From struggle to strength in African and Middle Eastern newcomers ’ integration stories to Canada: A participatory health equity research study
ConclusionsCommunity building, friendships, and local services emerged as key elements for future immigrant service research. Utilizing a participatory health research approach allowed us to respond to the call for social justice-oriented research that helps to generate scientific knowledge for promoting culturally adaptive health care and access for marginalized populations. (Source: PLoS One)
Source: PLoS One - April 30, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Maggie Fong Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2888: Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy and Simple Algorithm Analysis for Rapid and Non-Destructive Assessment of Cotton Fiber Maturity and Crystallinity for Plant Mapping
Zeng
Information on boll distribution within a cotton plant is critical to evaluate the adaptation and response of cotton plants to environmental and biotic stress in cotton production. Cotton researchers have applied available conventional fiber measurements, such as the high volume instrument (HVI) and advanced fiber information system (AFIS), to map the location and the timing of boll development and distribution within plants and further to determine within-plant variability of cotton fiber properties. Both HVI and AFIS require numerous cotton bolls combined for the measurement. As an alternative approach, attenu...
Source: Sensors - April 30, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Kim Liu Zeng Tags: Article Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2886: A Study on the Maximum Reliability of Multi-UAV Cooperation Relay Systems
ping Li
This paper studies the maximum reliability of multi-hop relay UAVs, in which UAVs provide wireless services for remote users as a coded cooperative relay without an end-to-end direct communication link. In this paper, the analytical expressions of the total power loss and total bit error rate are derived as reliability measures. First, based on the environmental statistical parameters, a LOS probability model is proposed. Then, the problem of minimizing the bit error rate of static and mobile UAVs is studied. The goal is to minimize the total bit error rate by jointly optimizing the height, elevation, power and...
Source: Sensors - April 30, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ning Ning Suiping Zhou Weimin Bao Xiaoping Li Tags: Article Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2889: FusionVision: A Comprehensive Approach of 3D Object Reconstruction and Segmentation from RGB-D Cameras Using YOLO and Fast Segment Anything
em Nouira
In the realm of computer vision, the integration of advanced techniques into the pre-processing of RGB-D camera inputs poses a significant challenge, given the inherent complexities arising from diverse environmental conditions and varying object appearances. Therefore, this paper introduces FusionVision, an exhaustive pipeline adapted for the robust 3D segmentation of objects in RGB-D imagery. Traditional computer vision systems face limitations in simultaneously capturing precise object boundaries and achieving high-precision object detection on depth maps, as they are mainly proposed for RGB cameras. To ad...
Source: Sensors - April 30, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Safouane El Ghazouali Youssef Mhirit Ali Oukhrid Umberto Michelucci Hichem Nouira Tags: Article Source Type: research
Development of a Secure Web-Based Medical Imaging Analysis Platform: The AWESOMME Project
AbstractPrecision medicine research benefits from machine learning in the creation of robust models adapted to the processing of patient data. This applies both to pathology identification in images, i.e., annotation or segmentation, and to computer-aided diagnostic for classification or prediction. It comes with the strong need to exploit and visualize large volumes of images and associated medical data. The work carried out in this paper follows on from a main case study piloted in a cancer center. It proposes an analysis pipeline for patients with osteosarcoma through segmentation, feature extraction and application of ...
Source: Journal of Digital Imaging - April 30, 2024 Category: Radiology Source Type: research
Systematic Review of Workplace Interventions to Support Young Workers ’ Safety, Work Environment and Health
ConclusionsExcept for a moderate level of evidence for no benefit of ‘Mental training’ on stress, the evidence synthesis recommends, that there is not enough evidence from the scientific literature to guide current practices. The results emphasizes a strong need for high quality interventions specifically aiming at increasing or maintaining young workers’ work environment, safety and health. Included studies focused mainly on individual measures, highlighting the need for studies investigating possible preventive measures at the group or organizational level. (Source: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation)
Source: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation - April 30, 2024 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Benzophenone-3 and ovarian reserve
To evaluate the association between urinary benzophenone-3 concentrations and measures of ovarian reserve (OR) among women in the Environment and Reproductive Health (EARTH) Study seeking fertility treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. (Source: Fertility and Sterility)
Source: Fertility and Sterility - April 30, 2024 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Emily L. Silva, Lidia M ínguez-Alarcón, Brent Coull, Jaime E. Hart, Tamarra James-Todd, Antonia M. Calafat, Jennifer B. Ford, Russ Hauser, Shruthi Mahalingaiah Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research
Informed consent and trial prioritization for clinical studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stakeholder experiences and viewpoints
DiscussionPotential response strategies for challenges with informed consent and study prioritization partly share common ground. High quality procedures for study prioritization, for example, seem to be a core response strategy in dealing with informed consent challenges. Especially in a research environment with particularly high uncertainty regarding potential treatment effects and further limitations for valid informed consent should the selection of clinical trials be very well justified from a scientific, medical, and ethics viewpoint. (Source: PLoS One)
Source: PLoS One - April 30, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Stefanie Weigold Source Type: research
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico
AbstractAlthough the theoretical –methodological complexity theory and transdisciplinary approach is increasingly accepted within sustainability science, its application at local-scale work with rural communities in the global south is still incipient and requires further research on its scope and limitations. The general objecti ve of this work was to contribute to the knowledge on how a complexity and transdisciplinary approach applied to water problems at local scales can facilitate the process for water sustainability. The research took as study area theejido of Coro Grande located in the municipality of Morelia, in ...
