Academic Articles & Research Papers

Evolution of psychological distress with age and its determinants in later life: evidence from 17-wave social survey data in Japan

Abstract Background Psychological distress (PD) is a major risk factor for mental health among middle-aged and older adults and affects their quality of life and well-being. This study aimed to examine the evolution of PD with age and the r...

Drinking patterns and alcohol use disorders in São Paulo, Brazil: the role of neighborhood social deprivation and socioeconomic status.

Research conducted in high-income countries has investigated influences of socioeconomic inequalities on drinking outcomes such as alcohol use disorders (AUD), however, associations between area-level neighborhood social deprivation (NSD) a...

Public Health Communication

Contents: Preface. Introduction. R. Hornik, Public Health Communication: Making Sense of Contradictory Evidence. Part I: Deliberate Trials. J.K. Worden, B.S. Flynn, Using Mass Media to Prevent Cigarette Smoking. P. Palmgreen, L. Donohew, E....

Spacing Allocation Method for Vehicular Platoon: A Cooperative Game Theory Approach

Recently, spacing policies of the vehicular platoon have been widely developed to enhance safety, traffic efficiency, and fuel consumption. However, the integrated spacing policies aim to maximum overall benefit, and the distributed spacing...

Metabolomic Profile Alterations Associated with the SLC16A11 Risk Haplotype Following a Lifestyle Intervention in People With Prediabetes

Background: A risk haplotype in SLC16A11 characterized by alterations in fatty acid metabolism emerged as a genetic risk factor associated with increased susceptibility to type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Mexican population. Its role on treatment r...

Global Trends and Disparities in Maternal Mortality: A Longitudinal Multi‐Country Analysis.

A Semantic Hybrid Temporal Approach for Detecting Driver Mental Fatigue

Driver mental fatigue is considered a major factor affecting driver behavior that may result in fatal accidents. Several approaches are addressed in the literature to detect fatigue behavior in a timely manner through either physiological o...

Repeated prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation improves behavioral regulation and modulates resting-state EEG microstate dynamics in young adults with problematic smartphone use: a randomized sham-controlled longitudinal study.

The Temporal Investigation of Multimodal Elements (TIME) Study: protocol for an observational, longitudinal study to characterize the dynamic structure of molecular and digital data in older adults in stable health.

Psychological burden, subjective complaints and their impact on the progression of verbal fluency in COVID-19 survivors and healthy controls: a longitudinal analysis.

Predictive model for 5-year mortality after breast cancer surgery in Taiwan residents

Abstract Background Few studies of breast cancer surgery outcomes have used longitudinal data for more than 2 years. This study aimed to validate the use of the artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict the 5-year mortality of breast...

Longitudinal Dynamic MRI Through Multisession Joint Reconstruction Incorporating Patient-Specific Prior Image Information.

A longitudinal study on students’ self-regulated listening during transition to an English-medium transnational university in China

Listening to academic content in English medium instruction (EMI) classrooms at university can be a demanding task for students who transition from first language (L1) instructed secondary schools. This longitudinal mixed methods study anal...

Research on high-precision recognition model for multi-scene asphalt pavement distresses based on deep learning

Abstract Accurate detection of asphalt pavement distress is crucial for road maintenance and traffic safety. However, traditional convolutional neural networks usually struggle with this task due to the varied distress patterns and complex ...

Longitudinal Modeling of Cardiometabolic Dysfunction in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Using Item Response Theory.

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Approach to Predict Tensile Properties of Longitudinally Placed Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Composites including Interphase

Machine Learning has become prevalent nowadays for predicting data on the mechanical properties of various materials and is widely used in various polymeric applications. In the present study, Artificial Neural Network (ANN), a computationa...

When more is not always better: exercise dose and children’s cognitive development from an interpretable machine learning perspective

BackgroundExercise intervention has been associated with cognitive development in children. However, current study methods have not clarified the potential nonlinear association between exercise dosage and cognitive ability, and interpretab...

Open-IBD: protocol for a longitudinal multi-omics inception cohort in inflammatory bowel disease.

Planning Dementia-Capable Group Homes for Adults With Intellectual Disability: Insights From a 15-Year Longitudinal Study.

Is exposure to online misogyny associated with mental health outcomes in girls and young women? A systematic review of longitudinal studies.