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Potassium-enriched salt is the missing ingredient in hypertension guidelines, say experts
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-potassium-enriched-salt-ingredient-hypertension.html

Potassium-enriched salt is the missing ingredient in hypertension guidelines, say experts
A call to include recommendations on low-sodium potassium-enriched salt in hypertension treatment guidelines has been made by an international group of experts in the journal Hypertension.

Abortion is Healthcare reporting guidelines - Level Up https://www.welevelup.org/abortion-media-guidelines/

"Whether the institution is a neighborhood #archive, a national #library, or an art #museum, the guidelines offer a fresh and innovative approach to prompting users to reference the institution when using

Where in the world is… this public domain material? Helping users refer to host institutions. - Creative Commons
CC’s new guidelines aim to encourage users to refer to host cultural heritage institutions when using public domain materials. Rooted in the Behavioural Insights Team’s EAST Model, they offer institutions practical design ideas to nudge users into referring back to them.

The EU publishes draft election security guidelines aimed at platforms with 45M regional MAUs that are regulated under the DSA, ahead of elections in June (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/eu-election-security-guidance-for-vlo…

EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA | TechCrunch
The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at larger platforms with a legal duty to mitigate systemic risks like political deepfakes while also safeguarding freedom of expression.

Potassium-enriched salt is the missing ingredient in hypertension guidelines, say experts
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-potassium-enriched-salt-ingredient-hypertension.html

Potassium-enriched salt is the missing ingredient in hypertension guidelines, say experts
A call to include recommendations on low-sodium potassium-enriched salt in hypertension treatment guidelines has been made by an international group of experts in the journal Hypertension.

Über die von der EU verpflichtete Browser-Auswahl von iOS 17.4 habe ich über die Tage wieder #Firefox für iOS ausprobiert:
Ohne die fehlenden Browser-Add-Ons v.a. für Ad-Blocker und WebKit statt Gecko als Engine ist das nutzlos für mich. Das liegt aber mehr an Apple als an Mozilla.
Als die App mich um eine Rezension gebeten hat, habe ich das dort so geschrieben.
Darauf kam eine E-…

👉 3 simple rues for creating #OpenScience Policies 👈
1. Develop output policies first and combine them into an Open Science policy later.
2. Policies are about the "what" and "why". The "how" belongs elsewhere (e.g. guidelines).
3. Don't start with the policy, start with the guidelines.
Read more in this week's newsletter post!

3 simple rues for creating Open Science Policies

Interesting, some empirical research on how GPT4 /ChatGPT performs in summarizing. Still the low rate of errors can be unacceptable in some contexts. As noted "Life-critical medical decisions should remain based on full, critical, and thoughtful evaluation of the full text of research articles in context with clinical guidelines.".
http…

Quality, Accuracy, and Bias in ChatGPT-Based Summarization of Medical Abstracts
PURPOSE Worldwide clinical knowledge is expanding rapidly, but physicians have sparse time to review scientific literature. Large language models (eg, Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer [ChatGPT]), might help summarize and prioritize research articles to review. However, large language models sometimes “hallucinate” incorrect information. METHODS We evaluated ChatGPT’s ability to summarize 140 peer-reviewed abstracts from 14 journals. Physicians rated the quality, accuracy, and bias …

Op de hele planeet zit er pfas in de regen. Dus ook in de bron van het drinkwater. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html

Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study
Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS that exceed the latest guidelines, according to a new study by Stockholm University scientists.

Too many news outlets treat electoral politics (and the massive impact it has on our lives) as a drama-filled sport, make false equivalencies between candidates campaigning to uphold democratic institutions and those at war with democracy, and normalize MAGA extremism and threats of violence.
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Helping students deal with Ethical Reasoning: The Proto-Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Mathematics as a deck of cards
Stephen M. Walk, Rochelle E. Tractenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16849

Helping students deal with Ethical Reasoning: The Proto-Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Mathematics as a deck of cards
Tractenberg, Piercey, and Buell 2024 presented a list of 44 proto-Guidelines for Ethical Mathematical Practice, developed through examination of codes of ethics of adjacent disciplines and consultation with members of the mathematics community, and gave justifications for the use of these proto-Guidelines. We propose formatting the list as a deck of 44 cards and describe ways to use the cards in classes at any stage of the undergraduate mathematics program. A simple game or encounter with the c…

New Nutrition Guidelines Put Less Sugar and Salt on the Menu for School Meals
The Agriculture Department finalized a new rule to bring school meals more in line with federal dietary standards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0…

New Nutrition Guidelines Put Less Sugar and Salt on the Menu for School Meals
The Agriculture Department finalized a new rule to bring the meals more in line with federal dietary standards.

