Background Annually, 4% of the global population undergoes non-cardiac surgery, with 30% of those patients having at least ...

Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

A man broke the conditions of his parole when he provided a non-human urine sample for required drug tests. According to the files released today by the Supreme Court, Benjamin Henderson was sentenced ...

To paraphrase French-Algerian thinker Albert Camus: One must imagine the coin flipper happy. In Unfair Flips, released on Steam today by developer Heather Flowers, you have a coin and a button. The ...

If you’ve been to Random Sample to see an art exhibition, or watch a live band, or even participate in a book club, you know just where to find its original home. It’s a white cinderblock building ...

According to a report, the Masters champion had his regular driver deemed non-conforming Tuesday and had to put a backup in play at Quail Hollow. Rory McIlroy played with a backup driver in the first ...

ABSTRACT: Based on the concepts of attachment styles and experiential values of store patronage, this article analyzes the influence of attachment styles on the perceived values and experiential ...

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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have gained great attention in adversarial purification. Current diffusion-based works focus on designing effective condition-guided mechanisms while ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

The WeightedRandomItemSampler class implements a random sampler where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, with replacement allowed between samples. In other words, an ...