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 ...

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Author(s): Vieira AM; Szczepanik G; de Waure C; Tricco AC; Oliver S; Stojanovic J; Ribeiro PAB; Pollock D; Akl EA; Lavis J; Kuchenmuller T; Bragge P; L ...

Introduction: Rapid systematic reviews (RRs) have the potential to provide timely information to decision-makers, thus directly impacting healthcare. However, consensus regarding the most efficient ...

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Author(s): Peters JA; Farhadloo M;

Introduction: To assess the effects of various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) on cases, hospitalizations, and mortality during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: To empirically investigate the impacts of different NPIs on COVID-19-re ...

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Author(s): Levy M; Forouhar V; Edache IY; Alberga AS;

Introduction: Weight discrimination of individuals with overweight or obesity is associated with adverse mental and physical health. Weight discrimination is prevalent in many sectors such as within workplaces, where individuals with overweight and obesity ...

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Author(s): Finlay B; Wittevrongel K; Materula D; Hébert ML; O' Grady K; Lach LM; Nicholas D; Zwicker JD; ...

Background: At present, little is known about the factors that contribute to the relatively low uptake of government-funded disability programs in Canada. Aim: Understand how parents/caregivers of ...

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Author(s): Dev R; Raparelli V; Bacon SL; Lavoie KL; Pilote L; Norris CM;

Objective: Given the role of sociocultural gender in shaping human behaviours, the main objective of this study was to examine whether sex and gender-related factors were associated with the public's adherence to COVID-19-recommended protective health b ...

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Author(s): Kirk SF; Forhan M; Yusuf J; Chance A; Burke K; Blinn N; Quirke S; Salas XR; Alberga A; Russell-Mayhew S; ...

Background: Stigmatization of persons living with obesity is an important public health issue. In 2015, Obesity Canada adopted person-first language in all internal documentation produced by the or ...

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Author(s): Véronneau MH; Serbin LA; Kennedy-Turner K; Stack DM; Ledingham JE; Schwartzman AE;

Governments around the world are pressed to invest in postsecondary education. However, little research exists to document whether large-scale educational reforms aimed at increasing rates of postsecondary attendance benefit youth's developmental outcom ...

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Author(s): Li Z; Zhu Y; Wang D; Zhang X; Jones KC; Ma J; Wang P; Yang R; Li Y; Pei Z; Zhang Q; Jiang G; ...

Novel flame retardants (FRs) are of increasing concern, given growing evidence of health effects and use to replace polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). This study modeled combined effects of us ...

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Author(s): Edache IY; Kakinami L; Alberga AS;

Objectives: Public health policies have been proposed to help address prevalent Canadian obesity rates. Along with the increase in obesity prevalence, explicit weight bias is also rampant in Western society. This paper aimed to assess the association betwee ...

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Author(s): Béland D, Marier P

J Aging Soc Policy. 2020 May 18;:1-7 Authors: Béland D, Marier P

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