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Resynchronisation of the Biological Clock Using Exposure to Low Oxygen Levels in Humans: An Exploratory Study

Exposure to reduced oxygen levels occurs in several real-world contexts, such as during air travel or altitude exposure, and emerging evidence suggests that hypoxia may interact with molecular pathways involved in circadian regulation. This exploratory study investigated the effe...

Recent progress in emerging therapeutics and evaluation of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a late-onset, genetic, neuromuscular disorder causing progressive ptosis, dysphagia and proximal muscle weakness. This review highlights emerging therapeutic strategies and recent advances in understanding the clinic...

Stellate ganglion block for posttraumatic stress disorder in Canadian Armed Forces Veterans and Royal Canadian Mounted Police: A case series

Introduction: Current treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have shortcomings and less success in military Veterans. A significant challenge for recovery from PTSD is overcoming persistent and often intractable sympathetic hyper-arousal. This treatment gap has promp...

The Arctic Winter Games: A subversive model of sporting event amid resonance blockers

This research draws on resonance theory to analyse how the Arctic Winter Games (AWG) mitigate features linked with professionalized sport events – dynamics that can act as resonance blockers – to sustain conditions more conducive to resonance. Utilizing a qualitative multimethod...

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Applying the commercial determinants of health framework to understand how digital platforms influence child and youth wellbeing

The influence of social media on youth mental health has been under debate in scientific communities over the last several years. In this perspective paper, we suggest that there is a need to shift focus away from finding ways to ascertain causal connections at the global scale t...

Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study

Abstract Refugee children's school adjustment is often associated with host country language proficiency, peer victimization, and school belonging, but longitudinal associations among these constructs may reflect both stable child differences and time‐varying school‐experience pr...

Hospitalization of Children in Foster Homes: A Canadian Cohort Study

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In Canada, approximately 4% to 7% of children live in a foster home during their childhood. This study reports on hospitalizations of children in foster homes, with the hypothesis that rates of hospitalization are higher for children with foster home ex...

Muralismo como encargo participativo: Holografía de lo (in)visible en comunidades a’i cofán de la selva colombiana

ABSTRACT When mural art in indigenous communities is commissioned as a participatory project, several methodological, epistemological, and aesthetic questions arise. This text proposes a horizontal and investigative approach to what we can simply call ‘muralism in the A'i Cofán c...

Buying Risk: Illegal Drug Purchases via Social Media Among Adolescents. Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates from the ‘LifeOnSoMe’ Study

Adolescent drug use remains a significant public health concern, and the emergence of social media as a platform for purchasing illegal drugs adds complexity to this issue. This study investigates the prevalence and characteristics of Norwegian adolescents who report buying illeg...

Investigating the association between reproductive characteristics, injury history, physical fitness, and bone mineral density in female Canadian Armed Forces members

Introduction: This study examined the relationship between reproductive health, body composition, physical fitness, and bone mineral density (BMD) among female Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members. Methods: Ninety female CAF members aged 18 to 55 years completed a demographics and...

Stephen Miran, the intensifying internal war economy of Trump 2.0, and the new architecture of coercion

This paper examines policy papers by the Trump administration organic intellectual Stephen Miran, whose work reframes trade, fiscal and monetary policy as national-security levers, promotes expanded Executive authority, and advocates a programme of militarized reindustrialization...

Awake craniotomy for drug-resistant non-oncological epilepsy: a systematic review of feasibility, reported safety, and seizure outcomes

Abstract Introduction Complete resection of the epileptogenic zone offers the best chance of seizure control in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. However, surgical management remains challenging when the epileptogenic zone is located within or adjacent to eloquent brain regi...

The Arctic Winter Games as a Liminoid Configuration: Exploring Relational Experiences in a Community Youth Sport Event

This study investigates how athletes describe relational experiences at and beyond the Arctic Winter Games (AWG). Utilizing a qualitative approach, we analyzed interviews and open-ended survey responses from young athletes at the 2023 AWG, as well as interviews with former athlet...

Laser Printing of Plasmonic Color Images in Polymer-Embedded Nanorod Films

Nanoscale structures that support surface plasmons have been used extensively to create colorful images at the surface of materials. Approaches used include dispersion of nanoparticles, the dewetting of thin films, e-beam lithography to precisely control the size and distribution...

Introduction to the ‘Special issue: Academic freedom in decline’

This article introduces the IRSR Special Issue on Democratic Backsliding and Academic Freedom by further exploring how the two concepts are interrelated and contingent on one another. We do so by (1) providing some empirical background on the decline of academic freedom in countr...

Association Between Dextromethorphan/Bupropion with Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperglycemia: Reports to the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)

IntroductionDextromethorphan/bupropion (DXM/BUP) is the first orally administered antidepressant approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) that combines dextromethorphan (i.e., a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist and sigma...

MODFLOW-informed machine learning for interpretable groundwater level prediction under sparse monitoring conditions in the Eastern Mitidja Aquifer, Northern Algeria

Predicting groundwater levels in semi-arid regions is challenging because groundwater systems are controlled by complex processes and monitoring data are often scarce. This study compares six machine learning models—Random Forest (RF), XGBoost, LightGBM, RBF-SVR, LSTM, and CNN—fo...

Christian Spirituality, Social Interaction, and U.S. National Parks: Experiencing God in Communal Activities

Semi-structured interviews were used to evaluate the phenomenon of experiencing God by self-identifying Christians through social interactions during leisure or employment at two U.S. National Parks. Collectively, 36 participants were recruited from three sources and include: 1)...

Solving problems increases provisioning efficiency, enhancing reproductive success in male great tits

Abstract The ecological and selective processes acting on cognitive traits have received recent attention because of the potentially key role of cognition in rapid behavioural adjustments in response to environmental variation. Innovation, a cognitive process involved in the deve...