Author(s): Leite ML; Comeau P; Zaghwan A; Shen Y; Manso AP;
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the potential of experimental dental resins containing ZnO nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) as a functional tool for the modulation of cariogenic biofilm in long-term. Methods: Minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations (MIC/MBC) of ZnO-NPs against Streptococcus mutans we ...
Article GUID: 39765362
Author(s): Gao Z; Chen X; Xu J; Yu R; Zhang H; Yang J;
Drowsy driving is a leading cause of commercial vehicle traffic crashes. The trend is to train fatigue detection models using deep neural networks on driver video data, but challenges remain in coarse and incomplete high-level feature extraction and network architecture optimization. This paper pioneers the use of the CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre- ...
Article GUID: 39771685
Author(s): Lambert S; Moodie EEM; McCusker J; Lokhorst M; Harris C; Langmuir T; Belzile E; Laizner AM; Brahim LO; Wasserman S; Chehayeb S; Vickers M; Duncan L; Esplen MJ; Maheu C; Howell D; de Raad M;
Background: Self-directed interventions are cost-effective for patients with cancer and their family caregivers, but barriers to use can compromise adherence and efficacy. Aim: Pilot a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to develop a time-varying dyadic self-management interv ...
Article GUID: 39763142
Author(s): Heidl AJ; Gierc M; Saputra S; Waliwitiya T; Puterman E; Cohen TR;
It is unknown if children and youth who live in rural or "less rural" locations who enroll in the provincially funded Generation Health Clinic (British Columbia, Canada), a family-based lifestyle program for weight management, present with different health behaviors at baseline. Thus, we assessed sociodemographic and health behavior (diet, physical activi ...
Article GUID: 39761009
Author(s): Corran C; Norman P; O' Connor RM;
Studies have shown that those high in anxiety were at increased risk for alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tension reduction theory points to anxiety sensitivity (AS) as a potential risk factor. Drinking to cope may further increase this risk. During the pandemic, those high in AS may have experienced increased stress and drank to cope, which may ...
Article GUID: 39761074
Author(s): Steinberg M; Zhang L; Mukherjee R;
This article argues for a pluralization of the "platform capitalism" framework, suggesting we should think instead in terms of "platform capitalisms." This pluralization opens the way to a better account of how platforms work in different geocultural contexts, with our focus being on China, India and Japan. The article first outlines several roles the sta ...
Article GUID: 39759402
Author(s): Bedford O; Noly-Gandon A; Ara A; Wiesman AI; Albouy P; Baillet S; Penhune V; Zatorre RJ;
Perception and production of music and speech rely on auditory-motor coupling, a mechanism which has been linked to temporally precise oscillatory coupling between auditory and motor regions of the human brain, particularly in the beta frequency band. Recently, brain imaging studies using magnetoencephalography (MEG) have also shown that accurate auditory ...
Article GUID: 39757971
Author(s): Spiech C; Hope M; Bégel V;
People synchronize their movements more easily to rhythms with tempi closer to their preferred motor rates than with faster or slower ones. More efficient coupling at one's preferred rate, compared to faster or slower rates, should be associated with lower cognitive demands and better attentional entrainment, as predicted by dynamical system theories ...
Article GUID: 39758823
Author(s): Yousefi R; Ben-Porat T; O' Neill J; Boucher VG; Stojanovic J; Fortin A; Lavoie KL; Bacon SL;
Purpose of review: Eating behaviour-focused interventions are essential for improving health and weight-related outcomes in patients undergoing metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS). This work aims to examine the content of eating behaviour-focused weight management interventions adjunct to MBS in te ...
Article GUID: 39753946
Author(s): Phillips N; Best PT; Grant N; Kabir A;
Background: Sensory loss in hearing, vision, and olfaction are highly prevalent in older adults and are each associated with a higher risk of developing dementia. This study sought to identify the extent to which these sensory factors are associated with alterations in brain function and structure older adults with or at risk for dementia. We examined gro ...
Article GUID: 39750307
Author(s): Calvo N; Siddiqui R; Phillips N; Einstein G;
Background: Globally, females are at twice the risk of AD than males; in Canada, over 700,000 are living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRDs), with 72% being female. However, females maintain verbal memory in the face of more AD pathology than men. It is unclear how multilingualism, considered a resilience factor, might interact with ...
Article GUID: 39750698
Author(s): Lima BS; Rosa-Neto P; Phillips N; Borrie M; Roncero CT; Lahiri D; Dori D; Chertkow H;
Background: A growing body of research has focused on inflammation as both a potential biomarker and a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The cytokine Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders and in the physiological homeostasis of neural tissue. AD has been associated with increased IL-6 expression in brai ...
Article GUID: 39751468
