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Can Message-Tailoring Based on Regulatory Fit Theory Improve the Efficacy of Persuasive Physical Activity Systems?
(MDPI, 2019-11)Background: Many behaviour-change technologies have been designed to help people with a sedentary lifestyle to become more physically active. However, challenges exist in designing systems that work effectively. One of the ... -
Can Message-Tailoring Based on Regulatory Fit Theory Improve the Efficacy of Persuasive Physical Activity Systems?
(MDPI, 2019-11-08)Background: Many behaviour-change technologies have been designed to help people with a sedentary lifestyle to become more physically active. However, challenges exist in designing systems that work effectively. One of the ... -
Can physical joint simulators be used to anticipate clinical wear problems of new joint replacement implants prior to market release?
(Sage Publications, 2016-05-09)One of the most important mandates of physical joint simulators is to provide test results that allow the implant manufacturer to anticipate and perhaps avoid clinical wear problems with their new products. This is best ... -
Can students be taught to articulate employability skills?
(Emerald, 2019-03-03)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on research findings from a teaching and learning intervention that explored whether undergraduate university students can be taught to articulate their employability skills ... -
Can virtual water trade save water resources?
(Elsevier, 2019-10-15)At times, certain areas of China suffering from water shortages. While China's government is spurring innovation and infrastructure to help head off such problems, it may be that some water conservation could help as well. ... -
Canada en(counters) terrorism: US-Canada relations and counter-terrorism policy
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-01-15)This paper examines the role of identity in shaping counter-terrorism policy in Canada. We show that identity functions in three ways: constitutively by defining the range of choices a state is likely to consider; strategically ... -
Canadian Religion in Global Perspective
(2022-01-04)The goal of this report is to provide a concise high-quality descriptive portrait of key religiosity indicators in 81 countries from 2017-2020 European Values Survey (EVS) and World Values Survey (WVS) data, with a special ... -
Capacity and assortment planning under one-way supplier-driven substitution for pharmacy kiosks with low drug demand
(Elsevier, 2020-04-01)MedAvail Technologies Inc. is a healthcare technology company that develops new technologies for self-serve pharmacy solutions. The technology, called MedCenter, is a pharmacy kiosk that provides 24/7, easy, and reliable ... -
Capturing Plant Metabolome with Direct-Immersion in Vivo Solid Phase Microextraction of Plant Tissues
(American Chemical Society, 2015-12-15)For the first time, an in vivo sampling mode of direct immersion–solid phase microextraction (DI-SPME) was employed to capture the metabolome of living plant specimens, using apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) as a model ... -
Carbon dioxide flux and net primary production of a boreal treed bog: Responses to warming and water-table-lowering simulations of climate change
(European Geosciences Union, 2015-02-20)Midlatitude treed bogs represent significant carbon (C) stocks and are highly sensitive to global climate change. In a dry continental treed bog, we compared three sites: control, recent (1–3 years; experimental) and older ... -
Cardinality Constrained Robust Optimization Applied to a Class of Interval Observers
(IEEE, 2014-07-21)We propose a linear programming-based method of interval observer design for systems with uncertain but bounded model parameters and initial conditions. We assume that each uncertain parameter in the system model is bounded ... -
Cardiolipin Prevents Membrane Translocation and Permeabilization by Daptomycin
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2014-04-25)Daptomycin is an acidic lipopeptide antibiotic that, in the presence of calcium, forms oligomeric pores on membranes containing phosphatidylglycerol. It is clinically used against various Gram-positive bacteria such as ... -
Carrot Or Stick? Modelling How Landowner Behavioural Responses Can Cause Incentive-Based Forest Governance To Backfire
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-30)Mitigating the negative impacts of declining worldwide forest cover remains a significant socio-ecological challenge, due to the dominant role of human decision-making. Here we use a Markov chain model of land-use dynamics ... -
Case Studies with Mathematical Modeling of Free-radical Multi-component Bulk/Solution Polymerizations:Part 2
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)In Part 2 of this series of two extensive overviews of multi-component polymerization case studies, we again present mathematical modeling results with experimental confirmations. Part 2 represents a refinement and ... -
Case studies with mathematical modelling of free radical multicomponent bulk/solution polymerizations. Part 1.
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-07)In part 1 of this series of two extensive overviews of multi-component polymerization case studies, we present mathematical modelling results with experimental confirmations. The case studies are from free-radical, bulk ... -
Catalytic isomerization of glucose to fructose using heterogeneous solid Base catalysts in a continuous-flow tubular reactor: Catalyst screening study
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Isomerization reactions of glucose into fructose in aqueous media were studied in a continuous-flow tubular reactor using different heterogeneous solid base catalysts, including calcined-rehydrated hydrotalcite, magnesium ... -
Catalytic Nucleic Acids: Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Biosensors, and Nanotechnology
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Since the initial discovery of ribozymes in the early 1980s, catalytic nucleic acids have been used in different areas. Compared with protein enzymes, catalytic nucleic acids are programmable in structure, easy to modify, ... -
Caterpillars in Erdős–Hajnal
(Elsevier, 2019-05)Let T be a tree such that all its vertices of degree more than two lie on one path; that is, T is a caterpillar subdivision. We prove that there exists ε > 0 such that for every graph G with |V(G)| ≥ 2 not containing T as ... -
Cation-Size-Dependent DNA Adsorption Kinetics and Packing Density on Gold Nanoparticles: An Opposite Trend
(American Chemical Society, 2014-11-11)The property of DNA is strongly influenced by counterions. Packing a dense layer of DNA onto a gold nanoparticle (AuNP) generates an interesting colloidal system with many novel physical properties such as a sharp melting ... -
A cell-centred finite volume method for the Poisson problem on non-graded quadtrees with second order accurate gradients
(Elsevier, 2017-02-15)This paper introduces a two-dimensional cell-centred finite volume discretization of the Poisson problem on adaptive Cartesian quadtree grids which exhibits second order accuracy in both "the solution and its gradients, ...