Medindia

5,000-Year-Old Bacteria Found Resistant To Modern Antibiotics

Can ancient bacteria resist modern antibiotics? A 5,000-year-old strain discovered in ice shows resistance predates modern medicine.
IEEE

Transfer Importance Sampling - How Testing Automated Vehicles in Multiple Test Setups Helps With the Bias-Variance Tradeoff

Abstract: Diverse test setups are used to ensure the safe operation of automated vehicles (AV). Field tests fully represent the complexity of AVs and their environment but are costly. Conversely, ...
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Amazon warehouse workers caught TB in June - months before all staff were told

An outbreak of tuberculosis at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry began at least seven months before staff and unions claim the wider workforce was told. In messages to staff, unions and the public ...
IEEE

A Learned Performance Model With Transfer Learning Across GPUs on Tensorized Instructions

Abstract: The training and inference efficiency of ever-larger deep neural networks highly rely on the performance of tensor operators on specific hardware accelerators. Therefore, a performance ...
SFGate

Officials confirm tuberculosis outbreak at San Francisco private school

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is investigating an active outbreak of tuberculosis at a local high school that has sickened at least three individuals. In an emailed statement to SFGATE ...
London Evening Standard

This simple pen and paper test could suggest dementia risk

A neurologist has revealed that a straightforward drawing exercise could indicate whether someone is living with dementia. Dementia, which typically affects those over 65, is characterised by a ...