Guidelines for Teaching, Student Accommodations, and Staff on Campus (Angela V. Olinto/provost.columbia.edu)
https://provost.columbia.edu/news/guidelines-teaching-student-accommodations-and-staff-campus
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p1#a240424p1

From Guidelines to Governance: A Study of AI Policies in Education
Aashish Ghimire, John Edwards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15601 https://

From Guidelines to Governance: A Study of AI Policies in Education
Emerging technologies like generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, are increasingly utilized in educational settings, offering innovative approaches to learning while simultaneously posing new challenges. This study employs a survey methodology to examine the policy landscape concerning these technologies, drawing insights from 102 high school principals and higher education provosts. Our results reveal a prominent policy gap: the majority of institutions lack specialized guide-lines for the et…

Wishful thinking. Just took 4 flights (masked the whole way). I’d say it was ~1% of people.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11016 has been replaced.
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Treatment And Follow-Up Guidelines For Multiple Brain Metastases: A Systematic Review
Brain metastases are a complication of primary cancer, representing the most common type of brain tumor in adults. The management of multiple brain metastases represents a clinical challenge worldwide in finding the optimal treatment for patients considering various individual aspects. Managing multiple metastases with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is being increasingly used because of quality of life and neurocognitive preservation, which do not present such good outcomes when dealt with who…

Good guidelines to consider when collecting data. Via @…
#phptek

Depending on yourself when you should: Mentoring LLM with RL agents to become the master in cybersecurity games
Yikuan Yan, Yaolun Zhang, Keman Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17674

Depending on yourself when you should: Mentoring LLM with RL agents to become the master in cybersecurity games
Integrating LLM and reinforcement learning (RL) agent effectively to achieve complementary performance is critical in high stake tasks like cybersecurity operations. In this study, we introduce SecurityBot, a LLM agent mentored by pre-trained RL agents, to support cybersecurity operations. In particularly, the LLM agent is supported with a profile module to generated behavior guidelines, a memory module to accumulate local experiences, a reflection module to re-evaluate choices, and an action m…

Content-Centric Prototyping of Generative AI Applications: Emerging Approaches and Challenges in Collaborative Software Teams
Hari Subramonyam, Divy Thakkar, J\"urgen Dieber, Anoop Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17721

Content-Centric Prototyping of Generative AI Applications: Emerging Approaches and Challenges in Collaborative Software Teams
Generative AI models are increasingly powering software applications, offering the capability to produce expressive content across varied contexts. However, unlike previous iterations of human-AI design, the emerging design process for generative capabilities primarily hinges on prompt engineering strategies. Given this fundamental shift in approach, our work aims to understand how collaborative software teams set up and apply design guidelines and values, iteratively prototype prompts, and eva…

Amazing to see the #ILO finally taking #Uyghur forced #labor seriously. Knowing what I do about the organization, this is a huge shift and one that, I imagine, only happened due to the dedicated work of academics and acti…

Updated ILO Forced Labor Guidelines Directly Target Uyghur Forced Labor
Executive Summary: For first time since establishing its forced labor taskforce in 2001, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has issued authoritative and comprehensive guidance on operationalizing the research and measurement of forced labor, updating its more provisional guidelines from 2012. The new ILO Handbook adds a substantial new section on state-imposed forced labor, squarely targeting Beijing’s forced labor in Xinjiang …

Facebook just stopped me posting a YouTube link to a BBC Earth video on the BBC Studios channel because "it violates community guidelines" (it's 2 minutes of a crab with Attenborough narration!) And then the "tell us it isn't" link just goes to a page that says "Something went wrong."

Bang up job there, FB.

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“Today, Creative Commons is releasing new guidelines for open culture:
Nudging Users to Reference Institutions When Using Public Domain Materials.”
#OpenCulture #PublicDomain #MuseTech

Where in the world is… this public domain material? Helping users refer to host institutions. - Creative Commons
CC’s new guidelines aim to encourage users to refer to host cultural heritage institutions when using public domain materials. Rooted in the Behavioural Insights Team’s EAST Model, they offer institutions practical design ideas to nudge users into referring back to them.

