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Education in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Design and Feasibility Study of the LapBot Safe Chole Mobile Game

Author(s): Noroozi M; St John A; Masino C; Laplante S; Hunter J; Brudno M; Madani A; Kersten-Oertel M; ...

Background: Major bile duct injuries during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), often stemming from errors in surgical judgment and visual misperception of critical anatomy, significantly impact mor ...

Article GUID: 39052314


LapBot-Safe Chole: validation of an artificial intelligence-powered mobile game app to teach safe cholecystectomy

Author(s): St John A; Khalid MU; Masino C; Noroozi M; Alseidi A; Hashimoto DA; Altieri M; Serrot F; Kersten-Oertal M; Madani A; ...

Background: Gaming can serve as an educational tool to allow trainees to practice surgical decision-making in a low-stakes environment. LapBot is a novel free interactive mobile game application th ...

Article GUID: 39009730


Predicting response to stepped-care cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia using pre-treatment heart rate variability in cancer patients

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 patie ...

Article GUID: 38991424


Simulating federated learning for steatosis detection using ultrasound images

Author(s): Qi Y; Vianna P; Cadrin-ChĂȘnevert A; Blanchet K; Montagnon E; Belilovsky E; Wolf G; Mullie LA; Cloutier G; ChassĂ© M; Tang A; ...

We aimed to implement four data partitioning strategies evaluated with four federated learning (FL) algorithms and investigate the impact of data distribution on FL model performance in detecting s ...

Article GUID: 38858500


Comparing assessment methods of low back pain related disability in student circus artists: A cross-sectional study

Author(s): Rossini B; Anstruther M; Fortin M;

Background: Student circus artists put constant stress on their back. However, the presence of low back pain (LBP) and related disability in this population remains unclear. Objectives: To 1) examine LBP history in circus artists and compare related disabi ...

Article GUID: 38848166


A pan-theoretical conceptualization of client involvement in psychotherapy

Author(s): Morris E; Fitzpatrick MR; Renaud J;

Objective: The present paper attempts to differentiate client involvement from other, similar process variables and presents a pan-theoretical conceptualization of client involvement. Method: A modified Delphi poll was conducted with 20 experienced clinici ...

Article GUID: 25017441


Research as intervention? Exploring the health and well-being of children and youth facing global adversity through participatory visual methods

Author(s): D' Amico M; Denov M; Khan F; Linds W; Akesson B;

Global health research typically relies on the translation of knowledge (from health professionals to the community) and the dissemination of knowledge (from research results to the wider public). However, Greenhalgh and Wieringa [2011. Is it time to drop t ...

Article GUID: 27043374


Who Should Decide How Machines Make Morally Laden Decisions?

Author(s): Dominic Martin

Who should decide how a machine will decide what to do when it is driving a car, performing a medical procedure, or, more generally, when it is facing any kind of morally laden decision? More and more, machines are making complex decisions with a considerab ...

Article GUID: 27905083


A cross-cultural comparison of population gambling patterns and regulatory frameworks: France and Québec

Author(s): Kairouz S; Paradis C; Nadeau L; Tovar ML; Pousset M;

Few empirical studies have examined the relationships between differing regulatory approaches and patterns of gambling behaviors. This article reports on a correlational cross-cultural comparison of differences in the regulatory approaches and gambling beha ...

Article GUID: 27171860


High-frequency heart rate variability during worry predicts stress-related increases in sleep disturbances

Author(s): Gouin JP; Wenzel K; Boucetta S; O' Byrne J; Salimi A; Dang-Vu TT;

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) during waking restfulness and during worry predicts increases in sleep disturbances in response to a stressful life event. Methods: A longitudinal study ...

Article GUID: 25819418


Managing deepsea oil spills through a systematic modeling approach

Author(s): Chen Z; Yang Z; Lee K; Lu Y;

Offshore oil exploration and production in deepwater are associated with environmental risks to marine ecosystems. This research introduces DWOSM (Deep Water Oil Spill Model), a three-dimensional Lagrangian model, which is developed to simulate the transpor ...

Article GUID: 38759562


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