Results 41 to 50 of about 690,254 (288)

Parent Quality of Life at Two Years Following Their Child's Completion of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra, Maria McCarthy, Michael Takagi, Cinzia De Luca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ChatGPT-simulated sentence plausibility in event contexts, with teens, younger and older adults, in fiction and newspaper texts

Frontiers in Language Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent the large language model (LLM) would produce simulations that are close enough to human-based world knowledge to serve as pilot data for human experimentation: LLMs are developing rapidly, and if ...
Pia Knoeferle, Pia Knoeferle, Pia Knoeferle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Air pollution and human fertility rates

Environment International, 2014
Some reports have suggested effects of air pollution on semen quality and success rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in humans and lower fertility rates in mice. However, no studies have evaluated the impact of air pollution on human fertility rates.We assessed the association between traffic related air pollution and fertility rates in humans in ...
Basagaña, Xavier, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J., Dadvand, Payam, Martínez, David, Cirach, Marta, Beelen, Rob, Jacquemin, Bénédicte   +6 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Cognitive Functioning in Vorinostat‐Treated Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Over the First 180 Days After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba, Michelle Rozwadowski, Thomas Braun, April Rahrig, Edward Peres, Kirsten M. Williams, Vanessa Fabrizio, Julie‐An Talano, Carrie L. Kitko, Nicolas Parnell, Pavan Reddy, Sung Won Choi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Ratings and Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Indices: A Correlational Study of a Standardised Monologic English-Speaking Test in China

SAGE Open
Foreign language (L2) learners’ speaking proficiency is often quantified using two dimensions: intuitive human ratings and analytical, linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) indices.
Hengzhi Hu, Nur Ehsan Mohd Said, Harwati Hashim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Image Properties Predict Ratings of Affective Pictures

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Affective pictures are widely used in studies of human emotions. The objects or scenes shown in affective pictures play a pivotal role in eliciting particular emotions.
Christoph Redies, Maria Grebenkina, Mahdi Mohseni, Ali Kaduhm, Christian Dobel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Tenure: A Quantitative Study on Competency Drivers in Local Government Human Resources

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
This study examined whether demographic and human resource-related variables influence the competency ratings of employees. It was hypothesized that factors such as age, civil status, educational attainment, years of experience, attendance, salary, test ...
Christian Dave L. Dulnuan
doaj   +1 more source

Sympathy Begins with a Smile, Intelligence Begins with a Word: Use of Multimodal Features in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction

, 2017
Recognition of social signals, from human facial expressions or prosody of speech, is a popular research topic in human-robot interaction studies. There is also a long line of research in the spoken dialogue community that investigates user satisfaction ...
Dondrup, Christian, Lemon, Oliver, Novikova, Jekaterina, Papaioannou, Ioannis   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Gemcitabine, Docetaxel, Melphalan, Carboplatin as Part of Sequential Cycles of High‐Dose Chemotherapy With Autologous Hematopoietic Stem‐Cell Rescue for Multiply Relapsed/Refractory Pediatric Germ Cell Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although most malignant germ cell tumors (GCTs) are highly curable with cisplatin‐based therapy, options for patients with multiply relapsed/refractory disease remain limited. For this population, we report the first pediatric use of gemcitabine, docetaxel, melphalan, and carboplatin (GemDMC) as part of sequential cycles of high‐dose ...
Maria Frost, Olayinka Okeleji, Amr Elgehiny, Douglas Harrison, Cynthia Herzog, Jeremy Connors, Demetrios Petropoulos, Priti Tewari, Dristhi Ragoonanan, Yago Nieto, Irtiza N. Sheikh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using computer-vision and machine learning to automate facial coding of positive and negative affect intensity.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Facial expressions are fundamental to interpersonal communication, including social interaction, and allow people of different ages, cultures, and languages to quickly and reliably convey emotional information.
Nathaniel Haines, Matthew W Southward, Jennifer S Cheavens, Theodore Beauchaine, Woo-Young Ahn   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source