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Elektrotherapie im Ganzkörperanzug: Neuer Ansatz in neurologischen Behandlung
Ein Anzug soll Patienten mit neurologischen Erkrankungen wie Fibromyalgie, MS oder nach Schlaganfall mit gezielter Muskelstimulation im Alltag unterstützen.

I want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)

California has already reported more measles cases this year than in all of 2024,
a worrisome development that comes as the nation is suffering its largest outbreak of the super-infectious disease in decades.
The extent of the national outbreak has rocketed measles from a back-of-mind issue
— one rarely, if ever, encountered by a whole generation of Americans
— to a pressing public health concern.
“Measles is completely preventable,”
Dr. Elizabeth Hudso…

Measles cases are on the rise in California
California has already reported more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, a worrisome development that comes as the nation is suffering its largest outbreak of the super-infectious disease in decades.

Confronting infrared divergences in de Sitter: loops, logarithms and the stochastic formalism
Gonzalo A. Palma, Spyros Sypsas, Danilo Tapia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21310 http…

Confronting infrared divergences in de Sitter: loops, logarithms and the stochastic formalism
A well-established result in quantum field theory in four-dimensional de Sitter space is that the vacuum state of a massless scalar field breaks the de Sitter isometry group, leading to time-dependent (secular) growth in correlation functions computed in inflationary coordinates. This behavior is widely believed to extend to more general theories involving light scalar fields with weak non-derivative interactions. In such cases, secular growth is thought to be further amplified by loop correcti…

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Matthew Prenevost, Aneesh Tarun, Ian Robinson, Michael Nitsche, Gabby Resch, Ali Mazalek, Timothy N. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23310

Investigating A Geometrical Solution to the Vergence-Accommodation Conflict for Targeted Movements in Virtual Reality
While virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential to revolutionize digital user interaction, how visual information is presented through VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) differs from naturalistic viewing and interactions in physical environments, leading to performance decrements. One critical challenge in VR development is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC), which arises due to the intrinsic constraints of approximating the natural viewing geometry through digital displays. Although…

Kinematic misalignment as a driver of black hole activity in galaxies with external interactions
Sandra I. Raimundo, Rogerio Riffel, Song-lin Li, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Sandro Rembold, Rogemar A. Riffel, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Marianne Vestergaard, Jos\'e L. Tous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21749

Kinematic misalignment as a driver of black hole activity in galaxies with external interactions
The process of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) fuelling relies on the transport of gas across several orders of magnitude in physical scale until the gas reaches the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. This work explores the role of kinematically misaligned gas in the fuelling of AGN in a sample of 4769 local galaxies from the MaNGA survey. We investigate for the first time the relative role of external interactions and the presence of kinematic misalignment as mechanisms to explain…

A new algorithm for sampling parameters in a structured correlation matrix with application to estimating optimal combinations of muscles to quantify progression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Michael K. Kim, Michael J. Daniels, William D. Rooney, Rebecca J. Willcocks, Glenn A. Walter, Krista H. Vandenborne
https://arxiv.org/abs…

A new algorithm for sampling parameters in a structured correlation matrix with application to estimating optimal combinations of muscles to quantify progression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The goal of this paper is to estimate an optimal combination of biomarkers for individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which provides the most sensitive combinations of biomarkers to assess disease progression (in this case, optimal with respect to standardized response mean (SRM) for 4 muscle biomarkers). The biomarker data is an incomplete (missing and irregular) multivariate longitudinal data. We propose a normal model with structured covariance designed for our setting. To sampl…

Hardnekkig die CGT…
Therapie voor kinderen met uitputtingsziekte ME/CVS in twijfel getrokken https://nos.nl/l/2569260

Therapie voor kinderen met uitputtingsziekte ME/CVS in twijfel getrokken
Kinderartsen willen een therapie tegen ME/CVS behouden terwijl deskundigen waarschuwen voor mogelijke risico's.

Oh, #ThunderbirdCloud hört sich interessant an und könnte tatsächlich #Gmail bei mir ablösen! Ich nutze letzteres nur als Oberfläche, um Pop3-Konten an einer Stelle zu aggregieren.
Scheine ja nicht nur ich so zu machen.

Thunderbird: Mozillas Alternative zu Microsoft 365 und Google Workspace - Golem.de
Thunderbird verliert Nutzer an Microsoft 365 – und geht jetzt auch in die Cloud. Das neue Angebot rund um Mail und Kalender ist vielversprechend.

Android 16 kann Smartphone-Nutzer künftig warnen vor möglichen Lauschangriffen
Neue Sicherheitseinstellung in Android 16 warnt vor IMSI-Catchern und unverschlüsselten Verbindungen. Noch unterstützt aber kein Smartphone-Modem die Funktion.