Author(s): Kerri Z Delaney

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects males and females disproportionately. In midlife, more males have T2DM than females. The sex difference in T2DM prevalence is, in part, explained by differences in regional adipose tissue characteristics. With obesity, changes to regional adipokine and cytokine release increases the risk of T2DM in both males and fe ...

Article GUID: 34985183

Author(s): Enticott J; Gill JS; Bacon SL; Lavoie KL; Epstein DS; Dawadi S; Teede HJ; Boyle J;

Objective: To examine SARS-CoV-2 vaccine confidence, attitudes and intentions in Australian adults as part of the iCARE Study. Design and setting: Cross-sectional online survey conducted when free COVID-19 vaccinations first became available in Australia in February 2021. Participants: Total of 1166 Australians from general population aged 18-90 years ( ...

Article GUID: 34980631

Author(s): Kékedy-Nagy L; English L; Anari Z; Abolhassani M; Pollet BG; Popp J; Greenlee LF;

In this study, a suite of natural wastewater sources is tested to understand the effects of wastewater composition and source on electrochemically driven nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient removal. Kinetics, electrode behavior, and removal efficiency were evaluated during electrochemical precipitation, whereby a sacrificial magnesium (Mg) anode was used to ...

Article GUID: 34974342

Author(s): Najmeh Khalili-Mahani

The value of understanding patients' illness experience and social contexts for advancing medicine and clinical care is widely acknowledged. However, methodologies for rigorous and inclusive data gathering and integrative analysis of biomedical, cultural, and social factors are limited. In this paper, we propose a digital strategy for large-scale qual ...

Article GUID: 34975566

Author(s): Camilus NS; Lucas S; Wu C; Naccache R; Martic S;

Background: Globally, a number of individuals who live with Alzheimer's disease (AD), an incurable and debilitating disease, is increasing. Tau protein has a structural role, maintains integrity of microtubules and is one of the underlying causes of the tauopathies [1]. It is unfolded and highly soluble under physiological conditions. However, tau pro ...

Article GUID: 34971135

Author(s): Thaler L; Booij L; Burnham N; Kenny S; Oliverio S; Israel M; Steiger H;

Although treatment dropout is common among patients with eating disorders, very few studies have examined predictors of non-completion in day treatment. We investigated various potential predictors of dropout from adult day treatment. Participants were 295 adult patients with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa (restricting or binge-eating/purging subtype), B ...

Article GUID: 34971014

Author(s): Chauvin A; Phillips NA;

Objectives: Speech perception in noise is challenging, but evidence suggests that it may be facilitated by visual speech cues (e.g., lip movements) and supportive sentence context in native speakers. Comparatively few studies have investigated speech perception in noise in bilinguals, and little is known about the impact of visual speech cues and supporti ...

Article GUID: 34966162

Author(s): Dryburgh NSJ; Ponath E; Bukowski WM; Dirks MA;

This meta-analysis examined concurrent associations between aggression, withdrawal, assertion, and prosocial behavior and each of positive and negative friendship quality across studies with 22,657 children and adolescents (Mage = 11.71 years; 51.7% girls; 67.7% White). Studies were published between 1995 to 2021 and 32.4% were conducted outside of North ...

Article GUID: 34964484

Author(s): Wright L; Lopez LS; Camargo G; Bukowski WM;

The transition to kindergarten can be stressful as children adjust to novel separations from their caregivers and become accustomed to their peer group. A 9-month study of 96 children (Mage = 5.37 years, SD = 0.42) from Barranquilla, Colombia, assessed socioeconomic differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning across the kindergart ...

Article GUID: 34964493

Author(s): Ahene E; Ofori-Oduro M; Twum F; Walker J; Missah YM;

Chaos theory and its extension into cryptography has generated significant applications in industrial mixing, pulse width modulation and in electric compaction. Likewise, it has merited applications in authentication mechanisms for wireless power transfer systems. Wireless power transfer (WPT) via resonant inductive coupling mechanism enables the charging ...

Article GUID: 34960339

Author(s): MacNeil S; Deschênes S; Knäuper B; Carrese-Chacra E; Dialahy IZ; Suh S; Durif F; Gouin JP;

bjective: This study sought to identify psychosocial predictors of trajectories of adherence to physical distancing alongside changes in public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A three-time point longitudinal survey during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods ...

Article GUID: 34951559

Author(s): Frohlich JR; Rapinda KK; Schaub MP; Wenger A; Baumgartner C; Johnson EA; O' Connor RM; Vincent N; Blankers M; Ebert DD; Hadjistavropoulos HD; Mackenzie CS; Wardell JD; Augsburger M; Goldberg JO; Keough MT;

Many young adults struggle with comorbid alcohol misuse and emotional problems (i.e., depression and anxiety). However, there is currently a paucity of evidence-based, integrated, accessible treatment options for individuals with these comorbidities. The main goal of this study was to examine eff ...

Article GUID: 34938848