Academic Articles & Research Papers

Mathematical modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic with intervention strategies

Mathematical modeling plays an important role to better understand the disease dynamics and designing strategies to manage quickly spreading infectious diseases in lack of an effective vaccine or specific antivirals. During this period, for...

The Language of Mathematics: The Importance of Teaching and Learning Mathematical Vocabulary

Vocabulary understanding is a major contributor to overall comprehension in many content areas, including mathematics. Effective methods for teaching vocabulary in all content areas are diverse and long standing. Teaching and learning the l...

A History of Mathematics.

"Boyer and Merzbach distill thousands of years of mathematics into this fascinating chronicle. From the Greeks to Godel, the mathematics is brilliant; the cast of characters is distinguished; the ebb and flow of ideas is everywhere evident....

Speaking Mathematically: Communication in Mathematics Classrooms

1. Mathematics as a Language? 2. Pupils' Mathematical Talk 3. Overt and Covert Classroom Communication 4. The Mathematics Register 5. Pupils' Written Mathematical Records 6. Some Features of the Mathematical Writing System 7. The Syntax of ...

Emerging Health Technologies

Apply It! • This article highlights the rise of digital health technologies and summarizes both the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of technologies by exercise professionals to manage individual and population health. •...

Evaluating the Psychological Impacts Related to COVID-19 of Vietnamese People Under the First Nationwide Partial Lockdown in Vietnam

This is the first time in Vietnam that people have undergone “social distancing” to minimize the spreading of infectious disease, COVID-19. These deliberate preemptive strategies may have profound impacts on the mental health of the populat...

Preferences for and drivers of adult vaccination clinic site selection: A cross-sectional study in 30 provinces in China

Focusing on vaccines available to adults and not in the immunization schedule, this study investigates the preferences and factors influencing adults in selecting vaccination clinic locations. It aims to provide strategic insights for boost...

Influence of Different Disinfectants on Surface Hardness of Heat-Polymerized Acrylic Resins utilized for Orthodontic Appliance

Heat-polymerized resins are common substances utilized for construction of removable dental prostheses (i.e. Orthodontic appliances). Such materials should have appropriate physical properties. The use of disinfectant solutions might influe...

The Role of Health Technology and Informatics in a Global Public Health Emergency: Practices and Implications From the COVID-19 Pandemic

At present, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading around the world. It is a critical and important task to take thorough efforts to prevent and control the pandemic. Compared with severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East ...

Urine metals concentrations and dyslexia among children in China

Background: Exposures to heavy metals has been linked to many developmental disorders. However, few studies have investigated the effects of exposure and co-exposure to metals on dyslexia, especially with regard to dyslexics in China. Objec...

Key Variables for Effective eHealth Designs for Individuals With and Without Mental Health Disorders: 2^12-4 Fractional Factorial Experiment

BackgroundeHealth applications not only offer the potential to increase service convenience and responsiveness but also expand the ability to tailor services to improve relevance, engagement, and use. To achieve these goals, it is critical ...

A pairwise residue contact area-based mean force potential for discrimination of native protein structure

Abstract Background Considering energy function to detect a correct protein fold from incorrect ones is very important for protein structure prediction and protein folding. Knowledge-based mean force potentials are certainly the most popula...

A Virtual Reading Center Model Using Crowdsourcing to Grade Photographs for Trachoma: Validation Study

BackgroundAs trachoma is eliminated, skilled field graders become less adept at correctly identifying active disease (trachomatous inflammation—follicular [TF]). Deciding if trachoma has been eliminated from a district or if treatment strat...

Comparative assessment of patient education content generated by five large language models on post-stroke complications: A cross-sectional study of safety, accuracy, reliability, readability, and empathy

Objective To compare the safety, accuracy, reliability, readability, and empathy of patient education content generated by five large language models (LLMs) for post-stroke complications. Methods This CHART-guided cross-sectional comparativ...

“I think it's something that we should lean in to”: The use of OpenNotes in Canadian psychiatric care contexts by clinicians

Background OpenNotes is the concept of patients having access to their health records and clinical notes in a digital form. In psychiatric settings, clinicians often feel uncomfortable with this concept, and require support during implement...

The impact of technology on patient knowledge acquisition and retention of oral hygiene instructions and associated risks

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess dental patients’ knowledge and perceptions of the risks associated with orthodontic treatment and oral hygiene instructions given at the start of their treatment regimen. Methods: The sample gro...

Psychometric analysis of the questionnaires for the assessment of upper limbs available in their Italian version: a systematic review of the structural and psychometric characteristics

Abstract Introduction There is no systematic review that analyzes the psychometric properties of questionnaires in Italian. Previous studies have analyzed the psychometric characteristics of instruments for the measurement of pathologies of...

Publisher Correction: Endophenotype effect sizes support variant pathogenicity in monogenic disease susceptibility genes

Sustainability for Healthcare Management

Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. I...

Neuroscience and education

Neuroscience is a relatively new discipline encompassing neurology, psychology and biology. It has made great strides in the last 100 years, during which many aspects of the physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and structure of the verteb...