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Matthew Medinsky

Willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Services and Associated Factors in Africa and Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) is crucial for public health, poverty eradication, and economic growth.

Fruits hidden by green: an improved YOLOV8n for detection of young citrus in lush citrus trees

In order to address the challenges of inefficiency and insufficient accuracy in the manual identification of young citrus fruits during thinning processes, this study proposes a detection methodology using the you only look once for complex backgrounds of young citrus fruits (YCCB-YOLO) approach. The method first constructs a dataset containing

The general public has now been firmly established as guinea pigs for Big Pharma

Using the example of three drugs among the many that are causing growing concern, Dr.

Global trends of acupuncture clinical research on analgesia from 2010 to 2023: a bibliometric and visualization analysis

Objective: Acupuncture, acknowledged as a potent non-pharmacological therapy, is frequently employed to alleviate pain.

“HEGA”: the Basque version of the PaBiQ parental questionnaire, for clinicians and educators working in the Basque multilingual environment

In this paper, we investigate the relevance of using a parental questionnaire (HEGA) to gather information on children’s language experience in Basque and early language development in order to better interpret language performance in that language. Both this questionnaire and use of language assessment in Basque are needed in

Assessing interstate racial and socioeconomic disparities in newborn screening policies in the United States

Introduction: This paper explores racial and socioeconomic disparities in newborn screening (NBS) policies across the United States.

Societal Self-Regulation

Any group of human beings who are supposedly in a free society and who have a leader (or a council of people who lead), assigned by that group to make decisions for the common interests of the group, must rely on their own “self-regulation,” above and beyond the leaders’ government,

mRNA injections could cause an epidemic of prion diseases – and not only in the vaccinated

If the spike protein of both the infection and the injection is an engineered prion, a result of bio-warfare research and development, then this has grave implications for humanity because these weaponised prions are far more dangerous than viruses. The most commonly known prion disease is CJD or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,

Approaching the nature of consciousness through a phenomenal analysis of early vision. What is the explanandum?

Loorits (2014) identifies the solution to the hard problem of consciousness in the possibility of fully analyzing seemingly non-structural aspects of consciousness in structural terms.

The Ministry of AI Truth

Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.” Gemini hasn’t killed anyone yet — as far as I know, the liquidation

This Week in the New Normal #84

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Yet another “online harms” Bill Just a few weeks since the UK passed its new “Online Safety Act”, the

They Are Creating Incredibly Bizarre New Technologies For The Dystopian World Of The Future.

They Are Creating Incredibly Bizarre New Technologies For The Dystopian World Of The Future. Written by author Michael Snyder.

Quantifying empirical support for theories of consciousness: a tentative methodological framework

Understanding consciousness is central to understanding human nature.We have competing theories of consciousness.