Academic Articles & Research Papers

C no more: a prospective single-arm study to evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse and peer-led mobile model of hepatitis C testing and treatment at community corrections offices

Abstract Background The community corrections population in Australia shares similar risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with people incarcerated in prisons, but without access to prison-based testing and treatment. While hep...

Postmodernism and Rethinking the Concept of Crime

Defining the concept of crime is the starting point in the criminal thought. Basically, any view taken on the concept of crime formulates the other fundamental criminological concepts (such as the criminal and etiology) as well as basic con...

Sadness and tears in instructive literature of Christian East

The goal of the research. The article aims to comprehensively reconstruct the vision of sadness and tears presented in the instructive literature of Egyptian-Palestinian monasticism. Methodology. The research uses methods of analysis, synth...

The Theme of Gender-Violence in Zinaida Tulub’s Novel “Man-hunters”

The article suggest to identify the principal types of descriptions of gender violence and their role in shaping the female characters of the historical novel «Man eaters» by the Ukrainian writer Zinaida Tulub, as well as to trace the influ...

The multiple roles and functions of English in South Korea

In the field of language and identity, the subcategory of gender has been an area of growing interest (Pavlenko, 2001; Norton & Pavlenko, 2004; Menard-Warwick, 2008; and Higgins, 2010). Adopting the view of gender as “a system of social rel...

PUBLIC INTEREST IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The basis of legal relations in public procurement are private and public interests. The purpose of the study is a substantive assessment of the authors hypothesis that the purpose of legal regulation and financial support of public procure...

Optimal exercise type and dose to improve sleep quality in older adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Abstract Background Sleep quality decreased can result in a major health issue in older people with age. While not all sleep changes are pathological in older people’s life, severe disturbances may lead to depression, cognitive impairments,...

Acute cognitive effects of interruptions to prolonged sitting with brief standing or physical activity breaks: a systematic review and three-level meta-analysis

Abstract Background Prolonged sitting is strongly associated with impaired cognitive function. Although traditional exercise interventions have been shown to improve cognitive outcomes, their implementation is often limited by practical con...

Construction and confirmatory factor analysis of the core cognitive ability index system of ship C2 system operators.

BackgroundCognitive ability refers to the ability to receive, process, store, and extract information. It is the most important psychological condition for people to successfully complete activities. Previous studies have shown that the des...

Time-in-range and hypoglycemia in cognitive health of older adults with Type 2 diabetes: An emerging evidence synthesis

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a recognized risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, but the mechanisms linking glycemic dysregulation to brain health remain incompletely understood. Glycated hemoglobin captures long-term average...

UltraFast Layer-Resolved Encoding (uFLARE) functional MRI deciphers bidirectional signaling from spontaneous activity

Abstract Deciphering the directionality of information flow in cortical circuits is essential for understanding brain dynamics, learning, and neuroplasticity after injury. However, current noninvasive methods cannot distinguish bottom-up fr...

Association of inflammation and cognition in the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis

BackgroundThe development of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be associated with an inflammatory process. Inflammatory cytokines may be a surrogate for systemic inflammation leading to worsening neurological ...

Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive-behavioral interventions for depressive disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sham-controlled randomized trials

IntroductionDepressive disorders are a prevalent psychiatric condition; major depressive disorder (MDD) specifically affects approximately 5.7% of adults worldwide and is associated with high levels of disability and disease burden. Althoug...

人性的探討及其啟示：J. Bruner與賈馥茗之觀點的交融 The Discussion of Human Nature and Its Implications: The Integration of the Viewpoints of J. Bruner and Jia Fuming

有關人性的探討，歷來多所討論，但未盡周全。本文以美國心理學家J. S. Bruner與我國學者賈馥茗的觀點為據，採取詮釋學方法，進行分析和詮釋，綜整歸納，期能更明確掌握人性。本研究指出，前者認為人類因其較長的未成熟狀態，而提升其受教性，同時受人類所創造的社會文化之薰陶，啟迪心智，因而發展出複雜的思考能力，增進其適應力；後者則主張人性具有自然之性、基本情感、欲求以及官能。綜括而言，兩者的論點各具特色，統觀之，有助於增進人性輪廓的完整性，而善用人類的未成熟狀態則能降低風險和欲求，...

DEVELOPING AN APPROACH TO MULTIMODAL QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF INTERVIEWERS’ COGNITIVE LOAD: FIRST RESULTS OF A FIELD QUASI EXPERIMENT

The belief that survey research instruments mediating communication between interviewer and respondent influence the quality of data obtained in the interview has become a conventional methodological wisdom long ago. However, the impact of ...

Systematic review and meta-analysis reveal positive therapeutic effects of music in brain damage rehabilitation

Brain damage (BD) caused by stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or neurodegenerative conditions often results in persistent cognitive, motor, and emotional impairments. Music-based interventions (MI) have been explored as adjunctive rehab...

Effect of probiotics on cognitive function and cardiovascular risk factors in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: an umbrella meta-analysis

Abstract Background This umbrella meta-analysis evaluates the effects of probiotics on cognitive function and metabolic health in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by synthesizing findings from meta-analyses of ra...

Cognitive biases in nursing students' clinical decision-making: insights from high-fidelity simulation using think-aloud and observational methods

BackgroundCognitive biases are systematic errors in human reasoning that can compromise clinical decision-making (CDM) in healthcare. While extensively studied in medicine, nursing research on cognitive biases in CDM remains limited.AimThis...

Editorial: Task-Related Brain Systems Revealed by Human Imaging Experiments

The effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on psychological factors in athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Objective Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a safe, non-invasive neuromodulation method that delivers a low-intensity, constant direct current through electrodes positioned on the scalp. Therefore, the purpose of th...