Author(s): Hou D; Zhan D; Wang L; Hassan IG; Sezer N;
Many factors contribute to the inherent uncertainty of energy consumption modeling in buildings. It is essential to perform a calibration and sensitivity analysis in order to manage these uncertainties. Despite the availability of several calibration methods, they are often deterministic and lack quantified uncertainties. Moreover, the selection of parame ...
Article GUID: 37936825
Author(s): Moezi SA; Sedaghati R; Rakheja S;
In recent years, magnetoactive soft continuum robots (MSCRs) with multimodal locomotion capabilities have emerged for various biomedical applications. Developments in nonlinear dynamic models and effective control methods for MSCRs are deemed vital not only to gain a better understanding of their coupled magneto-mechanical behavior but also to accurately ...
Article GUID: 37932207
Author(s): Iantorno M; Consalvo M;
Character backgrounds are one of many elements players use to customize their protagonists in fantasy computer role-playing games. By documenting the narrative trappings, mechanical benefits, and hierarchical availability of character backgrounds in Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001) and Dragon Age: Origins (2009), this paper considers how r ...
Article GUID: 37928454
Author(s): Lomboni DJ; Ozgun A; de Medeiros TV; Staines W; Naccache R; Woulfe J; Variola F;
Neuronal disorders are characterized by the loss of functional neurons and disrupted neuroanatomical connectivity, severely impacting the quality of life of patients. This study investigates a novel electroconductive nanocomposite consisting of glycine-derived carbon nanodots (GlyCNDs) incorporated into a collagen matrix and validates its beneficial physi ...
Article GUID: 37922888
Author(s): Valikhanova G; Kato Y; Fitzcharles MA; Ware M; Da Costa D; Lowensteyn I; Cheung HS; Grover S;
Background: Medical cannabis (MC) is used by Canadian Veterans to manage a wide range of health issues. However, there is little information comparing the reasons for MC use and its perceived effectiveness between Veterans and non-Veterans. Objects: We compared MC use among a convenience sample ...
Article GUID: 37920683
Author(s): Feng Y; Lu H; Whiteway M; Jiang Y;
Fluconazole (FLC) tolerant phenotypes in Candida species contribute to persistent candidemia and the emergence of FLC resistance. Therefore, making FLC fungicidal and eliminating FLC tolerance are important for treating invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) caused by Candida species. However, the mechanisms of FLC tolerance in Candida species remain to be fully ...
Article GUID: 37918789
Author(s): Laporte N; Hechtman L; Rousseau C; Greenfield B;
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Article GUID: 37920538
Author(s): Belasso CJ; Cai Z; Bezgin G; Pascoal T; Stevenson J; Rahmouni N; Tissot C; Lussier F; Rosa-Neto P; Soucy JP; Rivaz H; Benali H;
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis in its early stages remains difficult with current diagnostic approaches. Though tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) generally follow the stereotypical pattern described by the Braak staging scheme, the network degeneration hypothesis (NDH) has su ...
Article GUID: 37920382
Author(s): Singh K; Hachem-Vermette C; D' Almeida R;
The article addresses the challenges of evaluating energy performance in different neighborhood settings under various energy efficiency measures and proposes a methodology for selecting appropriate solar strategies on a neighborhood scale. The study selects five representative neighborhoods from various climatic zones with different building and street l ...
Article GUID: 37914754
Author(s): Kosik B; Larsen S; Bergdahl A;
Insulin deficiency in type 1 diabetes (T1D) leads to an impairment of glucose metabolism and mitochondrial function. Actovegin is a hemodialysate of calf blood, which has been shown to enhance glucose uptake and cell metabolism in healthy human skeletal muscle. The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of Actovegin on skeletal muscle mito ...
Article GUID: 37913525
Author(s): Wang H; Gao RT; Nguyen NT; Bai J; Ren S; Liu X; Zhang X; Wang L;
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive strategy to convert solar energy to hydrogen. However, the lifetime of PEC devices is restricted by the photocorrosion of semiconductors and the instability of co-catalysts. Herein, we report a feasible in situ inherent cross-linking method for stabilizing semiconductors that uses a CoFe-disperse ...
Article GUID: 37901939
Author(s): Dubé C; Morin AJS; Olivier E; Gilbert W; Tracey D; Craven RG; Maïano C;
This study investigated how the school experiences and personal characteristics of youth with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) contribute to their longitudinal trajectories of anxiety. To this end, we relied on a sample of 390 youth with mild (48.2%) to moderate (51.8%) levels of ID, aged from 11 to 22 (M = 15.70), and recruited in Canada (n = 140) and Aust ...
Article GUID: 37898583
