Author(s): Khan MS; Alam KN; Dhruba AR; Zunair H; Mohammed N;

Melanoma is regarded as the most threatening among all skin cancers. There is a pressing need to build systems which can aid in the early detection of melanoma and enable timely treatment to patients. Recent methods are geared towards machine learning based systems where the task is posed as image recognition, tag dermoscopic images of skin lesions as m ...

Article GUID: 35594685

Author(s): Breton E; Fotso Soh J; Booij L;

Obesity and eating disorders are conditions that involve eating behaviors and are sometimes comorbid. Current evidence supports alterations in immunoinflammatory processes in both obesity and eating disorders. A plausible hypothesis is that immunoinflammatory processes may be involved in the pathophysiology of obesity and eating disorders. The aim of th ...

Article GUID: 35594735

Author(s): Peter Seraganian

This commentary focuses upon the robustness of the Kamin Blocking Effect (KBE) that Maes et al., (2016), based upon 15 failures to replicate, have questioned. This challenge to KBE robustness has not gone unaddressed. Soto (2018) outlined conceptual as well as methodological issues that cast doubt on the validity of the Maes et al., (2016) critique. Des ...

Article GUID: 35593686

Author(s): Zhao Z; Li J; Zhang X; Wang L; Wang J; Lin T;

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been frequently detected in groundwater globally. With the phase-out of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanate (PFOA) due to their risk to the ecosystem and human population, various novel PFASs have been used as replacements and detected in groundwater. In order to summarize the ...

Article GUID: 35593984

Author(s): Bouhamed O; Amayri M; Bouguila N;

Accurate and timely occupancy prediction has the potential to improve the efficiency of energy management systems in smart buildings. Occupancy prediction heavily depends on historical occupancy-related data collected from various sensor sources. Unfortunately, a major problem in that context is the difficulty to collect training data. This situation in ...

Article GUID: 35590880

Author(s): Samadi S; Mohazzab M; Dargahi J; Narayanswamy S;

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has a wide range of uses in bioimaging and nondestructive testing. Larger bandwidth light sources have recently been implemented to enhance measurement resolution. Increased bandwidth has a negative impact on spectral nonlinearity in k space, notably in the case of spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT). This nonlinearity reduce ...

Article GUID: 35590968

Author(s): Bird M; Datta GD; Chinerman D; Kakinami L; Mathieu ME; Henderson M; Barnett TA;

Background: We compared the relation between neighborhood features and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) using linear regression analysis and the more novel compositional data analysis (CoDA). Compositional data analysis allows us to take the time children allocate to different movement behaviours during a 24-hour time period into account. ...

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Author(s): Hoyos CM; Cross NE; Terpening Z; D' Rozario AL; Yee BJ; LaMonica H; Marshall NS; Grunstein RR; Naismith SL;

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Article GUID: 35584294

Author(s): Bolenz F; Profitt MF; Stechbarth F; Eppinger B; Strobel A;

Humans show metacontrol of decision making, that is they adapt their reliance on decision-making strategies toward situational differences such as differences in reward magnitude. Specifically, when higher rewards are at stake, individuals increase reliance on a more accurate but cognitively effortful strategy. We investigated whether the personality tr ...

Article GUID: 35581395

Author(s): Petrovic J; Mettler J; Argento A; Carsley D; Bloom E; Sullivan S; Heath NL;

Background: Accumulating evidence has underscored the importance of fostering children's emotion regulation (ER) within primary school settings and the role of teachers in such efforts. This study sought to assess the needs of teachers in supporting students' ER, through a better understanding of teachers' perceptions and use of healthy vers ...

Article GUID: 35578767

Author(s): Zhao Z; Chen M; Fan H; Zhang N;

The purpose of this research is to enhance the ability of data analysis and knowledge mining in soil corrosion factors of the pipeline. According to its multifactor characteristics, the rough set algorithm is directly used to analyze and process the observation data without considering any prior information. We apply rough set algorithm to delete the du ...

Article GUID: 35571701

Author(s): Asif Z; Chen Z; Wang H; Zhu Y;

Abstract: Coal is expected to remain a significant power supply source worldwide and shifting to carbon-neutral fuels will be challenging because of growing electricity demand and booming industrialization. At the same time, coal consumption results in severe air pollution and health concerns. Improvement in emission control technologies is a key to imp ...

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