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Diff-MSM: Differentiable MusculoSkeletal Model for Simultaneous Identification of Human Muscle and Bone Parameters
Yingfan Zhou, Philip Sanderink, Sigurd Jager Lemming, Cheng Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13303

Diff-MSM: Differentiable MusculoSkeletal Model for Simultaneous Identification of Human Muscle and Bone Parameters
High-fidelity personalized human musculoskeletal models are crucial for simulating realistic behavior of physically coupled human-robot interactive systems and verifying their safety-critical applications in simulations before actual deployment, such as human-robot co-transportation and rehabilitation through robotic exoskeletons. Identifying subject-specific Hill-type muscle model parameters and bone dynamic parameters is essential for a personalized musculoskeletal model, but very challenging…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidsirota/115225863778306458
Exactly. Sanders was right all along. The MSM has gone to hell and the real news, real analysis, and real interviews are all happening on other, smaller, *people-funded* media outlets.
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By ousting Jimmy Kimmel and taking over CBS, the Right has irreparably lost their message that “Main Stream Media” is against them. They are now the MSM. This may prove fatal.

Estimating Global HIV Prevalence in Key Populations: A Cross-Population Hierarchical Modeling Approach
Jiahao Zhang, Keith Sabin, Le Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10664 https:/…

Estimating Global HIV Prevalence in Key Populations: A Cross-Population Hierarchical Modeling Approach
Key populations at high risk of HIV infection are critical for understanding and monitoring HIV epidemics, but global estimation is hampered by sparse, uneven data. We analyze data from 199 countries for female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), and people who inject drugs (PWID) over 2011-2021, and introduce a cross-population hierarchical model that borrows strength across countries, years, and populations. The model combines region- and population-specific means with country…

Pre-exposure prophylaxis and syphilis in men who have sex with men: a network analysis
Esteban Vargas Bernal, Morgan Spahnie, William Miller, Abigail Turner, Joseph Tien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19711

Pre-exposure prophylaxis and syphilis in men who have sex with men: a network analysis
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been established as an effective tool for preventing HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, there is the possibility of PrEP usage leading to increased sexual partners and increased transmission of non-HIV sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis. We take here a network perspective to examine this possibility using data on sexual partnerships, demographic data, PrEP usage, and syphilis among MSM in Columbus, Ohio. We use a recen…

Simulating from marginal structural models for hazards, cause-specific hazards and subdistribution hazards using general copulas
Shaun R Seaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15145 …

Simulating from marginal structural models for hazards, cause-specific hazards and subdistribution hazards using general copulas
Seaman and Keogh (Biometrical Journal 2024) proposed a method for simulating data compatible with a marginal structural model (MSM) for the hazard of a survival time outcome. In this short report, I propose two extensions of this method. First, Seaman and Keogh favoured the use of a Gaussian copula, because this enables the function of the confounder history through which the hazard of failure depends on confounders to be interpreted as a risk score. Here, I describe how this interpretation can…