Author(s): Côté M; Forouhar V; Sacco S; González-González M; Baillot A; Himmelstein M; Hussey B; Incollingo Rodriguez AC; Nagpal TS; Nutter S; Patton I; Puhl RM; Ramos Salas X; Russell-Mayhew S; Alberga AS;

Background: Weight bias is a social justice issue that manifests in social and health inequities, affecting the lives of millions of individuals globally. Although weight bias research has increased over the last two decades, it remains pervasive, and more work is needed to establish effective st ...

Article GUID: 41350605

Author(s): Titov A; Drouin S; Kersten-Oertel M;

Background: One of the bottlenecks of visualization research is the lack of volunteers for studies that evaluate new methods and paradigms. The increased availability of web-based marketplaces, combined with the possibility of implementing volume rendering, a computationally expensive method, on mobile devices, has opened the door for using gamification i ...

Article GUID: 41341989

Author(s): Heidl AJ; Sun D; Faustini C; Gierc M; Bains A; Cohen TR;

Objectives: To compare differences in patient outcomes in individuals living with overweight and obesity who attended a 10-week multidisciplinary program delivered virtually vs. participants who completed the program in-person. Methods: Data from 27 youth (8-18 years old) who attended virtual programming were matched by sex and body mass index (BMI) z-sc ...

Article GUID: 41332896

Author(s): Won Kang JR; Kim YJ; Skead K; Soave D; Evans J; Bruat V; Harwood MP; Morris Q; Matovu E; Mulindwa J; Noyes H; McLeod A; Hazelhurst S; Lombard Z; Ramsay M; Fave MJ; Awadalla P;

Clonal hematopoiesis, through the age-associated accumulation of somatic mutations in blood, is strongly associated with hematological malignancies and other chronic diseases. These mutations have largely been characterized in individuals of European ancestry or environments, and consequently, it ...

Article GUID: 41282824

Author(s): Su Y; Chen X; Guo J; Yang A;

Aerosols serve as crucial indicators of air pollution assessment, and exert significant effects on climate change, ecological environment, and human health. However, the relationship between energy consumption, a significant contributor to air pollution, and aerosols in different economic development zones in China remains understudied. This paper employs ...

Article GUID: 41308902

Author(s): Plante C; Datta Gupta S; Bandara T; Beland D; Blaser C; Camillo CA; Villa E; Dutton D; Fuller D; Hasselback J; Lix LM; Marouzi A; Muhajarine N; Notten G; Reimer B; Wolfson M; Young M; Concha DY; Neudorf C;

Background: Two decades of research have highlighted persistent income-related health inequities in Canada across municipal, provincial, and national levels. While there is broad consensus among researchers, advocates, and health professionals that social determinants are the primary drivers of h ...

Article GUID: 41313634

Author(s): Petrovic J; Mettler J; Böke BN; Rogers MA; Hamza CA; Bloom E; Di Genova L; Romano V; Heath NL;

Background: Mindfulness-based programming (MBP) is increasingly being implemented within university settings to support students' mental health, and it typically includes the instruction of formal mindfulness (FM) and informal mindfulness (IM) activities. However, recent evidence suggests tha ...

Article GUID: 41313154

Author(s): Pakseresht B; Schiffman Z; McLatchie S; Coulombe P; Soullane S; Imfeld A; Gélinas Y; Walsh D; Findlay B;

There is a great divide between the microbes active in natural environments and the organisms that may be grown in a laboratory setting. In this work we set out to cultivate representatives of the marine myxobacterial clade, a highly diverse, largely-uncultured group of Gram-negative bacteria bel ...

Article GUID: 41297029

Author(s): Fuoco G; Mandl GA; De Mesa C; Capobianco JA; Naccache R;

Efficient delivery of therapeutics remains a significant challenge, often hindered by solubility barriers encountered within aqueous biological environments. Carbon dots (CDs) offer a promising solution for drug delivery due to their aqueous dispersibility, generally low cytotoxicity and surfaces rich in functional groups which can enable facile conjugati ...

Article GUID: 41288467

Author(s): Hamidabad MN; Mansbach RA;

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a promising potential solution to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) due to their positive charges, which induce selective interaction with negatively charged bacterial membranes. Certain AMPs exhibit a low hemolytic index and non-forming fibrils at physiological pH (7.4), enhancing their therapeutic potential. In this ...

Article GUID: 41256587

Author(s): Côté M; Forouhar V; Sacco S; Baillot A; Himmelstein M; Hussey B; Incollingo Rodriguez AC; Nagpal TS; Nutter S; Patton I; Pearl RL; Puhl RM; Ramos Salas X; Russell-Mayhew S; Alberga AS;

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