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  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,947 Views
20 Pages

26 September 2023

This review article explores the foundation of laypeople’s understanding of the physical world rooted in perceptual experience. Beginning with a concise historical overview of the study of intuitive physics, the article presents the hypothesis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,292 Views
11 Pages

Back-Health Knowledge and Misconceptions Related to the Daily Life Activities of Secondary School Students

  • Manuel Monfort-Pañego,
  • Antonio Hans Bosch-Biviá,
  • Vicente Miñana-Signes and
  • Matias Noll

15 August 2024

High school students with better knowledge about back care have fewer problems, but conceptual errors can hinder the acquisition of essential knowledge necessary for developing healthy habits. This study analyzed secondary school students’ decl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,509 Views
24 Pages

17 October 2020

Coordinated charging of electric vehicles (EVs) improves the overall efficiency of the power grid as it avoids distribution system overloads, increases power quality, and decreases voltage fluctuations. Moreover, the coordinated charging supports fla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,422 Views
28 Pages

Longitudinal approaches for disease-monitoring in old animals face survival and frailty limitations, but also assessment and re-test bias on genotype and sex effects. The present work investigated these effects on 56 variables for behavior, functiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,737 Views
16 Pages

Aerobic Fitness as an Important Moderator Risk Factor for Loneliness in Physically Trained Older People: An Explanatory Case Study Using Machine Learning

  • Samuel Encarnação,
  • Paula Vaz,
  • Álvaro Fortunato,
  • Pedro Forte,
  • Cátia Vaz and
  • António Miguel Monteiro

12 June 2023

Background: Loneliness in older people seems to have emerged as an increasingly prevalent social problem. Objective: To apply a machine learning (ML) algorithm to the task of understanding the influence of sociodemographic variables, physical fitness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,007 Views
14 Pages

Generalized Linear Models with Covariate Measurement Error and Zero-Inflated Surrogates

  • Ching-Yun Wang,
  • Jean de Dieu Tapsoba,
  • Catherine Duggan and
  • Anne McTiernan

17 January 2024

Epidemiological studies often encounter a challenge due to exposure measurement error when estimating an exposure–disease association. A surrogate variable may be available for the true unobserved exposure variable. However, zero-inflated data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,032 Views
26 Pages

A growing number of studies support the theory that physical activity can effectively foster the cognitive function of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The present study examines the effect of acute moderate physical act...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
847 Views
8 Pages

15 September 2025

Oranges are the most used fruits in Pakistan. Ensuring quality in oranges will definitely enhance customer satisfaction, and it will do wonders with respect to marketing. In the old days, this consisted of physical inspection with one’s hands a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,963 Views
16 Pages

Changes in Cell Morphology and Actin Organization in Embryonic Stem Cells Cultured under Different Conditions

  • Younes F. Barooji,
  • Kasper G. Hvid,
  • Irene Istúriz Petitjean,
  • Joshua M. Brickman,
  • Lene B. Oddershede and
  • Poul M. Bendix

23 October 2021

The cellular cytoskeleton provides the cell with a mechanical rigidity that allows mechanical interaction between cells and the extracellular environment. The actin structure plays a key role in mechanical events such as motility or the establishment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,862 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Aerobic Exercise and Low-Impact Pilates Workout on the Adaptive Immune System

  • László Balogh,
  • Krisztina Szabó,
  • József Márton Pucsok,
  • Ilona Jámbor,
  • Ágnes Gyetvai,
  • Marianna Mile,
  • Lilla Barna,
  • Peter Szodoray,
  • Tünde Tarr and
  • Gábor Papp
  • + 1 author

17 November 2022

Growing evidence indicates the pronounced effects of physical activity on immune functions, which may largely depend on the type of exercise, intensity, and duration. However, limited information is available regarding the effects of low-impact exerc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
312 Views
27 Pages

11 February 2026

Despite broad consensus on the benefits of inquiry-based science education (IBSE), its implementation remains limited in secondary physics classrooms, partly due to naïve conceptions of the Nature of Science (NoS). This quantitative study charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,328 Views
12 Pages

Pilot Study on Analysis of Electroencephalography Signals from Children with FASD with the Implementation of Naive Bayesian Classifiers

  • Katarzyna Anna Dyląg,
  • Wiktoria Wieczorek,
  • Waldemar Bauer,
  • Piotr Walecki,
  • Bozena Bando,
  • Radek Martinek and
  • Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk

