Author(s): MacKenzie S; Bergdahl A;

Oxidative stress represents an impaired metabolic system that promotes damage to cells and tissues. This is the predominant factor that leads to the development and progression of diabetes and diabetic complications. Research has indicated that zinc plays a consequential mechanistic role in the protection against oxidative stress as zinc is required for t ...

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Author(s): Ben-Porat T; Košir U; Peretz S; Sherf-Dagan S; Stojanovic J; Sakran N;

Background: Emerging evidence suggest that problematic eating behaviors such as food addiction (FA) and binge eating (BE) may alter following bariatric surgery (BS) and impact weight outcomes. We aimed to examine the prevalence of FA and BE and their associations with weight outcomes 2 years post-sleeve gastrectomy (SG). Methods: Forty-five women (mean a ...

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Author(s): Blais AR; Michaud I; Simard JF; Mach L; Houle S;

Background: The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard) identifies 13 psychosocial factors affecting psychological health and safety in the workplace that employers should measure and monitor with the goal of addressing areas for improvement. The present study sought to determine the suitability of t ...

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Author(s): Lu Q; Chen J; Wang Q; Zhang D; Sun M; Su CY;

This paper addresses the problem of practical fixed-time trajectory tracking for wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) subject to kinematic disturbances and input saturation. Firstly, considering the under-actuated characteristics of the WMR systems, the WMR model under kinematic disturbances is transformed into a two-input two-output interference system by using ...

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Author(s): Olivier E; Morin AJS; Tardif-Grenier K; Archambault I; Dupéré V; Hébert C;

Most existing studies investigating profiles of anxious and depressive symptoms in adolescent boys and girls do not consider the high cooccurrence between them, which prevents from identifying how heterogeneous groups might distinctly use coping strategies. To address this gap, the current study relies on a sample of 976 adolescents (56.0% girls (n = 547) ...

Article GUID: 35038084

Author(s): Samhadaneh DM; Mandl GA; Han Z; Mahjoob M; Weber SC; Tuznik M; Rudko DA; Capobianco JA; Stochaj U;

Because of their unique physicochemical properties, lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles (Ln-UCNPs) have exceptional potential for biological applications. However, the use in biological systems is hampered by the limited understanding of their bionano interactions. Our multidisciplinary s ...

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Author(s): Ozugergin I; Mastronardi K; Law C; Piekny A;

Cytokinesis occurs at the end of mitosis due to the ingression of a contractile ring that cleaves the daughter cells. The core machinery regulating this crucial process is conserved among metazoans. Multiple pathways control ring assembly, but their contribution in different cell types is not known. We found that in the C. elegans embryo, AB and P1 cells ...

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Author(s): Soren Harnois-Leblanc

In children, the mechanisms implicated in deterioration of glucose homeostasis versus reversion to normal glucose tolerance (NGT) remain uncertain. We aimed to describe the natural history of dysglycemia from childhood to late adolescence and to identify its early determinants. We used baseline (8-10 years, n = 630), 1st follow-up (10-12 years, n = 564) a ...

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Author(s): Huang HY; Skripka A; Zaroubi L; Findlay BL; Vetrone F; Skinner C; Oh JK; Cuccia LA;

Chronic wounds present a high risk of infection due to delayed and incomplete healing, leading to increased health risks and financial burden to health-care systems. Numerous approaches to promote wound healing have been extensively explored, especially the development of effective wound dressing materials embedded with therapeutic drug molecules. Despite ...

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Author(s): Slim M; Vanstone CA; Morin SN; Rahme E; Bacon SL; Weiler HA;

Background: Adequate nutrition is important for bone health, especially for bone mineral accretion. Objective: The primary objective tested whether increasing dairy intake using the motivational interviewing technique (MInt) improves lumbar spine (LS) bone mineral density (BMD) after 2 years in post-pubertal adolescents with habitual dairy intake of Des ...

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Author(s): Bourouis S; Pawar Y; Bouguila N;

Finite Gamma mixture models have proved to be flexible and can take prior information into account to improve generalization capability, which make them interesting for several machine learning and data mining applications. In this study, an efficient Gamma mixture model-based approach for proportional vector clustering is proposed. In particular, a sophi ...

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Author(s): Liu C; Huang G; Song P; An C; Zhang P; Shen J; Ren S; Zhao K; Huang W; Xu Y; Zheng R;

Discharge of decentralized livestock wastewater without effective treatment has become a common problem in rural areas, threatening the regional water environment. A new microcurrent-assisted multi-soil-layering (MSL) system was developed for treating rural decentralized livestock wastewater. The results showed the highest removal rates of chemical oxygen ...

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