Authorized Subject Headings in the Online Automatic catalog Environment An Empirical Study on a Sample of Arabic Records
Ahmed Ammar Hussein Hammam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18106

Authorized Subject Headings in the Online Automatic catalog Environment An Empirical Study on a Sample of Arabic Records
Subject headings are very important to machine catalogs, given the importance of thematic research. This study aims to measure the quality of a group of authorized subject headings with a sample of Arabic bibliographic records on the catalog of Egyptian university libraries by identifying the most important practices, policies, procedures followed, and tools used. In addition to assessing the actual capabilities of lists, thesaurus, and guidelines that were used in establishing thematic availab…

CDC plans to end "look both ways" period of crossing the street. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/covid-new-cdc-isolation-guidelines…

Causal blind spots when using prediction models for treatment decisions
Nan van Geloven, Ruth H Keogh, Wouter van Amsterdam, Giovanni Cin\`a, Jesse H. Krijthe, Niels Peek, Kim Luijken, Sara Magliacane, Pawe{\l} Morzywo{\l}ek, Thijs van Ommen, Hein Putter, Matthew Sperrin, Junfeng Wang, Daniala L. Weir, Vanessa Didelez
https://ar…

Causal blind spots when using prediction models for treatment decisions
Prediction models are increasingly proposed for guiding treatment decisions, but most fail to address the special role of treatments, leading to inappropriate use. This paper highlights the limitations of using standard prediction models for treatment decision support. We identify 'causal blind spots' in three common approaches to handling treatments in prediction modelling and illustrate potential harmful consequences in several medical applications. We advocate for an extension of guidelines …

> Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international guidelines aimed at preventing obesity and chronic diseases, a report has found.
https://www.

new ME/CFS guidelines from New Zealand
"Symptom management is the focus of treatment with emphasis on pacing – a free energy management technique used to avoid PEM. Ignoring these guidelines can worsen a patient’s condition.
"Robust review of evidence has led to the removal of three previously recommended treatments from international guidelines [inc] Graded Exercise Therapy (GET)... Continuing to perpetuate the prescription of these treatments may cause harm."
#MECFS

@… I remember you wrote once about some Austrian/Vienna(?) html guidelines made by some Amt for everyone. If I'm not mistaken, could you remind me the url for that?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10357 has been replaced.
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Investigating Color Blind User Interface Accessibility via Simulated Interfaces
Over 300 million people who live with color vision deficiency (CVD) have a decreased ability to distinguish between colors, limiting their ability to interact with websites and software packages. User interface designers have taken various approaches to tackle the issue with most offering a high contrast mode. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) outline some best practices for maintaining accessibility that have been adopted and recommended by several governments; however, it is cur…

FDA might update its pulse oximeter guidelines for manufacturers
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/04/01/fda-considers-updating-pulse-oximeter-guidelines-arizona-attorney-general/

FDA considers updating pulse oximeter guidelines to make readings on dark skin more accurate
The FDA is considering changing pulse oximeter clinical testing regulations after a series of events exposed inaccuracies for patients with dark skin.

Considering Fundamental Rights in the European Standardisation of Artificial Intelligence: Nonsense or Strategic Alliance?
Marion Ho-DacUA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16869

Considering Fundamental Rights in the European Standardisation of Artificial Intelligence: Nonsense or Strategic Alliance?
In the European context, both the EU AI Act proposal and the draft Standardisation Request on safe and trustworthy AI link standardisation to fundamental rights. However, these texts do not provide any guidelines that specify and detail the relationship between AI standards and fundamental rights, its meaning or implication. This chapter aims to clarify this critical regulatory blind spot. The main issue tackled is whether the adoption of AI harmonised standards, based on the future AI Act, sho…

Chinese officials have begun following the new PC, laptop, and server guidelines to phase out Intel/AMD processors and Windows from government PCs and servers (Financial Times)
https://t.co/rDqZ6MnYBe

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09014 has been replaced.
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Geometric Wide-Angle Camera Calibration: A Review and Comparative Study
Wide-angle cameras are widely used in photogrammetry and autonomous systems which rely on the accurate metric measurements derived from images. To find the geometric relationship between incoming rays and image pixels, geometric camera calibration (GCC) has been actively developed. Aiming to provide practical calibration guidelines, this work surveys the existing GCC tools and evaluates the representative ones for wide-angle cameras. The survey covers camera models, calibration targets, and alg…

Guidelines for the Creation of Analysis Ready Data
Harriette Phillips, Aiden Price, Owen Forbes, Claire Boulange, Kerrie Mengersen, Marketa Reeves, Rebecca Glauert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08127

Guidelines for the Creation of Analysis Ready Data
Globally, there is an increased need for guidelines to produce high-quality data outputs for analysis. There is no framework currently exists providing guidelines for a comprehensive approach in producing analysis ready data (ARD). Through critically reviewing and summarising current literature, this paper proposes such guidelines for the creation of ARD. The guidelines proposed in this paper inform ten steps in the generation of ARD: ethics, project documentation, data governance, data managem…

Facebook just stopped me posting a YouTube link to a BBC Earth video on the BBC Studios channel because "it violates community guidelines" (it's 2 minutes of a crab with Attenborough narration!) And then the "tell us it isn't" link just goes to a page that says "Something went wrong."

