Author(s): Richmond IC; Perron MC; Boyle SP; Pick FR;

Context: The successful dispersal of an animal depends, partly, on landscape connectivity. Urbanization poses risks to dispersal activities by increasing hostile land cover types. Objectives: We investigated how connectivity of urban ponds impacted Odonata communities (dragonflies and damselflies), an order of semi-aquatic insects that actively disperse. ...

Article GUID: 38435963

Author(s): Valyear MD; Eustachon NM; Britt JP;

The orosensory features of alcoholic drinks are potent relapse triggers because they acquire incentive properties during consumption, including enhanced palatability. Whether mice similarly perceive alcoholic drinks to be more palatable after repeated consumption is complicated by reports showing that alcohol elicits aversive taste reactivity responses an ...

Article GUID: 38430645

Author(s): W Spencer Murch

The post-reinforcement pause (PRP) is an operant effect in which response latencies increase on trials following the receipt and consumption of reward. Human studies demonstrate analogous effects in electronic gambling machines that utilise random ratio reinforcement schedules. We sought to identify moderators of the human PRP effect, hypothesising that t ...

Article GUID: 38429228

Author(s): Gillet N; Morin AJS; Fernet C; Austin S; Huyghebaert-Zouaghi T;

Background and objectives: This research relies on a combination of variable- and person-centered approaches to help improve our understanding of the dimensionality of job demands by jointly considering employees' global levels of job demands, exposure and their specific levels of exposure to challenge and hindrance demands. Design and methods: We re ...

Article GUID: 38425154

Author(s): Mehrjou A; Hadaeghnia M; Ehsani Namin P; Ghasemi I;

Semi-interpenetrating polymer network (SIPN) hydrogels composed of sodium alginate/poly (vinyl alcohol), reinforced by PEG-grafted-graphene oxide (GO-g-PEG) were prepared by ionic crosslinking of sodium alginate. The impact of grafted PEG molecular weight with two molecular weights, i.e. 400 and 2000 g/mol, and component composition were studied on the mo ...

Article GUID: 38423903

Author(s): Ashley Reynolds

Negative affect (depression/anxiety) and alcohol use among Indigenous youth in Canada remain a concern for many communities. Disparate rates of these struggles are understood to be a potential outcome of colonization and subsequent intergenerational trauma experienced by individuals, families, and communities. Using a longitudinal design, we examined chan ...

Article GUID: 38407776

Author(s): Tsui RK; Kosie JE; Fibla L; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Language switching is common in bilingual environments, including those of many bilingual children. Some bilingual children hear rapid switching that involves immediate translation of words (an 'immediate-translation' pattern), while others hear their languages most often in long blocks of a single language (a 'one-language-at-a-time' patt ...

Article GUID: 38405269

Author(s): Fereshteh Mehrabi

CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that changes in social support have a protective and compensatory role in decreasing depressive symptoms and enhancing cognitive health among older adults with increasing frailty. Public health policy and strategies should consider the impact of social support on multiple health outcomes among older adults with increasing ...

Article GUID: 38402184

Author(s): Leite ML; Comeau P; Aghakeshmiri S; Lange D; Rodrigues LKA; Branda N; Manso AP;

Background: Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans are associated with caries recurrence. Therefore, this study evaluated the combination of a Ru(II)-loaded resin-based dental material (RDM) and antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) against a dual-species biofilm of S. mutans and C. albicans. Methods: An aPDT protocol was established evaluating Ru ...

Article GUID: 38395246

Author(s): Leon T De Beer

This research seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the distinctive nature of burnout and depression. In a first study, we relied on employee samples from four European countries (N = 5199; 51.27% women; M(age) = 43.14). In a second study, we relied on a large sample of patients (N = 5791; 53.70% women; M(age) = 39.54) who received a diagnos ...

Article GUID: 38400520

Author(s): Wilcox SM; Mulligan CN; Neculita CM;

Mining waste represents a global issue due to its potential of generating acidic or alkaline leachate with high concentrations of metals and metalloids (metal(loid)s). Microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) is an engineering tool used for remediation. MICP, induced via biological activity, aims to precipitate calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or ...

Article GUID: 38393202

Author(s): Zhou J; Wearn A; Huck J; Hughes C; Baracchini G; Tremblay-Mercier J; Poirier J; Villeneuve S; Tardif CL; Chakravarty MM; Daugherty AM; Gauthier CJ; Turner GR; Spreng RN;

Elevated iron deposition in the brain has been observed in older adult humans and persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and has been associated with lower cognitive performance. We investigated the impact of iron deposition, and its topographical distribution across hippocampal subfields and ...

Article GUID: 38388425