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Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar’s (CMU-Q) Associate Teaching Professor Gianni Di Caro is using artificial intelligence and a fleet of autonomous marine robots to better explore the marine environment around Qatar.
To better understand marine environments, researchers create information maps of data such as depth, water quality and salinity. This information is critical for a country like Qatar, which balances offshore oil and gas operations with the preservation and sustainability of a fragile marine ecosystem.
Typically, information maps are created by a manually operated boat sampling data at pre-defined points, one at-a-time and sharing that information every a few months. Di Caro said this method has serious drawbacks, including the fact that sampling is sequential and static. It also doesn’t adaptively select where to sample based on gathered evidence, since data processing is done offline.
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December 13, 2020
The risk of becoming dependent on pain medication and sedatives after mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery is more significant than doctors realized.
A study presented this week at the virtual meeting of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) found that people who underwent mastectomy and breast reconstruction were at increased risk of developing dependence on pain and sedative medication.
The study showed that 13.1 percent of patients who were not prior opioid users became new persistent opioid users after surgery. Researchers found 6.6 percent of patients who were not prior sedative-hypnotic users became persistent users after surgery.
“It’s striking how many patients this is an issue for. It’s more than maybe we would have thought prior to doing the study,” said the lead author, Jacob Cogan, MD, a fellow in hematology-oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.