Author(s): Calvo N; Phillips N; Bialystok E; Einstein G;

Introduction: The relationship between biological sex, considered a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and bilingualism, a resilience factor, is unclear. We assessed this relationship in 335 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a Canadian cohort. Methods: We used univariate analysis and structural equation modelling to study the ...

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Author(s): Sui J; Bi H; Yue R; Fu H; Yang A; An C;

Persistent oil contamination along coastlines can be treated by surface washing agents (SWAs), while low-temperature conditions can significantly impact the effectiveness of SWAs in oil removal. This study investigates the oil removal performance of a commercial SWA for oiled shoreline sand in cold-region environments. Batch oil removal tests were conduct ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Author(s): Zhang Y; Lahmiri S;

Crude oil price forecasting is an important task in energy management and storage. In this regard, deep learning has been applied in the literature to generate accurate forecasts. The main purpose of this study is to design an ensemble prediction system based on various deep learning systems. Specifically, in the first stage of our proposed ensemble syste ...

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Author(s): Lahmiri S; Tadj C; Gargour C;

Voice analysis and classification for biomedical diagnosis purpose is receiving a growing attention to assist physicians in the decision-making process in clinical milieu. In this study, we develop and test deep feedforward neural networks (DFFNN) to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy newborns. The DFFNN are trained with acoustic features measured ...

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Author(s): Choi Y; Comeau P; Lim BS; Manso AP; Chung SH;

Objectives: This study evaluated the effects of delayed post-polymerization on color, degree of conversion (DC), flexural strength (FS), and cellular response of a 3D-printed dental interim resin. Methods: Specimens were divided into six groups based on delays of 0 h, 2 h, 4 h, 6 h, 8 h, and 10 h before post-polymerization. Color was characterized using ...

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Author(s): Dehbanipour R; Maleki VTZ; Ghalavand Z;

The heteroresistance phenotype refers to the presence of bacterial subpopulations with reduced antibiotic susceptibility compared with the main population. Mathematical modelling and computer simulations suggest that heteroresistance can lead to negative treatment outcomes and finally, treatment failure. Due to the low frequency and resistance level of re ...

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Author(s): Adeola AO; Paramo L; Duarte MP; Fuoco G; Naccache R;

The bioavailability and fate of pesticides in soil are largely influenced by soil's sorption characteristics. Therefore, the adsorption of pesticides, like glyphosate (GBH), onto soil natural organic matter (NOM) was investigated in this study. With the aid of sequential treatment methods of agricultural soil, NOM was modified to yield demineralized m ...

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Author(s): Murphy J; Morais JA; Tsoukas MA; Cooke AB; Daskalopoulou SS; Santosa S;

Introduction: Adipose tissue inflammation, driven in part by immune cells, may contribute to the elevated type 2 diabetes risk in adults with childhood-onset obesity (CO) compared to those with adult-onset obesity (AO). Weight loss can modify adipose tissue immune cell composition, but whether these changes differ by obesity onset remains unknown. Method ...

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Author(s): Kairouz S; Savard AC; Murch WS; Dixon MR; Martin NB; Brodeur M; Dauphinais S; Ferland F; Hamel D; Dufour M; French M; Monson E; Van Mourik V; Morvannou A;

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an extraordinary societal context in which the gambling offer was modified to meet public health measures intended to curb viral transmission. With many land-based gambling venues being forced to close, gambling opportunities were left almost exclus ...

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