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Clucas K, Saito A · 2026 · The Physician and sportsmedicine
Background Medial elbow injuries occur in approximately one-third of all young baseball players and are characterized by injuries to the bone and cartilaginous growth plates. Bone mineral mass, a representative of bone strength, may show…
View details →Adams R, Deroche MLD · 2025 · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
To extract a voice from a background of competing speakers, the human brain exploits voice pitch (harmonic cues) and spatial location (binaural cues) to separate speakers perceptually, and effectively attenuates the background (anything…
View details →LeBlanc MR, Zhou X, Baggett CD et al. · 2026 · Cancer medicine
Background This study aims to describe time to treatment initiation for Black and White older adults with multiple myeloma (MM), and to test the hypothesis that Black/White disparities in treatment initiation have increased over time.…
View details →Ogawa K, Shimatani K, Endo K et al. · 2026 · Public health
Objectives This study examined the association between individual housing cost burden and depressive symptoms, hypothesizing stronger associations particularly in primary breadwinner men who may bear disproportionate financial…
View details →Ruan N, Ng AJ, Christianson JP · 2025 · Preprint
ABSTRACT Competing motivational drives are integral to survival and encompass a spectrum of internal physiological needs such as hunger to external goals like social connection. Elucidating how these motivational states interact at the…
View details →Song J, Pennartz KJ, Caldwell JT et al. · 2026 · European journal of applied physiology
Purpose Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) with vascular occlusion testing (VOT) is used to assess skeletal muscle tissue oxygenation (StO 2 ) responses. Differences in NIRS-VOT outcomes exist between trained and untrained groups; however,…
View details →Seetahul Y, Greitemeyer T · 2025 · Preprint
Objective: With two experiments (N = 1,576), we examine the causal effect of frustration on the immediate inclination to play violent video games (VVGs) and the moderating role of long-term VVG exposure. Method: Frustration was…
View details →Ogawa M, Matsumoto K, Aoyama K et al. · 2025 · IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Virtual reality (VR) enables beyond-real interactions (BRI) that transcend physical constraints, offering effective user experiences like extending a hand to grasp distant objects. However, adapting to novel mappings of BRI often reduces…
View details →Cong YQ, Yurdum L, Fischer A et al. · 2025 · Journal of nonverbal behavior
The ingroup advantage refers to the phenomenon of emotions being more accurately recognised when expressors and perceivers share the same cultural background. Though well-documented in studies using posed facial expressions, whether the…
View details →Sabino-Carvalho JL, Guerrero RV, Teixeira AL et al. · 2025 · Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by non-motor symptoms and marked altered sympathetic and parasympathetic activity. However, it is currently unclear if inappropriate autonomic adjustments are…
View details →Højsgaard Chow H, Talbot J, Lundell H et al. · 2023 · Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
Introduction Dimethyl fumarate treatment is approved in Europe for patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and in the US for relapsing forms of MS. We recently published the results of the first randomized…
View details →Goel S, Jovanović B, Chu X et al. · 2025 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
Purpose Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors can significantly extend survival when given in combination with endocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. However, their activity has been…
View details →Buchtele N, Schörgenhofer C, Schwameis M et al. · 2022 · American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Rationale: Prostaglandin E 1 (alprostadil; PGE 1 ), in addition to low-dose unfractionated heparin, increases the biocompatibility of extracorporeal systems and enhances the efficacy of artificial organs without increasing bleeding risk.…
View details →Fabbroni C, Grignani G, Vincenzi B et al. · 2024 · ESMO open
Background This is a multicentre, single-arm, phase II study aimed at further exploring the activity of trabectedin as second-/further-line treatment in retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma (LMS) and well-differentiated/dedifferentiated…
View details →Joshi I, Devine AJ, Joshi R et al. · 2023 · Scientific reports
Progressive emphysema often leads to end-stage lung disease. Most mouse models of emphysema are typically modest (i.e. cigarette smoke exposure), and changes over time are difficult to quantify. The tracheal porcine pancreatic elastase…
