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Online risk exposure and anxiety among college students in China: The chain mediating role of negative attribution and interpersonal security
Despite evidence supporting the relationship between online risk exposure and anxiety, the underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. This study aimed to construct and validate a chain-mediation stru...
Three hospitalized non-critical COVID-19 subphenotypes and change in intubation or death over time: A latent class analysis with external and longitudinal validation
Background There are two subphenotypes of COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome with differential responses to corticosteroids, but whether similar subphenotypes of hospitalized non-critical C...
Effect of solution focused approach on women aged 35 or over with in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer: A quasi-experimental trial
Background We aimed to explore the influence of solution-focused approach (SFA) on anxiety and depression, sleep quality, quality of life and clinical pregnancy rate among women aged 35 or over underg...
Expression of Concern: Impaired expression of type I and type II interferon receptors in HCV-associated chronic liver disease and liver cirrhosis
A scoping review of the existing evidence linking school food procurement contract type with school food provision
Objective School food and catering constitutes the largest area of public sector food spend in the UK, with the potential to influence health on a population scale. This review sought to understand an...
How do people feel about sleep diaries? Factors influencing sleep diaries completion with and without daily exposure to light
Study Objectives Sleep diary is a common tool in sleep medicine, but was barely validated in practice so far. Lack of light exposure is associated with sleep disorders, especially insomnia. For that p...
Neural network-based ensemble approach for multi-view facial expression recognition
In this paper, we developed a pose-aware facial expression recognition technique. The proposed technique employed K nearest neighbor for pose detection and a neural network-based extended stacking ens...
Mindfulness mediates the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in young adults
Background Chronotype influences risk of depression, with evening-types at higher risk, although the reasons for this are uncertain. Potential mediating factors include mindfulness, sleep quality, ru...
Two-years mothering into the pandemic: Impact of the three COVID-19 waves in the Argentinian postpartum women’s mental health
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affects certain vulnerable groups, including postpartum women. Thus, this work aimed to analyze the mental health evolution in Argentinian postpartum women dur...
Single-cell RNA-seq reveals disease-specific CD8+ T cell clonal expansion and a high frequency of transcriptionally distinct double-negative T cells in diabetic NOD mice
T cells primarily drive the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells in Type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, the profound yet uncharacterized diversity of the T cell populations in vivo has hindered...
Correction: Metabolisable energy content in canine and feline foods is best predicted by the NRC2006 equation
Assessing white matter plasticity in a randomized controlled trial of early literacy training in preschoolers
Reading is a cognitive skill that requires our brain to go through a myriad of changes during learning. While many studies have described how reading acquisition shapes children’s brain function, less...
Parsing social context in auditory forebrain of male zebra finches
To understand the influence of natural behavioral context on neural activity requires studying awake-behaving animals. Microdrive devices facilitate bridging behavior and physiology to examine neural...
Relationship between physical function and sarcopenia in the older adults from Amazonas: A cross-sectional study
Background Physical functioning refers to the ability to perform daily living activities, namely basic activities, instrumental, and advanced activities. Poorer performance in these areas may indicat...
FDTransUnet: An aluminum surface defect segmentation model based on feature differentiation
Aiming at the current problems in the field of industrial defect segmentation, such as difficulty of obtaining a large number of defect samples, low recognition accuracy and lack of segmentation accur...
The association between obstructive sleep apnea severity and sleep architecture measured with non-contact radar technology in primary investigation and follow-up on therapy: A pilot study
Purpose The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate if sleep classification data from a non-contact sleep monitor placed in the patient’s bedroom at home were associated with obstructive sleep...
Effect of echocardiography on prognosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Objective There was a lack of studies on the relationship between the presence or absence of echocardiography and the prognosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. Therefore, we used the Medica...
Impact of high temperatures on enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) performance for leptin measurements in human milk stored under varied freeze/thaw conditions
Ambient temperature conditions are a common concern during laboratory analysis. Due to unexpected shipping conditions, leptin ELISA kits (Leptin Ultrasensitive, ALPCO USA; Catalog #22-LEPHUU-E01) arri...
Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system variations in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with different complications and treatments: Implications for glucose metabolism
Background The presence of hypertension and various acute or chronic complications may affect the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), which pl...
A randomized controlled trial of the effects of dog-assisted versus robot dog-assisted therapy for children with autism or Down syndrome
Research with controlled or crossover designs in animal-assisted therapy have largely used control groups receiving no treatment or treatment as usual, which can potentially inflate the effects of the...
RDE & dynamometer analysis of light-duty vehicle emissions across altitudes, temperatures, and driving styles
This study aimed to investigate the impact of altitude, cold start, ambient temperatures, and driving behaviors on the Real Driving Emissions (RDE) of China VI standard light-duty gasoline vehicles. T...
Automated sample tracking and parameter adaption for scanning laser optical tomography
Non-destructive, three-dimensional imaging techniques are of great importance in medicine as well as in technical analysis. In this context, it is of particular importance to generate reliable and rep...
Outcomes of orangutan wild-to-wild translocations reveal conservation and welfare risks
Wild orangutans (Pongo spp.) are captured and moved (wild-to-wild translocated) primarily to prevent crop foraging or out of concern for orangutans’ survival in fragmented habitat. Little is known abo...
Unveiling the Drivers of Polio Vaccine Uptake: Insights from a Multi-Country Study of 37 Nations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Background Childhood vaccination is a highly cost-effective strategy for preventing vaccine-preventable diseases, including poliomyelitis. Despite advancements in vaccination coverage across Africa, p...
Friendship Bench intervention to address depression and improve HIV care engagement among adolescents living with HIV in Malawi: Study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Background Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. Comorbid depression is prevalent among adolescents living w...