Author(s): Krause S; Radomsky AS;

Purpose: Cognitive models of mental contamination (feelings of dirtiness/washing behaviour that arise without direct contact with a contaminant) highlight the central role of perceptions of violation in the onset and maintenance of these feelings. Little research has been done to clarify violation-specific appraisals relevant to mental contamination. Perc ...

Article GUID: 37363745

Author(s): Jason W Payne

Research on memory reconsolidation has relied heavily on the use of Pavlovian auditory cued-fear conditioning. Here, an auditory cue (CS) is paired with a footshock (US) and the CS is later able to evoke a freezing response when presented alone. Some treatments, when administered to conditioned subjects immediately following a CS-alone (memory reactivatio ...

Article GUID: 37347748

Author(s): Sares AG; Gilbert AC; Zhang Y; Iordanov M; Lehmann A; Deroche MLD;

Auditory memory is an important everyday skill evaluated more and more frequently in clinical settings as there is recently a greater recognition of the cost of hearing loss to cognitive systems. Testing often involves reading a list of unrelated items aloud; but prosodic variations in pitch and timing across the list can affect the number of items rememb ...

Article GUID: 37338981

Author(s): Feng Q; An C; Chen Z; Lee K; Wang Z;

Estuaries are one of the primary pathways for transferring microplastics (MPs) from the land to the ocean. A comprehensive understanding of the load, morphological characteristics, driving factors, and potential risks of MPs in estuaries is imperative to inform reliable management in this critical transboundary area. Extracted from 135 publications, a glo ...

Article GUID: 37336353

Author(s): Ren C; Wang J; Feng Z; Kim MK; Haghighat F; Cao SJ;

To prevent respiratory infections between patients and medical workers, the transmission risk of airborne pollutants in hospital wards must be mitigated. The ventilation modes, which are regarded as an important strategy to minimize the infection risk, is challenging to systematically design. Studies have considered the effect of ventilation openings (inl ...

Article GUID: 37336354

Author(s): Mercuri M; Stack DM; De France K; Jean ADL; Fogel A;

Touch is a central component of mothers' and infants' everyday interactions and the formation of a healthy mother-infant relationship. Twelve mothers and their full-term infants from the Midwest, USA participated in the present study, which examined the quality and quantity of their touching behaviors longitudinally at 1-, 3-, 5-, 7-, and 9-months ...

Article GUID: 37337452

Author(s): Ghasemi M; Samadi M; Soleimanian E; Chau KW;

Due to the dynamic and complexity of leachate percolation within municipal solid waste (MSW), planning and operation of solid waste management systems are challenging for decision-makers. In this regard, data-driven methods can be considered robust approaches to modeling this problem. In this paper, three black-box data-driven models, including artificial ...

Article GUID: 37335361

Author(s): Caparros-Gonzalez RA; Essau C; Gouin JP; Pemau A; Galvez-Merlin A; de la Torre-Luque A;

Objectives: Asthma is a common chronic and burdensome disease which typically begins in childhood. The aim of this study was to assess perinatal and obstetric factors which may increase the risk of developing asthma in the offspring. Methods: Data from five consecutive waves (n=7,073 children, from birth to 15 years old) from a nationally-representative ...

Article GUID: 37326102

Author(s): Shenker JJ; Steele CJ; Zatorre RJ; Penhune VB;

A body of current evidence suggests that there is a sensitive period for musical training: people who begin training before the age of seven show better performance on tests of musical skill, and also show differences in brain structure-especially in motor cortical and cerebellar regions-compared with those who start later. We used support vector machine ...

Article GUID: 37326147

Author(s): Abdullah M; Greco BM; Laurent JM; Garge RK; Boutz DR; Vandeloo M; Marcotte EM; Kachroo AH;

A major challenge to rationally building multi-gene processes in yeast arises due to the combinatorics of combining all of the individual edits into the same strain. Here, we present a precise and multi-site genome editing approach that combines all edits without selection markers using CRISPR-Ca ...

Article GUID: 37323580

Author(s): Tessitore G; Mandl GA; Maurizio SL; Kaur M; Capobianco JA;

Our society is indebted to the numerous inventors and scientists who helped bring about the incredible technological advances in modern society that we all take for granted. The importance of knowing the history of these inventions is often underestimated, although our reliance on technology is escalating. Lanthanide luminescence has paved the way for man ...

Article GUID: 37323462

Author(s): Al-Alem Y; Sifat SM; Antar YMM; Kishk AA;

A unique high gain antenna array with a 3D-printed dielectric polarizer is proposed. The packaging of the antenna array feeding structure is eliminated by aggregating the feeding network in between the antenna elements. This has a significant advantage in maintaining neat and symmetric radiation characteristics with low cross-polarization levels. The prop ...

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