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Looking for a better creatinine.

Our kidneys maintain a constant internal environment and circulatory volume through a combination of filtration, selective reabsorption and secretion, and production of several key hormones. Young, healthy individuals filter 100 L of blood each day; however, their kidneys then reabsorb most of this for a mean urine output of only 1.5 L/day. This filtration process is necessary to eliminate bypr...

Looking forward, looking back: anticipation is more evocative than retrospection.

The results of 5 experiments indicate that people report more intense emotions during anticipation of, than during retrospection about, emotional events that were positive (Thanksgiving Day), negative (annoying noises, menstruation), routine (menstruation), and hypothetical (all-expenses-paid ski vacation). People's tendency to report more intense emotion during anticipation than during retrosp...

Oxygen – less is better , more is better ? ?

Altitude training has been employed as a tool for enhancing performance by athletes since the 1964 Mexico Olympics. The cost and impracticality of going to altitude regularly has led to the development of altitude simulation at sea level by creating low oxygen (‘hypoxia’) environments. ‘Altitude’ or ‘hypoxic’ training facilities are now springing up all around the country. The evidence supporti...

ParseNet: Looking Wider to See Better

We present a technique for adding global context to fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we study several idiosyncrasies of training, significantly increasing the performance of baseline networks (e.g. from FCN Long et al. (2014)). When we add our proposed glob...