Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been argued to offer a myriad of improvements in how we work and live. The notion AI comprises wide-ranging set technologies that allow individuals organizations integrate analyze data use insight improve or automate decision-making. While most attention placed on the positive aspects companies realize by adoption AI, there is growing concern around negative uni...

Excessive weight gain after tonsillectomy has been described by a handful of studies since as early as 1988 and, in recent years, mostly with variable study design, methods, and baseline weight of the subjects. Although most otolaryngologists have likely been asked whether tonsillectomy may lead to weight gain by parents and caretakers, there has been very limited research on this issue, and ce...

Machine learning systems, which are often used for high-stakes decisions, suffer from two mutually reinforcing problems: unfairness and opaqueness. Many popular models, although generally accurate, cannot express uncertainty about their predictions. Even in regimes where a model is inaccurate, users may trust the model’s predictions too fully, and allow its biases to reinforce the user’s own. I...

Research poetics, a form of arts-based research methods, has been under-utilized in the field of health promotion. Poetic methods have most commonly been used as a form of re/presentation of the lived experience in qualitative research. For the community-engaged researcher, re/presenting findings through poetry offers unique opportunities for engaging the reader and reaching diverse communities...

Though innovative approaches to working with substance-abusing parents of maltreated children have emerged within the last few years, child welfare agencies continue to be challenged by the chronic nature of addictive diseases. This article discusses the often ignored element of spirituality as a critical component of recovery for parents. It also highlights how the regulation of spirituality b...

Quercetin a flavonoid to be a member of a group of flavonols is universally consumed in the human diet and responsibly to give the color to various fruits and vegetables [1]. Mainly occur in the form of glycosides, but their other derivative have been identified [2-5]. This paper presents some recent advances regarding quercetin structure, derivatives, sources and their medicinal benefits with ...

The fundamental economics of packet networking has led us to a mechanism to guarantee quality of service (QoS) with no flow handling in the core Internet, giving far better scalability, robustness and simplicity than previously. The same packet congestion mechanism is then generalised to encourage customers to manage all classes of traffic responsibly and with optimal utilisation. A vision of t...

High-performance computing (HPC) clusters are widely used in-house at scientific and academic research institutions. For some users, the transition from running their analyses on a single workstation to them complex, multi-tenanted cluster, usually employing degree of parallelism, can be challenging, if not bewildering, especially for users whose role is predominantly computational in nature. O...

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Retraction The authors have retracted this article [1] as it contains large portions of text and figures that have been duplicated from another article previously published in the International Journal of Clinical Oncology [2]. Lead author Dr Tazi accepts full responsibly for the duplication and would like to apologise to the co-authors, Editors and readers as well as the authors of the origina...