Author(s): Bastien L; Cho S; Petrovic J; Khoury B; Bloom E; Heath N;

University students are reporting high levels of stress that interfere with their academic performance and daily functioning. In response, higher education institutions have increasingly implemented digital, self-guided stress management resources to provide students with accessible mental health support. While these interventions show promise for improvi ...

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Author(s): Zou H; Wang Y; Huang A;

Fine-grained aspect-based sentiment analysis requires language models to identify aspect entities and the corresponding sentiment information in the input text content. Transformer-based pre-trained large language models have demonstrated remarkable performance on various challenging natural language processing tasks. However, large language models face l ...

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Author(s): Murphy J; Morais JA; Tsoukas MA; Cooke AB; Daskalopoulou SS; Santosa S;

Introduction: Adipose tissue inflammation, driven in part by immune cells, may contribute to the elevated type 2 diabetes risk in adults with childhood-onset obesity (CO) compared to those with adult-onset obesity (AO). Weight loss can modify adipose tissue immune cell composition, but whether these changes differ by obesity onset remains unknown. Method ...

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Author(s): Wang Z; Lyu L; Huang G; An C;

The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is widely recognized as a pivotal strategy for mitigating climate change. However, the surge in EV usage brings significant challenges regarding the end-of-life management of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in geographically isolated islands, such as Vancouver Island, Canada. This study addresses the ...

Article GUID: 40795495

Author(s): Koleilat T; Asgariandehkordi H; Rivaz H; Xiao Y;

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathologies in medical images is essential for modern disease diagnosis, clinical research, and treatment planning. While significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based segmentation techniques, many of these methods still suffer from limitations in data efficiency, generalizability, and interactivi ...

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Author(s): Richmond IC; Paulauskas MA; Padvaiskas E; Gonzàlez Sinisterra LC; Hutt-Taylor K; Robitaille AL; Ziter CD;

Cities are temporally dynamic ecosystems that experience continuous redevelopment over time. Urban parks, which provide critical benefits to resident wellbeing, are developed on different land-use types and contain natural elements that are susceptible to the effects of historical decision-making ...

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Author(s): Peng H; Hao J; Lyu L; Wan S; An C;

Industrial fishing's harmful subsidies fuel both a fish stock crisis and rising greenhouse gas emissions, even as calls for a global ban by the World Trade Organization persist amid slow progress. This study employs the framework of climate policy stringency assessment to examine fisheries subsidy reform through a carbon pricing lens. Using emissions, ...

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Author(s): Nekahi A; Feyzi E; Srivastava M; Yeganehdoust F; Madikere Raghunagtha Reddy AK; Zaghib K;

Lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing depends on a few key raw materials and equipment manufacturers. Battery manufacturing faces global challenges and opportunities as various regions, including Asia, Europe, North America, and emerging markets, seek to scale gigafactory production and innovate equipment manufacturing pathways. Regions can enhance batte ...

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Author(s): Di Giovanni DA; Kersten-Oertel M; Drouin S; Collins DL;

Purpose: Image-guided neurosurgery demands precise depth perception to minimize cognitive burden during intricate navigational tasks. Existing evaluation methods rely heavily on subjective user feedback, which can be biased and inconsistent. This study uses a physiological measure via electroencephalography (EEG), to quantify cognitive load when using nov ...

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Author(s): London-Nadeau K; Barborini C; Haines-Saah R; Bazarov M; Bristowe S; Khorkhordina M; Lemay-Gaulin M; Gorka C; Juster RP; D' Alessio H; Chadi N;

Efforts to control, repress, and punish drug use and queer and trans existence are rising as right-wing extremism becomes increasingly mainstream. These connected efforts are seen through the stifling of bodily autonomy and agency using criminal-legal, biomedical and political apparatuses, and ha ...

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Author(s): Nadler EO; Guilbeault D; Ringold SM; Williamson TR; Bellemare-Pepin A; Com?a IM; Jerbi K; Narayanan S; Aziz-Zadeh L;

Can metaphorical reasoning involving embodied experience-such as color perception-be learned from the statistics of language alone? Recent work finds that colorblind individuals robustly understand and reason abstractly about color, implying that color associations in everyday language might cont ...

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