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Facilitating the measurement and treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) and understanding caregiver burden using wearable devices in Rural Taiwan—Protocol for a dyadic feasibility pilot study
by Ta-Wei Guu, Wan-Jing Li, Shih-Hsiung Lee, Chih-Shan Hsu, Chia-Ni Chou, Leon Lack, Wei-Fen Ma
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) prevalence rises with societal ageing. In clinical care, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)...
Author: Ta-Wei Guu
Posted: May 18, 2026, 2:00 pm
Smartphone-based accurate pothole depth estimation using monocular RGB and LiDAR-guided deep learning
by Waqar Rauf Butt, Muhammad Farooq, Sohail Jabbar, Muhammad Munwar Iqbal, Umar Raza, Alaa E. S. Ahmed
The maintenance of the road infrastructure is vital to ensure public safety and the efficiency of transportation, but the unpredictable and wid...
Author: Waqar Rauf Butt
Posted: May 8, 2026, 2:00 pm
Caffeine ingestion improves morning neuromuscular performance to evening levels in healthy females
by Akshay Singh, Stuart J. Hesketh
Purpose To investigate whether caffeine ingestion offsets the circadian-related decline in morning neuromuscular performance in females. Methods Thirteen healthy females completed three experimental trials: i) ev...
Author: Akshay Singh
Posted: May 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Day–night variation and age-related differences in gadolinium-based contrast media enhancement in the brain: A T1 mapping study
by Dongjun Lee, Yangsean Choi, Eunseon Jeong, Yoonho Nam, Sungyang Jo, Sun Ju Chung, Ho-Sung Kim
The glymphatic system clears metabolic waste from the brain and can be probed using contrast-enhanced MRI. We investigated whether early-phase gadoli...
Author: Dongjun Lee
Posted: April 9, 2026, 2:00 pm
Subject-specific modeling of response to physical stress via hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and sympathoadrenal axes
by Helen A. Harris, David M. Chan, Laura Ellwein Fix, Benjamin D. Nicholson, Edmund O. Acevedo
The two main pathways for hormonal stress response are the hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal (HPA) axis and the sympathoadrenal (SA) axis. The HPA axis p...
Author: Helen A. Harris
Posted: March 24, 2026, 2:00 pm
Exogenous estradiol does not regulate daily metabolic rhythms underlying diet-induced obesity in male mice
by W. Brad Osborne, Oliver Vöcking, Victoria M. Alvord, Oluwabukola B. Omotola, Yuriko Katsumata, Julie S. Pendergast
Male mice fed high-fat diet become obese, but female mice are resistant to diet-induced weight gain. We previously found that ci...
Author: W. Brad Osborne
Posted: March 17, 2026, 2:00 pm
Social media analysis reflects the negative sentiments experienced at both time changes with somewhat more depressive impact in early fall
by Ben Ellman, Michael L. Smith, Carson Reeling, Nicole J. Olynk Widmar
We quantify the effect of biannual time changes on sentiment using US online and social media posts from periods around changes to Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the spring an...
Author: Ben Ellman
Posted: March 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
Temporal dynamics and functional annotation of transcriptome rhythmicity in HEK293T cells
by Yuling Sun, Huiyu Dong, Fei Ge, Ying Zhao, Shuhan Yang, Yidong Ding, Min Dong, Liming Wang, Tao Zhang
The endogenous circadian clock drives rhythmic processes in nearly all human cells; however, the temporal organization of the transcriptome i...
Author: Yuling Sun
Posted: February 26, 2026, 2:00 pm
