Author(s): Hadikhani R; Karbassi A; Tajziehchi S; Mehdizadeh Y;

Estuaries play a crucial role in preventing the influx of metals from rivers into seas, thereby offering potential insights for the water purification industry. This study seeks to identify the key parameters (including pH, electricity conductivity (EC), and Eh) influencing the removal efficiency of Mn, Zn, Cu, Co, and Ni during natural and electro-floccu ...

Article GUID: 38991606

Author(s): London-Nadeau K; Lafortune C; Gorka C; Lemay-Gaulin M; Séguin J; Haines-Saah R; Ferlatte O; Chadi N; Juster RP; Bristowe S; D' Alessio H; Bernal L; Ellis-Durity K; Barbosa J; Da Costa De Carlos LAAC; Castellanos Ryan N;

Background: Queer and trans (QT) youth report higher rates of cannabis use than their cisgender and heterosexual peers. Explanations for this have overwhelmingly focused on the difficulties QT youth face, while little research has examined how cannabis use can relate to QT youth's strengths. ...

Article GUID: 38991874

Author(s): Garneau J; Savard J; Dang-Vu TT; Gouin JP;

Objective: This study examined whether high frequency heart-rate variability (HF-HRV) and HF-HRV reactivity to worry moderate response to cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) within both a standard and stepped-care framework among cancer patients with comorbid insomnia. Biomarkers such as HF-HRV may predict response to CBT-I, a finding which ...

Article GUID: 38991424

Author(s): Casillas-Popova SN; Lokuge ND; Andrade-Gagnon B; Chowdhury FR; Skinner CD; Findlay BL; Oh JK;

Recent advances in the treatment of chronic wounds have focused on the development of effective strategies for cutting-edge wound dressings based on nanostructured materials, particularly biocompatible poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)-based electro-spun (e-spun) nanofibers. However, PVA nanofibers need ...

Article GUID: 38989606

Author(s): Memari E; Helfield B;

The recent and exciting success of anti-inflammatory therapies for ischemic heart disease (e.g. atherosclerosis) is hindered by the lack of site-specific and targeted therapeutic deposition. Microbubble-mediated focused ultrasound, which uses circulating, lipid-encapsulated intravascular microbubbles to locally enhance endothelial permeability, offers an ...

Article GUID: 38988819

Author(s): Bertola M; Chavez-Heredia E; Grava T;

Using WKB analysis, the paper addresses a conjecture of Shapiro and Tater on the similarity between two sets of points in the complex plane; on one side is the set the values of t ∈ C for which the spectrum of the quartic anharmonic oscillator in the complex plane d 2 y d x 2 - x 4 + t x 2 + 2 J x y = Λ y , with certain boundar ...

Article GUID: 38983592

Author(s): Singh D; Memari E; He S; Yusefi H; Helfield B;

Over the past two decades, there has been tremendous and exciting progress toward extending the use of medical ultrasound beyond a traditional imaging tool. Ultrasound contrast agents, typically used for improved visualization of blood flow, have been explored as novel non-viral gene delivery vectors for cardiovascular therapy. Given this adaptation to ul ...

Article GUID: 38983873

Author(s): Alberts NM; Leisenring W; Whitton J; Stratton K; Jibb L; Flynn J; Pizzo A; Brinkman TM; Birnie K; Gibson TM; McDonald A; Ford J; Olgin JE; Nathan PC; Stinson JN; Armstrong GT;

Although survivors of childhood cancer are at an increased risk, little is known about the prevalence of chronic pain, associated interference, and daily pain experiences. Survivors (N = 233; mean age = 40.8 years, range 22-64 years; mean time since diagnosis = 32.7 years) from the Childhood Canc ...

Article GUID: 38981063

Author(s): Mosley JD; Dunn WB; Kuligowski J; Lewis MR; Monge ME; Ulmer Holland C; Vuckovic D; Zanetti KA; Schock TB;

Introduction: During the Metabolomics 2023 conference, the Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consortium (mQACC) presented a QA/QC workshop for LC-MS-based untargeted metabolomics. Objectives: The Best Practices Working Group disseminated recent findings from community forums and ...

Article GUID: 38980450

Author(s): Wolfe D; Rosenstein B; Fortin M;

Introduction: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Transcutaneous electrotherapies have been widely used to treat CLBP but, with the partial exception of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), their effect on pain, disability, quality-of-life, and psychosocial outcomes have not been syste ...

Article GUID: 38979440

Author(s): Maïano C; Morin AJS; Tracey D; Hue O; Craven RG;

The main objective of this person-centred study was to identify profiles of actual and perceived physical fitness among a sample of youth with intellectual disabilities (ID). Participants were 377 youth (60.4% boys) with mild (49.6%) to moderate (50.4%) ID recruited in Australia and Canada. Latent profile analyses revealed five profiles: (1) Underestimati ...

Article GUID: 38976395

Author(s): Hamzehpoor E; Effaty F; Borchers TH; Stein RS; Wahrhaftig-Lewis A; Ottenwaelder X; Frišcic T; Perepichka DF;

We report a rapid, room-temperature mechanochemical synthesis of 2- and 3-dimensional boroxine covalent organic frameworks (COFs), enabled by using trimethylboroxine as a dehydrating additive to overcome the hydrolytic sensitivity of boroxine-based COFs. The resulting COFs display high porosity a ...

Article GUID: 38970305