Academic Articles & Research Papers

Public Health Communication

Contents: Preface. Introduction. R. Hornik, Public Health Communication: Making Sense of Contradictory Evidence. Part I: Deliberate Trials. J.K. Worden, B.S. Flynn, Using Mass Media to Prevent Cigarette Smoking. P. Palmgreen, L. Donohew, E....

Oxford Textbook of Public Health

SECTION 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1.1 The scope and concerns of public health 1.2 The history and development of public health in high-income countries 1.3 The history and development of public health in low- and...

What Would Jenner and Pasteur Have Done About COVID-19 Coronavirus? The Urges of a Vaccinologist

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...

Nano-enabled microbial bioinputs for sustainable agriculture: advances, mechanisms, applications, and future challenges

Microbial bioinputs have emerged as key components of sustainable agriculture owing to their ability to promote plant growth, improve nutrient acquisition, enhance tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, and suppress phytopathogens. Despi...

Cofilin-1, LIMK1 and SSH1 are differentially expressed in locally advanced colorectal cancer and according to consensus molecular subtypes

Abstract Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the deadliest cancers, wherein early dissemination of tumor cells, and consequently, metastasis formation, are the main causes of mortality and poor prognosis. Cofilin-1 (CFL-1) and its m...

PRICHAIN: A Partially Decentralized Implementation of UbiPri Middleware Using Blockchain

With the popularization of the Internet-of-Things, various applications have emerged to make life easier. These applications generate a large amount of user data. Analyzing the data obtained from these applications, one can infer personal i...

A Fully Adapted Headstage With Custom Electrode Arrays Designed for Electrophysiological Experiments

Electrophysiological recordings lead amongst the techniques that aim to investigate the dynamics of neural activity sampled from large neural ensembles. However, the financial costs associated with the state-of-the-art technology used to ma...

Social network X and mental health in Brazil in times of coronavirus

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a number of impacts on people's daily lives around the world. The radical change in people's daily routines has led to an increase in the use and consumption of social media content. The scenario ...

Valorisation of agri-food by-products into bioactive compounds: Green extraction, microbial biotransformation and circular biorefinery strategies

Agri-food processing generates large volumes of by-products that remain insufficiently exploited despite their content of phenolic compounds, peptides, polysaccharides, carotenoids, dietary fibres and other functional constituents. These si...

Estimating Black Oat Biomass Using Digital Surface Models and a Vegetation Index Derived from RGB-Based Aerial Images

Responsible for food production and industry inputs, agriculture needs to adapt to worldwide increasing demands and environmental requirements. In this scenario, black oat has gained environmental and economic importance since it can be use...

Human Behavior Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) has emerged as a critical interdisciplinary field, combining psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and data science to model, understand, and predict human behavior across diverse domains. This paper ...

Adjunctive sub-tenon triamcinolone with Susanna glaucoma drainage device: a randomized clinical trial.

A Fully Unsupervised Deep Learning Framework for Non-Rigid Fundus Image Registration

In ophthalmology, the registration problem consists of finding a geometric transformation that aligns a pair of images, supporting eye-care specialists who need to record and compare images of the same patient. Considering the registration ...

Evaluation of Modified FGSM-Based Data Augmentation Method for Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Classification

Computer vision applications demand a significant amount of data for effective training and inference in many computer vision tasks. However, data insufficiency situations usually happen due to multiple reasons, resulting in computational m...

Edge AI for Industrial Visual Inspection: YOLOv8-Based Visual Conformity Detection Using Raspberry Pi

This paper presents a lightweight and cost-effective computer vision solution for automated industrial inspection using You Only Look Once (YOLO) v8 models deployed on embedded systems. The YOLOv8 Nano model, trained for 200 epochs, achieve...

A Self-Supervised One-Shot Learning Approach for Seismic Noise Reduction

Neural networks have been used in various computer vision applications, including noise removal. However, removing seismic noise via deep learning approaches faces a specific issue: the scarcity of labeled data. To address this difficulty, ...

Quantifying the Unseen Dengue Burden: A Municipality‐Level Ascertainment Surface for Pará State, Brazilian Amazon.

UAV-Embedded Sensors and Deep Learning for Pathology Identification in Building Façades: A Review

The use of geotechnologies in the field of diagnostic engineering has become ever more present in the identification of pathological manifestations in buildings. The implementation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and embedded sensors has...

Machine Learning for Climate Precipitation Prediction Modeling over South America

Many natural disasters in South America are linked to meteorological phenomena. Therefore, forecasting and monitoring climatic events are fundamental issues for society and various sectors of the economy. In the last decades, machine learni...