Effects of probiotic supplementation with high-intensity interval training on cardiorespiratory endurance and metabolism in Middle-Aged Obese Women.

Introduction: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) has been shown to improve chronic diseases. Probiotics have been found to have similar effects. However, the additive effects of HIIT in combination with probiotics supplementation are unclear.

Virtual reality-based simulation learning on geriatric oral health care for nursing students: a pilot study.

Background: There is a great need for training and education in the nursing curriculum to improve nurses' knowledge and skills to provide oral health care.

Methods: A pilot study was conducted to evaluate the use of a virtual reality (VR)-based Oral Health Care Learning System to train geriatric oral health care among nursing students. Fifty undergraduate nursing students were randomly assigned to experimental (n = 25) and control (n = 25) groups.

Intelligent Evacuation Sign Control Mechanism in IoT-Enabled Multi-Floor Multi-Exit Buildings.

In contemporary evacuation systems, the evacuation sign typically points fixedly towards the nearest emergency exit, providing guidance to evacuees. However, this static approach may not effectively respond to the dynamic nature of a rapidly evolving fire situation, in particular if the closest emergency exit is compromised by fire. This paper introduces an intelligent evacuation sign control mechanism that leverages smoke and temperature sensors to dynamically adjust the direction of evacuation signs, ensuring evacuees are guided to the quickest and safest emergency exit.

Patients with first-episode psychosis in northern Taiwan: neurocognitive performance and niacin response profile in comparison with schizophrenia patients of different familial loadings and relationship with clinical features.

Background: Examining patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) provides opportunities to better understand the mechanism underlying these illnesses. By incorporating quantitative measures in FEP patients, we aimed to (1) determine the baseline distribution of clinical features; (2) examine the impairment magnitude of the quantitative measures by comparing with external controls and then the counterparts of schizophrenia patients of different familial loadings; and (3) evaluate whether these quantitative measures were associated with the baseline clinical features.

Methods: Patients with FEP were recruited from one medical center, two regional psychiatric centers, and two private clinics in northern Taiwan with clinical features rated using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and Personal and Social Performance (PSP) scale.

Combining augmented and virtual reality simulation training to improve geriatric oral care performance in healthcare assistants: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are frontline caregivers for older adults. This study evaluated the effectiveness of combining augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to implement oral healthcare simulation training for HCAs.

Methods: An experimental design was adopted.

The impact of national culture, altruism, and risk preference on salaries: The case of the Major League Baseball.

Based on the longitudinal data of 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams over seasons from 2017 to 2020, we used random effect (RE) models to conduct regression analyses on the detailed data of pitchers and fielders. Cultural distance (CD) was measured in terms of Hofstede's cultural indicators and Global Preference Survey (GPS) data. The results showed that salary premiums for foreign MLB players existed and CD was significantly positively correlated with salaries.

Digital health literacy and well-being among university students: Mediating roles of fear of COVID-19, information satisfaction, and internet information search.

Background: Digital health literacy (DHL) enables healthy decisions, improves protective behaviors and adherence to COVID-19 measures, especially during the era of the "infodemic", and enhances psychological well-being.

Objective: We aimed to explore the mediating roles of fear of COVID-19, information satisfaction, and the importance of online information searching on the association between DHL and well-being.

Methods: A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted among 1631 Taiwanese university students, aged 18 years and above, from June 2021 to March 2022.

[An Alternative Interpretation of Conflict Management: Interpersonal Conflicts and Doctor (Nurse)/Patient Communications].

In this paper, interpersonal conflict is redefined to highlight the conflict dimension, which is ignored in traditional definitions of this term. In this new definition, the "no conflict" situation refers to unnoticed differences, disagreements, or dissatisfaction that are accommodated or negotiated prior to being noticed. An essential element of conflict management is identifying the ideal time to express and respond to questions/complaints/disagreement.

Association of Digital Health Literacy with Future Anxiety as Mediated by Information Satisfaction and Fear of COVID-19: A Pathway Analysis among Taiwanese Students.

