Author(s): Raab ME; Maurizio SL; Capobianco JA; Prasad PN;

Emission bands from thermally coupled states in lanthanide-doped nanoparticles have been studied for ratiometric nanothermometry in biological applications. Unfortunately certain factors such as water absorption distort the intensity, limiting the accuracy of ratiometric nanothermometry. However, the decay time of such states does not suffer from such dis ...

Article GUID: 34813703

Author(s): Gilbert ML; Deroche MLD; Jiradejvong P; Chan Barrett K; Limb CJ;

Objectives: Variations in loudness are a fundamental component of the music listening experience. Cochlear implant (CI) processing, including amplitude compression, and a degraded auditory system may further degrade these loudness cues and decrease the enjoyment of music listening. This study aimed to identify optimal CI sound processor compression settin ...

Article GUID: 34812791

Author(s): Partanen M; Alberts NM; Conklin HM; Krull KR; Pui CH; Anghelescu DA; Jacola LM;

Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience treatment-related neurocognitive deficits and significant pain. Pain may exacerbate these cognitive impairments. This study examined neuropathic pain and neurocognitive outcomes in survivors of childhood ALL treated with contemporary therapy on a clinical trial (<a href="http: clini ...

Article GUID: 34813516

Author(s): Hayashi Neto D; Carvalho SDL; Ribeiro PAB; Lavoie KL; Bacon SL; Cornélio ME;

Objective: This scoping review aims to identify and understand the different tools and methods used in studies in the field of human eating behavior to assess, measure, or classify participants' ambivalence towards food and diet, as well as to identify which tools and methods are most frequently employed. Introduction: People's attitudes towards ...

Article GUID: 34812190

Author(s): Larue F; Tasbih T; Ribeiro PAB; Lavoie KL; Dolan E; Bacon SL;

Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) are widely used devices that were initially created to aid in smoking cessation. However, their acute physiological effects are unclear and there have been a number of E-cig and Vaping Acute Lung Injury (EVALI) events reported.
Research question: What are the immediate physi ...

Article GUID: 34808583

Author(s): Vahabisani A; An C;

Over the past decades, a large amount of petroleum pollutants has been released into the environment resulting from various activities related to petrochemicals. The discharge of wastewater with petrochemicals can pose considerable risk of harm to the human health and the environment. The use of adsorbents has received much consideration across the enviro ...

Article GUID: 34804763

Author(s): Predovan D; Berryman N; Lussier M; Comte F; Vu TTM; Villalpando JM; Bherer L;

Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain health in healthy older adults have been reported using a variety of cardiorespiratory fitness estimates (CRFe). Using commonly used methods to determine CRF, we assessed the relationship between CRFe and executive function performance. Healthy older adults (n = 60, mean age 68 years, 77% women), un ...

Article GUID: 34803824

Author(s): Cerqueira RC; de Rivera OR; Jaeger JAG; Grilo C;

Roads pose an imminent threat to wildlife directly through mortality and changes in individual behavior, and also indirectly through modification of the amount and configuration of wildlife habitat. However, few studies have addressed how these mechanisms interact to determine species response to roads. We used structural equation modeling to assess direc ...

Article GUID: 34799617

Author(s): Paul KI; Glathe A; Taatgen NA; Steele CJ; Villringer A; Lanzer P; Cnossen F;

Due to the increasing complexity of diseases in the aging population and rapid progress in catheter-based technology, the demands on operators' skills in conducting endovascular interventions (EI) has increased dramatically, putting more emphasis on training. However, it is not well understood which factors influence learning and performance. In the p ...

Article GUID: 34789742

Author(s): Bernos TA; Travouck C; Ramasinoro N; Fraser DJ; Mathevon B;

Local support is critical to the success and longevity of fishery management initiatives. Previous research suggests that how resource users perceive ecological changes, explain them, and cope with them, influences local support. The objectives of this study were two-fold. First, we collated local fishers' knowledge to characterize the long-term socio ...

Article GUID: 34780489

Author(s): Seth Wynes

Unlike other greenhouse gas sources associated with professional sports, team air travel is highly visible, under direct league control, and extremely difficult to decarbonize with technological advancement alone. In an analysis of air travel emissions from the four largest North American sports leagues, I estimate that teams traveled a combined 7.5 milli ...

Article GUID: 34779201

Author(s): Zhang Q; Lin W; Liu T; Ye Z; Liang T; Sun WH;

In the present work, four new mono(imino)pyridine ligands, 2-((2,4-bis(bis(4-R-phenyl)methyl)-6-fluorophenylimino)methyl)pyridine (R = H, L1; R = OCH₃, L2; R = F, L3) and 2-((2-(bis(4-fluorophenyl)methyl)-4-((3-(bis(4-fluorophenyl)methyl)-4-amine-5-fluoro-phenyl)(phenyl)methyl)-6-fluorophenylimino)methyl)pyridine (L4), have been des ...

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