Bang up job there, FB.

These 'dark patterns' in User Interfaces/Experience should be banned here in Aotearoa NZ, too. https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/dark-patterns-are-now-illegal-in-india-6b3c35c5ce50

The European Research Area Forum has released guidelines for the responsible use of Generative AI research. This development underscores efforts toward ethical considerations in AI innovation and research integrity.
Learn more on the link below.
https://zurl.co/kbEH

Guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research developed by the European Research Area Forum
Research and innovation news alert: The Commission, together with the European Research Area countries and stakeholders, has put forward a set of guidelines to support the European research community in their responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

Authorized Subject Headings in the Online Automatic catalog Environment An Empirical Study on a Sample of Arabic Records
Ahmed Ammar Hussein Hammam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18106

Authorized Subject Headings in the Online Automatic catalog Environment An Empirical Study on a Sample of Arabic Records
Subject headings are very important to machine catalogs, given the importance of thematic research. This study aims to measure the quality of a group of authorized subject headings with a sample of Arabic bibliographic records on the catalog of Egyptian university libraries by identifying the most important practices, policies, procedures followed, and tools used. In addition to assessing the actual capabilities of lists, thesaurus, and guidelines that were used in establishing thematic availab…

Guidelines and rapid reviews and guidelines based on rapid reviews are proliferating
So here’s what we need: a guideline on how to use rapid reviews to make guidelines, right? 🙄
https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-076335

Causal blind spots when using prediction models for treatment decisions
Nan van Geloven, Ruth H Keogh, Wouter van Amsterdam, Giovanni Cin\`a, Jesse H. Krijthe, Niels Peek, Kim Luijken, Sara Magliacane, Pawe{\l} Morzywo{\l}ek, Thijs van Ommen, Hein Putter, Matthew Sperrin, Junfeng Wang, Daniala L. Weir, Vanessa Didelez
https://ar…

Causal blind spots when using prediction models for treatment decisions
Prediction models are increasingly proposed for guiding treatment decisions, but most fail to address the special role of treatments, leading to inappropriate use. This paper highlights the limitations of using standard prediction models for treatment decision support. We identify 'causal blind spots' in three common approaches to handling treatments in prediction modelling and illustrate potential harmful consequences in several medical applications. We advocate for an extension of guidelines …

A coalition of LGBTQ charities, teachers and human rights groups is urging the British public to oppose discriminatory new guidance that would see trans, non-binary and gender-questioning pupils "outed" to parents or carers, among other dangerous measures. A public consultation on the plans closes tomorrow.

WCAG•com has bad/wrong info, eg. button:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240205183643/https://wcag.com/resource/wcag-com-glossary/#:~:text=Button: An element that …

Open source requires courage, and a sensible collection of legally actionable guidelines. A fantastic overview of the EMBaG laws at today's #CHopen meeting in Bern by Bruno Schöb

Oh #instagram... I'm just soooo happy that I do not have Instagram reach or growth as a success metric.
My posts were down ranked as they were subject to violating community guidelines - but after reviewing, it seems that they don't (oh wow, really).
Or maybe someone reported them as a reaction to my political posts 🤔. Could be as well.

Fine Tuning LLM for Enterprise: Practical Guidelines and Recommendations
Mathav Raj J, Kushala VM, Harikrishna Warrier, Yogesh Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10779

Fine Tuning LLM for Enterprise: Practical Guidelines and Recommendations
There is a compelling necessity from enterprises for fine tuning LLMs (Large Language Models) o get them trained on proprietary domain knowledge. The challenge is to imbibe the LLMs with domain specific knowledge using the most optimial resource and cost and in the best possible time. Many enterprises rely on RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) which does not need LLMs to be ine-tuned but they are limited by the quality of vector databases and their retrieval capabilities rather than the intri…

Four high-ranking congressional Democrats condemned a decision the private entity that sets the country’s default homebuilding guidelines made this week
-- which will 👉gut requirements for new houses and offices to include the wiring for electric heaters, EV chargers and solar panels.
In November, 🔸trade associations representing the natural gas industry 🔸launched 11th-hour appeals to the🔹 International Code Council🔹, the nonprofit consortium of local governments and industry grou…

‘A Real Scandal’: Democrats Slam Gas Industry’s Gutting Of Green Building Codes
Two senators joined House Democrats in criticizing the International Code Council’s controversial move.

