What is the 'rules-based order' and can it survive?

The shared structures that have underpinned global cooperation for years are crumbling, according to world leaders. Can the ...

Google Chrome ships WebMCP in early preview, turning every website into a structured tool for AI agents

Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing ...

Microsoft starts with previews for .NET 11.0

Two months after .NET 10.0, Microsoft starts preview series for version 11, primarily with innovations in the web frontend ...
Frontiers

Early postoperative liver function parameters as predictors of post-hepatectomy liver failure

Post-hepatectomy liver failure (PHLF) is a serious complication after liver resection and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The current International Study Group of Liver Surgery ...
IEEE

KANB: A Family of Parametric Activation Functions With Trainable Parameters

Abstract: In this paper, a new family of four-parameter activation functions, referred to as KANB, is introduced to improve the performance of artificial neural networks (ANNs). The activation ...
Frontiers

Evaluation of fetal cardiac morphology and function in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy using Fetal HQ technology combined with uterine artery ultrasound parameters

Objective: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) significantly affect both maternal and fetal health, with uterine artery hemodynamic parameters playing a critical role in assessing fetal ...
C&EN

RED-E-Function-Based Equilibrium Parameter Finder: Finding the Best Restraint Parameters in Absolute Binding Free Energy Calculations

State Key Laboratory of Anti-Infective Drug Discovery and Development, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological ...
TheServerSide

Understanding the 7 principles of functional programming

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...