UNVEILING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY, LONELINESS, MOTIVATIONS, AND PROBLEMATIC SMARTPHONE USE: A NETWORK APPROACH

Unveiling the relationship between social anxiety, loneliness, motivations, and problematic smartphone use: A network approach

Background: Previous studies suggested social anxiety as an essential risk factor for problematic smartphone use, but the complex interactions and the most influential components affecting this relationship remain unclear.This study capitalizes on network analysis to identify the central factors and possible mediating paths among social anxiety, lo

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Aesthetic Anxiety in a Child with Cleidocranial Dysplasia

Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) is a Universal Stove Knob rare syndrome that affects the skeleton and teeth.It is characterized by absent or hypoplastic clavicles, mobile shoulder girdles, patent fontanelles, supernumerary teeth, retained deciduous and delayed permanent teeth.A 10 year old boy with CCD is reported with chief complaints of aesthetics

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Beyond the Edge: Markerless Pose Estimation of Speech Articulators from Ultrasound and Camera Images Using DeepLabCut

Automatic feature extraction from images of speech articulators is currently achieved by detecting edges.Here, we investigate the use of pose estimation deep neural nets with transfer learning to perform markerless estimation of speech articulator keypoints using only a few hundred hand-labelled images as training input.Midsagittal ultrasound image

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