BBC apologises for telling the truth.
BBC apologises for calling Reform UK ‘far right’ | Reform UK | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/19/bbc-apologises-for-calling-reform-uk-far-right

Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission)
The President releases every 5years a decree of guidelines for the EU.
The last time was 2019 by Ursula and the main focus was on climate change.
The new released draft of the decree for 2024-2029 doesn’t mention climate change much if at all, the new money pit will be security and refugees.
(Screenshots taken from a video)
1/2
3 pics Decree 2019 - 2024

Apple updates App Store guidelines, allowing game emulators for the first time globally, and letting music streaming apps in the EU link to external websites (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/05/app-store-guidelines-music-apps-gam…

App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more
After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it’s not satisfied with the changes the company made...

While the Supreme Court is pondering whether one part of the 14th Amendment (Section 3) is more like what you might call guidelines than actual law, it may be worth reviewing New Jersey's early tradition of enfranchising women and others to vote, and why how that right was stripped from them in 1807:

"American intelligence analysts and officials said on Friday that they expected Iran to strike multiple targets inside Israel within the next few days in retaliation for an Israeli bombing in the Syrian capital on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders."
https://www.

Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
Swiss food firm’s infant formula and cereal sold in global south ignore WHO anti-obesity guidelines for Europe, says Public Eye
https://www.theguardian.…

What is whocanuse.com?
It's a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Just a tiny part of making the web more accessible is accommodating for those with a form of blindness or low vision.

These 'dark patterns' in User Interfaces/Experience should be banned here in Aotearoa NZ, too. https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/dark-patterns-are-now-illegal-in-india-6b3c35c5ce50

Fun Canada fact: there are no rules

Women with obesity do not need to gain weight during pregnancy
https://news.ki.se/women-with-obesity-do-not-need-to-gain-weight-during-pregnancy

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03668 has been replaced.
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GoLLIE: Annotation Guidelines improve Zero-Shot Information-Extraction
Large Language Models (LLMs) combined with instruction tuning have made significant progress when generalizing to unseen tasks. However, they have been less successful in Information Extraction (IE), lagging behind task-specific models. Typically, IE tasks are characterized by complex annotation guidelines which describe the task and give examples to humans. Previous attempts to leverage such information have failed, even with the largest models, as they are not able to follow the guidelines ou…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02888 has been replaced.
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Manuscript preparation guide for Radiological Physics and Technology
This guide is intended for authors who wish to publish an original paper in Radiological Physics and Technology. They should follow the submission guidelines of the journal as well as standard guidelines and conventions for scientific writing. The journal recommends a standard structure for the main text and requires an additional section for declarations. Each section has a numbered heading that announces the topic of its content. The text may consist of paragraphs for subtopics. Original cont…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09174 has been replaced.
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Investigating the impact of virtual element misalignment in collaborative Augmented Reality experiences
The collaboration in co-located shared environments has sparked an increased interest in immersive technologies, including Augmented Reality (AR). Since research in this field has primarily focused on individual user experiences in AR, the collaborative aspects within shared AR spaces remain less explored, and fewer studies can provide guidelines for designing this type of experience. This article investigates how the user experience in a collaborative shared AR space is affected by divergent p…

Too many journalists normalize Trump’s extremism, treat electoral politics (and the massive impact it has on our lives) as a drama-filled sport, and make false equivalencies between candidates campaigning to uphold democratic institutions and those at war with democracy.
https://www.mediaanddem…

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Dutch greenhouse gas #emissions down by 6% last year, to 34% below their 1990 level!
Emissions from electricity generation down 22% year-on-year thanks to more renewable, less fossil electricity.
Transport emissions up by 9% due to growth in aviation.

Greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent lower in 2023
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 6 percent lower in 2023 than in 2022. This was mainly due to 22 percent lower emissions in the electricity sector. Less electricity was produced from coal and natural gas. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)/Emissions Register report this on the basis of provisional quarterly figures on GHG emissions, in accordance with the IPCC guidelines.