Digital Health Literacy (DHL) helps online users with navigating the infodemic and co-existing conspiracy beliefs to avoid mental distress and maintain well-being. We aimed to investigate the association between DHL and future anxiety (FA); and examine the potential mediation roles of information satisfaction and fear of COVID-19 (F-CoV). A web-based cross-sectional survey was carried out among 1631 Taiwanese university students aged 18 years and above from June 2021 to March 2022.

The interior environment design for entrepreneurship education under the virtual reality and artificial intelligence-based learning environment.

Nowadays, with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), entrepreneurship education has attracted more and more attention from society. To this end, it is necessary to gradually transform the traditional teaching mode into a new type of teaching that is more innovative, practical, and inclusive and in line with entrepreneurship education. The focus of the teaching mode change is on the optimization of the teaching environment.

Dose caffeinated energy drink is a consideration issue for endurance performance.

Caffeinated energy drinks are commonly taken to improve exercise performance, but there are few studies on the influence of different doses on an athlete's performance. We conducted a double-blind, randomized, counter-balanced, and crossover research study to examine the effects of low caffeinated energy drink (Low ED) or high caffeinated energy drink (High ED) supplement on the performance, haematological response, and oxidative stress in triathletes. Twelve male participants underwent three testing sessions separated by weekly intervals, consisting of sprint triathlon training (0.

Influence of Voice Interactive Educational Robot Combined with Artificial Intelligence for the Development of Adolescents.

In the context of multicultural information, to explore and analyze the use effect of voice interactive educational robot in the classroom of adolescent students, and the physical and mental impact of movie characters on adolescent students, and to lay the foundation for studying the positive development of adolescents, under the guidance of positive psychology theory, the relationship between positive psychology and adolescent mental health is analyzed, the application of adolescent educational robot is discussed, and the relationship between adolescent educational robot combined with movies characters and positive development of adolescent is analyzed. The questionnaire is used to collect data, including the questionnaire on the influence of movie characters on the positive development of adolescents, the questionnaire of pre- and postpopularization of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary schools, and the satisfaction questionnaire of voice interactive educational robot. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire are analyzed.

MiniDeep: A Standalone AI-Edge Platform with a Deep Learning-Based MINI-PC and AI-QSR System.

In this paper, we present a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) edge platform, called "MiniDeep", which provides a standalone deep learning platform based on the cloud-edge architecture. This AI-Edge platform provides developers with a whole deep learning development environment to set up their deep learning life cycle processes, such as model training, model evaluation, model deployment, model inference, ground truth collecting, data pre-processing, and training data management. To the best of our knowledge, such a whole deep learning development environment has not been built before.

Ameliorated New Media Literacy Model Based on an Esthetic Model: The Ability of a College Student Audience to Enter the Field of Digital Art.

In the current digital environment, people can visit every corner of the world without leaving their homes. New media technology compresses distance and time, but it also subverts the traditional mode of audience presence. Many traditional, offline content expression modes are also moving toward the digital field, and digital art is among them.

Research on the Influence of DNN-Based Cross-Media Data Analysis on College Students' New Media Literacy.

New media has gradually become the mainstream media that college students rely on, and new media has also brought about subversive changes and has become an essential medium for college students to receive and disseminate information, such as learning, interpersonal communication, and entertainment. Young college students have become the most enthusiastic recipients and users of new media. College students need to have the ability to recognize, understand, and criticize new media.

Correlation Between Learning Motivation and Satisfaction in Synchronous On-the-Job Online Training in the Public Sector.

Non-governmental organizations often regard expanding revenue and reducing costs as standard procedures to achieve corporate sustainability, while at the same time considering human resources as important assets. Government agencies have greater flexibility in staffing, and their human resource strategies for employee education and training often use organizational learning to develop operational performance. Training is regarded as a panacea for corporate sustainability and channels have been established to support employees' learning.

COVID-19-related fear, stress and depression in school principals: impacts of symptoms like COVID-19, information confusion, health-related activity limitations, working hours, sense of coherence and health literacy.

Background: School principals have been reported to have a higher prevalence of burnout and psychological problems than their colleagues. During the pandemic, extra workload and pressure from unprecedented situations potentially cause fear, stress and depression. Therefore, we aimed to explore associated factors of stress, fear of COVID-19 (F-CoV-19S) and depressive symptoms among school principals.

