Author(s): Gouin JP; Sánchez-Carro Y; Cruz IP; MacNeil S;

Positive social relationships are linked to better health outcomes. Beyond global evaluations of relationship quality, little is known about how specific interpersonal processes may influence biological pathways promoting optimal health outcomes. Perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) is an interpersonal process through which an individual comes to believ ...

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Author(s): Fortin M; Rosenstein B; Bertrand C; Vaillancourt N; Wright A; Montpetit C; Macedo L; Elliott J; Cook CE; Tousignant-Laflamme Y; Ma J; Pagé MG; Dover G; Dang-Vu TT; Weber MH;

Introduction: Exercise therapy is the most recommended treatment for chronic low back pain (LBP), with evidence supporting modest effects, likely due to the heterogeneity of patient presentations. Evidence suggests that matching individuals to the most appropriate exercise type could improve outc ...

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Author(s): Van Kerrebroeck B; Spiech C; Penhune V; Wanderley MM;

Sensorimotor entrainment, the spontaneous alignment of movement with external rhythms, plays a key role in how we experience music and motion. In this study, we introduce a novel method combining musical stimuli, vection, and visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) in virtual reality (VR) to investigate how cross-modal rhythmic stimulation shapes self-mot ...

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Author(s): Borzone Mas D; Scarabotti PA; Vaschetto PA; Alvarenga P; Vazquez M; Arim M;

Modularity and nestedness have been observed recurrently across different ecological networks, including food webs and occurrence networks. These patterns emerge from species-level processes, where interactions and occurrences are determined by niche-based and/or abundance-based mechanisms. Abundance-based processes promote nested networks with gradients ...

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Author(s): Coupal J; Shabanova D; Gagnon I; Grilli L; Beaulieu C; Teel E;

Context: Current graded exertion tests (GXTs) for concussion management require specialized equipment and in-person supervision. The Montreal Virtual Exertion (MOVE) protocol is a telehealth-compatible GXT but has been tested only in pseudo-virtual conditions. Objective: To determine the safety and feasibility of the MOVE protocol when administered remot ...

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Author(s): Heers M; Afnan J; Braun C; Grova C; Altenmüller DM; Steinhoff BJ; Dümpelmann M; Demerath T; Urbach H; Ethofer S; Siegel M; Schulze-Bonhage A; Lerche H; Li Hegner Y;

Objective: Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) causes drug-resistant epilepsy requiring presurgical evaluation. Invasive electroencephalographic (EEG) studies demonstrate that sleep modulates epileptic activity, including interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs), fast oscillations (FOs) in the beta ( ...

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Author(s): Notton C; Sharma V; Quoc-Huy Trinh V; Chen L; Xu M; Varma S; Hosseini MS;

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the few cancers that have an established dysplasia-carcinoma sequence that benefits from screening. Everyone over 50 years of age in Canada is eligible for CRC screening. About 20% of those people will undergo a biopsy for a pre-neoplastic polyp and, in many cases, multiple polyps. As such, these polyp biopsies make up th ...

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Author(s): Guo D; Luo Z; Bouguila N; Fan W;

Neural topic models (NTMs) based on variational autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as a scalable and flexible alternative to classical probabilistic models for uncovering latent thematic structures in text corpora. However, most existing NTMs either overlook the geometric structure of word embeddings or rely on Euclidean priors that are poorly aligned with ...

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Author(s): Younes GR; Heli B; Ajji A;

This work blends polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with poly-(lactic acid) (PLA) using polyhydroxyurethane (PHU) structures. The PHU is synthesized from mannitol biscarbonate and a short-chain PDMS-based diamine. The main objectives are, first, to explore the application of the PDMS-based PHU as an additive for PLA and, second, to enhance the flexibility and hy ...

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Author(s): Narcross L; Pyne ME; Kevvai K; Siu KH; Dueber JE; Martin VJJ;

The benzylisoquinoline alkaloid (BIA) family of tetrahydroisoquinolines (THIQs) comprises >2,500 members, including the pharmaceuticals morphine, codeine, and papaverine, as well as the antibiotics sanguinarine and chelerythrine. Agricultural cultivation can supply the demand for the BIAs that accumulate in plants, but broader access to the BIA family wou ...

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Author(s): Alicia Estefania Antonio Figueroa

This work implements deep learning models to capture non-linear and complex data behavior in aluminum price data. Deep learning models include the long short-term memory (LSTM) and deep feedforward neural networks (FFNN). The support vector regression (SVR) is employed as a base model for comparison. Each predictive model is tuned by using two different o ...

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