Author(s): Labbé S; Bacon SL; Wu N; Ribeiro PAB; Boucher VG; Stojanovic J; Voisard B; Deslauriers F; Tremblay N; Hébert-Auger L; Lavoie KL;

Traditional approaches to increase vaccination rely upon educating patients about vaccines. However, research shows that "knowing" vaccines are important is often insufficient: patients need to believe that getting vaccinated is important. Evidence-based motivational approaches, such as ...

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Author(s): Hervé V; Bonenfant L; Amyot M; Balafrej R; Ali OBK; Benali H; Brouillette J;

In Alzheimer's disease, there is an imbalance in neurotransmitter release and altered neuronal activation. Here, we present a protocol approach to analyze neuronal activity by combining local field potential (LFP) recording with microdialysis within the same animal. We describe steps for measuring glutamate and GABA levels following hippocampal amyloi ...

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Author(s): Sun Y; Bakhtiari S; Valente-Paterno M; Jiang H; Zerges W;

A small genome in chloroplasts encodes many of the polypeptide subunits of the photosynthetic electron transport complexes embedded in the membranes of thylakoid vesicles in the chloroplast stroma and synthesized by ribosomes of the bacterial-like genetic system of this semiautonomous organelle. While thylakoid membranes are sites of translation, evidence ...

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Author(s): Pakdaman S; Nouri G; Mulligan CN; Nasiri F;

Osmotic energy provides an emerging renewable alternative by leveraging the salinity gradient between two solutions. Among these technologies, pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) has attracted attention; however, its deployment is hindered by obstacles resulting from impurities in feed and draw solutions and lack of suitable membranes. This review explores th ...

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Author(s): Dade MC; Bonn A; Eigenbrod F; Felipe-Lucia MR; Fisher B; Goldstein B; Holland RA; Hopping KA; Lavorel S; Lede Polain Waroux Y; MacDonald GK; Mandle L; Metzger JP; Pascual U; Rieb JT; Vallet A; Wells GJ; Ziter CD; Bennett EM; Robinson BE;

Context: There are urgent calls to transition society to more sustainable trajectories, at scales ranging from local to global. Landscape sustainability (LS), or the capacity for landscapes to provide equitable access to ecosystem services essential for human wellbeing for both current and future ...

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Author(s): Madriaza P; Hassan G; Brouillette-Alarie S; Mounchingam AN; Durocher-Corfa L; Borokhovski E; Pickup D; Paillé S;

The problem: People use social media platforms to chat, search, and share information, express their opinions, and connect with others. But these platforms also facilitate the posting of divisive, harmful, and hateful messages, targeting groups and individuals, based on their race, religion, gend ...

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Author(s): Asadi Z; Castillo JP; Asadi M; Sinclair DS; Kersten-Oertel M;

Global disparities in neurosurgical care necessitate innovations addressing affordability and accuracy, particularly for critical procedures like ventriculostomy. This intervention, vital for managing life-threatening intracranial pressure increases, is associated with catheter misplacement rates exceeding 30% when using a freehand technique. Such misplac ...

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Author(s): Ghiasvand S; Xie WF; Mohebbi A;

In response to the costly and error-prone manual satellite tracking on the International Space Station (ISS), this paper presents a deep neural network (DNN)-based robotic visual servoing solution to the automated tracking operation. This innovative approach directly addresses the critical issue of motion decoupling, which poses a significant challenge in ...

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Author(s): Abicumaran Uthamacumaran

Pediatric glioblastoma is a complex dynamical disease that is difficult to treat due to its multiple adaptive behaviors driven largely by phenotypic plasticity. Integrated data science and network theory pipelines offer novel approaches to studying glioblastoma cell fate dynamics, particularly phenotypic transitions over time. Here we used various single- ...

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Author(s): Duecker K; Doelling KB; Breska A; Coffey EBJ; Sivarao DV; Zoefel B;

When exposed to rhythmic stimulation, the human brain displays rhythmic activity across sensory modalities and regions. Given the ubiquity of this phenomenon, how sensory rhythms are transformed into neural rhythms remains surprisingly inconclusive. An influential model posits that endogenous oscillations entrain to external rhythms, thereby encoding envi ...

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Author(s): Valinejadshoubi M; Athienitis AK; Bagchi A; Abtahi M;

This simulation study explores the potential of a novel façade design with integrated control system comprising a dynamic photovoltaic (PV) facade integrated with dimming lighting control to enhance the work environment in office buildings and achieve energy-efficient solutions. Parametric modeling using the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino software 7, coupl ...

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