backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.

Data are needed on the effect of oxygen delivered through a high-flow nasal cannula, as compared with standard oxygen therapy, on intubation and mortality in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory ...

As many as half of all nursing home patients may benefit from respiratory therapy, given rising complexity and common conditions such as COPD, congestive heart failure and other chronic breathing and ...

ABSTRACT: Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms are widely used to solve expensive optimization problems due to their high search efficiency. However, a single model struggles to fit various ...

In a study published in Robot Learning journal, researchers propose a new learning-based path planning framework that allows mobile robots to navigate safely and efficiently using a Transformer model.

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

When Elena Saenz, RRT, NPS, a 30-year respiratory therapist (RT), recently observed a physician approach one of her staff members, who had been charting notes on a difficult-to-treat pediatric patient ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...