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 ...

Article GUID: 37316512

Author(s): Burcheri A; Coutin A; Bigham BL; Kruse MI; Lien K; Lim R; MacCormick H; Morris J; Ng V; Primiani N; Odorizzi S; Poirier V; Upadhye S; Primavesi R;

Social medicine and health advocacy curricula are known to be uncommon in postgraduate medical education. As justice movements work to unveil the systemic barriers experienced by sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, it is imperative that the emergency medicine (EM) community progress in ...

Article GUID: 37310186

Author(s): Lu H; Hong T; Jiang Y; Whiteway M; Zhang S;

Candidiasis is an infection caused by fungi from a Candida species, most commonly Candida albicans. C. albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen typically residing on human skin and mucous membranes of the mouth, intestines or vagina. It can cause a wide variety of mucocutaneous barrier and systemic infections; and becomes a severe health problem in HI ...

Article GUID: 37307922

Author(s): Easson K; Gilbert G; Gauthier C; Rohlicek CV; Saint-Martin C; Brossard-Racine M;

Background Lower cerebral blood flow (CBF) has previously been documented preoperatively in neonates with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, it remains unclear if these CBF deficits persist over the life span of CHD survivors following heart surgery. When exploring this question, it is critical to consider the sex differences in CBF that emerge duri ...

Article GUID: 37301764

Author(s): Clermont-Paquette A; Mendoza DA; Sadeghi A; Piekny A; Naccache R;

Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum pesticide used in crops and is found in many products used by industry and consumers. Unfortunately, glyphosate has been shown to have some toxicity toward many organisms found in our ecosystems and has been reported to have carcinogenic effects on humans. Hence, there is a need to develop novel nanosensors that are more sen ...

Article GUID: 37299928

Author(s): Abubakr A; Soliman A;

Concrete protective structures are mainly meant to withstand impact loads. However, fire events weaken concrete and reduce its impact resistance. This study investigated the impact behaviour of steel-fibre-reinforced alkali-activated slag (AAS) concrete before and after exposure to elevated temperatures (i.e., 200 °C, 400 °C, and 600 °C). Hydration produc ...

Article GUID: 37297228

Author(s): Baumgartner HA; Alessandroni N; Byers-Heinlein K; Frank MC; Hamlin JK; Soderstrom M; Voelkel JG; Willer R; Yuen F; Coles NA;

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material resources in pursuit of a common goal. Despite this burgeoning interest, there exists little guidance on how to create, man ...

Article GUID: 37293356

Author(s): Nudo S; Jimenez-Garcia JA; Dover G;

Background: Athletes are injured frequently and often take analgesic medication. Moreover, athletes commonly use non-prescription topical and oral medications with little guidance. Despite wide use, relatively few studies exist on the efficacy of pain medication in injured athletes compared to a placebo. Objective: To determine efficacy of topical or ora ...

Article GUID: 37278322

Author(s): Joyce MM; Teichroeb JA; Kaigaishi Y; Stewart BM; Yamada K; Turner SE;

Animals must make route choices every day when moving through their habitat while foraging. Choosing an optimal route can be cognitively costly, and primates and other animals have been shown to use simple heuristics, "rules of thumb", to make foraging route choices. We investigated the potential use of heuristics among foraging free-ranging Japanese monk ...

Article GUID: 37278740

Author(s): L' Heureux J; McTaggart-Cowan H; Johns G; Chen L; Steiner T; Tocher P; Sun H; Zhang W;

Objectives: From the perspectives of patients and caregivers, the objectives were: identifying which result presentations, describing work productivity loss (WPL) outcomes, are most understandable; measuring which presentations are important to report; and investigating which WPL outcomes are vie ...

Article GUID: 37276772

Author(s): Mahmud TS; Ng KTW; Hasan MM; An C; Wan S;

There is currently a lack of studies on residential waste collection during COVID-19 in North America. SARIMA models were developed to predict residential waste collection rates (RWCR) across four North American jurisdictions before and during the pandemic. Unlike waste disposal rates, RWCR is relatively less sensitive to the changes in COVID-19 regulator ...

Article GUID: 37274541

Author(s): Ouellet-Courtois C; Radomsky AS;

While extant research underlines the role of disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with contamination fear, less research attention has been devoted to moral disgust. This study endeavored to examine the types of appraisals that are elicited by moral disgust in comparison to core disgust, and to examine their associations with both contact and me ...

Article GUID: 37270955