Author(s): Titov A; Drouin S; Kersten-Oertel M;

Background: One of the bottlenecks of visualization research is the lack of volunteers for studies that evaluate new methods and paradigms. The increased availability of web-based marketplaces, combined with the possibility of implementing volume rendering, a computationally expensive method, on mobile devices, has opened the door for using gamification i ...

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Author(s): Webster R; Srivastava DK; Xie L; Darji H; Liu W; McGrady ME; Brinkman TM; Alberts NM; Ness KK; Fuemmeler B; Kunin-Batson AS; Huang IC; Armstrong GT; Howell RM; Green DM; Yasui Y; Krull KR;

Background: Childhood cancer survivors face physical, psychological, and neurological symptoms that contribute to risky health behaviors and increased healthcare utilization. Traditional survivorship care models overlook risk associated with this symptom burden. The current study examined symptom ...

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Author(s): Su Y; Chen X; Guo J; Yang A;

Aerosols serve as crucial indicators of air pollution assessment, and exert significant effects on climate change, ecological environment, and human health. However, the relationship between energy consumption, a significant contributor to air pollution, and aerosols in different economic development zones in China remains understudied. This paper employs ...

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Author(s): Plante C; Datta Gupta S; Bandara T; Beland D; Blaser C; Camillo CA; Villa E; Dutton D; Fuller D; Hasselback J; Lix LM; Marouzi A; Muhajarine N; Notten G; Reimer B; Wolfson M; Young M; Concha DY; Neudorf C;

Background: Two decades of research have highlighted persistent income-related health inequities in Canada across municipal, provincial, and national levels. While there is broad consensus among researchers, advocates, and health professionals that social determinants are the primary drivers of h ...

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Author(s): Petrovic J; Mettler J; Böke BN; Rogers MA; Hamza CA; Bloom E; Di Genova L; Romano V; Heath NL;

Background: Mindfulness-based programming (MBP) is increasingly being implemented within university settings to support students' mental health, and it typically includes the instruction of formal mindfulness (FM) and informal mindfulness (IM) activities. However, recent evidence suggests tha ...

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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): Côté M; Forouhar V; Sacco S; Baillot A; Himmelstein M; Hussey B; Incollingo Rodriguez AC; Nagpal TS; Nutter S; Patton I; Pearl RL; Puhl RM; Ramos Salas X; Russell-Mayhew S; Alberga AS;

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Author(s): Thornbury M; Omran RP; Kumar L; Knoops A; Abushahin R; Whiteway M; Martin VJJ;

Organic acids such as fumaric acid are widely used in the food and beverage industry as acidulants and preservatives, while also serving as versatile precursors for industrially relevant compounds. Fumaric acid is still predominantly produced through petroleum-derived processes. To enhance production efficiency and diversify supply, we are engineering Klu ...

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Author(s): Chebib N; Rotzinger S; Maccarone-Ruetsche N; Sioufi R; Mojon P; Müller F;

Background: This RCT aimed to test the impact of an educational intervention, supported by a Personalized Oral Health Instruction Form (POIF), on oral health indices in institutionalized older adults. Methods: Older adults aged 65 years and above living in a long-term care facility were recruited. Baseline oral health indices were recorded for all partic ...

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Author(s): Gao W; Zhang P; Wang H; Yang X; An C;

Microplastics (MPs) have become major contaminants in freshwater ecosystems. While numerous studies have characterized MPs in reservoirs, a comprehensive synthesis focusing on in-reservoir variations and dam-related influences is still lacking. This study investigates the spatial distribution of MPs in reservoir water and sediment based on data synthesize ...

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