The grift comes home. What a surprise. 🙄
The text in the last excerpt here is just 😗.
https://us.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/trump-campaign-republicans-fundraising/index.html

@… What are the guidelines for creating a #Wikidata entry? Do the same Noteworthy rules apply like for Wikipedia pages/articles or is it somewhat more loose? Are #Wikimedia foxes silly?

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Diagnostic Decision Pathways Using Electronic Health Records: A Comparative Study on Anemia and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Lillian Muyama, Antoine Neuraz, Adrien Coulet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05913

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Diagnostic Decision Pathways Using Electronic Health Records: A Comparative Study on Anemia and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Background: Clinical diagnosis is typically reached by following a series of steps recommended by guidelines authored by colleges of experts. Accordingly, guidelines play a crucial role in rationalizing clinical decisions but suffer from limitations as they are built to cover the majority of the population and fail at covering patients with uncommon conditions. Moreover, their updates are long and expensive, making them unsuitable for emerging diseases and practices. Methods: Inspired by guid…

medical model of disability vs social model of disability
O.o interesting that there's a schism
if you can help em medically, neat
but you should still accommodate folks, not accommodating disability is a dick move.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/disability

#NephJC this week on the KDIGO lupus nephritis guidelines
http://www.nephjc.com/news/kdigo-lupus2024

We look forward to our guest joining us tomorrow for our free webinar on 'Social Media and Ethics' with our speaker Dr Nicolas Gold, Associate Professor, University College London.
This event is sold out!
This webinar discusses these ethical concerns that require a combination of thoughtful consideration, adherence to research guidelines, and engagement with relevant stakeholders, including social media platforms and users.

LR-FHSS Transceiver for Direct-to-Satellite IoT Communications: Design, Implementation, and Verification
Sooyeob Jung, Seongah Jeong, Jinkyu Kang, Gyeongrae Im, Sangjae Lee, Mi-Kyung Oh, Joon Gyu Ryu, Joonhyuk Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14154

LR-FHSS Transceiver for Direct-to-Satellite IoT Communications: Design, Implementation, and Verification
This paper proposes a long range-frequency hopping spread spectrum (LR-FHSS) transceiver design for the Direct-to-Satellite Internet of Things (DtS-IoT) communication system. The DtS-IoT system has recently attracted attention as a promising nonterrestrial network (NTN) solution to provide high-traffic and low-latency data transfer services to IoT devices in global coverage. In particular, this study provides guidelines for the overall DtS-IoT system architecture and design details that conform…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09174 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Investigating the impact of virtual element misalignment in collaborative Augmented Reality experiences
The collaboration in co-located shared environments has sparked an increased interest in immersive technologies, including Augmented Reality (AR). Since research in this field has primarily focused on individual user experiences in AR, the collaborative aspects within shared AR spaces remain less explored, and fewer studies can provide guidelines for designing this type of experience. This article investigates how the user experience in a collaborative shared AR space is affected by divergent p…

Could AI-designed proteins be weaponized? Scientists lay out safety guidelines
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00699-0

Could AI-designed proteins be weaponized? Scientists lay out safety guidelines
AI tools that can come up with protein structures at the push of a button should be used safely and ethically, say researchers in the field.

Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission)
The President releases every 5years a decree of guidelines for the EU.
The last time was 2019 by Ursula and the main focus was on climate change.
The new released draft of the decree for 2024-2029 doesn’t mention climate change much if at all, the new money pit will be security and refugees.
(Screenshots taken from a video)
1/2
3 pics Decree 2019 - 2024

Latest 'Good News, Bad News'.
Each week we compare our Pro-Democracy Election Coverage Guidelines with ongoing coverage.
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/good-news-bad-news-april-19-2024
Featuring insig…

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🧬 Understanding the wiring of the human genome
#genome

Understanding the wiring of the human genome
Around 98.5% of human DNA is non-coding, meaning it doesn't get copied to make proteins. A new study has connected many of these non-coding regions to the genes they affect and laid out guidelines for how researchers can continue this work going forward.

