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Abstract Background Excess weight significantly impacts body image perception. While research on body satisfaction in overweight and obese individuals is extensive, most studies report high dissatisfaction, especially am...

Background and purpose: Intrafraction motion degrades the efficacy of radiation therapy. We reported on the implementation of focal dose-escalated stereotactic body radiation therapy (HypoFocal-SBRT) for prostate carcino...

Background and purpose: Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) achieves excellent local control in medically inoperable non-small cell lung cancer. However, treating central and ultra-central tumours carries sign...

Free-breathing spine-based positioning/tracking in lung stereotactic body radiotherapy is required when direct tumor positioning is not possible. Respiratory baseline, motion and target position reproducibility interact ...

PurposeThis study examined the association between social media social comparison orientation and physical self-efficacy among Chinese college students, and tested whether body shame and body appreciation mediated this a...

Buildings serve as a key indicator of human land use, and building change detection plays a crucial role in urban growth and shrinkage monitoring, land use planning, and urban development assessment and management. Curre...

This article engages Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (1995), one of the earliest ethnographies to foreground a Dalit woman’s voice, marking thirty years since its publication. Viramma’s oral testimonies in this work ...

This article examines the aesthetics of labor in Romanian Socialist Realist painting between 1948 and 1965, focusing on the ways in which the image of the worker’s body participates in the construction of ideological d...

In the sociocultural imaginary, stereotypical patterns that shape the image of female physical appearance are constituted, and which manifest themselves in the linguistic picture of the world as conceptual models of aest...

PURPOSE: To develop and validate an automated computational tool for calculating a slice-specific volume computed tomography (CT) dose index (CTDIvol), a water-equivalent diameter (Dw), and size-specific dose estimates (...

Abstract Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder marked by spinal ossification that leads to progressive thoracolumbar kyphosis (TLK). We previously introduced vertebral body compression...

With the increasing aging population, the health management of older people has become an increasingly important issue. The author aims to meet the health needs of older people by designing a wearable device and a vital ...

Abstract Sphenoid sinus fluid is considered a supportive indicator of drowning in forensic medicine, but traditional manual assessment on postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) is labor-intensive and observer-dependent. E...

Abstract Introduction Dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy (ART), a key component of HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries, has been associated with weight gain and increased adiposity in people living w...

Abstract Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has emerged as a novel approach for understanding anorexia nervosa (AN), a complex eating disorder characterized by severe underweight, fear of weight gain and distorted bo...

Abstract Objective Given anorexia nervosa’s (AN) status as one of the most difficult psychiatric disorders to treat, with the highest mortality rate, with millions of dollars spent on researching its treatment, and dec...

This study explores how social media users resist dominant objectifying discourses about physical appearance and sexual attraction on Reddit. Drawing on objectification theory and Foucauldian perspectives on power and su...

Abstract Objective New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits are widely used in interventional radiology research due to their suitability for human-sized treatment and imaging equipment, offering high translational potential. Thi...

This article examines Bhartrhari’s concept of sphota as a critical framework for interpreting the intermedial dynamics of text and image in contemporary graphic narratives, with specific reference to Amruta Patil’s ...

Abstract Myostatin negatively regulates skeletal muscle size in multiple species, and therefore, myostatin blockade has been therapeutically explored to promote muscle growth in humans, including to counter the muscle lo...

Abstract Background Gastric cancer (GC) remains a major global health challenge with persistently poor survival rates, largely attributable to late-stage diagnosis and the inherent limitations of conventional imaging mod...

Background and Aim: Hematological assessment is a fundamental tool for evaluating fish health, yet its application in teleost species remains constrained by the reliance on manual methods because of the presence of nucle...