24 December 2021

In this paper Naive Bayesian classifiers were applied for the purpose of differentiation between the EEG signals recorded from children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders (FASD) and healthy ones. This work also provides a brief introduction to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,862 Views
28 Pages

16 January 2023

This study deals with the concept of the observer in science education, which is currently significantly diminished at school. In the first part, we review the theoretical perspective of the concept, regarding its historical role in physics knowledge...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
99 Citations
10,112 Views
6 Pages

15 April 2020

Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive substance in the world, and data suggests that it is widely used by athletes before competition to enhance physical and mental performance. The high number of athletes that regularly use caffeine suggests the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,896 Views
18 Pages

COVID-19 is a community-acquired infection with symptoms that resemble those of influenza and bacterial pneumonia. Creating an infection control policy involving isolation, disinfection of surfaces, and identification of contagions is crucial in erad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,340 Views
22 Pages

Over the past decade, significant research has been performed on power side-channel mitigation techniques. Logic families based on secret sharing schemes, such as t-private logic, that serve to secure cryptographic implementations against power side-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
16,264 Views
11 Pages

Pain Sensitivity in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Narrative Review of Recent Work

  • Alexandre González-Rodríguez,
  • Javier Labad and
  • Mary V. Seeman

Many patients with schizophrenia seem relatively immune to physical pain while others complain of constant pain. This may result from disturbances or alterations of the sensory threshold for pain in populations with psychosis, a possibility for which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,591 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2021

IIT includes commitments about the very nature of physical reality, a fact both highly unusual for an empirical theory within neuroscience, and surprisingly underappreciated within the literature. These commitments are intimately tied to the theory;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,237 Views
10 Pages

19 December 2022

The existing motor fault classification methods mostly use sensors to detect a single fault feature, which makes it difficult to ensure high diagnostic accuracy. In this paper, a motor fault classification method based on multi-source information fus...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,697 Views
10 Pages

I illustrate an approach that can be exploited for constructing neural networks that a priori obey physical laws. We start with a simple single-layer neural network (NN) but refrain from choosing the activation functions yet. Under certain conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,732 Views
12 Pages

Physics of Discrete Impurities under the Framework of Device Simulations for Nanostructure Devices

  • Nobuyuki Sano,
  • Katsuhisa Yoshida,
  • Chih-Wei Yao and
  • Hiroshi Watanabe

16 December 2018

Localized impurities doped in the semiconductor substrate of nanostructure devices play an essential role in understanding and resolving transport and variability issues in device characteristics. Modeling discrete impurities under the framework of d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,639 Views
16 Pages

6 November 2019

This article is devoted to Feller’s diffusion equation, which arises naturally in probability and physics (e.g., wave turbulence theory). If discretized naively, this equation may represent serious numerical difficulties since the diffusion coe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
17 Pages

The ADRENALINE pilot study explores the role of physical activity in health outcomes among patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), focusing on disease markers, functional capacity, immune parameters, and quality of life. This baseline analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,272 Views
25 Pages

Sex-Specific Impact of Fkbp5 on Hippocampal Response to Acute Alcohol Injection: Involvement in Alterations of Metabolism-Related Pathways

  • Kent E. Williams,
  • Yi Zou,
  • Bin Qiu,
  • Tatsuyoshi Kono,
  • Changyong Guo,
  • Dawn Garcia,
  • Hanying Chen,
  • Tamara Graves,
  • Zhao Lai and
  • Tiebing Liang
  • + 4 authors

31 December 2023

High levels of alcohol intake alter brain gene expression and can produce long-lasting effects. FK506-binding protein 51 (FKBP51) encoded by Fkbp5 is a physical and cellular stress response gene and has been associated with alcohol consumption and wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,746 Views
11 Pages

Delayed Antibody Response in the Acute Phase of Infection Is Associated with a Lower Mental Component of Quality of Life in Survivors of Severe and Critical COVID-19

  • Mohammad Mahmud Otman Dababseh,
  • Peter Sabaka,
  • Oľga Duraníková,
  • Simona Horváthová,
  • Peter Valkovič,
  • Igor Straka,
  • Anna Nagyová,
  • Vladimír Boža,
  • Marián Kravec and
  • Igor Stankovič
  • + 6 authors

27 March 2024

Background: The long-term sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) significantly affects quality of life (QoL) in disease survivors. Delayed development of the adaptive immune response is associated with more severe disease and a worse prognos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
13,500 Views
16 Pages

Most mango farms classify the maturity stage manually by trained workers using external indicators such as size, shape, and skin color, which can lead to human error or inconsistencies. We developed four common machine learning (ML) classifiers, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,073 Views
15 Pages

