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Electrospun Upconverting Nanofibrous Hybrids with Smart NIR-Light-Controlled Drug Release for Wound Dressing

Author(s): Huang HY; Skripka A; Zaroubi L; Findlay BL; Vetrone F; Skinner C; Oh JK; Cuccia LA;

Chronic wounds present a high risk of infection due to delayed and incomplete healing, leading to increased health risks and financial burden to health-care systems. Numerous approaches to promote wound healing have been extensively explored, especially the development of effective wound dressing materials embedded with therapeutic drug molecules. Despi ...

Article GUID: 35019380


Evaluation of Increasing Dairy Intake on Bone Density in Post-pubertal Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using Motivational Interviewing

Author(s): Slim M; Vanstone CA; Morin SN; Rahme E; Bacon SL; Weiler HA;

Background: Adequate nutrition is important for bone health, especially for bone mineral accretion. Objective: The primary objective tested whether increasing dairy intake using the motivational interviewing technique (MInt) improves lumbar spine (LS) bone mineral density (BMD) after 2 years in post-pubertal adolescents with habitual dairy intake of D ...

Article GUID: 35015862


Entropy-Based Variational Scheme with Component Splitting for the Efficient Learning of Gamma Mixtures

Author(s): Bourouis S; Pawar Y; Bouguila N;

Finite Gamma mixture models have proved to be flexible and can take prior information into account to improve generalization capability, which make them interesting for several machine learning and data mining applications. In this study, an efficient Gamma mixture model-based approach for proportional vector clustering is proposed. In particular, a sop ...

Article GUID: 35009726


Treatment of decentralized low-Strength livestock wastewater using microcurrent-assisted multi-soil-layering systems: Performance Assessment and microbial analysis

Author(s): Liu C; Huang G; Song P; An C; Zhang P; Shen J; Ren S; Zhao K; Huang W; Xu Y; Zheng R;

Discharge of decentralized livestock wastewater without effective treatment has become a common problem in rural areas, threatening the regional water environment. A new microcurrent-assisted multi-soil-layering (MSL) system was developed for treating rural decentralized livestock wastewater. The results showed the highest removal rates of chemical oxyg ...

Article GUID: 34999101


Promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours in youth: Findings from a novel intervention for children at risk of cardiovascular disease

Author(s): Ybarra M; Danieles PK; Barnett TA; Mathieu MÈ; Van Hulst A; Drouin O; Kakinami L; Bigras JL; Henderson M;

Objectives: Obesity is the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in children. We developed a 2-year lifestyle intervention for youth at risk of CVD. We assessed changes in body mass index z-scores (zBMI) and key cardiometabolic risk factors, physical fitness, and capacity ...

Article GUID: 34992701


COVID-19-Related Concerns and Symptoms of Anxiety: Does Concern Play a Role in Predicting Severity and Risk?

Author(s): Benzouak T; Gunpat S; Briner EL; Thake J; Kisely S; Rao S;

Objective Rates of anxiety have increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, partially attributable to the experience of COVID-19 related concerns. It remains pivotal to determine the implications of such concerns on the severity of anxiety as they may represent opportune targets for public health preventative or therapeutic effort ...

Article GUID: 34987892


Education about sexual and gender minorities within Canadian emergency medicine residency programs

Author(s): Primavesi R; Burcheri A; Bigham BL; Coutin A; Lien K; Koh J; Kruse M; MacCormick H; Odorizzi S; Ng V; Poirier V; Primiani N; Smith S; Upadhye S; Wallner C; Morris J; Lim R;

Objectives: The CAEP 2021 2SLGBTQIA +i panel sought whether a gap exists within Canadian emergency medicine training pertaining to sexual and gender minority communities. This panel aimed to generate practical recommendations on improving emergency medicine education about sexual and gender min ...

Article GUID: 34985648


Sex differences in regional adipose tissue depots pose different threats for the development of Type 2 diabetes in males and females

Author(s): Kerri Z Delaney

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects males and females disproportionately. In midlife, more males have T2DM than females. The sex difference in T2DM prevalence is, in part, explained by differences in regional adipose tissue characteristics. With obesity, changes to regional adipokine and cytokine release increases the risk of T2DM in both males and ...

Article GUID: 34985183


Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: a cross-sectional analysis-implications for public health communications in Australia

Author(s): Enticott J; Gill JS; Bacon SL; Lavoie KL; Epstein DS; Dawadi S; Teede HJ; Boyle J;

Objective: To examine SARS-CoV-2 vaccine confidence, attitudes and intentions in Australian adults as part of the iCARE Study. Design and setting: Cross-sectional online survey conducted when free COVID-19 vaccinations first became available in Australia in February 2021. Participants: Total of 1166 Australians from general population aged 18-90 years ...

Article GUID: 34980631


Electrochemical nutrient removal from natural wastewater sources and its impact on water quality

Author(s): Kékedy-Nagy L; English L; Anari Z; Abolhassani M; Pollet BG; Popp J; Greenlee LF;

In this study, a suite of natural wastewater sources is tested to understand the effects of wastewater composition and source on electrochemically driven nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient removal. Kinetics, electrode behavior, and removal efficiency were evaluated during electrochemical precipitation, whereby a sacrificial magnesium (Mg) anode was used t ...

Article GUID: 34974342


Play the Pain: A Digital Strategy for Play-Oriented Research and Action

Author(s): Najmeh Khalili-Mahani

The value of understanding patients' illness experience and social contexts for advancing medicine and clinical care is widely acknowledged. However, methodologies for rigorous and inclusive data gathering and integrative analysis of biomedical, cultural, and social factors are limited. In this paper, we propose a digital strategy for large-scale qu ...

Article GUID: 34975566


Role of tau protein on the photophysical properties of fluorescent carbon dots

Author(s): Camilus NS; Lucas S; Wu C; Naccache R; Martic S;

Background: Globally, a number of individuals who live with Alzheimer's disease (AD), an incurable and debilitating disease, is increasing. Tau protein has a structural role, maintains integrity of microtubules and is one of the underlying causes of the tauopathies [1]. It is unfolded and highly soluble under physiological conditions. However, tau p ...

Article GUID: 34971135


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