Author(s): Wolfe J; Deroche M; Neumann S; Hanna L; Towler W; Wilson C; Bien AG; Miller S; Schafer EC; Gracco V;

<strong>Background:</strong> Considerable variability exists in the speech recognition abilities achieved by children with cochlear implants (CIs) due to varying demographic and performance variables including language abilities.

<strong>Purpose:</strong> This ...

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Author(s): Robert C; Patel R; Blostein N; Steele CC; Mallar Chakravarty M;

The striatum is a major subcortical connection hub that has been heavily implicated in a wide array of motor and cognitive functions. Here, we developed a normative multimodal, data-driven microstructural parcellation of the striatum using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) based on multiple magnetic resonance imaging-based metrics (mean diffusivit ...

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Author(s): Darwish A; Norouzi S; Kadem L;

Purpose: Identification of coherent structures in cardiovascular flows is crucial to describe the transport and mixing of blood. Coherent structures can highlight locations where minimal blood mixing takes place, thus, potential thrombus formation can be expected thither. Graph-based approaches have recently been introduced in order to describe fluid tr ...

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Author(s): Arsalan Rahimabadi

Considering the reaction schemes (20) and (21) in Fornari et al., 2020, the fragmentation terms Fi (Eq. (22) in Fornari et al., 2020) are not correct. Thus, the fragmentation terms Fi (Eq. (12) in Fornari et al., 2020) are also incorrect when the reaction schemes (10) and (11) in Fornari et al., 2020 are taken into account. Here, the correct equations w ...

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Author(s): Véronneau MH; Serbin LA; Kennedy-Turner K; Stack DM; Ledingham JE; Schwartzman AE;

Governments around the world are pressed to invest in postsecondary education. However, little research exists to document whether large-scale educational reforms aimed at increasing rates of postsecondary attendance benefit youth's developmental outcomes. This study tested whether an educational reform occurring in Québec, Canada, in the 1960s incr ...

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Author(s): Zaker A; Chen Z; Lee K; Hammouda SB;

Recovery of oil spilled on surface waters by the use of sorbents remains one of the primary oil spill response options available. To improve on this response measure, we have successfully fabricated an activated char (AC) sorbent material by pyrolysis of sewage sludge (SS), a readily available waste product generated across the world from wastewater tre ...

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Author(s): Doniec R; Wójcik S; Valverde R; Piaseczna N; Siecinski S; Duraj K; Tkacz E;

The pandemic declared in many countries in 2020 due to COVID-19 led to the freezing of economies and the introduction of distance learning in both schools and universities. This unusual situation has affected the mental state of citizens, which has the potential to lead to the development of post-traumatic stress and depression. This study aimed to asse ...

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Author(s): Raab ME; Maurizio SL; Capobianco JA; Prasad PN;

Emission bands from thermally coupled states in lanthanide-doped nanoparticles have been studied for ratiometric nanothermometry in biological applications. Unfortunately certain factors such as water absorption distort the intensity, limiting the accuracy of ratiometric nanothermometry. However, the decay time of such states does not suffer from such d ...

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Author(s): Gilbert ML; Deroche MLD; Jiradejvong P; Chan Barrett K; Limb CJ;

Objectives: Variations in loudness are a fundamental component of the music listening experience. Cochlear implant (CI) processing, including amplitude compression, and a degraded auditory system may further degrade these loudness cues and decrease the enjoyment of music listening. This study aimed to identify optimal CI sound processor compression sett ...

Article GUID: 34812791

Author(s): Partanen M; Alberts NM; Conklin HM; Krull KR; Pui CH; Anghelescu DA; Jacola LM;

Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience treatment-related neurocognitive deficits and significant pain. Pain may exacerbate these cognitive impairments. This study examined neuropathic pain and neurocognitive outcomes in survivors of childhood ALL treated with contemporary therapy on a clinical trial (<a href="http: cli ...

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Author(s): Hayashi Neto D; Carvalho SDL; Ribeiro PAB; Lavoie KL; Bacon SL; Cornélio ME;

Objective: This scoping review aims to identify and understand the different tools and methods used in studies in the field of human eating behavior to assess, measure, or classify participants' ambivalence towards food and diet, as well as to identify which tools and methods are most frequently employed. Introduction: People's attitudes toward ...

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Author(s): Larue F; Tasbih T; Ribeiro PAB; Lavoie KL; Dolan E; Bacon SL;

Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) are widely used devices that were initially created to aid in smoking cessation. However, their acute physiological effects are unclear and there have been a number of E-cig and Vaping Acute Lung Injury (EVALI) events reported.
Research question: What are the immediate phy ...

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