25 July 2021

Substitution is an essential tool for a coach to influence the match. Factors like the injury of a player, required tactical changes, or underperformance of a player initiates substitutions. This study aims to predict the physical performance of indi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,059 Views
13 Pages

Association of Physical Activity with the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B

  • Ho Soo Chun,
  • Sojeong Park,
  • Minjong Lee,
  • Yuri Cho,
  • Ha Sung Kim,
  • A Reum Choe,
  • Hwi Young Kim,
  • Kwon Yoo and
  • Tae Hun Kim

8 July 2021

Background and Aims: In the general population, previous studies reported that physical activity was associated with risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. However, it is unclear whether physical activity is associated with risk of HCC d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,763 Views
27 Pages

An Assessment of Negative Samples and Model Structures in Landslide Susceptibility Characterization Based on Bayesian Network Models

  • Sahand Khabiri,
  • Matthew M. Crawford,
  • Hudson J. Koch,
  • William C. Haneberg and
  • Yichuan Zhu

20 June 2023

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) characterizes landslide potential, which is essential for assessing landslide risk and developing mitigation strategies. Despite the significant progress in LSM research over the past two decades, several long-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,007 Views
20 Pages

Characterisation of Composite Materials for Wind Turbines Using Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Sensing

  • Wenshuo Tang,
  • Jamie Blanche,
  • Daniel Mitchell,
  • Samuel Harper and
  • David Flynn

10 February 2023

Wind turbine blades (WTBs) are critical sub-systems consisting of composite multi-layer material structures. WTB inspection is a complex and labour intensive process, and failure of it can lead to substantial energy and economic losses to asset owner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,564 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Postnatal Sedation in Full-Term Infants

  • Jean Carmela Solodiuk,
  • Russell William Jennings and
  • Dusica Bajic

Prolonged sedation in infants leads to a high incidence of physical dependence. We inquired: (1) “How long does it take to develop physical dependence to sedation in previously naïve full-term infants without known history of neurologic im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,522 Views
20 Pages

A recent development in ergonomics research is using machine learning techniques for risk assessment and injury prevention. Bus drivers are more likely than other workers to suffer musculoskeletal diseases because of the nature of their jobs and thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,665 Views
14 Pages

A Formalized Method to Acclimate Dogs to Voluntary Treadmill Locomotion at Various Speeds and Inclines

  • Alexander R. Stigall,
  • Brian D. Farr,
  • Meghan T. Ramos and
  • Cynthia M. Otto

24 February 2022

The land treadmill is a multipurpose tool with a unique set of behavioral and physical benefits for training and assessing active dogs. Habituation to voluntary treadmill locomotion is crucial for training a dog or accurately assessing a dog’s...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,901 Views
13 Pages

Diagnostic Classification of Cases of Canine Leishmaniasis Using Machine Learning

  • Tiago S. Ferreira,
  • Ewaldo E. C. Santana,
  • Antônio F. L. Jacob Junior,
  • Paulo F. Silva Junior,
  • Luciana S. Bastos,
  • Ana L. A. Silva,
  • Solange A. Melo,
  • Carlos A. M. Cruz,
  • Vivianne S. Aquino and
  • Raimundo C. S. Freire
  • + 2 authors

20 April 2022

Proposal techniques that reduce financial costs in the diagnosis and treatment of animal diseases are welcome. This work uses some machine learning techniques to classify whether or not cases of canine visceral leishmaniasis are present by physical e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,550 Views
11 Pages

What the Body Reveals about Lay Knowledge of Psychological Flexibility

  • Neal Falletta-Cowden,
  • Patrick Smith,
  • Steven C. Hayes,
  • Sandra Georgescu and
  • Seyed Ali Kolahdouzan

18 May 2022

The embodied knowledge of psychological flexibility processes was tested by examining the ability of raters to score whole body pictures based on the degree to which they were open, aware, and engaged. Participants’ best and worst physical post...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
777 Views
9 Pages

Patient Perception of the Relevance of Quality-of-Life Questionnaires in Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia: An International Survey

  • Jahanzaib Khwaja,
  • Sotirios Bristogiannis,
  • Ibrahim Tohidi-Esfahani,
  • Yadanar Lwin,
  • Nicole Japzon,
  • David Young,
  • Sossana Delibasi,
  • Shirley D’Sa,
  • Judith Trotman and
  • Charalampia Kyriakou

