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The relationship between proactive personality and college students’ short-form video addiction: A chain mediation model of resilience and self-control

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by Shujie Wu, Zahid Shafait, Kaixin Bao

Background

With the explosive development of the short-form video (SFV) industry in recent years, the issue of SFV addiction among young people has attracted increasing attention from scholarship. Researchers have found that proactive personality is negatively associated with behavioral addiction. Additionally, SFV Apps tend to place users in a “filter bubble” to passively consume the pushed video content. Proactiveness could be an effective trait to resist the excessive use of SFVs. Читать дальше...

The Alberta Back Care Pathway: The feasibility of implementing a novel care pathway to improve low back pain management for family physicians in primary care

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by Brandyn Powelske, Alice Kongsted, Allyson Jones, Gregory Kawchuk

Background

Family physicians in Canada’s universal healthcare system often manage low back pain patients using interventions not recommended in clinical guidelines, such as pharmaceuticals, imaging and spinal injections, while guideline-based treatments like education and exercise remain unfunded. The Alberta Back Care pathway was developed to address this gap, offering funded, evidence-based care for low back pain patients in 5 streams (acute... Читать дальше...

Relationships between personal human values and social value orientation

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by John B. Nezlek

The present study examined relationships between social value orientation and personal values. Participants, n = 1655, were university students (Mage = 18.9 years, 60% women) who completed the Triple Dominance Measure, a measure of social value orientation, and the PVQ-21, a measure of Schwartz’s personal values. Two items were added to the PVQ-21 to measure benevolence toward people in general. The analyses found that pro-socials had significantly higher scores than pro-selfs... Читать дальше...

Yield growth patterns of food commodities: Insights and challenges

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by John Baffes, Xiaoli Etienne

Understanding global food production and productivity patterns is crucial for policy and investment decisions aimed at addressing poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. This paper develops comprehensive calorific-based production and yield indices for 144 crops, covering 98% of global agricultural land and food output. These indices provide standardized measures across various crops and varieties, facilitating comparison of agricultural productivity and... Читать дальше...

Is tamoxifen good enough for the Asian population in ER+ HER2- post-menopausal women with early breast cancer? A nationwide population-based cohort study

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by Chuan-Hsun Chang, Yi-Chan Lee, Chun-Wen Huang, You-Min Lu

Background

Numerous clinical trials have compared the efficacy of endocrine therapy in post-menopausal breast cancer patients. This study aims to explore whether there is a difference in recurrence rates between this population using tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors (AIs) by analyzing real-world data.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study utilized the National Health Insurance (NHI) claims data and the Taiwan Cancer Registry (TCR). Читать дальше...

Association of attachment with level of physical activity among dog owners: A cross-sectional study

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by Yu Taniguchi, Tomoko Ikeuchi

This cross-sectional study examined the association of attachment with the frequency of dog walking and physical activity level among dog owners. We analyzed data collected in an internet survey conducted by the Japan Pet Food Association in 2023. Valid data were obtained from 1041 dog owners. The mean (SD) age of participants was 52.5 (14.9) years, with 57.5% being women. Ordinal logistic regression models showed that a higher attachment score was associated... Читать дальше...

Understanding political communication and political communicators on Twitch

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by Sangyeon Kim

As new technologies rapidly reshape patterns of political communication, platforms like Twitch are transforming how people consume political information. This entertainment-oriented live streaming platform allows us to observe the impact of technologies such as “live-streaming” and “streaming-chat” on political communication. Despite its entertainment focus, Twitch hosts a variety of political actors, including politicians and pundits. This study explores Twitch politics by addressing three main questions... Читать дальше...

The reproducibility of protocols used to mediate a current-induced vasodilation in the human cutaneous microcirculation

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by Alicia Guigui, Léa Liaigre, Matthieu Roustit, Jordan Loader

Introduction

Current-induced vasodilation (CIV) can be used to assess the prostacyclin (PGI2) pathway. This study, for the first time, evaluated the reproducibility of several protocols used to mediate a CIV.

Methods

Three CIV protocols were evaluated in 10 healthy participants who completed four testing sessions. Two testing sessions were conducted on the calf, separated by a period of seven days allowing interday reproducibility to be assessed. Читать дальше...

Blood-glucose regulator design for diabetics based on LQIR-driven Sliding-Mode-Controller with self-adaptive reaching law

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by Omer Saleem, Jamshed Iqbal

Type I Diabetes is an endocrine disorder that prevents the pancreas from regulating the blood glucose (BG) levels in a patient’s body. The ubiquitous Linear-Quadratic-Integral-Regulator (LQIR) is an optimal glycemic regulation strategy; however, it is not resilient enough to withstand measurement noise and meal disruptions. The Sliding-Mode-Controller (SMC) yields robust BG regulation effort at the expense of a discontinuous insulin infusion rate that perturbs the BG concentrations. Читать дальше...

Application of a sEMG hand motion recognition method based on variational mode decomposition and ReliefF algorithm in rehabilitation medicine

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by Yue Yuan

Hand motion intention recognition has been considered as one of the crucial research fields for prosthetic control and rehabilitation medicine. In recent years, surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals that directly reflect human motion information are ideal input sources for prosthetic control and rehabilitation. However, how to effectively extract components from sEMG signals containing abundant limb movement information to improve the accuracy of hand recognition still is a difficult problem. Читать дальше...

The evolution and adaptation of evidence synthesis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: Perspectives of evidence synthesis producers

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by Tricia Corrin, Eric B. Kennedy

The demand for evidence syntheses to inform urgent decision-making surged during the pandemic. The challenging circumstances of the pandemic created significant hurdles for both those requesting and creating evidence syntheses, leading to the refinement and adjustment of evidence synthesis practices. This research sought to capture and explore how the field of evidence synthesis evolved and adapted during the pandemic from the perspective of those who produced evidence syntheses in Canada. Читать дальше...