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The impact of cognitive-motor interference on balance and gait in hearing-impaired older adults: a systematic review

Author(s): Wunderlich A; Wollesen B; Asamoah J; Delbaere K; Li K;

Background: Hearing impairments are a rising burden in our aging society. Hearing loss is associated with reduced cognitive performance as well as decrements in balance and gait. Therefore, impaired hearing affects also dual tasking (DT). The aim of this re ...

Article GUID: 38914940


Experiencing Loss: A Muslim Widow's Bereavement Narrative

Author(s): Kristiansen M; Younis T; Hassani A; Sheikh A;

In this article, we explore how Islam, minority status and refugee experiences intersect in shaping meaning-making processes following bereavement. We do this through a phenomenological analysis of a biographical account of personal loss told by Aisha, a Mu ...

Article GUID: 25958055


Investigating the relationship between physical, cognitive, and environmental factors of ergonomics with the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders: A case study in a car-parts manufacturing industry

Author(s): Mokhtarinia H; Alimohammadi B; Sadeghi-Yarandi M; Torabi-Gudarzi S; Soltanzadeh A; Nikbakht N; ...

Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) is a multi-factorial disorder in most occupational setting and it has increased significantly in recent years. Objective: This study aim ...

Article GUID: 38489202


Morphology Control of Self-Assembled Copper Coordination Polymers for Glucose Assays

Author(s): Van Houten J; Dosajh A; Gulati S; Bhullar G; Copeman C; Ogata AF;

Low-cost analytical assays enable accessible detection of clinically and environmentally important analytes; however, common enzyme-based assays suffer from high production and storage costs. Catalytically active synthetic materials serve as replacements fo ...

Article GUID: 38320270


An Anatomically Shaped Mitral Valve for Hemodynamic Testing

Author(s): Darwish A; Papolla C; Rieu R; Kadem L;

In vitro modeling of the left heart relies on accurately replicating the physiological conditions of the native heart. The targeted physiological conditions include the complex fluid dynamics coming along with the opening and closing of the aortic and mitra ...

Article GUID: 38228812


Nonsingleton Gaussian type-3 fuzzy system with fractional order NTSMC for path tracking of autonomous cars

Author(s): Taghavifar H; Mohammadzadeh A; Zhang W; Zhang C;

Path-tracking and lane-keeping tasks are critical to guarantee safety and navigation performance considerations for deploying autonomous cars. This paper presents a novel control framework for the path-tracking control of high-speed autonomous cars with str ...

Article GUID: 38160078


Evaluation of human vulnerability and toxic effects of chronic and acute occupational exposure to ammonia: A case study in an ice factory

Author(s): Soltanzadeh A; Mahdinia M; Nikbakht N; Hosseinzadeh K; Sadeghi-Yarandi M;

Background: The hazardous material release has frequently occurred worldwide. As a respiratory stimulant and a toxic substance, ammonia has numerous adverse effects on human health. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the human vulnerabili ...

Article GUID: 38143407


Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates?

Author(s): Carter F; Cossette MP; Trujillo-Pisanty I; Pallikaras V; Breton YA; Conover K; Caplan J; Solis P; Voisard J; Yaksich A; Shizgal P; ...

Phasic dopamine activity is believed to both encode reward-prediction errors (RPEs) and to cause the adaptations that these errors engender. If so, a rat working for optogenetic stimulation of dopa ...

Article GUID: 38039083


Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature

Author(s): Matthews HD; Zickfeld K; Koch A; Luers A;

Nature-based climate solutions can contribute to climate mitigation, but the vulnerability of land carbon to disturbances means that efforts to slow or reverse land carbon loss could result in only temporary storage. The challenge of accounting for temporar ...

Article GUID: 37679349


New metabolic signature for Chagas disease reveals sex steroid perturbation in humans and mice

Author(s): Golizeh M; Nam J; Chatelain E; Jackson Y; Ohlund LB; Rasoolizadeh A; Camargo FV; Mahrouche L; Furtos A; Sleno L; Ndao M; ...

The causative agent of Chagas disease (CD), Trypanosoma cruzi, claims thousands of lives each year. Current diagnostic tools are insufficient to ensure parasitological detection in chronically infe ...

Article GUID: 36590505


Lymph Node Metastases Detection Using Gd2O3@PCD as Novel Multifunctional Contrast Imaging Agent in Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Molecular Imaging

Author(s): Rasouli Z; Riyahi-Alam N; Khoobi M; Haghgoo S; Gholibegloo E; Ebrahimpour A; H A; Hashemi H; ...

Axillary lymph node detection is crucial to staging and prognosis of the lymph node metastatic spread in breast cancer. Currently, lymphoscintigraphy and blue dye, as the conventional methods to lo ...

Article GUID: 36304774


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