Amy J. Kaye^1,*, Vanessa Prosper², Kathryn Moffa¹, Vanja Pejic¹, Karen Capraro¹, Georgios D. Sideridis¹, Abigail Ross^1,3, Kristine M. Dennery¹, David R. DeMaso¹

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.10, pp. 1103-1115, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.030185

Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of Break Free from Depression (BFFD), a school-based depression awareness curriculum, in comparison to a wait list control group. A total of 13 eighth grade classrooms participated in either an intervention or control group and completed pre-, post-, and three-month follow-up surveys. Students participating in BFFD (N = 6 classrooms, 166 students) demonstrated enhanced knowledge of and more adaptive attitudes towards depression compared to the control group (N = 7 classrooms, 155 students). Participants in the BFFD intervention also demonstrated increases in their confidence in knowing how to seek help… More >

Fida Mohammad^1,*, Mukhtaj Khan¹, Safdar Nawaz Khan Marwat², Naveed Jan³, Neelam Gohar⁴, Muhammad Bilal³, Amal Al-Rasheed⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3523-3547, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040202

Abstract Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is fundamental in creating emotionally intelligent machines. Graph-Based Network (GBN) models have gained popularity in detecting conversational contexts for ERC tasks. However, their limited ability to collect and acquire contextual information hinders their effectiveness. We propose a Text Augmentation-based computational model for recognizing emotions using transformers (TA-MERT) to address this. The proposed model uses the Multimodal Emotion Lines Dataset (MELD), which ensures a balanced representation for recognizing human emotions. The model used text augmentation techniques to produce more training data, improving the proposed model’s accuracy. Transformer encoders train the deep neural network (DNN) model, especially… More >

Sophie Lelorain^1,*, Christelle Duprez², Laura Caton², Marie-Mai Nguyen², Gildas d’Almeida², Guillaume Piessen³, Alexis Cortot⁴

Psycho-Oncologie, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 201-209, 2023, DOI:10.32604/po.2023.044910

Abstract Cet article retrace l’histoire d’un projet de recherche qui a échoué. Nous avons conçu et implémenté une intervention psychologique visant à augmenter les compétences émotionnelles des patient·e·s atteint·e·s de cancer œsogastrique ou de cancer du poumon, après leurs traitements. L’étude était un essai contrôlé randomisé dans un hôpital public. Nous présentons le protocole final de l’étude, décrivons les difficultés rencontrées et nos réflexions à ce sujet, afin de transmettre notre expérience et les messages clefs qui vont avec aux chercheur·e·s et clinicien·ne·s pour la mise en œuvre de telles interventions. Tout d’abord, le rôle de la psychologie, des émotions et… More >

Guillaume Broc^1,*, Julien Carretier^2,3, Sabrina Rouat⁴, Laure Guittard^5,6, Julien Péron^7,8, Béatrice Fervers^3,9, Laurent Letrilliart^6,10, Philippe Sarnin⁴, Jean-Baptiste Fassier^11,12, Marion Lamort-Bouché^6,10

Psycho-Oncologie, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 167-179, 2023, DOI:10.32604/po.2023.044730

Abstract Objectif : Le retour au travail (RAT) après un cancer du sein est un processus complexe qui interroge les trajectoires individuelles des patients et celle des acteurs dans leur environnement (ou écosystème). La planification d’une intervention dans ce contexte nécessite une méthodologie appropriée qui intègre cette complexité, à l’image de l’Intervention Mapping (IM). L’objectif de l’article est de décrire une application de l’IM pour la conception et la production d’un guide patient de RAT après un cancer du sein. Matériel et méthodes : Suivant le protocole d’IM, le guide a été coconstruit avec un comité stratégique (COS) de partiesprenantes (patientes/associations,… More >

Xinsen Wei¹, Ying Guo^1,2,*, Yan Zhao¹

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.20, No.2, pp. 49-61, 2023, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2023.041173

