Background The rapid expansion of direct-to-consumer wearable fitness products (eg, Flex 2, Fitbit) and research-grade sensors (eg, SenseCam, Microsoft Research; activPAL, PAL Technologies) coincides with new opportunities for biomedical and behavioral researchers.Underserved communities report among the highest rates of chronic disease and could b
Evaluating a Comprehensive Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Insights from Nepal and Developing Nations
The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing (C4DISC) has published a focused toolkit to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in scientific publications and help editors and publishers create a more inclusive and equitable publishing environment.The online toolkit has several sections.Among the recomme
Learning to Fly: A Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software-Defined UAV Network Control
Control and performance optimization of wireless networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require scalable approaches that go beyond architectures based on centralized network controllers.At the same Incense time, the performance of model-based optimization approaches is often limited by the accuracy of the approximations and relaxations necessa
Molecular analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis strains isolated from community and hospital environments in China.
BackgroundStaphylococcus epidermidis is a common cause of nosocomial infections worldwide.This study analyzed the differences in genetic endowment and clonal lineages with pathogenesis and resistance traits of S.epidermidis isolates collected from community and hospital environments (patients and healthcare staff) of the same ecological niche, time