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Remembering for the right reasons: Explanations reduce catastrophic forgetting

open access: yesApplied AI Letters, 2021
The goal of continual learning (CL) is to learn a sequence of tasks without suffering from the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting. Previous work has shown that leveraging memory in the form of a replay buffer can reduce performance degradation on ...
Sayna Ebrahimi   +6 more
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Effects of prayer on the vital signs of patients with chronic kidney disease: randomized controlled trial

open access: yesRevista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of prayer on blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rate in patients with chronic kidney disease and learn their perception of the intervention.
Thaila Oliveira Zatiti Brasileiro   +5 more
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Palliative care & the injustice of mass incarceration

open access: yesWitness, 2019
Due to the criminalization of marginalized people, many markers of social disadvantage are overrepresented among prisoners. With an aging population, end of life in prison thus becomes a social justice issue that nurses must contend with, engaging with ...
Helen Hudson   +2 more
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A brief analysis of patients suffering from stomach or duodenal ulcers in Almaty hospital №1

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, 2015
Peptic ulcers are a serious problem worldwide, and affect about 4 million people each year. Their etiology is connected with the presence of Helicobacter pylori, the act of smoking, drinking alcohol, being stress, and taking excessively nonsteroidal anti-
Aryzbekova Aliya   +4 more
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The Epidemic in Algeria: a Comparative Study of Albert Camus The Plague' in Oran and Covid-19 in Bouhan

open access: yesAkofena
: Albert Camus' novel The Plague enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in 2020 due to its symbolism, exacerbated by the tragic losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic around the world. The book poignantly describes the devastation caused by a plague outbreak in
Fatima Zohra SIDHOUM
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Learning to use past evidence in a sophisticated world model.

open access: yesPLoS Computational Biology, 2019
Humans and other animals are able to discover underlying statistical structure in their environments and exploit it to achieve efficient and effective performance.
Sanjeevan Ahilan   +6 more
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Personalized medicine hits primary practice as genetic testing is being done for the first time in family practice to better select psychiatric medications for patients: an interview with Dr. Nicholas Voudouris

open access: yesUniversity of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2014
For the first time in Canada, genetic testing done at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto is being made available to family physicians.
Martha Carruthers
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Rebalancing human rights at the time of Covid-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesPravni Zapisi, 2020
The year of 2020 will certainly be in all future books on the history of epidemiology and the Covid-19 pandemic will be discussed in them as perhaps the most significant public health challenge since the Spanish flu.
Sándor Judit
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Paris MEM: a study protocol for an effectiveness and efficiency trial on the treatment of traumatic stress in France after the 2015–16 terrorist attacks

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2019
Background The Paris and Nice terrorist attacks affected a thousand of trauma victims and first-line responders. Because there were concerns that this might represent the first of several attacks, there was a need to quickly enhance the local capacities ...
A. Brunet   +21 more
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A Transmit Beamforming and Nulling Approach with Distributed Scheduling to Improve Cell Edge Throughput

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2010
We propose a transmit scheme for WiMAX systems, where multiple base stations (BSs) employ downlink transmit beamforming and nulling for interference mitigation, with minimal coordination amongst BSs. This scheme improves system throughput and robustness,
Wendy C. Wong, Qinghua Li, Shilpa Talwar
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