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1 month ago | 
jurist.org | Ryan Huang
UN officials called for an immediate ceasefire in Myanmar on Monday, three days after two powerful earthquakes struck the country, killing approximately 2,000 people and overwhelming the already fragi...
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Ryan Huang
A federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit Thursday brought by Raw Story Media, Inc., and AlterNet Media, Inc. against OpenAI. The suit alleged that OpenAI’s product ChatGPT infringed on the plaintiffs’ copyrights by using their news articles to train its language models without authorization and without retaining copyright attribution.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Ryan Huang
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins struck down Ohio’s restrictive abortion ban on Thursday, citing the 2023 voter-approved Reproductive Freedom Amendment that protects the right to abortion under the state constitution. The decision enforces a permanent injunction against the ban, a 2019 law that prohibited abortions once fetal cardiac activity was detected, often as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Ryan Huang
Taiwan deported two Chinese nationals on Thursday after they disrupted a pro-democracy event in Taipei organized by Hong Kong residents. The couple, identified by the surname Yao and his wife, were deported for violating Taiwan’s immigration regulations after their involvement in an altercation at the event. The event took place on October 1 in Taipei’s Ximending area, organized by a group of Hong Kong residents to commemorate the anniversary of China’s National Day.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Ryan Huang
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights raised alarmed on Friday over the escalating gang violence and deteriorating human rights situation in Haiti, urging all national stakeholders and government authorities to take immediate action. An interim report presented at the 57th session of the Human Rights Council details a marked increase in gang-related violence in 2024, with criminal organizations expanding their control over key parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other areas.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Joshua W. Morse |Xun Gui |Mi Deng |Ryan Huang
AbstractThe immune checkpoint leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor B4 (LILRB4) is found specifically on the cell surface of acute monocytic leukemia (monocytic AML), an aggressive and common subtype of AML. We have developed a humanized monoclonal IgG1 LILRB4-blocking antibody (h128-3), which improved immune regulation but reduced cell surface expression of LILRB4 in monocytic AML models by 40–60%.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Ryan Huang |Xiaoye Liu |Jaehyup Kim |Hui Deng
AbstractThe existing T cell-centered immune checkpoint blockade therapies have been successful in treating some but not all patients with cancer. Immunosuppressive myeloid cells, including myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC), that inhibit antitumor immunity and support multiple steps of tumor development are recognized as one of the major obstacles in cancer treatment.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
qualitysafety.bmj.com | Jane Jomy |Ke Xin Lin |Ryan Huang |Alisia Chen
AbstractIntroduction Quality improvement (QI) efforts are critical to promoting health equity and mitigating disparities in healthcare outcomes. Equity-focused QI (EF-QI) interventions address the unique needs of equity-deserving groups and the root causes of disparities. This scoping review aims to identify themes from EF-QI interventions that improve the health of equity-deserving groups, to serve as a resource for researchers embarking on QI.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ryan Huang |Temerty Faculty |Ali Benour
1 INTRODUCTION Free vascularized bone flaps represent the gold standard in the domain of reconstructive surgery, particularly for the restoration of oromandibular defects (Urken et al., 1991). Free flap transfers are characterized by the anastomosis of both arterial and venous circulations from the donor site to the recipient site, ensuring reperfusion and thereby enhancing graft viability.
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ophthalmologyscience.org | Andrew Mihalache |Ryan Huang |David Mikhail |Austin Pereira
AbstractTo assess the performance of ChatGPT-4 in providing accurate diagnoses to retina teaching cases from OCTCases. Cross-sectional study. Retina teaching cases from OCTCases. We prompted a custom chatbot with 69 retina cases containing multimodal ophthalmic images, asking it to provide the most likely diagnosis. In a sensitivity analysis, we inputted increasing amounts of clinical information pertaining to each case until the chatbot achieved a correct diagnosis.
