Author(s): Gad Saad

Many detractors of evolutionary psychology (EP) presume that adaptive arguments are nothing more than whimsical and unfalsifiable just-so stories. The reality though is that the epistemology of EP is precisely the opposite of this antiquated canard in that it fixes the evidentiary threshold much higher than is typically achieved by most scientists. EP ama ...

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Author(s): Kirkpatrick RH; Munoz DP; Khalid-Khan S; Booij L;

Over the past decade, psychiatric research has been on an important hunt for biomarkers of psychiatric disease. In psychiatry, the term "biomarker" is a broad umbrella term used to identify any biological variable that can be objectively measured and applied to a diagnosis; this includes genetic and epigenetic assessments, hormone levels, measures of neur ...

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Author(s): Chisholm A; Rizzo D; Fortin É; Moman V; Quietshat N; Romano A; Capolicchio T; Shalev U;

Drug addiction is a chronic disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and involves repetitive cycles of compulsive drug use, abstinence, and relapse. In both human and animal models of addiction, chronic food restriction increases rates of relapse. Our laboratory has reported a robust increase in drug-seeking following a period of withdrawal in ch ...

Article GUID: 33219004

Author(s): Aslani N; Kuzgunkaya O; Vidyarthi N; Terekhov D;

Tactical capacity planning is a key element of planning and control decisions in healthcare settings, focusing on the medium-term allocation of a clinic's resources to appointments of different types. One of the most scarce resources in healthcare is physician time. Due to uncertainty in demand for appointments, it is difficult to provide an exact mat ...

Article GUID: 33215335

Author(s): Khannouz M; Glatard T;

This paper evaluates data stream classifiers from the perspective of connected devices, focusing on the use case of Human Activity Recognition. We measure both the classification performance and resource consumption (runtime, memory, and power) of five usual stream classification algorithms, implemented in a consistent library, and applied to two real hum ...

Article GUID: 33202905

Author(s): Kashani AS; Packirisamy M;

Cancer progression is associated with alternations in the cytoskeletal architecture of cells and, consequently, their mechanical properties such as stiffness. Changing the mechanics of cells enables cancer cells to migrate and invade to distant organ sites. This process, metastasis, is the main reason for cancer-related mortality. Cell migration is an ess ...

Article GUID: 33204453

Author(s): Yang X; Huang G; An C; Chen X; Shen J; Yin J; Song P; Xu Z; Li Y;

The groundwater with high arsenic concentration is widespread, especially in many remote areas of developing countries. Arsenic existing in drinking water sources has a high risk to human health. In this study, an innovative effort to remove As(V) from water using ceramic filters functionalized with CeO2 nanocomposites (CF-CeO2) was investigated. Consider ...

Article GUID: 33182193

Author(s): Cross N; Paquola C; Pomares FB; Perrault AA; Jegou A; Nguyen A; Aydin U; Bernhardt BC; Grova C; Dang-Vu TT;

Sleep deprivation leads to significant impairments in cognitive performance and changes to the interactions between large scale cortical networks, yet the hierarchical organisation of cortical activity across states is still being explored. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess ...

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Author(s): Mahri M; Shen N; Berrizbeitia F; Rodan R; Daer A; Faigan M; Taqi D; Wu KY; Ahmadi M; Ducret M; Emami E; Tamimi F;

Clinical performance of osseointegrated implants could be compromised by the medications taken by patients. The effect of a specific medication on osseointegration can be easily investigated using traditional systematic reviews. However, assessment of all known medications requires the use of evi ...

Article GUID: 33181361

Author(s): Murphy C; Johnson AP; Koenekoop RK; Seiple W; Overbury O;

Recent literature has reported a higher occurrence of cognitive impairment among individuals with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) compared to older adults with normal vision. This pilot study explored potential links between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in AMD and cognitive status. Individuals with AMD (N = 21) and controls (N = 18) were ...

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Author(s): Milev MP; Stanga D; Schänzer A; Nascimento A; Saint-Dic D; Ortez C; Natera-de Benito D; Barrios DG; Colomer J; Badosa C; Jou C; Gallano P; Gonzalez-Quereda L; Töpf A; Johnson K; Straub V; Hahn A; Sacher M; Jimenez-Mallebrera C;

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.PMID: 33173071 [PubMed]

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Author(s): Sayegh L; Touré EH; Farquhar E; Beaulieu S; Renaud S; Rej S; Perreault M;

Objectives: Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is an individually administered treatment model designed specifically for Persistent Depression however bipolar patients have traditionally been excluded from CBASP studies. There is a perception that bipolar depression will be harder to treat and requires a unique psychological app ...

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