PERFORM Publications

Investigating the kinetics of marine and terrestrial organic carbon incorporation and degradation in coastal bulk sediment and water settings through isotopic lenses

Author(s): Mirzaei Y; Gélinas Y;

Coastal sediments are the main deposition center for allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon (OC). The discharge of terrestrial biomass, anthropogenic activities, oceanic primary productivity, and natural events contribute to this carbon pool. The OC buried in sediments undergoes alteration through physical, biological and chemical processes, becom ...

Article GUID: 39117203

Minor-Attracted Men's Lived Experiences of Romantic Attraction

Author(s): Levitan JA; Martijn FM; Santaguida M; Seto MC;

Studies of minor-attracted persons have mainly focused on their sexual attractions, and little is known about their romantic attractions. This online qualitative survey study collected 74 self-identified minor-attracted men's anonymous accounts of romantic attraction to minors. Using reflexive thematic analysis, three themes were identified and interp ...

Article GUID: 39118553

Materiality and Cognitive Development: Contemporary Debates and Empirical Studies in Early Childhood

Author(s): Alessandroni N; Ferreira JM;

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Article GUID: 39118996

Evolving trends in neuropsychological profiles of post COVID-19 condition: A 1-year follow-up in individuals with cognitive complaints

Author(s): Grunden N; Calabria M; García-Sánchez C; Pons C; Arroyo JA; Gómez-Ansón B; Estévez-García MDC; Belvís R; Morollón N; Cordero-Carcedo M; Mur I; Pomar V; Domingo P;

Cognitive difficulties are reported as lasting sequelae within post COVID-19 condition. However, the chronicity of these difficulties and related factors of fatigue, mood, and perceived health have yet to be fully determined. To address this, the current longitudinal study aimed to clarify the tr ...

Article GUID: 39116061

"It would Never have Happened Without the Pandemic": Understanding the Lived Experience of Individuals who Increased Their Online Gambling Participation

Author(s): Savard AC; Kairouz S; Nadeau-Tremblay J; Brodeur M; Ferland F; French M; Morvannou A; Blanchette-Martin N; Dufour M; VanMourik V; Monson E;

The gambling landscape was profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an increase in online gambling participation. This growth raises concerns about the potential harms associated with online gambling. This qualitative study aims to understand the lived experiences of gamblers whos ...

Article GUID: 39115755

On the salient limitations of the methods of assembly theory and their classification of molecular biosignatures

Author(s): Uthamacumaran A; Abrahão FS; Kiani NA; Zenil H;

We demonstrate that the assembly pathway method underlying assembly theory (AT) is an encoding scheme widely used by popular statistical compression algorithms. We show that in all cases (synthetic or natural) AT performs similarly to other simple coding schemes and underperforms compared to system-related indexes based upon algorithmic probability that t ...

Article GUID: 39112510

Proof-of-concept testing of a mobile application-delivered mindfulness exercise for emotional eaters: RAIN delivered as a step-by-step image sequence

Author(s): Carrière K; Siemers N; Thapar S; Knäuper B;

Background: Over fifty percent of individuals with overweight and obesity are emotional eaters. Emotional eating can be theorized as a conditioned response to eat for reasons that are not associated with physiological hunger. We conducted this proof-of-concept study to gather evidence that a mobile app that delivers a common non-meditative mindfulness exe ...

Article GUID: 39114459

Holographic direct sound printing

Author(s): Derayatifar M; Habibi M; Bhat R; Packirisamy M;

Direct sound printing (DSP), an alternative additive manufacturing process driven by sonochemical polymerization, has traditionally been confined to a single acoustic focal region, resulting in a voxel-by-voxel printing approach. To overcome this limitation, we introduce holographic direct sound printing (HDSP), where acoustic holograms, storing cross-sec ...

Article GUID: 39107289

Synthesis, Characterization and Photophysical Properties of a New Family of Rare-earth Cluster-based Metal-organic Frameworks

Author(s): Bicalho HA; Copeman C; Barbosa HP; Donnarumma PR; Davis Z; Quezada-Novoa V; Velazquez-Garcia JJ; Liu N; Hemmer E; Howarth AJ;

In this work, nine new rare-earth metal-organic frameworks (RE-MOFs, where RE = Lu(III), Yb(III), Tm(III), Er(III), Ho(III), Dy(III), Tb(III), Gd(III), and Eu(III)) isostructural to Zr-MOF-808 are synthesized, characterized, and studied regarding their photophysical properties. Materials with hig ...

Article GUID: 39105655

Robustness and evolvability: Revisited, redefined and applied

Author(s): Kharma N; Bédard-Couture R;

Building on and extending existing definitions of robustness and evolvability, we propose and utilize new formal definitions, with matching measures, of robustness and evolvability of systems with genotypes and corresponding phenotypes. We explain and show how these measures are more general and more representative of the concepts they stand for, than the ...

Article GUID: 39098381

The long shadow of accumulating adverse childhood experiences on mental health in the United Arab Emirates: implications for policy and practice

Author(s): Murphy A; England D; Elbarazi I; Horen N; Long T; Ismail-Allouche Z; Arafat C;

Introduction: This study investigates the cumulative effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adult depression, anxiety, and stress in Abu Dhabi, controlling for demographic factors, lifestyle, and known health and mental health diagnoses. Methods: Utilizing a cross-sectional design and self-report measures, the research aims to fill a critical ...

Article GUID: 39100953

Editorial: World mental health day 2022: key drivers of risk to mental health services and innovative solutions

Author(s): Shen N; Jilka S; Sawchuk K;