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Multimodal examination of daily stress rhythms in chronic Cannabis users

Chronic cannabis users show disrupted diurnal cortisol rhythms, including a blunted cortisol awakening response and elevated afternoon cortisol levels, but no major differences in diurnal heart rate variability or electrodermal activity, except for increased evening heart rate. Acute cannabis use reduced cortisol, subjective stress, and electrodermal activity. These findings suggest dysregulated stress responses in cannabis users, potentially linked to later waking times and cannabis’s stress-relieving effects, warranting further research on the relationship between cannabis use, cortisol rhythms, and psychological disorders.

Domain-Informed Label Fusion Surpasses LLMs in Free-Living Activity Classification

By integrating BERT-based word embeddings with domain-specific knowledge (i.e., MET values), FUSE-MET optimizes label merging, reducing label complexity and improving classification accuracy.

GlyMan: Glycemic Management using Patient-Centric Counterfactuals

Glyman incorporates stakeholders' choices in producing counterfactual explanations to reduce the number of abnormal glycemic events T1D patients encounter.