Author(s): Alysha L Deslippe

CONCLUSIONS: Lifestyle interventions that foster self-regulatory skills, opportunities for social engagement and personalization of goals may improve behaviour adherence. This can be achieved through inclusion of BCT, tapering off of intervention supports, identification of meaningful goals and anticipated barriers with participants.

Article GUID: 36782207

Author(s): Wu N; Joyal-Desmarais K; Ribeiro PAB; Vieira AM; Stojanovic J; Sanuade C; Yip D; Bacon SL;

Background: Synthesising evidence on the long-term vaccine effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines (BNT162b2 [Pfizer-BioNTech], mRNA-1273 [Moderna], ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 [AZD1222; Oxford-AstraZeneca], and Ad26.COV2.S [Janssen]) against infections, hospitalisations, and mortality is crucial to making eviden ...

Article GUID: 36780914

Author(s): Brittany Intzandt

Independently, obesity and physical activity (PA) influence cerebral structure in aging, yet their interaction has not been investigated. We examined sex differences in the relationships among PA, obesity, and cerebral structure in aging with 340 participants who completed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition to quantify grey matter volume (GMV) a ...

Article GUID: 36781598

Author(s): Chen Z; Elektorowicz M; An C; Tian X;

Sea ice can serve as a temporary sink for microplastics (MPs), and thus, it too can function as a secondary source of and transport medium for MPs. This study aimed to explore the effect of various MP properties and environmental characteristics on the entrainment and enrichment of MPs in ice under varying turbulence conditions. It was found that high rot ...

Article GUID: 36780450

Author(s): Cumming D; Hornuf L; Karami M; Schweizer D;

Fraud in the reward-based crowdfunding market has been of concern to regulators, but it is arguably of greater importance to the nascent industry itself. Despite its significance for entrepreneurial finance, our knowledge of the occurrence, determinants, and consequences of fraud in this market, as well as the implications for the business ethics literatu ...

Article GUID: 36779203

Author(s): Manouchehri N; Bouguila N;

Human activity recognition (HAR) has become an interesting topic in healthcare. This application is important in various domains, such as health monitoring, supporting elders, and disease diagnosis. Considering the increasing improvements in smart devices, large amounts of data are generated in our daily lives. In this work, we propose unsupervised, scale ...

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Author(s): Ben-Porat T; Sherf-Dagan S;

Bariatric surgery (BS) is usually considered when other weight-loss treatments have failed, and remains an effective long-term treatment for severe obesity and its related medical complications [...].

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Author(s): Véronik Lachance

For the past several years, fundamental research on Sigma-1R (S1R) protein has unveiled its necessity for maintaining proper cellular homeostasis through modulation of calcium and lipid exchange between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria, ER-stress response, and many other mechanisms. Most of these processes, such as ER-stress response and au ...

Article GUID: 36768299

Author(s): Jafari H; Sedaghati R;

This study aims to enhance and tune wave-propagation properties (Bandgaps) of periodic structures featuring magnetorheological elastomers (MREs). For this purpose, first, a basic model of periodic structures (square unit cell with cross-shaped arms), which does not possess noise filtering properties in the conventional configuration, is considered. A pass ...

Article GUID: 36772034

Author(s): Yang Z; Chen Z; Lee K;

An Oil Spill Modeling Tool (OSMT) has been developed in this study to predict the transport and fate of oil spills resulting from surface releases. Particularly, the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence method is adopted as a performance metric for the first time to formulate a calibration framework for spill trajectory prediction (STP) from the Lagrangian tr ...

Article GUID: 36758314

Author(s): Shamshiri MA; Krzyzak A; Kowal M; Korbicz J;

Microscopic analysis of breast cancer images is the primary task in diagnosing cancer malignancy. Recent attempts to automate this task have employed deep learning models whose success has depended on large volumes of data, while acquiring annotated data in biomedical domains is time-consuming and may not always be feasible. A typical strategy to address ...

Article GUID: 36758326

Author(s): Trépanier LCM; Lamoureux É; Bjornson SE; Mackie C; Alberts NM; Gagnon MM;

The past decade marks a surge in the development of mobile apps used to digitally track and monitor aspects of personal health, including menstruation. Despite a plethora of menstruation-related apps, pain and symptom management content available in apps has not been systematically examined. The objective of this study was to evaluate app characteristics, ...

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