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Advanced material applications of starch and its derivatives
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Starch as a natural polymer has attracted significant interest and is currently used in numerous industrial applications. This is because of its renewability, biodegradability, abundance, and cohesive film-forming properties. ... -
Advancing groundwater vulnerability assessment in the Yukon and Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Reliance on groundwater for drinking water supplies varies across the Yukon and Northwest Territories (NWT), with usage of up to 97% in Yukon and 5% in NWT. Groundwater vulnerability assessments, which review water quality ... -
Advancing Public Health through Computational Thematic Analysi
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023-04-28)Public health researchers often use thematic analysis to develop human understandings of discussions from online communities. However, these analyses are difficult to conduct because of their and a general lack of programming ... -
Advancing the evidence to improve the nutrition of populations: a refreshed vision and scope for Nutrition Journal
(Springer, 2017-07)This editorial introduces a revised and refreshed scope for Nutrition Journal, one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Diet is among the leading risk factors for morbidity and mortality globally [1]. This signals the ... -
Adverse events among Ontario home care clients associated with emergency room visit or hospitalization: a retrospective cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2013-06-22)Background: Home care (HC) is a critical component of the ongoing restructuring of healthcare in Canada. It impacts three dimensions of healthcare delivery: primary healthcare, chronic disease management, and aging at home ... -
Adverse Events Associated with Hospitalization or Detected through the RAI-HC Assessment among Canadian Home Care Clients
(Longwoods Publishing, 2013-08-19)Background: The occurrence of adverse events (AEs) in care settings is a patient safety concern that has significant consequences across healthcare systems. Patient safety problems have been well documented in acute care ... -
The aftermath of a crypto-ransomware attack at a large academic institution
(USENIX, 2018-08)In 2016, a large North American university was subject to a significant crypto-ransomware attack and did not pay the ransom. We conducted a survey with 150 respondents and interviews with 30 affected students, staff, and ... -
Age-Related Changes in Vibro-Tactile EEG Response and Its Implications in BCI Applications: A Comparison Between Older and Younger Populations
(IEEE, 2019-04)The rapid increase in the number of older adults around the world is accelerating research in applications to support age-related conditions, such as brain-computer interface (BCI) applications for post-stroke neurorehabilitation. ... -
Agency and Amplification: A Comparison of Manual and Computational Thematic Analyses by Public Health Researchers
(ACM, 2023-01)Computational techniques offer a means to overcome the amplified complexity and resource-intensity of qualitative research on online communities. However, we lack an understanding of how these techniques are integrated by ... -
Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Investigating the Impact of Water Demand Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-03-01)This paper proposes an agent-based modeling approach to assess water users' behavior for water demand management (WDM) in a river basin. In this procedure, each agent controls its own strategy regarding whether to conserve ... -
Aging affects circadian clock and metabolism and modulates timing of medication
(Elsevier, 2021-04)Aging is associated with impairments in the circadian rhythms, and with energy deregulation that affects multiple metabolic pathways. The goal of this study is to unravel the complex interactions among aging, metabolism, ... -
Agpat4/Lpaat delta deficiency highlights the molecular heterogeneity of epididymal and perirenal white adipose depots
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2017-10-01)Acylglycerophosphate acyltransferase 4 (AGPAT4)/lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase delta catalyzes the formation of phosphatidic acid (PA), a precursor of triacylglycerol (TAG). We investigated the effect of Agpat4 gene ... -
Agreement in dry eye management between optometrists and general practitioners in primary health care in the Netherlands
(Elsevier, 2015-04-18)Purpose: To investigate the agreement in dry eye care management between general practitioners (GPs) and optometrists in the Netherlands. Methods: A web-based survey was used to investigate the agreement in symptoms ... -
Aigre douceur de l'abandon des problématiques minoritaires chez Marc Prescott
(Department of French: Dalhousie University, 2011)Auteur de plusieurs pièces de théâtre depuis le début des années 1990, Marc Prescott est un acteur de premier plan de la dramaturgie franco-manitobaine dont il contribue au profond renouvellement et au dynamisme. Après des ... -
Air Quality Impacts of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Industries
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-09-19)Though refineries and petrochemical industries meet society’s energy demands and produce a range of useful chemicals, they can also affect air quality. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified polluted air as the ... -
ALDB: Debugging Alloy Models of Behavioural Requirements
(IEEE, 2020-08)Declarative modelling languages, such as Alloy, are becoming popular for describing behavioural requirements very early in system development because automated analysis of these models provides valuable feedback. Typically, ... -
ALGEBRAIC DEGREE IN SPATIAL MATRICIAL NUMERICAL RANGES OF LINEAR OPERATORS
(American Mathematical Society, 2021-07-20)We study the maximal algebraic degree of principal ortho-compressions of linear operators that constitute spatial matricial numerical ranges of higher order. We demonstrate (amongst other things) that for a (possibly ... -
“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Film
(Duke University Press, 2022-09-01)This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in‐person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous ... -
An alternative derivation of orbital-free density functional theory
(AIP, 2019-05-28)Polymer self-consistent field theory techniques are used to derive quantum density functional theory without the use of the theorems of density functional theory. Instead, a free energy is obtained from a partition function ... -
Ambiguity aversion and optimal derivative-based pension investment with stochastic income and volatility
(Elsevier, 2018-03-01)This paper provides a derivative-based optimal investment strategy for an ambiguity-adverse pension investor who faces not only risks from time-varying income and market return volatility but also uncertain economic ...