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Assessing the Effect of Large Igneous Provinces on Global Oceanic Redox Conditions Using Non-traditional Metal Isotopes (Molybdenum, Uranium, Thallium)
(American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2021-01-08)Large igneous provinces (LIPs) have occurred episodically throughout Earth’s history, with the most severe events causing profound disturbances to Earth’s climate and biosphere that likely influenced the course of metazoan ... -
Assessing the Use of Government Open Data and the Role of Data Infomediaries The Case of Nova Scotia’s Community Counts Program
(Center for E-Government, 2016)This study examines the Nova Scotia Community Counts program, a common platform that aggregates data from many sources mirroring what is generally considered as government open data. The role of Community Counts as a data ... -
Assessment and validation of liquid breakup models for high-pressure dense diesel sprays
(Springer, 2016-06-01)Liquid breakup in fuel spray and atomization significantly affects the consequent mixture formation, combustion behavior, and emission formation processes in a direct injection diesel engine. In this paper, different models ... -
Assessment of failure toughening mechanisms in continuous glass fiber thermoplastic laminates subjected to cyclic loading
(Elsevier, 2019-03-15)Tensile fatigue behaviour of glass fiber/polyamide composites, including unidirectional ([0]8, [90]8) and cross-ply ([02/902]s, [04/904]s and [904/04]s) laminates, was studied and compared to that of similar glass fiber/epoxy ... -
Assessment of Germanane Field-Effect Transistors for CMOS Technology
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-10-13)Using self-consistent atomistic quantum transport simulations, the device characteristics of n-type and p-type germanane (GeH) field-effect transistors (FETs) are evaluated. While both devices exhibit near-identical off-state ... -
Assessment of High-Frequency Performance Limit of Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-05-18)Recently gigahertz frequencies have been reported with black phosphorus (BP) field-effect transistors (FETs), yet the high-frequency performance limit has remained unexplored. Here we project the frequency limit of BP FETs ... -
Assessment of Nutrient Intakes: Introduction to the Special Issue
(MDPI, 2016-03-25)Accurately measuring consumption of food, drinks and supplements is fundamental to nutrition and health research, including surveillance, epidemiology and intervention studies. However, assessing food intake is an area ... -
Assessment of skeletal muscle mass in critically ill patients: considerations for the utility of computed tomography imaging and ultrasonography
(Wolters Kluwer, 2016-03)Purpose of review: Low muscularity and skeletal muscle atrophy are commonly exhibited in critically ill patients and have major implications on patient outcomes. Typically, in the ICU, body composition is assessed through ... -
An Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Biological Responses to Municipal Wastewater Effluent in Rainbow Darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) Collected along an Urban Gradient
(PLOS, 2016-10-24)Municipal wastewater effluent (MWWE) and its constituents, such as chemicals of emerging concern, pose a potential threat to the sustainability of fish populations by disrupting key endocrine functions in aquatic organisms. ... -
Assessment of the thermomechanical performance of continuous glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic laminates
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)The effects of temperature on the static tensile behavior of continuous E-glass/polyamide laminates were studied in order to assess the feasibility of using the material system for structural applications. Uniaxial tensile ... -
Association of strength, power, and physical performance with muscle mass and composition in older males: a comparison of muscle thickness, echo intensity, and lean tissue mass
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2022-05)Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) appendicular lean tissue is used to screen older adults for sarcopenia. However, emerging data indicates that ageing-related muscle atrophy largely occurs within specific muscles, ... -
Astra Version 1.0: Evaluating Translations from Alloy to SMT-LIB
(2019-06-13)We present a variety of translation options for converting Alloy to SMT-LIB via Alloy’s Kodkod interface. Our translations, which are implemented in a library that we call Astra, are based on converting the set and relational ... -
An asymmetric elastic-plastic analysis of the load-controlled rotating bending test and its application in the fatigue life estimation of wrought magnesium AZ31B
(Elsevier, 2014-07-01)Due to different deformation mechanisms arising from limited slip systems in HCP wrought magnesium alloys, their yield and hardening in tension and compression are different. Consequently, the cyclic behavior of these ... -
Asymmetric Graetz Problem: The Analytical Solution Revisited
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2017-01-01)Forced-convective heat transfer from the walls of an asymmetrically heated channel to the fluid passing through in a laminar, hydrodynamically developed flow is known as the asymmetric Graetz problem. Several analytical ... -
Asymmetric soft-hard colloidal mixtures: osmotic effects, glassy states and rheology
(American Institute of Physics, 2017-09-06)Whereas mixtures of colloids and non-adsorbing polymers have been studied in great detail in the last two decades, binary colloidal mixtures have not received much attention. Yet, fragmental evidence from asymmetric mixtures ... -
Asymmetry in Gaze Direction Discrimination Between the Upper and Lower Visual Fields
(Sage, 2017-01-06)Previous research has shown that gaze direction can only be accurately discriminated within parafoveal limits (∼5° eccentricity) along the horizontal visual field. Beyond this eccentricity, head orientation seems to influence ... -
The asymptotic estimates and Hasse principle for multidimensional Waring's problem
(Elsevier, 2019-09-07)Motivated by the asymptotic estimates and Hasse principle for multidimensional Waring's problem via the circle method, we prove for the first time that the corresponding singular series is bounded below by an absolute ... -
Atmospheric acidification of mineral aerosols: a source of bioavailable phosphorus for the oceans
(European Geosciences Union, 2011-07-01)Primary productivity of continental and marine ecosystems is often limited or co-limited by phosphorus. Deposition of atmospheric aerosols provides the major external source of phosphorus to marine surface waters. However, ... -
Atomic force microscopy analysis of the effect of plasma treatment on gas permeable contact lens surface topography
(Elsevier, 2019-02-23)Purpose: Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to investigate anterior surface topography (AST) in worn and unworn, plasma surface-treated (PST) and untreated (UT) gas permeable (GP) lenses, and influence of surface topography ...