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From Current-Wave to Longitudinal Risk Prediction: A Leakage-Aware Stacked Ensemble Framework for Adolescent Substance Use Using the ABCD Study

Adolescent use of alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana remains a major public health concern in the United States. Early identification of youth at elevated risk is critical for prevention before use begins or escalates. We developed and evaluated a longitudinal machine learning framework to predict alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana use at the next observed assessment wave. Data came from the Adolescen...

Integrating planetary health and environmental justice into high school construction career education: protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Ecosystem Justice Translator

Introduction: Climate change disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities, yet construction workforce education rarely addresses interconnected pathways linking energy efficiency, nature exposure, and public health. Green-blue infrastructure delivers co-optimized benefits: reducing building energy consumption 15-30% while decreasing heat-related mortality by approximately 3.9% per degree C...

Development and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Decision Support System for Public Health Emergency Classification and Escalation in Kenya

Background Timely assessment, classification, and escalation of public health events are essential for effective outbreak response, yet decision-makin...

Short-term forecasts of Aedes aegypti relative abundance to enhance mosquito control situational awareness

Conventional mosquito surveillance typically relies on contemporaneous data, making it challenging to anticipate future vector surges. To support proa...

AllTheBacteria: a community resource empowers biology and discovers novel peptide antibiotics

Public microbial genomes encode an immense record of biological diversity, evolution and molecular function, but much of this information remains diff...

Robust Face Super-Resolution and Recognition Through Multi-Feature Aggregation in Diffusion Models

Images acquired in surveillance environments often suffer from conditions such as low resolution, variations in pose, irregular illumination, and occl...

Jul 6 2026 2607.05702v1
Generative embedding of sparse data with a tabular foundation model for dengue anticipatory action: a machine learning approach

Background Early outbreak detection often depends on complex, data-intensive models that have limited operational use in sparse surveillance settings....

Evaluating Open-Source Wrist-Worn Accelerometer Models for Sedentary Time Detection Against Thigh-Worn Accelerometer Data

Abstract Objective Wrist-worn accelerometers are common in large-scale epidemiological studies, but their ability to measure sedentary behaviour in fr...

NLP Framework for Automated Symptom Severity Staging in Heart Failure and COPD Clinical Notes Using Ontology Integration: A Study Protocol

Background: Heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally, with...

Gaps in Congenital Heart Disease Care: Social Drivers and Clinical Consequences

BackgroundGaps in care (GIC) among patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are associated with adverse outcomes, yet the specific social and heal...

A Transferable Learned Temporal Prior for Transmission Reconstruction and Decision-Relevant Uncertainty in Real Outbreak Labels

Outbreak transmission reconstruction treats epidemiological timing and transmission labels as deterministic ground truth; neither has been systematica...

Jun 29 2026 2606.30842v1
Large language models for cancer registry abstraction: a real-world evaluation across models, variables, and cancer types

Cancer registries enable cancer surveillance at the population level. These registries require significant human-time to read through many different p...

Golden Hour Divide: Trauma Care Accessibility and Resource Vulnerability in Sri Lanka

Timely intensive care dictates survival, yet emergency infrastructure remains unevenly distributed across Sri Lanka. While pre-hospital services have ...

Jun 29 2026 2606.29889v1
Cross-Resolution Semantic Transfer for Robust Text-to-Image Retrieval in Low-Resolution Surveillance

Text-to-image person re-identification (TIPR) retrieves target persons using natural language descriptions. However, existing methods largely overlook...

Jun 29 2026 2606.30458v1
Bit-ViP: Leveraging Bit-planes to Preserve Visual Privacy in Images through Obfuscation

The unprecedented growth of computer vision applications, such as surveillance systems and social media, raises security and visual privacy concerns, ...

Jun 28 2026 2606.29417v1
Empirical Evaluation of Multi-Modal Touch Detection in Over-the-Shoulder Video Surveillance

Video Intelligence Surveillance (VIDINT) on over-the-shoulder footage is a proposed vector for monitoring human-computer interaction patterns without ...

Jun 28 2026 2606.29504v1
Response consistency of ChatGPT-4o for Type 2 Diabetes Nutrition and Physical-activity Recommendations: A Pilot NLP-based Assessment of GPT outputs

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are increasingly used by the public to seek guidance on diet and physical activity for type 2 diabetes (T2D) preve...

Psychosocial Factors Outweigh Short-Term Environmental Exposures in Subjective Cognitive Difficulties: A Causal AI Study

ObjectiveTo evaluate the associations of short-term environmental exposures with subjective cognitive difficulties and attention-related outcomes and ...

Generative AI avatar videos for tobacco prevention on social media: a randomized controlled trial

Short-form video platforms increasingly shape how young audiences encounter health information. Generative artificial intelligence can produce standar...

Impact of Covid-19 on Bangladeshi university students mental health: ML and DL analysis

The Covid-19 outbreak has adversely influenced university students across the world both physically and psychologically. The psychological struggle fa...

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