Spatial Fairness: The Case for its Importance, Limitations of Existing Work, and Guidelines for Future Research
Nripsuta Ani Saxena, Wenbin Zhang, Cyrus Shahabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14040

Spatial Fairness: The Case for its Importance, Limitations of Existing Work, and Guidelines for Future Research
Despite location being increasingly used in decision-making systems employed in many sensitive domains such as mortgages and insurance, astonishingly little attention has been paid to unfairness that may seep in due to the correlation of location with characteristics considered protected under anti-discrimination law, such as race or national origin. This position paper argues for the urgent need to consider fairness with respect to location, termed \textit{spatial fairness}, by outlining the h…

While the Supreme Court is pondering whether one part of the 14th Amendment (Section 3) is more like what you might call guidelines than actual law, it may be worth reviewing New Jersey's early tradition of enfranchising women and others to vote, and why how that right was stripped from them in 1807:

Guidelines for Using Mixed and Multi Methods Research in Software Engineering
Margaret-Anne Storey, Rashina Hoda, Alessandra Maciel Paz Milani, Maria Teresa Baldassarre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06011

Guidelines for Using Mixed and Multi Methods Research in Software Engineering
Mixed and multi methods research is often used in software engineering, but researchers outside of the social or human sciences often lack experience when using these designs. This paper provides guidelines and advice on how to design mixed and multi method research, and to encourage the intentional, rigourous, and innovative use of mixed methods in software engineering. It also presents key characteristics of core mixed method research designs. Through a number of fictitious but recognizable s…

“A Comparison of Automated Testing Tools for Digital Accessibility”
https://equalentry.com/digital-accessibility-automated-testing-tools-comparison/
Caveats:
• 2 of 6 are overlay vendors;
• test site had 104 WCAG violation…

A Comparison of Automated Testing Tools for Digital Accessibility - Equal Entry
Automated testing tools for accessibility are software applications that evaluate websites, applications, and documents for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). They identify and report on accessibility issues that could make digital content unusable for people with disabilities. Automated testing tools can bring efficiency to the testing process. While it’s true that manual […]

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Is Your Kettle Smarter Than a Hacker? A Scalable Tool for Assessing Replay Attack Vulnerabilities on Consumer IoT Devices
Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices often leverage the local network to communicate with the corresponding companion app or other devices. This has benefits in terms of efficiency since it offloads the cloud. ENISA and NIST security guidelines underscore the importance of enabling default local communication for safety and reliability. Indeed, an IoT device should continue to function in case the cloud connection is not available. While the security of cloud-device connections is typicall…

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"#Democracy is not simply voting; it includes #limits on how and under what circumstances political power can be disputed and wielded so that democracy itself can survive from generation to generation.
…in fact, democracies cannot function without durable rules that set guidelines for contesting …

Disqualifying Trump Is Not Antidemocratic
But ignoring the Constitution to please his supporters would be a complete breakdown of the rule of law.

The Real Story Behind NPR’s Current Problems
https://slate.com/business/2024/04/npr-diversity-public-broadcasting-radio.html
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Synergy of Information in Multimodal IoT Systems -- Discovering the impact of daily behaviour routines on physical activity level
Mohsen Shirali, Zahra Ahmadi, Carlos Fern\'andez-Llatas, Jose-Luis Bayo-Monton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14707

Synergy of Information in Multimodal IoT Systems -- Discovering the impact of daily behaviour routines on physical activity level
The intricate connection between daily behaviours and health necessitates robust behaviour monitoring, particularly with the advent of IoT systems. This study introduces an innovative approach, exploiting the synergy of information from various IoT sources, to assess the alignment of behaviour routines with health guidelines. We grouped routines based on guideline compliance and used a clustering method to identify similarities in behaviours and key characteristics within each cluster. Applied …

A Hybrid Execution Environment for Computer-Interpretable Guidelines in PROforma
Alexandra Kogan, Roy Leizer, Szymon Wilk, David Glasspool
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05011

A Hybrid Execution Environment for Computer-Interpretable Guidelines in PROforma
In this paper, we share our experience of developing a hybrid execution environment for computer-interpretable guidelines (CIGs) in PROforma. The proposed environment is part of the CAPABLE system which provides coaching for cancer patients and decision support for physicians. It extends a standard PROforma execution engine - Deontics Engine (DE) - with additional components that act as wrappers around DE, allow handling of non-standard tasks, and facilitate integration with the rest of the CAP…

Republicans Seem Completely OK With Trump’s Alarming Russia Comments
They are defending Donald Trump’s terrifying remarks that Russia can do “whatever the hell it wants.”
Conservatives once again fell in line behind Donald Trump on Monday, signing off on comments the GOP front-runner made over the weekend that read more like veiled threats against nations he deems are failing NATO’s guidelines.
“No, I would not protect you,” Trump told a crowd in Conway, North Carolina, on …

Republicans Seem Completely OK With Trump’s Alarming Russia Comments
Republicans are defending Donald Trump’s terrifying remarks that Russia can do “whatever the hell it wants.”

