Andrew McLean

Chelsea fans have been watching the U20 World Cup with interest as some of their youngsters impress.

Tennis star Novak Djokovic lived through wars as a child in Serbia.

GUEST OPINION: Collaboration on a global scale leads to the type of innovation that delivers improved outcomes and better decision-making. Through diverse and expansive datasets, our collective knowledge expands. This enables significant improvements in healthcare, from disease detection to ide...

With the help of YouGov data of thousands of brands, Andrew McLean of agency Bulletproof looks at what makes brands bulletproof against embarrassment, and how the best navigate embarrassing moments.

Chances are, your brand hasn’t had as difficult a year as Bud Light. After finding itself at the center of a pointed culture war, here’s what Bulletproof’s strategy chief thinks the brand’s peers can learn.

GUEST OPINION: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been catapulted into the spotlight this year with the launch of ChatGPT, and the subsequent release of large language models like Google Bard and Meta's Llama.

Results 67 942 Canadians, 17 528 Danish, and 7740 Scottish residents with chronic kidney disease at stage G3b to G4 were included (median age 77-80 years; median eGFR 39 mL/min/1.73 m ). Median follow-up times were five to six years in all cohorts. Rates were 0.8-1.1 per 100 person years for kidney failure and 10-12 per 100 person years for death. KDpredict was more accurate than kidney failure risk equation in prediction of kidney failure risk: five year index of prediction accuracy 27.8% (95% confidence interval 25.2% to 30.6%) versus 18.1% (15.7% to 20.4%) in Denmark and 30.5% (27.8% to 33.5%) versus 14.2% (12.0% to 16.5%) in Scotland. Predictions from kidney failure risk equation and KDpredict differed substantially, potentially leading to diverging treatment decisions. An 80-year-old man with an eGFR of 30 mL/min/1.73 m and an albumin-to-creatinine ratio of 100 mg/g (11 mg/mmol) would receive a five year kidney failure risk prediction of 10% from kidney failure risk equation (above the current nephrology referral threshold of 5%). The same man would receive five year risk predictions of 2% for kidney failure and 57% for mortality from KDpredict. Individual risk predictions from KDpredict with four or six variables were accurate for both outcomes. The KDpredict models retrained using older data provided accurate predictions when tested in temporally distinct, more recent data.

With an impressive twenty-year track record in sales and marketing, Hunter is poised to steer ReturnBear through its next phase of growth

Trent Alexander-Arnold has been used sparingly by England in recent years but new boss Lee Carsley is set to put his faith in the Liverpool right-back.

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