8 November 2025

Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia is an indolent disease which is recognised as contributing to a diverse range of disabling symptoms which can impact quality of life. Little data are available in evaluating patient and healthcare professional view...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,744 Views
28 Pages

24 June 2021

Age-induced cellular senescence leads to a decline in efficacy of immune response and an increase in morbidity and mortality. Physical activity may be an intervention to slow down or reverse this process for elderly individuals or even delay it via e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,026 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2021

Considering the complexity of the physical model of wildfire occurrence, this paper develops a method to evaluate the wildfire risk of transmission-line corridors based on Naïve Bayes Network (NBN). First, the data of 14 wildfire-related factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,807 Views
11 Pages

A purposely naïve and semi-empirical model allows for the reproduction of the phenomenological behavior of any real microbial culture by adjusting the values of three parameters, which have a biological meaning only for a virtual microbial cultu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,415 Views
14 Pages

The Role of the Microbiome in the Metabolic Health of People with Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses: Cross-Sectional and Pre-Post Lifestyle Intervention Analyses

  • Maryanne O’Donnell,
  • Scott B. Teasdale,
  • Xin-Yi Chua,
  • Jamie Hardman,
  • Nan Wu,
  • Jackie Curtis,
  • Katherine Samaras,
  • Patrick Bolton,
  • Margaret J. Morris and
  • Emad El-Omar
  • + 5 authors

1 November 2022

The microbiome has been implicated in the development of metabolic conditions which occur at high rates in people with schizophrenia and related psychoses. This exploratory proof-of-concept study aimed to: (i) characterize the gut microbiota in antip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
349 Views
23 Pages

14 January 2026

The nonholonomic constraints of fixed-wing UAVs, characterized by coupled heading-curvature feasibility and asymmetric costs, fundamentally deviate from classical Euclidean routing assumptions. While standard neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,376 Views
17 Pages

5 April 2024

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disease affecting over 500 million people worldwide, which leads to severe complications and to millions of deaths yearly. When therapeutic goals are not reached with diet, physical activity, or non-insul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,433 Views
14 Pages

11 February 2021

Nowadays, deep learning methods with high structural complexity and flexibility inevitably lean on the computational capability of the hardware. A platform with high-performance GPUs and large amounts of memory could support neural networks having la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,531 Views
22 Pages

Development of an Intelligent System for the Monitoring and Diagnosis of the Well-Being

  • Lizeth-Guadalupe Machado-Jaimes,
  • Martin Rogelio Bustamante-Bello,
  • Amadeo-José Argüelles-Cruz and
  • Mariel Alfaro-Ponce

12 December 2022

Today, society is more aware of their well-being and health, making wearable devices a new and affordable way to track them continuously. Smartwatches allow access to daily vital physiological measurements, which help people to be aware of their heal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,731 Views
13 Pages

Effectiveness of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata in Killing Ceratitis capitata Larvae Infesting Commercial Fruits in Dryland Agroecosystems of Western Argentina

  • Lorena del Carmen Suárez,
  • Segundo Ricardo Núñez-Campero,
  • Fernando Murúa,
  • Flávio Roberto Mello Garcia and
  • Sergio Marcelo Ovruski

18 October 2024

Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (medfly) strongly affects Argentinean fruit production and export. Augmentative biological control using the exotic parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead) is currently applied to this problem. The ability to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,608 Views
17 Pages

24 September 2018

With the recent advancement in wearable computing, sensor technologies, and data processing approaches, it is possible to develop smart clothing that integrates sensors into garments. The main objective of this study was to develop the method of auto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,390 Views
17 Pages

Plasma-Derived Reactive Species Shape a Differentiation Profile in Human Monocytes

  • Eric Freund,
  • Juliane Moritz,
  • Matthias Stope,
  • Christian Seebauer,
  • Anke Schmidt and
  • Sander Bekeschus

21 June 2019

Background: Monocyte-derived macrophages are key regulators and producers of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS). Pre-clinical and clinical studies suggest that cold physical plasma may be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory condit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,394 Views
11 Pages

Does Physical Activity Predict Obesity—A Machine Learning and Statistical Method-Based Analysis

  • Xiaolu Cheng,
  • Shuo-yu Lin,
  • Jin Liu,
  • Shiyong Liu,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Peng Nie,
  • Bernard F. Fuemmeler,
  • Youfa Wang and
  • Hong Xue

Background: Obesity prevalence has become one of the most prominent issues in global public health. Physical activity has been recognized as a key player in the obesity epidemic. Objectives: The objectives of this study are to (1) examine the relatio...

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