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From the User to the Medium: Neural Profiling Across Web Communities
Online communities provide a unique way for individuals to access information
from those in similar circumstances, which can be critical for health
conditions that require daily and personalized management. As these groups and
topics often arise organically, identifying the types of topics discussed is
necessary to understand their needs. As well, these communities and people in
them can be quite diverse, and existing community detection methods have not
been extended towards evaluating these heterogeneities. This has been limited
as community detection methodologies have not focused on community detection
based on semantic relations between textual features of the user-generated
content. Thus here we develop an approach, NeuroCom, that optimally finds dense
groups of users as communities in a latent space inferred by neural
representation of published contents of users. By embedding of words and
messages, we show that NeuroCom demonstrates improved clustering and identifies
more nuanced discussion topics in contrast to other common unsupervised
learning approaches
Her Life Depends on it III: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-being of American Girls and Women
Her Life Depends On It III is the Women's Sports Foundation's comprehensive report that reviews existing and emerging research on the links between participation in sport and physical activity and the health and wellbeing of American girls and women. As with the previous editions in 2004 and 2009, this study also confirms that physical activity and sport provides the critical foundation, in no small part, that allows girls and women to lead healthy, strong, and fulfilled lives. Ten years since its first publication, the updated Her Life Depends On It provides an even more comprehensive review of the ever-expanding body of research that demonstrates how important it is for girls and women to participate in sport and physical activity. The report's contents reflect the review of 1,500 studies, nearly 400 covered since the previous edition
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Unfolding the real-time neural mechanisms in addiction: functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as a resourceful tool for research and clinical practice
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, to view a copy of the license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Neural underpinnings of addiction have been widely investigated using traditional neuroimaging techniques and paradigms. However, certain mechanisms are still underexplored, and existing studies often do not adopt an ecological assessment. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) emerges as a potential elective tool to assess real-time neural activity with high ecological validity, as well as a good spatial and temporal resolution. So far, fNIRS has been rarely used as an instrument to study the neural underpinnings of substance and behavioral dependence. Starting from the available scientific literature, we aim to present the various applications of fNIRS in the research field of addiction, leading to unprecedented advancements in research and clinical practice.Peer reviewe
Methods which enhanced the representation of experiences of recovery and addiction in animation
This discussion considers qualitative and practice methodology as part of a PhD animation project on addiction recovery. This article outlines the data collection process, considers the analysis to production, and illustrate benefits of multi-method research in production. Collaborating with AisĂ©irĂ, a long-established addiction treatment service in Ireland, a qualitative study involving three focus groups with recoverees provided various Irish perspectives. The addition of arts-tools within these sessions provided supplementary insights, such as key journey points to recovery, representations of addiction, a cultural window to deeper understanding of the relationship to and perception of addiction and recovery, and visual research for animation development. The analysis worked in an iterative process with film development adapting a thematic analysis. Themes were then developed and created into two animated short films. This article uses examples from The Click (2021) which through its structure showcase 5 distinct journey points found from addiction to recovery
Internet addiction and lonliness among Portugese elementary school students: an exploratory quantitative study [poster]
1st World Congress of Children and Youth Health Behaviors / 4th National Congress on Health Education: Viseu, Portugal: May 23-25, 201
2015 - The Twentieth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars
The full program book from the Twentieth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 16, 2015. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/sssprograms/1014/thumbnail.jp
Operator-based approaches to harm minimisation in gambling: summary, review and future directions
In this report we give critical consideration to the nature and effectiveness of harm
minimisation in gambling. We identify gambling-related harm as both personal (e.g.,
health, wellbeing, relationships) and economic (e.g., financial) harm that occurs from
exceeding oneâs disposable income or disposable leisure time. We have elected to use the
term âharm minimisationâ as the most appropriate term for reducing the impact of
problem gambling, given its breadth in regard to the range of goals it seeks to achieve,
and the range of means by which they may be achieved.
The extent to which an employee can proactively identify a problem gambler in a
gambling venue is uncertain. Research suggests that indicators do exist, such as sessional
information (e.g., duration or frequency of play) and negative emotional responses to
gambling losses. However, the practical implications of requiring employees to identify
and interact with customers suspected of experiencing harm are questionable,
particularly as the employees may not possess the clinical intervention skills which may
be necessary. Based on emerging evidence, behavioural indicators identifiable in industryheld
data, could be used to identify customers experiencing harm. A programme of
research is underway in Great Britain and in other jurisdiction
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