Academic Articles & Research Papers

Reducing Health Anxiety in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Video Testimonials: Pilot Assessment of a Video Intervention

BackgroundHealth anxiety has many damaging effects on patients with chronic illness. Physicians are often unable to alleviate concerns related to living with a disease that has an impact on daily life, and unregulated websites can overrepre...

Construct validity and factor structure of a Spanish-language Social Support Questionnaire during early pregnancy

Lauren E Friedman,1 Ana Karen Manriquez Prado,2,* Gabriel Fidel Santos Malavé,2,* Juan Carlos Vélez,3 Rodrigo Winston Gillibrand Esquinazi,4 Sixto E Sanchez,5,6 Qiu-Yue Zhong,1 Bizu Gelaye,1 Michelle A Williams1 1Department o...

3D printing technology in the management of carpal tunnel syndrome: A case report

A 35-year-old individual with carpal tunnel syndrome presented with tingling and numbness in the left thumb, index, and middle finger. A 3D printed CTS splint was crafted to immobilize the affected wrist joint, aiding pharmacotherapy. At si...

Innovations in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a review of clinical evidence and patient-reported outcomes for ExoTMS

IntroductionTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique with demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of multiple psychiatric and neurological disorders. ExoTMS represents an evolution in TMS system des...

Recommender Systems in Cybersecurity

Abstract With the growth of CyberTerrorism, enterprises worldwide have been struggling to stop intruders from obtaining private data. Despite the efforts made by Cybersecurity experts, the shortage of skillful security teams and the usage o...

Progress in neural networks

Receptive field calculus, Jan J. Koenderink visual reconstruction and data fusion, D. Suter visual perception of translational and rotational motion, Jim-Shih Liaw, Irwin K. King and Michael A. Arbib neural network for recovering observer m...

Assessment of the learning environment among medical students at Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundThe learning environment (LE) is integral to medical students’ academic performance, emotional well-being, and professional development. Students’ perceptions of their learning environment provide valuable insights for identifying...

Teaching evaluation of “traditional Chinese medicine” course for eight-year undergraduates of Peking Union Medical College

Objective To explore the role of teaching evaluation in the practice of “traditional Chinese medicine” course for eight-year undergraduates of Peking Union Medical College. Methods With a secret questionnaire survey, statistics and summariz...

Interplay of physical activity, self-rated health, and life satisfaction among large-bodied adolescents in Europe and North America: analysis using clustered binary mixed effects logit modelling

Abstract Background There is a dearth of studies focused on the impact of self-rated health on life satisfaction among large-bodied adolescents, as well as the moderating role of physical activity in this relationship. Large-bodied adolesce...

Telehealth for Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: Evidence Map of Effectiveness, Patient and Provider Experiences and Preferences, and Patient Engagement Strategies

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically map evidence to inform best practices for sexual and reproductive healthcare delivered via telehealth (TeleSRH) in United States-based Title X-funded clinics. Methods: We searched three...

LASIK Surgery

Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to re...

Improving Muscle Function Through a Multimodal Behavioural Intervention for Knee Osteoarthritis and Obesity: The POMELO Trial

ABSTRACT Background Treatments aimed at improving physical function and body composition, including reducing fat mass (FM) and increasing muscle mass, may benefit individuals with advanced knee osteoarthritis (OA) and obesity. We investigat...

Assessing perception and equity of cultural ecosystem services in urban parks using social media data

Abstract Scientific assessment of cultural ecosystem services (CESs) levels in urban parks and refined analysis of their spatial equity are essential for residents’ social well-being. However, traditional assessment methods often fail to ca...

Deep learning-based personalized learning path recommendation system for higher education

Abstract The growing variety of student profiles in higher education has made it more important than ever to have smart systems that can change learning experiences on the job. Current recommendation algorithms fail to capture the complex r...

Essai d’analyse des Annales Africaines de Médecine

Résumé : Notre étude porte sur le périodique scientifique intitulé Annales Africaines de Médecine. Par son abondante production scientifique, ce périodique constitue un véritable vecteur de diffusion de l’information scientifique et un outi...

Menstrual Health Education Using a Specialized Large Language Model in India: Development and Evaluation Study of MenstLLaMA

Abstract BackgroundThe quality and accessibility of menstrual health education (MHE) in low- and middle-income countries, including India, remain inadequate due to persistent challenges (eg, poverty, social stigma, and gender in...

Connectionist Approaches to Natural Language Processing

Preface, N. Sharkey and R. Reilly connectionist natural language processing semantics, M.D. Dyer, et al distributed symbol discovery through symbol recirculation - toward natural language processing in distributed connectionist networks, R....

Natural language processing

Summary form only given. Natural language processing (NLP) is a major area of artificial intelligence research, which in its turn serves as a field of application and interaction of a number of other traditional AI areas. Until recently, th...

DETECTION AND RECOGNITION OF ROAD SIGNS USING YOLOv5

In the field of deep learning, a convolutional neural network is a class of artificial neural networks that became dominant in various computer vision tasks, which is widely used to solve complex problems in various areas, including driver ...

Effectiveness of virtual reality exposure therapy in improving body dissatisfaction and shape-related concerns in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa: a controlled, randomized, superiority trial.