clinical outcomes. …”

Thermal management of 3D integrated circuits with microchannel-based liquid cooling by Qian, Hanhua

“…A runtime proactive thermal management scheme, which adjusts flow rate according to predicted future cooling demand is proposed based on this thermal model. …”
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Reversing the interfacial electric field in metal phosphide heterojunction by Fe-doping for large-current oxygen evolution reaction by Li, Zhong, Xu, Chengshuang, Zhang, Zheye, Xia, Shan, Li, Dongsheng, Liu, Liren, Chen, Peng, Dong, Xiaochen

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A preliminary investigation into the use of cannabis suppositories and online mindful compassion for improving sexual function among women following gynaecological cancer treatment by Banbury, Sam, Tharmalingam, Hannah, Lusher, Joanne, Erridge, Simon, Chandler, Chris

“…Materials and Methods: This preliminary randomised control trial (RCT) and content analysis assessed the effectiveness of a brief online mindful compassion group intervention adjunct with cannabis suppositories. Eighty-three participants aged between 18 and 50+ years who were at least six months post-cancer treatment were randomly allocated to one of four groups, depending on whether they were already using cannabis suppositories. …”
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Distinct Circle of Willis anatomical configurations in healthy preterm born adults: a 3D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography study by Greggio, J, Malamateniou, C, Baruteau, KP, Reyes-Aldasoro, CC, Huckstep, OJ, Francis, JM, Williamson, W, Leeson, P, Lewandowski, AJ, Lapidaire, W

“…Furthermore, TOF MRA might be a useful adjunct in the neurovascular assessment of preterm-born individuals.…”

Parallel Dynamic Maximal Matching by Ghaffari, Mohsen, Trygub, Anton

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Maximizing DRL-based energy efficiency in IRS-NOMA using a DDPG algorithm for the next generation of wireless communications by Audah, Kamil, Noordin, Nor K., Hussein, Wala'a, Rasid, Mod Fadlee B. A., Sali, Aduwati, Flah, Aymen

“…This study focuses on a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm that intelligently adjusts IRS phase-shift matrices and access point beamforming in NOMA DT. …”
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Evaluating Prediction Mechanisms: A Profitability Test by Sethi, Rajiv, Seager, Julie, Cai, Emily, Benjamin, Daniel, Morstatter, Fred, Bobrownicki, Olivia, Cheng, Yuqi, Kumar, Anushka, Wanganoo, Anusha

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Price-based distributed resource allocation for femtocell networks by Yuan, Pu, Liang, Ying-Chang, Bi, Guoan

“…We prove the existence and uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium (NE) and introduce fully distributed algorithm based on simultaneous iterative-water-filling (IWF) like algorithm, which adjusts the sub-carrier price iteratively and the maximum transmit power. …”
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