PREDICTING PATIENT-LEVEL NEW-ONSET ATRIAL FIBRILLATION FROM POPULATION-BASED NATIONWIDE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: PROTOCOL OF FIND-AF FOR DEVELOPING A PRECISION MEDICINE PREDICTION MODEL USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Predicting patient-level new-onset atrial fibrillation from population-based nationwide electronic health records: protocol of FIND-AF for developing a precision medicine prediction model using artificial intelligence

Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major cardiovascular health problem: it is common, chronic and incurs substantial healthcare expenditure because of stroke.Oral anticoagulation reduces the risk of thromboembolic stroke in those at higher risk; but for a number of patients, stroke is the first manifestation of undetected AF.There is a rati

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Taxonomic revision of West African cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae) based upon mitogenomic studies: implications for conservation

In the last few years, a sharp increase in the number of descriptions of new species of West African cone snails, particularly from the Cabo Verde Archipelago, has taken place.In previous studies, we used mitogenome sequences for reconstructing robust phylogenies, which comprised in total 120 individuals representing the majority of species (69.7%)

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Reinforcement of perceptual inference: reward and punishment alter conscious visual perception during binocular rivalry

Perception is an inferential process, which becomes immediately evident when sensory information is conflicting or ambiguous and thus allows for more than one perceptual interpretation.Thinking the idea of perception as inference through to the end results in a blurring of boundaries between perception and action selection, as perceptual inference

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