Author(s): Rahmatian A; Saleem H; Hejazi F; Nokken M; Bagchi A;

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-reinforced concrete beams are increasingly used in infrastructure, yet their flexural behavior under fatigue and harsh environmental conditions remains insufficiently studied. This study investigates the fatigue response and structural behavior of 12 glass-FRP (GFRP)-reinforced concrete beams under four environmental regimes ...

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Author(s): Kremin LV; Jardak A; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Bilingual children regularly hear sentences that contain words from both languages, also known as code-switching. Investigating how bilinguals process code-switching is a crucial component in understanding bilingual language acquisition, because young bilinguals experience processing costs and reduced comprehension when encountering code-switched nouns. S ...

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Author(s): Heers M; Afnan J; Braun C; Grova C; Altenmüller DM; Steinhoff BJ; Dümpelmann M; Demerath T; Urbach H; Ethofer S; Siegel M; Schulze-Bonhage A; Lerche H; Li Hegner Y;

Objective: Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) causes drug-resistant epilepsy requiring presurgical evaluation. Invasive electroencephalographic (EEG) studies demonstrate that sleep modulates epileptic activity, including interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs), fast oscillations (FOs) in the beta ( ...

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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 ...

Article GUID: 41797810

Author(s): Cheyroux P; Morin AJS; O' Connor RM; Colombat P; Vancappel A; Eltanoukhi R; Gillet N;

This study aims to contribute to an improved dynamic person-centred comprehension of the distinct trajectories of alcohol-related problems observed among first-year nursing students. Data was collected from 2963 first-year nursing students on four occasions over the course of their first semester ...

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Author(s): Liu-Ambrose T; Falck RS; Dao E; Crockett RA; Barha CK; Silva NCBS; Alkeridy WA; Best JR; Hsiung GR; Field TS; Madden KM; Davis JC; Ten Brinke LF; Tam RC;

Introduction: It is unknown whether progressive resistance training (PRT) improves cognitive function in adults with cerebral small vessel disease and mild cognitive impairment (i.e., subcortical vascular cognitive impairment [SVCI]). Methods: We conducted a 12-month randomized trial comparing P ...

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Author(s): Notton C; Sharma V; Quoc-Huy Trinh V; Chen L; Xu M; Varma S; Hosseini MS;

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the few cancers that have an established dysplasia-carcinoma sequence that benefits from screening. Everyone over 50 years of age in Canada is eligible for CRC screening. About 20% of those people will undergo a biopsy for a pre-neoplastic polyp and, in many cases, multiple polyps. As such, these polyp biopsies make up th ...

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Author(s): Guo D; Luo Z; Bouguila N; Fan W;

Neural topic models (NTMs) based on variational autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as a scalable and flexible alternative to classical probabilistic models for uncovering latent thematic structures in text corpora. However, most existing NTMs either overlook the geometric structure of word embeddings or rely on Euclidean priors that are poorly aligned with ...

Article GUID: 41791177

Author(s): Younes GR; Heli B; Ajji A;

This work blends polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with poly-(lactic acid) (PLA) using polyhydroxyurethane (PHU) structures. The PHU is synthesized from mannitol biscarbonate and a short-chain PDMS-based diamine. The main objectives are, first, to explore the application of the PDMS-based PHU as an additive for PLA and, second, to enhance the flexibility and hy ...

Article GUID: 41783236

Author(s): Narcross L; Pyne ME; Kevvai K; Siu KH; Dueber JE; Martin VJJ;

The benzylisoquinoline alkaloid (BIA) family of tetrahydroisoquinolines (THIQs) comprises >2,500 members, including the pharmaceuticals morphine, codeine, and papaverine, as well as the antibiotics sanguinarine and chelerythrine. Agricultural cultivation can supply the demand for the BIAs that accumulate in plants, but broader access to the BIA family wou ...

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Author(s): Alicia Estefania Antonio Figueroa

This work implements deep learning models to capture non-linear and complex data behavior in aluminum price data. Deep learning models include the long short-term memory (LSTM) and deep feedforward neural networks (FFNN). The support vector regression (SVR) is employed as a base model for comparison. Each predictive model is tuned by using two different o ...

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