Author(s): Ybarra M; Barnett TA; Yu J; Van Hulst A; Drouin O; Kakinami L; Saint-Charles J; Henderson M;

i>Background and Objective: Weight-related behaviors are determined by multiple individual and contextual factors, with recent evidence implicating personal social networks (PSNs). Greater understanding of these relationships could help inform healthy weight promoting interventions. We conducted ...

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Author(s): Jenner AL; Aogo RA; Alfonso S; Crowe V; Deng X; Smith AP; Morel PA; Davis CL; Smith AM; Craig M;

To understand the diversity of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and distinguish features that predispose individuals to severe COVID-19, we developed a mechanistic, within-host mathematical model and virtual patient cohort. Our results suggest that virtual patients with low production rates of infe ...

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Author(s): Olivier E; Morin AJS; Tracey D; Verma N; Dubé C; Gagnon C; Craven RG; Maïano C;

Youth with intellectual disability (ID) are at an increased risk of displaying fewer prosocial behaviors and more numerous aggressive behaviors in various environments. This study proposes a new multi-informant (youth, teachers, and parents) measure of social behaviors for youth with ID. The sample includes 348 youth with mild (51.41%) and moderate (48.59 ...

Article GUID: 34255229

Author(s): Ji W; Boufadel M; Zhao L; Robinson B; King T; An C; Zhang BH; Lee K;

Spilled oil slicks are likely to break into droplets offshore due to wave energy. The fate and transport of such droplets are affected by suspended particles in local marine environment, through forming oil particle aggregates (OPAs). OPA formation is affected by various factors, including the mixing energy and duration. To evaluate these two factors, lab ...

Article GUID: 34252767

Author(s): Knight S; Jarvis GE; Ryder AG; Lashley M; Rousseau C;

Objective: Using a retrospective sample, the authors sought to determine whether Black patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) in Canada were at a higher risk for coercive referral and coercive intervention than non-Black patients with FEP. Methods: Retrospective data from patients referred to an FEP program in 2008-2018 were collected via chart revi ...

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Author(s): Intzandt B; Vrinceanu T; Huck J; Vincent T; Montero-Odasso M; Gauthier CJ; Bherer L;

Aging is associated with cognitive decline. Importantly cognition and cerebral health is enhanced with interventions like cognitive (CT) and exercise training (ET). However, effects of CT and ET interventions on brain magnetic resonance imaging outcomes have never been compared systematically. Here, the primary objective was to critically and systematical ...

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Author(s): Sucapane D; Roux C; Sobol K;

While consumers have been increasingly trying to reduce their meat consumption due to rising concerns about its impact on their health and the environment, many still find animal-based foods more attractive than plant-based foods, thus hindering their adoption. Could marketing cues such as product descriptors and packaging colors help make these products ...

Article GUID: 34242733

Author(s): Braun R; Padsala R; Malmir T; Mohammadi S; Eicker U;

The paper explains a workflow to simulate the food energy water (FEW) nexus for an urban district combining various data sources like 3D city models, particularly the City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) data model from the Open Geospatial Consortium, Open StreetMap and Census data. A long term vision is to extend the CityGML data model by developing ...

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Author(s): Diep P; Boucinha A; Kell BJ; Yeung BA; Chen XA; Tsyplenkov D; Serra D; Escobar A; Gnanapragasam A; Emond CA; Sajtovich VA; Mahadevan R; Kilkenny DM; Gini-Newman G; Kaern M; Ingalls B;

The last two decades have seen vigorous activity in synthetic biology research and ever-increasing applications of its technologies. However, pedagogical research pertaining to teaching synthetic biology is scarce, especially when compared to other science and engineering disciplines. Within Cana ...

Article GUID: 34237221

Author(s): Kun RS; Garrigues S; Di Falco M; Tsang A; de Vries RP;

Aspergillus niger is a filamentous fungus well known for its ability to produce a wide variety of pectinolytic enzymes, which have many applications in the industry. The transcriptional activator GaaR is induced by 2-keto-3-deoxy-L-galactonate, a compound derived from D-galacturonic acid, and plays a major role in the regulation of pectinolytic genes. The ...

Article GUID: 34236481

Author(s): Kakinami L; Danieles PK; Ajibade K; Santosa S; Murphy J;

Objective: Classifying adiposity based on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) muscle and fat mass phenotypes has been proposed. Whether these phenotypes are more accurate in predicting cardiometabolic risk than BMI weight status is unknown. Methods: Data were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES; 1999-2006 cycles, n = 5,47 ...

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Author(s): Liu X; Vadiyar MM; Oh JK; Ye Z;

The present work demonstrates the efficient design of ultrasmall porous carbon nanospheres with tailored sizes (5-40 nm in diameter) and optimized intrasphere textural properties for high-rate high-energy supercapacitor application. The carbon nanospheres are synthesized via a miniemulsion polymerization technique followed by KOH activation. It is shown t ...

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