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Artificial Intelligence for Nursing and Healthcare: Potentials and Cautions
Published in Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 3, 2022
Martin Michalowski, Jung In Park
Mobile technology is a technology developed for cellular communication (Sheng et al., 2005). The technology is meant to travel with the user, typically consisting of portable two-way communications devices, computing devices and the networking technology that connects them. Current mobile technology is typified by internet-enabled devices like smartphones, tablets, smartwatches and other wearable devices that provide real-time monitoring.
Platform-Driven Pandemic Management
Published in Ram Shringar Raw, Vishal Jain, Sanjoy Das, Meenakshi Sharma, Pandemic Detection and Analysis Through Smart Computing Technologies, 2022
Jayachandran Kizhakoot Ramachandran, Puneet Sachdeva
Cellular networks also play a role in supplying data for analytics, using the data gathered through the network providers, the researchers can analyze the activity for the various cell locations. Cellular regions with excessive concentration and movement can be deemed as regions with greater risk [18].
All is changed – changed utterly
Published in Brendan Curran, A Terrible Beauty is Born, 2020
For hundreds of years, biologists have attacked their subject from the top down. Attempts to observe, characterise and catalogue many millions of different species of plants, animals (over 750,000 insects alone) and microbes is nothing short of a totally impossible task. Attempting to understand individual organisms is no less demanding. Multi-cellular organisms have myriad specialisations and interconnections – where does one start? Single-celled organisms like bacteria or yeast are less complex but, even with them, each individual cell contains many thousands of interacting chemical components. Generations of researchers have used reductionism with a great deal of success but reductionism means that complex questions have to be separated into smaller constituent parts, each of which must undergo detailed study before the answers can be reassembled into the bigger, more complex picture. Up to now, this so-called empirical science has been responsible for all the major breakthroughs in biology and genetics.
Increasing resolution in stress neurobiology: from single cells to complex group behaviors
Published in Stress, 2023
Lucas Miranda, Joeri Bordes, Serena Gasperoni, Juan Pablo Lopez
Lack of spatiotemporal resolution of neuronal activity is a major problem for the precise dissection of brain circuits (Gururajan et al., 2018). Exposure to a stressful event triggers cellular activation in multiple temporal waves across different cells within a set of brain regions, which ultimately drives a neuroendocrine and behavioral response. The activity state of cells is an important proxy to investigate the cellular response system (Kawashima et al., 2014). Stressors can activate a spatially scattered subset of cells within homologous brain regions, which emphasizes the importance to distinguish cells based on their activity patterns. In response to cellular activation, different cell populations will use electrical and chemical synapses to communicate with other cells. Chemical synapses release one or several different neurotransmitters (NTs) and neuromodulators (NMs), many of which are related to the stress response system, such as norepinephrine and corticotropin-releasing factor (Deussing & Chen, 2018; Hökfelt et al., 2018). Several techniques have been developed to explore the activity of neuronal networks, such as microdialysis and mapping of brain networks using immediate early genes. These techniques have provided important insights into the different brain regions activated in response to specific stressful events, but have limited cell-type specificity and high spatiotemporal resolution.
Detrimental effects of fructose on mitochondria in mouse motor neurons and on C. elegans healthspan
Published in Nutritional Neuroscience, 2022
Divya Lodha, Sudarshana Rajasekaran, Tamilselvan Jayavelu, Jamuna R. Subramaniam
Neurodegeneration is a major concern in the world today because of the increase in prevalence of the neurodegenerative diseases – Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). None of the neurons, including hippocampal neurons and motor neurons, and non –neuronal cells, astrocytes10 and other glial cells11, can escape the fate of degeneration. Mitochondrial impairment in ALS is well documented12. Mitochondria, responsible for nutrient metabolism and energy (ATP) production, are the hub of cellular respiration. Previous studies have shown that excessive amounts of fructose when metabolized, generate Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in the mitochondria of skeletal muscles, resulting in cell death13,14. This ROS generation and accumulation causes oxidative stress in the mitochondria of neurons15 and leads to neurodegeneration. But the direct effect of fructose on the mitochondrial function in neurons has not been studied in detail.
Do Something Different as an Intervention for Perceived Stress Reduction in Graduate Counseling Students
Published in Journal of Technology in Human Services, 2022
Julie L. Quigley, Laura Schmuldt, Sherry Todd, Sara Bender
An intervention based on technology that students already use daily could help address the need to reduce perceived stress in students without requiring a substantial time commitment. Since most U.S. adults have phones capable of text messaging, this communication platform has become a promising tool in the health care field (Berrouiguet, Baca-García, Brandt, Walter, & Courtet, 2016). According to the International Telecommunication Union (June, 2020), mobile cellular subscriptions stands at 103 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, around 8.3 billion subscriptions. Berrouiguet et al. (2016) defined mobile health (mHealth) as using cellular technology to communicate in health care or public health. Mobile technology can provide an ideal communication platform for remote counseling (Hilty et al., 2013), supporting clients (Mundt et al., 2010), and improving prevention and treatment strategies (Zurovac et al., 2011). The rapid expansion of mHealth applications and the evidence of successful short message service (SMS) interventions seem to support providing Do Something Different (DSD) as an intervention to help decrease perceived stress in counseling graduate students.