Source: Sustainability Science - April 30, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2854: A Design Method for an SVM-Based Humidity Sensor for Grain Storage
In conclusion, this study provides reliable sensor technological support for humidity monitoring in large-scale grain storage and processing, with extensive applications in grain storage and grain safety management. (Source: Sensors)
Source: Sensors - April 30, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Lining Liu Chengbao Song Ke Zhu Pingzeng Liu Tags: Article Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2871: Smart Water Quality Monitoring with IoT Wireless Sensor Networks
ngo
Traditional laboratory-based water quality monitoring and testing approaches are soon to be outdated, mainly because of the need for real-time feedback and immediate responses to emergencies. The more recent wireless sensor network (WSN)-based techniques are evolving to alleviate the problems of monitoring, coverage, and energy management, among others. The inclusion of the Internet of Things (IoT) in WSN techniques can further lead to their improvement in delivering, in real time, effective and efficient water-monitoring systems, reaping from the benefits of IoT wireless systems. However, they still suffer from th...
Source: Sensors - April 30, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Yurav Singh Tom Walingo Tags: Article Source Type: research
Molecules, Vol. 29, Pages 2070: Molecular Dynamics Study of the Green Solvent Polyethylene Glycol with Water Impurities
rd Buntkowsky
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is one of the environmentally benign solvent options for green chemistry. It readily absorbs water when exposed to the atmosphere. The Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of PEG200, a commercial mixture of low molecular weight polyethyelene glycol oligomers, as well as di-, tetra-, and hexaethylene glycol are presented to study the effect of added water impurities up to a weight fraction of 0.020, which covers the typical range of water impurities due to water absorption from the atmosphere. Each system was simulated a total of four times using different combinations of two force...
Source: Molecules - April 30, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Markus M. Hoffmann Matthew D. Too Nathaniel A. Paddock Robin Horstmann Sebastian Kloth Michael Vogel Gerd Buntkowsky Tags: Article Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2862: Enhancing Sensitivity in Gas Detection: Porous Structures in Organic Field-Effect Transistor-Based Sensors
g Lee
Gas detection is crucial for detecting environmentally harmful gases. Organic field-effect transistor (OFET)-based gas sensors have attracted attention due to their promising performance and potential for integration into flexible and wearable devices. This review examines the operating mechanisms of OFET-based gas sensors and explores methods for improving sensitivity, with a focus on porous structures. Researchers have achieved significant enhancements in sensor performance by controlling the thickness and free volume of the organic semiconductor layer. Additionally, innovative fabrication techniques like self-...
Source: Sensors - April 30, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Soohwan Lim Ky Van Nguyen Wi Hyoung Lee Tags: Review Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 576: Landscape and Socioeconomic Factors Determine Malaria Incidence in Tropical Forest Countries
ist
Deforestation, landscape dynamics, and socioeconomic factors within the tropical Americas, Africa, and Asia may have different impacts on malaria incidence. To evaluate how these drivers affect malaria incidence at the global and regional scale, we collected malaria incidence rates from 2000 to 2019 from 67 tropical countries, along with forest loss, land use change types, and socioeconomic elements. LASSO regression, linear mixed effect modeling, and k-fold cross validation were used to create and evaluate the models. Regionality plays a role in the significance of varying risk factors. The Tropical Americas model...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Allison Bailey Paula R. Prist Tags: Article Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 577: Exploring Secondary School Athletic Trainers & rsquo; Perspectives in Managing Mental Health Situations
Conclusion: This study demonstrated the gap between organizational and individual preparation. The majority of SSATs respondents expressed moderate to high confidence in their ability to manage mental health disorders, despite the lack of mental health policies or procedures in their secondary schools. This study recommends that SSATs create guidelines or procedures in the areas where they are least confident and prepared to offer mental health management for minor student–athletes. They can use the interassociation recommendations and the NATA guidelines for mental health care to close the gap. (Source: Inte...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Suhyun Jang Matthew J. Drescher Tara A. Armstrong Elizabeth R. Neil Lindsey E. Eberman Tags: Article Source Type: research
