Author(s): Swami V; Maïano C; Morin AJS;

The 16-item Body and Appearance Self-Conscious Emotions Scale (BASES) is widely used to assess the discrete emotions of guilt, shame, authentic pride, and hubristic pride. However, recent work has questioned the factorial validity of the BASES (i.e., the extent to which it truly assesses a discrete set of self-conscious emotions). In the present study, we ...

Article GUID: 35750012

Author(s): Gosselin Boucher V; Bacon S; Voisard B; Dragomir AI; Gemme C; Larue F; Labbé S; Szczepanik G; Corace K; Campbell T; Vallis M; Garber G; Rouleau C; Diodati JG; Rabi D; Sultan S; Lavoie K;

Background: Training physicians to provide effective behavior change counseling using approaches such as motivational communication (MC) is an important aspect of noncommunicable chronic disease prevention and management. However, existing evaluation tools for MC skills are complex, invasive, tim ...

Article GUID: 35749167

Author(s): Mohammad Mohsen Delavari

In this study, eco-friendly and transparent starch-based/polyvinyl alcohol/citric acid composite films are evaluated for their efficacy as wound dressing materials. The starch/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) materials with added citric acid (0.46-1.83 wt%) and glycerol were made and handled based on the modified casting method. This new formulation decreases the ...

Article GUID: 35744574

Author(s): Al-Qudah R; Khamayseh Y; Aldwairi M; Khan S;

The need for a smart city is more pressing today due to the recent pandemic, lockouts, climate changes, population growth, and limitations on availability/access to natural resources. However, these challenges can be better faced with the utilization of new technologies. The zoning design of smart cities can mitigate these challenges. It identifies the ma ...

Article GUID: 35746171

Author(s): Porter-Vignola E; Booij L; Dansereau-Laberge ÈM; Garel P; Bossé Chartier G; Seni AG; Beauchamp MH; Herba CM;

Background and objectives: Depression has been associated with alterations in social functioning. Decoding and understanding others' mental states and adaptive reasoning are important for social functioning. This study examined theory of mind (ToM) and socio-moral reasoning (SMR) in adolescen ...

Article GUID: 35738696

Author(s): Matthews HD; Wynes S;

Human activities have caused global temperatures to increase by 1.25°C, and the current emissions trajectory suggests that we will exceed 1.5°C in less than 10 years. Though the growth rate of global carbon dioxide emissions has slowed and many countries have strengthened their emissions targets, current midcentury net zero goals are insufficient to limit ...

Article GUID: 35737785

Author(s): Sidorenkov AV; Borokhovski EF; Stroh WA; Naumtseva EA;

This research addresses: (1) the salience of employees' social (organizational, sub-organizational, group, micro-group), interpersonal, and personal identifications and their dimensions (cognitive and affective); (2) and the relationship and structure of the identifications of employees in different areas of professional activity. The study was conduc ...

Article GUID: 35735392

Author(s): Brault A; Vaillancourt G;

Informal caregivers of older adults are faced with increased responsibilities as health and social systems fail to respond to the rising demands associated with the aging populations. For many caregivers, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted their access to already sparse supportive resources, highlighting the importance of varying service delivery ...

Article GUID: 35734471

Author(s): Chung S; Lee T; Hong Y; Ahmed O; Silva WAD; Gouin JP;

Introduction: The aims of this study were to examine the mediation effect of viral anxiety of healthcare workers on the influence of their intolerance of uncertainty on the adherence to physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: An online survey was conducted among 329 healthcare workers (female: 81.4%, nursing professionals: 59.0%, and s ...

Article GUID: 35733798

Author(s): Chapelle A; Savard MA; Restani R; Ghaemmaghami P; Thillou N; Zardoui K; Chandrasekaran B; Coffey EBJ;

Sleep can increase consolidation of new knowledge and skills. It is less clear whether sleep plays a role in other aspects of experience-dependent neuroplasticity, which underlie important human capabilities such as spoken language processing. Theories of sensory learning differ in their predicti ...

Article GUID: 35732089

Author(s): Fairbank EJ; McGrath JJ; Henderson M; O' Loughlin J; Paradis G;

Objective: Robust evidence exists for the health-enhancing benefits of social support in adults. Inflammatory processes are thought to be an important mechanism linking social support and health risk. Less is known about the relation between social support and chronic inflammation during childhood and adolescence, or when the association emerges during th ...

Article GUID: 35731783

Author(s): Goudarzi S; Rivaz H;

This paper presents a novel beamforming approach based on deep learning to get closer to the ideal Point Spread Function (PSF) in Plane-Wave Imaging (PWI). The proposed approach is designed to reconstruct a high-quality version of Tissue Reflectivity Function (TRF) from echo traces acquired by transducer elements using only a single plane-wave transmissio ...

Article GUID: 35728310