Author(s): Hollett KB; Morin AJS; Carrese-Chacra E; Cohen TR; Carbonneau N; Berthiaume MM; Felice E; Gouin JP;

Socioecological models of health view romantic relationships as micro-social systems in which spouses influence one another's health-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Although prior work suggests spousal interdependence in eating behaviors, the degree of interdependence may vary as a ...

Article GUID: 41448461

Author(s): Kouzoukas E; Navas C; Zawertailo L; Fougere C; Bacon SL; Chadi N; Evans WK; McNeill A; Melamed O; Moraes TJ; Nnorom O; Schwartz R; Shahab L; Ween M; Selby P;

Objective: To develop evidence-informed recommendations on the health effects of e-cigarettes to guide healthcare practitioners and the public to balance individual and population harm reduction. Methods: Systematic and umbrella reviews investigating the health effects of e-cigarette use were co ...

Article GUID: 41443121

Author(s): Hayot-Sasson V; Glatard T;

Neuroimaging open-data initiatives have led to increased availability of large scientific datasets. While these datasets are shifting the processing bottleneck from compute-intensive to data-intensive, current standardized analysis tools have yet to adopt strategies that mitigate the costs associated with large data transfers. A major challenge in adaptin ...

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Author(s): Shafagh SH; Deen I; Packirisamy M;

The fabrication of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene): poly(4-styrene-sulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) as a matrix with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as fillers was investigated to determine their potential for use in applications such as electromagn ...

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Author(s): Harriman C; Ke Q; Vlugt TJH; Howarth AJ; Simon CM;

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is a method to obtain clean water in remote or underdeveloped regions including, but not limited to, those with an arid or desert climate. For passive (i.e., relying on ambient cooling and, for heating, natural sunlight?as opposed to an external power source), adsorbent-based AWH, an adsorbent bed is employed to capture ...

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Author(s): Rousseau PN; Bazin PL; Steele CJ;

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Author(s): Wu C; Chen Z; Peng C; An C;

Plastic pollution in aquatic environments has become a growing global concern, with floating macroplastics posing serious ecological, economic, and health risks from inland water bodies to remote coastal zones. Despite advances in satellite remote sensing, reliable and scalable detection of floating plastics remains limited by spectral confusion and the l ...

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Author(s): Joly-Smith E; Talpur MM; Allard P; Papazotos F; Potvin-Trottier L; Hilfinger A;

Characterizing and manipulating cellular behavior requires a mechanistic understanding of the causal interactions between cellular components. We present an approach to detect causal interactions between genes without the need to perturb the physiological state of cells. This approach exploits naturally occurring cell-to-cell variability which is experime ...

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Author(s): Rajaei E; Elektorowicz M; Baker MB;

The immobilization and stabilization of crude oil-contaminated soils pose significant challenges in geotechnical engineering, particularly in clayey matrices prone to hydrocarbon adsorption and structural degradation. This study evaluates a two-step synergistic grouting technique using calcium chloride (CaCl2) and sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) to enhance stre ...

Article GUID: 41391286

Author(s): Kaeja M; Gajiyeva L; Iturria-Medina Y; Villringer A; Sehm B; Steele C;

Background: Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability, with proprioceptive impairments affecting up to 64% of survivors. These impairments hinder sensorimotor recovery, significantly impacting poststroke quality of life. Proprioception depends on an integrated brain network but remains underexplored due to limitations in clinical assessments, hind ...

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Author(s): Khaled Touati

Effective brine management remains a major challenge for the desalination industry, particularly as plants encounter increasingly high-salinity waste streams. This study presents a comparative performance assessment of advanced reverse osmosis-based technologies, low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis (LSRRO), high-pressure reverse osmosis (HPRO), osmotically ...

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