Lost in Magnitudes: Exploring the Design Space for Visualizing Data with Large Value Ranges
Katerina Batziakoudi, Florent Cabric, St\'ephanie Rey, Jean-Daniel Fekete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15150

Lost in Magnitudes: Exploring the Design Space for Visualizing Data with Large Value Ranges
We explore the design space for the static visualization of datasets with quantitative attributes that vary over multiple orders of magnitude-we call these attributes Orders of Magnitude Values (OMVs)-and provide design guidelines and recommendations on effective visual encodings for OMVs. Current charts rely on linear or logarithmic scales to visualize values, leading to limitations in performing simple tasks for OMVs. In particular, linear scales prevent the reading of smaller magnitudes and …

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A critical analysis of cognitive load measurement methods for evaluating the usability of different types of interfaces: guidelines and framework for Human-Computer Interaction
Ali Darejeh, Nadine Marcusa, Gelareh Mohammadi, John Sweller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11820

A critical analysis of cognitive load measurement methods for evaluating the usability of different types of interfaces: guidelines and framework for Human-Computer Interaction
Usability testing is an essential part of product design, particularly for user interfaces. To enhance the reliability of usability evaluations, employing cognitive load measurement methods can be highly effective in assessing the mental effort required to complete tasks during user testing. This review aims to provide an overview of the most suitable cognitive load measurement methods for evaluating various types of user interfaces, serving as a valuable resource for guiding usability assessme…

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1) Cover elections like they matter more than sports scores.
2) Make threats to democracy clear.
3) Protect Americans from disinformation.
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A look at the use of AI in Indonesia ahead of Feb. 14 elections, as vendors and campaigns push the limits of guidelines issued by OpenAI, Midjourney, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/generat

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FAIR-USE4OS: Guidelines for Creating Impactful Open-Source Software
This paper extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding 'USE' (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines wil…

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Human participants in AI research: Ethics and transparency in practice
In recent years, research involving human participants has been critical to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), particularly in the areas of conversational, human-compatible, and cooperative AI. For example, around 12% and 6% of publications at recent AAAI and NeurIPS conferences indicate the collection of original human data, respectively. Yet AI and ML researchers lack guidelines for ethical, transparent research practices with human participants. Fewer than on…

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With only 200 days left until Election Day we all need to start asking for coverage that uplifts and defends democracy.
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Introducing "Good News, Bad News:" Our Weekly Review of 2024 Election Coverage
With just over 200 days left until Election Day we need to start asking for coverage that uplifts and defends democracy.

Investigating Why Clinicians Deviate from Standards of Care: Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU
Nur Yildirim, Susanna Zlotnikov, Aradhana Venkat, Gursimran Chawla, Jennifer Kim, Leigh A. Bukowski, Jeremy M. Kahn, James McCann, John Zimmerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13464<…

Investigating Why Clinicians Deviate from Standards of Care: Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU
Clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, and protocols are designed to support evidence-based practices for clinicians; however, their adoption remains a challenge. We set out to investigate why clinicians deviate from the ``Wake Up and Breathe'' protocol, an evidence-based guideline for liberating patients from mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). We conducted over 40 hours of direct observations of live clinical workflows, 17 interviews with frontline care providers, a…

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AI-Based Automated Speech Therapy Tools for persons with Speech Sound Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review
This paper presents a systematic literature review of published studies on AI-based automated speech therapy tools for persons with speech sound disorders (SSD). The COVID-19 pandemic has initiated the requirement for automated speech therapy tools for persons with SSD making speech therapy accessible and affordable. However, there are no guidelines for designing such automated tools and their required degree of automation compared to human experts. In this systematic review, we followed the PR…

Generating Automatic Feedback on UI Mockups with Large Language Models
Peitong Duan, Jeremy Warner, Yang Li, Bjoern Hartmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13139

Generating Automatic Feedback on UI Mockups with Large Language Models
Feedback on user interface (UI) mockups is crucial in design. However, human feedback is not always readily available. We explore the potential of using large language models for automatic feedback. Specifically, we focus on applying GPT-4 to automate heuristic evaluation, which currently entails a human expert assessing a UI's compliance with a set of design guidelines. We implemented a Figma plugin that takes in a UI design and a set of written heuristics, and renders automatically-generated …

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Please sign our Open Letter to news organizations:
“Urgent Need For Pro-Democracy 2024 Election Coverage”
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American media mus…

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American media must advocate for democracy. We created guidelines for election coverage so that you can hold newsrooms accountable.