Abstract As one of the most basal avian clades, the Confuciusornithids are ideal in revealing the early evolution of avian flight. Birds’ hindlimbs are functionally diverse and contain a wealth of information about their behavior. The hindlimb of Confuciusornis, however, has only been studied in detail in terms of functional morphology, and quantitative studies that directly assess locomotor ability are relatively lacking. This has led to certain controversies on the behavior of Confuciusornis. This paper reviews the debates over the life habits and take-off ability of Confuciusornis, which are closely related to their hindlimb function. Several methodologies adopted engineering techniques, including… More >

Hongfei Ye^1,*, Chenguang Yin¹, Jian Wang¹, Yonggang Zheng¹, Hongwu Zhang¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09741

Abstract The wetting behavior is ubiquitous in natural phenomenon as well as engineering application. As an intrinsic property of solid surface, the wettability with a controllable gradient has been an attractive issue with a wide application in various fields, including microfluidic devices, self-driven transport, biotechnologies, etc. Generally, it often requires elaborate design of microstructure or its response under the electrical, thermal, optical, pH stimuli, etc. However, the relevant complex underlying mechanism makes it difficult to construct quantitative relations between the wettability and the external field for the fine design. In this work, based on the bilayer two-dimensional materials, a simple controlling… More >

Zeyuan Zhou¹, Ming Yu¹, Zaixing Huang^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.26, No.4, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09135

Abstract Peridynamics (PD) is a reformulation of the classical continuum mechanics. Its core consists in that a weighted integral of relative displacement over a spatial domain is used instead of the spatial derivative of displacement in governing equations of deformation. Based on an improved technique of exerting traction on boundary surface, an improved peridynamic motion equation has been proposed within the framework of the peridynamic(PD) theory. It is more natural and easier to deal with boundary conditions for the elastic deformation and fracture analysis. Under the enhancement effect in the constructed transfer functions of boundary traction, there is not needed the… More >

Youngeun An, Jimin Lee, EunSang Bak^*, Sungbum Pan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1817-1832, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039460

Abstract Emotion recognition based on facial expressions is one of the most critical elements of human-machine interfaces. Most conventional methods for emotion recognition using facial expressions use the entire facial image to extract features and then recognize specific emotions through a pre-trained model. In contrast, this paper proposes a novel feature vector extraction method using the Euclidean distance between the landmarks changing their positions according to facial expressions, especially around the eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth. Then, we apply a new classifier using an ensemble network to increase emotion recognition accuracy. The emotion recognition performance was compared with the conventional algorithms… More >

Loc Q. Huynh¹, Ly V. Tran¹, Phuc N. K. Phan¹, Zhiqiu Yu², Son V. T. Dao^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 2281-2300, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034872

Abstract Path planning is a prevalent process that helps mobile robots find the most efficient pathway from the starting position to the goal position to avoid collisions with obstacles. In this paper, we propose a novel path planning algorithm–Intermediary RRT*-PSO-by utilizing the exploring speed advantages of Rapidly exploring Random Trees and using its solution to feed to a metaheuristic-based optimizer, Particle swarm optimization (PSO), for fine-tuning and enhancement. In Phase 1, the start and goal trees are initialized at the starting and goal positions, respectively, and the intermediary tree is initialized at a random unexplored region of the search space. The… More >

Ming Yu¹, Zeyuan Zhou¹, Zaixing Huang^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.4, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09264

Abstract How to well characterize traction boundary condition is always a difficult problem in peridynamics. In order to solve this problem, an integral term of boundary traction weighted by a tensor-typical transfer function is added to the original peridynamic motion equation, to form the so-called the traction-associated peridynamic motion equation. The traction-associated peridynamic motion equation is proved to be compatible with the conservation laws of linear and angular momentum. The conservation law of energy is also verified to have the same form as the original peridynamics advanced by Silling. Therefore, the constitutive models in the original peridynamics can be directly applied… More >