Academic Articles & Research Papers

Students’ experiences of sexual harassment; a descriptive cross-sectional study in a college of education, Ghana

Introduction: Sexual harassment is a component of gender-based discrimination that indicates unequal power relations and affects students' psychological and physical well-being and academic achievement. This study assessed students’ experie...

Negative Partner Perceptions as an Indirect Pathway Between Critical Adverse Experiences and Negative Communication in Adult Romantic Relationships.

Identification of wild-caught phlebotomine sand flies from Crete and Cyprus using DNA barcoding

Abstract Background Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are vectors of Leishmania spp., protozoan parasites responsible for a group of neglected diseases called leishmaniases. Two sand fly genera, Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia, co...

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...

Evaluation of effective factors on theoretical classes’ attendance of dentistry students of Babol University of Medical Sciences

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The characters and roles of teachers and demographic characteristics and attendance of students have special places in classroom. Students are interested to participate in classroom logically and manner of faculty ...

Structure-Performance Relationships in Metal-Organic Framework Mg(2)(olz) Catalysts for CO(2) Adsorption and Hydrogenation to Methanol.

Achieving high strength in 430 stainless steel by laser powder bed fusion: microstructure-property relationships and strengthening strategies

Conventional manufacturing of 430 ferritic stainless steel faces significant challenges, including severe work hardening, rapid tool wear, and limited strengthening via heat treatment. To overcome these limitations, this study employs laser...

Gravitationally induced unified relation among duality, coherence, steering, and maximal average fidelity

Abstract Recently, numerous measures have been proposed for quantifying the quantumness of a given system, and the existence of intrinsic connections among quantum resource measures has been proven. Here, we study the unified relationship b...

Ospemifene for vulvar and vaginal atrophy: an overview

The menopause-related decline in estrogen levels leads to an array of genital, sexual, and urinary symptoms collectively known as genitourinary syndrome of menopause. The constellation of symptoms associated with vulvar and vaginal atrophy ...

Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

Flatworms number among the most diverse invertebrate phyla and represent the most biomedically significant branch of the major bilaterian clade Spiralia, but to date, deep evolutionary relationships within this group have been studied using...

Establishment of Biocontrol Agents and Their Impact on Rhizosphere Microbiome and Induced Grapevine Defenses Are Highly Soil-Dependent

With a reduction in available chemical treatments, there is an increased interest in biological control of grapevine trunk diseases. Few studies have investigated the impact of introducing beneficial microorganisms in the rhizosphere on the...

Causal analysis between altered levels of interleukins and obstructive sleep apnea

BackgroundInflammation proteins including interleukins (ILs) have been reported to be related to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The aims of this study were to estimate the levels for several key interleukins in OSA and the causal effects be...

A distinct gut microbiota composition in patients with ankylosing spondylitis is associated with increased levels of fecal calprotectin

Abstract Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) shares many characteristics with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Intestinal microbiota most likely plays an important role in the development of IBDs and may also be involved in the pathogen...

A Graph Database Representation of Portuguese Criminal-Related Documents

Organizations have been challenged by the need to process an increasing amount of data, both structured and unstructured, retrieved from heterogeneous sources. Criminal investigation police are among these organizations, as they have to man...

Systematic Evaluation of Research Progress on Natural Language Processing in Medicine Over the Past 20 Years: Bibliometric Study on PubMed

BackgroundNatural language processing (NLP) is an important traditional field in computer science, but its application in medical research has faced many challenges. With the extensive digitalization of medical information globally and incr...

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...

Influence in the caption: how mega influencers use language in sponsored Instagram posts

Background/IntroductionThe success of influencer marketers' posts on social media often hinges on the influencer's ability to resonate with their audience through the language that they use. By leveraging their unique language cues and comm...

Caps Captioning: A Modern Image Captioning Approach Based on Improved Capsule Network

In image captioning models, the main challenge in describing an image is identifying all the objects by precisely considering the relationships between the objects and producing various captions. Over the past few years, many methods have b...

Ensembles machine learning for short duration rainfall intensity forecasting

Abstract This study introduces an ensemble machine learning (EML) framework to enhance short-duration rainfall-intensity prediction under limited-data conditions. By integrating multiple base learners within a stacking architecture, the pro...

A fault location method for secondary virtual circuits in smart substations based on the integration of GAE and GCN

Abstract The secondary virtual circuits in smart substations enable digital and networked information exchange between devices. However, their extensive logical connections, complex structure, and implicit interdependencies pose significant...