Author(s): Dourte M; Hammad G; de Haan S; Deantoni M; Reyt M; Baillet M; Lesoinne A; Muto V; Collette F; Vandewalle G; Peigneux P; Cajochen C; Schmidt C;

Thermoregulatory processes are closely linked to sleep initiation and maintenance throughout the circadian cycle, and may contribute to the increased tendency to nap in older adults. This cross-sectional study examined whether habitual napping in healthy older individuals is associated with alter ...

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Author(s): Maïano C; Swami V; Tylka TL; Aimé A;

Scholars are increasingly focused on women's positive, embodied "breasted experienced", which includes breast appreciation. This positive body image facet is assessed using the 9-item Breast Appreciation Scale (BrAS; Swami et al., 2022), but assessments of its psychometric properties in diverse cultural communities are limited. Here, we repo ...

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Author(s): Maïano C; Swami V; Tylka TL; Aimé A;

The 7-item Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS) is a widely used instrument to assess functionality appreciation, a central facet of positive body image. Here, we examined the psychometric properties of a novel French translation of the FAS. French-speaking Canadian adults were asked to complete the FAS and validated measures of positive body image, psy ...

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Author(s): Mebarak M; Maïano C; Mendoza J; Chirullo V; Coneo AMC; Compte EJ; Cruz-Licea V; Góngora VC; Henríquez C; Martínez-Banfi M; Mejía Rodriguez DL; Pescetto I; Selma H; Boothroyd LG; Thornborrow T; Todd J; Swami V;

The Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS) is increasingly used within diverse national and linguistic contexts, but assessments of its functioning across groups remains limited. To extend knowledge, we examined measurement invariance of the FAS across five Latin American nations (Argentina, Chil ...

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Author(s): Sanami S; Rezaei A; Tremblay SA; Potvin-Jutras Z; Sabra D; Intzandt B; Gagnon C; Mainville-Berthiaume A; Wright L; Gayda M; Iglesies-Grau J; Nigam A; Bherer L; Gauthier CJ;

Aerobic exercise training promotes cardiovascular, brain and cognitive health. Regular exercise is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness, commonly assessed by peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) during maximal effort testing. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness has been linked to preserved brain ...

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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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Author(s): Mohammadi H; Zargaran SJ; Khajehpour H; Adibi I; Rahimiforoushani A; Karimi S; Serej ND; Alam NR;

Short-term memory (STM) temporarily stores sensory information, critical for synaptic plasticity, memory, and learning, and is regulated by the glutamate-gated NMDA receptor. While the frontal and parieto-occipital cortices have been implicated in STM, the electrochemical dynamics of the right he ...

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Author(s): Liu L; Gillet AP; Akiki C; Tian L; Ma Y; Zhang X; Bowman DT; Wania F; Delbès G; Apparicio P; Bayen S;

Air pollution is closely associated with increased lung cancer incidence and mortality. Because many semi-volatile industrial chemicals, pesticides and combustion by-products are endocrine-disrupting or genotoxic, their mixtures in outdoor urban air, even at trace levels, could have cumulative ef ...

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Author(s): Cheng M; He S; Pan Y; Lin M; Zhu WP;

The Internet of Things (IoT) has promoted emerging applications that require massive device collaboration, heavy computation, and stringent latency. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems can provide flexible services for user devices (UDs) with wide coverage. The optimization of both latency and energy consumption rema ...

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Author(s): Khodaverdi H; Sedaghati R;

Magnetorheological (MR) foams represent a class of smart materials with unique tunable viscoelastic properties when subjected to external magnetic fields. Combining porous structures with embedded magnetic particles, these materials address challenges such as leakage and sedimentation, typically encountered in conventional MR fluids while offering advanta ...

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Author(s): Cai Z; Pellegrino G; Spilkin A; Delaire E; Uji M; Abdallah C; Lina JM; Fecteau S; Grova C;

Background: The relationship between task-related hemodynamic activity and brain excitability is poorly understood in humans as it is technically challenging to combine simultaneously non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging modalities. Cortical excitability corresponds to the readiness to ...

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