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The effects of a 12-week combined motor control exercise and isolated lumbar extension intervention on lumbar multifidus muscle stiffness in individuals with chronic low back pain

Author(s): Tornblom A; Naghdi N; Rye M; Montpetit C; Fortin M;

Introduction: Exercise therapy is the primary endorsed form of conservative treatment for chronic low back pain (LBP). However, there is still conflicting evidence on which exercise intervention is best. While motor control exercise can lead to morphological and functional improvements of lumbar multifidus muscle in individuals with chronic LBP, the effec ...

Article GUID: 39258113


Crowd Counting Using Meta-Test-Time Adaptation

Author(s): Ma C; Neri F; Gu L; Wang Z; Wang J; Qing A; Wang Y;

Machine learning algorithms are commonly used for quickly and efficiently counting people from a crowd. Test-time adaptation methods for crowd counting adjust model parameters and employ additional data augmentation to better adapt the model to the specific conditions encountered during testing. The majority of current studies concentrate on unsupervised ...

Article GUID: 39252679


Developing endophytic Penicillium oxalicum as a source of lignocellulolytic enzymes for enhanced hydrolysis of biorefinery relevant pretreated rice straw

Author(s): Sharma G; Kaur B; Raheja Y; Kaur A; Singh V; Basotra N; Di Falco M; Tsang A; Chadha BS;

Endophytic fungi, as plant symbionts, produce an elaborate array of enzymes for efficient disintegration of lignocellulosic biomass into constituent monomeric sugars, making them novel source of lignocellulolytic CAZymes with immense potential in future biorefineries. The present study reports lignocellulolytic enzymes production potential of an endophyti ...

Article GUID: 39249151


Measurement invariance and differential item functioning of the functionality appreciation scale (FAS) in Colombia and Spain

Author(s): Mebarak M; Maïano C; Mendoza J; Zamora Á; Baños R; Desdentado L; Miragall M; Herrero R; Swami V;

The Functionality Appreciation Scale (FAS) is increasingly used in diverse national and linguistic contexts. However, limited work has assessed the extent to which the instrument demonstrates measurement invariance and differential item functioning (DIF) across nations and respondent characterist ...

Article GUID: 39244790


Analytical Model for Current-Voltage Characteristics in Perovskite Solar Cells Incorporating Bulk and Surface Recombination

Author(s): M Z Kabir

The effects of surface recombination on the steady-state carrier profiles and photocurrent in perovskite solar cells are investigated in this paper. The continuity equations for both holes and electrons are solved considering carrier drift and diffusion under the exponential carrier generation profile in the perovskite layer and considering both bulk and ...

Article GUID: 39203622


Microfluidic Wound-Healing Assay for Comparative Study on Fluid Dynamic, Chemical and Mechanical Wounding on Microglia BV2 Migration

Author(s): Yazdanpanah Moghadam E; Sonenberg N; Packirisamy M;

Microglial cells, or brain immune cells, are highly dynamic and continuously migrate in pathophysiological conditions. Their adhesion, as a physical characteristic, plays a key role in migration. In this study, we presented a microfluidic chip combination of two assays: a microglial BV2 adhesion assay and a wound-healing migration assay. The chip could cr ...

Article GUID: 39203655


Dual-Band Antenna Array Fed by Ridge Gap Waveguide with Dual-Periodic Interdigital-Pin Bed of Nails

Author(s): Chen B; Chen X; Cheng X; Da Y; Liu X; Gao S; Kishk AA;

A dual-band (K-/Ka-band) antenna array is presented. An ultra-wideband antenna element in the shape of a double-ridged waveguide is used as a radiation slot, and a novel dual-periodic ridge gap waveguide (RGW) with an interdigital-pin bed of nails (serving as a filter) is used to realize dual-band operation. By periodically arranging the pins of two diffe ...

Article GUID: 39204813


MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect

Author(s): Acharya B; Alexandre J; Behera SC; Benes P; Bergmann B; Bertolucci S; Bevan A; Brancaccio R; Branzas H; Burian P; Campbell M; Cecchini S; Cho YM; de Montigny M; De Roeck A; Ellis JR; Fairbairn M; Felea D; Frank M; Gould O; Hays J; Hirt A ...

We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions during Run 1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07 µb^{-1} of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy per collision in Dece ...

Article GUID: 39213579


Development and psychometric evaluation of the Violation Appraisal Measure (VAM)

Author(s): Krause S; Radomsky AS;

Mental contamination refers to feelings of dirtiness and/or urges to wash that arise without direct contact with a contaminant. Cognitive models propose that this results from "serious, negative misappraisals of perceived violations". However, the specific violation misappraisals most relevant to mental contamination have yet to be established empirically ...

Article GUID: 39206950


Older Adults in Administrative Quagmire: A Scoping Review of Policy and Program Coordination Across 6 Marginalized Older Adult Populations

Author(s): Marier P; Joy M; Smele S; Zakaria R; Beauchamp J; Bourgeois-Guérin V; Lupien PL; Sussman T;

Background and objectives: Coordination of governmental action is crowded with policies and programs that are highly interdependent, sometimes operating in silos if not contradicting each other. These dilemmas, or administrative quagmires, are heightened for older adults in general, but they are ...

Article GUID: 39211980


Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning in offspring of parents with a major affective disorder: a meta-analytic review

Author(s): Serravalle L; Trespalacios F; Ellenbogen MA;

Because the offspring of parents with an affective disorder (OAD) are at high risk for developing mental disorders, and persons with an affective disorder (AD) show dysfunctional hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, changes in HPA functioning in OAD might be an etiological risk factor that precedes the development of ADs. The primary aim of ...

Article GUID: 39207496


AP-1 contributes to endosomal targeting of ubiquitin ligase RNF13 via a secondary and novel non-canonical binding motif

Author(s): Cabana VC; Sénécal AM; Bouchard AY; Kourrich S; Cappadocia L; Lussier MP;

Cellular trafficking between organelles is typically assured by short motifs that contact carrier proteins to transport them to their destination. Ubiquitin E3 ligase RING finger protein 13 (RNF13), a regulator of proliferation, apoptosis, and protein trafficking, localizes to endolysosomal compartments through the binding of a dileucine motif to clathrin ...

Article GUID: 39206621


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