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Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT Security agencies around the world use bodyguards to protect government officials and public figures. In this paper, we consider a two‐person zero‐sum game between a defender who allocates such bodyguards to protect several targets and an attacker who chooses one target to attack.
Loe Schlicher, Kyle Y. Lin, Moshe Kress
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Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, EarlyView., 2021 Abstract Introduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective treatment for refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Neuropsychological assessment contributes to DBS treatment in several ways: it monitors the cognitive safety of the treatment, identifies beneficial or detrimental cognitive side effects and it could aid to explain ...
Tim A. M. Bouwens van der Vlis +7 more
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Pain Research and Management, 2000 Intractable pain demands the attention of both the patient and the physician. However, modern science and medicine cannot and should not promise the abolition of pain and suffering.
John D Loeser
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Erector spinae plane block for intractable, nonsurgical abdominal pain: a scoping review [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency MedicineAbdominal pain is one of the most common presenting chief complaints in the emergency department. Erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is an ultrasound-guided nerve block with proven effectiveness in treating visceral and somatic abdominal pain. Despite the
Ashley Meyer +8 more
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Personalized Differential Privacy for Ridge Regression Under Output Perturbation
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). Traditional DP enforces a uniform privacy level ε$$ \varepsilon $$, which bounds the maximum privacy loss that each data point in the dataset is allowed to incur.
Krishna Acharya +3 more
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Chinese Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Rhinosinusitis (2024)
World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), a complex inflammatory disease with heterogeneous pathogenesis, demands evolving evidence‐based strategies. Since the 2018 Chinese guidelines and EPOS2020, international advances in CRS immunopathology and biologics have revolutionized therapeutic approaches, particularly through phenotype–endotype classification ...
Subspecialty Group of Rhinology +4 more
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Longitudinal pancreatico-gastrostomy: An effective means of pain control in chronic pancreatitis
The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2007 Aim: To assess the effectiveness of longitudinal pancreatico-gastrostomy (LPG) in relieving intractable abdominal pain in patients of chronic pancreatitis (CP) with dilated main pancreatic duct (MPD).
Bhattacharjee Prosanta
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Current algorithm for the surgical treatment of facial pain
Head & Face Medicine, 2007 Background Facial pain may be divided into several distinct categories, each requiring a specific treatment approach. In some cases, however, such categorization is difficult and treatment is ineffective.
Munawar Naureen +3 more
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Health‐Related Quality of Life and Psychological Burden of Patients With Vitiligo in Japan
The Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vitiligo is a disorder characterized by depigmentation of the skin and is known to impact patients' health‐related quality of life (HRQoL). In Japan, HRQoL studies on vitiligo remain limited in size and scope, and factors contributing to impaired HRQoL, as well as the psychological burden, have not been adequately evaluated.
Naoki Oiso +5 more
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