The Cultural Art Aesthetic Behavior of Entrepreneurship Education for College Students in the Characteristics of Film and Television Media.

This exploration aims to promote the organic integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and art education, further promote the reform of college Students' cultural and aesthetic education, improve college Students' aesthetic perception ability, and help contemporary colleges establish a correct political morality. This thesis aims to further promote the reform of college Students' cultural and aesthetic education, improve college Students' aesthetic perception ability, and help contemporary colleges establish correct political and moral values. First, the connotation of college Students' aesthetic education and the definition of cultural aesthetics are introduced, which is based on the characteristics of two-way interaction, multiple selectivity, timeliness and popularization of film and television media in the new media era; then, the way of questionnaire is adopted.

Modeling pandemic mortality risk and its application to mortality-linked security pricing.

To provide insights for how to deal with pandemic mortality risk, this article introduces a mortality model that depicts the relevant pandemic effects on pricing mortality-linked securities, using a threshold jump approach. That is, to capture pandemic mortality dynamics across countries, we consider mortality jumps related to the pandemic shock and to a specific country shock. Pandemic jump occurs only when a pandemic event causes significant deaths worldwide, such as 1918 Spanish flu or COVID-19.

The Influencing Factors of Art Graduates' Entrepreneurship by Logistic Regression Analysis From the Perspective of Entrepreneurial Mentality.

The purpose of this study was to understand the influence mechanism of college students' entrepreneurial intention in view of the increasing number of college students at present to alleviate college students' employment competition. The psychological factors that influence the entrepreneurial tendency of art graduates were analyzed and studied. First, venture capital and factors affecting entrepreneurial performance were analyzed.

A Study of DNN-Based Media Literacy and Distance Education Management System in the Context of Participatory Culture.

Through an in-depth study and analysis of the integration of media literacy with distance education management using the DNN algorithm in the context of participatory culture, and the design of a distance education management system for application in actual teaching, the word embedding model is used to embed the ratings and tags, respectively; then, the self-encoder is used to extract textual features for item tags, while DNN is used to extract features for user tagging behaviors; finally, the fully connected neural network is used to predict ratings for the fused user and item features. The experimental results show that the optimized recommendation model effectively reduces the user rating prediction error while alleviating the cold start problem. A blockchain-based learning platform is designed.

Continuance Intention to Use and Perceived Net Benefits as Perceived by Streaming Platform Users: An Application of the Updated IS Success Model.

Video game streaming has become a popular leisure activity which, depending on content, level of skill, and user interest, reaches a wide array of audiences. Using streaming platforms, client users are able to broadcast their video gameplays and use chat rooms to interact with other viewers and game players in real time. This paper aimed to develop and examine a theoretical explanation concerning the formation of client users' satisfaction with, perceived net benefits of, and continuance intention to use a particular streaming platform.

Predicting College Students' Adoption of Technology for Self-Directed Learning: A Model Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior With Self-Evaluation as an Intermediate Variable.

Many studies assume a significant relationship between intention and behavior. However, the data do not always support this assumption. This study used a modified version of social cognitive theory with self-evaluations as an intermediate variable to explore and resolve the problems associated with applying the theory of planned behavior to explain students' adoption of technology for self-directed learning.

Monitoring the Changing Patterns in Perceived Learning Effort, Stress, and Sleep Quality during the Sports Training Period in Elite Collegiate Triathletes: A Preliminary Research.

Background: Few studies have examined the mental profiles and academic status of collegiate triathletes during training/competitive periods. We evaluated the changes in sleep quality, physical fatigue, emotional state, and academic stress among collegiate triathletes across training periods. Methods: Thirteen collegiate triathletes (19−26 years old) were recruited in this study.

Association between health-related physical fitness and self-reported health status in older Taiwanese adults.

Background: Aging is an inevitable process of life development. These physical changes may cause a decline in the functional adaptability and health of older adults. This study aims to determine if an association exists between health-related physical fitness measurements and self-reported health status in older Taiwanese adults.