In the EXAKT study from the U.K., the home-use pulse oximeters assessed all gave higher oxygen saturation (SpO2) readings for patients with darker skin tones than for patients with lighter skin tones.

A total of 11,018 paired SpO2-SaO2 measurements were analysed. All five pulse oximeters returned higher SpO2 values for patients with darker skin tones than patients with lighter skin tones, at any ...

When it comes to constructing an investment portfolio, “negative correlation” is something of a holy grail. Diversification, investors are told, is about combining assets that behave differently. You ...

Abstract: In this work, we investigate the offline contextual learning in simulation optimization. In offline contextual learning, the optimal design changes with the context. Therefore, the optimal ...

Loneliness has become a defining challenge of our time. One in three adult Americans says they have experienced loneliness at least once a week over the past year. With the evolution of online ...

Kwon is a Ph.D. student in health policy at Harvard University. Stuart is professor and chair in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It is human ...

What causes low yield in wafers? Usually it’s due to design or process changes, but sometimes yield issues occur even if there haven’t been any changes from one manufacturing lot to the next. Finding ...

Bitcoin’s correlation with gold has climbed above 0.85 as both assets attract investors seeking stability amid inflation and global uncertainty. Bitcoin’s correlation with gold is increasing as both ...

Wages still haven't caught up with inflation, four years after the pandemic caused prices to soar and created a cost-of-living crisis for many households, a new study finds. Americans on average are ...

A team of researchers from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, China, have developed a new framework for modelling strongly correlated topological insulators A material's band structure can ...

Abstract: We study community detection in multiple networks with jointly correlated node attributes and edges. This setting arises naturally in applications such as social platforms, where a shared ...

Not too long ago, England used to lose a lot. So much that the phenomena, and the reasons behind it, were deemed fit to adorn a book cover. Why England Lose, published in 2009, sought to answer the ...