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EndoARSS: Adapting Spatially Aware Foundation Model for Efficient Activity Recognition and Semantic Segmentation in Endoscopic Surgery

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article introduces EndoARSS, a novel multitask learning framework that combines surgical activity recognition and semantic segmentation for endoscopic surgery. Utilizing the foundation model with novel modules like task efficient shared low‐rank adapters and spatially aware multiscale attention, EndoARSS can effectively tackle challenges in ...
Guankun Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the importance of a drawn sword: Christian thinking about preemptive war—and its modern outworking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics© 2007.This article discusses the just war tradition.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and ...
Clough, David, Stiltner, Brian
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Learning Optimal Crowd Evacuation from Scratch Through Self‐Play

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
How would a superintelligent crowd behave in emergencies? This study develops an approach using multiagent deep reinforcement learning combined with self‐play to discover optimal evacuation strategies for pressure‐aware agents. The model learns behaviors such as queuing and zipper‐merging that significantly surpass traditional approaches in fatality ...
Mahdi Nasiri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nigeria security dilemma and challenges of socio-economic, political and religious development

open access: yesNsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2020
This paper examined the challenges of security and the dilemma of continued corporate existence of Nigeria as a state. The focus was security as a major determinant of not only development of any society but the survival of such.
John Y. Along   +2 more
doaj  

Religious fundamentalism and extremism: A paradigm analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Broadly speaking, the term ‘fundamentalism’ today names a religio-political perspective found in most if not all major religions in the contemporary world.
Pratt, Douglas
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Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study reports on a qualitative thematic analysis of secondary data from group session recordings collected as part of the Community Wise Optimization Trial. Community Wise is a multilevel behavioral intervention designed to increase critical consciousness and reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men living in predominantly ...
Richmond E. Hayes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preparing for the House of God: Nepali Muslim Narratives of the Hajj [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay focuses on first-person narratives from Nepali Muslims directly before and after their journeys from Kathmandu to Mecca, for the Hajj pilgrimage, in 2005-2006, collected and translated by the author. To date, studies and public representations
Sijapati, Megan Adamson
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Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Although research shows that structural stigma in one's environment may contribute to such disparities, little research has examined religious ...
Nathan R. Todd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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