View details →Miranda MC, Hyde J, Salazar K et al. · 2024 · microPublication biology
Prenatal stress is hypothesized to contribute to the development of schizophrenia. Lee and colleagues determined that prenatal stress in rats decreases levels of Dpysl2, which is found to be inactivated in schizophrenic patients. UNC-33 ,…
View details →Saeid S, Afshar PF · 2025 · Preprint
Abstract Background Frailty syndrome is increasingly prevalent among older adults. Early identification of frailty and assessment of associated risk factors—such as poor nutritional status and polypharmacy—are critical for mitigating its…
View details →Salgado-Roa F, Stuart-Fox D, Ospina-Rozo L et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The presence of multiple colour variants within a single population, known as colour polymorphism, is a striking example of intraspecific phenotypic variation and a model for studying evolutionary processes. These processes depend on the…
View details →Chao AM, Agarwal K, Zhou Y et al. · 2024 · The International journal of eating disorders
Objective Adults with binge-eating disorder (BED), compared with those without BED, demonstrate higher blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response to food cues in reward-related regions of the brain. It is not known whether cognitive…
View details →Skelly LE, MacInnis MJ, Bostad W et al. · 2023 · Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports
There is renewed interest in the potential for interval (INT) training to increase skeletal muscle mitochondrial content including whether the response differs from continuous (CONT) training. Comparisons of INT and CONT exercise are…
View details →Pessina L, Bshary R · 2026 · Preprint
In many polygynous species, males face stronger intrasexual competition, higher energetic demands, and lower survival than females, especially under resource limitation or environmental stress. Such sex-specific vulnerabilities are…
View details →G R, K S, P M et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Temperature limits critically affect the safety, efficiency, and lifetime of permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives in electric vehicles. While most prior work focuses on predicting motor temperatures, this paper goes…
View details →Aleksic M, Ehring T, Kunze A et al. · 2025 · Behaviour research and therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Imaginal Exposure (IE), and Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) are effective trauma-focused interventions. However, concerns persist that they may impair the accuracy of memories addressed in…
View details →Hassan-Casarez C, Mata TV, Abel-Santos E · 2025 · Preprint
Bacillus anthracis is a gram-positive spore-forming bacterium that causes lethal inhalation anthrax. The use of B. anthracis as a bioweapon is predicated in its ability to form dormant and resistant infective spores that can be used as…
View details →Albano LJ, Patterson CM, Kidder EJ et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Projecting how a population will adapt to environmental changes requires a mechanistic understanding of the specific biotic and abiotic factors that impose selection on that population. In white clover ( Trifolium repens ), clines in an…
View details →Saitta V, Rebora M, Piersanti S et al. · 2025 · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.
This study investigates the attachment ability of harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), focusing on the synergic action of opposite legs, the anisotropy of adhesive organs and sexual dimorphism.…
View details →Chalifoux M, Avdeeva M, Posfai E · 2025 · Preprint
During the first cell fate decision in mammalian embryos the inner cell mass cells, which will give rise to the embryo proper and other extraembryonic tissues, segregate from the trophectoderm cells, the precursors of the placenta. Cell…
View details →Felton PJ, Shine KJ, Yeadon MR et al. · 2025 · Journal of sports sciences
Research on strength in cricket fast bowling has focused on ball release speed over technique. This study investigates how increased strength affects performance and front foot contact-phase technique during fast bowling. A planar,…
View details →Chalifoux M, Avdeeva M, Posfai E · 2025 · Developmental biology
During the first cell fate decision in mammalian embryos, the inner cell mass cells, which will give rise to the embryo proper and other extraembryonic tissues, segregate from the trophectoderm cells, the precursors of the placenta. Cell…
View details →Jean A, Murphy H, Sullivan G et al. · 2025 · Anxiety, stress, and coping
Social anxiety is a common experience that ranges from mild, temporary distress to excessive, persistent, and impairing fear. The current study tested whether perfectionism contributes to social anxiety symptoms and post-event processing…
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