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2010-01-01

Lovato, C. Y., Pullman, A. W., Halpin, P., Zeisser, C., Nykiforuk, Candace I.J., Best, F., Diener, A., Manske, S.

Introduction: School characteristics may account for some of the variation in smoking prevalence among schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between characteristics of school tobacco policies and school smoking prevalence. We also examined the relationship...

2003

Weeks, B., Wilson, G. W.

Net solar radiation is one of the key factors affecting evaporation from soil covers on waste rock dumps. While net solar radiation is normally taken as a uniform parameter over a site for modelling purposes, there can be significant variation in the radiation actually received on various...

2019-09-20

Rashid, Marghalara, Guo, Qi, Babenko, Oksana

Theory: Self-compassion has been identified as a promising interventional target enabling medical learners to respond effectively to stressors and challenges of medical training. Determining factors in the learning environment that support self-compassion is critical for developing such...

2008

Austin, W., Wall, S.

Healthcare practitioners make many important ethical decisions in their day-to-day practices. Questions arising in daily practice require practitioners to make prudent, balanced and good decisions, which are most effectively made interpersonally and reflectively. It is commonly assumed that the...

2016-01-01

Xiao Qin Lee, P. Mark L. Sandercock, James J. Harynuk

We have previously demonstrated the successful application of multivariate statistical(i.e. chemometric) techniques to the classification of casework fire debris based on gasoline content, with the objective to expedite the data interpretation process for the forensic analysis of fire debris. We...

2015

Williams, Beverly, Sayah, Fatima A., Richard, Liz

Background Graduates from Problem/Context Based Learning (CBL) undergraduate nursing programs often express concern that they may not be as well prepared for transition to graduate nursing practice as their colleagues from more traditional lecture-based programs. Aims To determine if there is a...

1982

Makarechian, M., Price, M. A.

A total of 126 cows and heifers culled from the University of Alberta beef herd were used in an experiment to study the effects of zeranol, an anabolic growth stimulant. The cattle were divided into two groups: 67 aged less than 4 yr (young) and 59 aged more than 4 yr (mature); within each group,...

1984

Makarechian, M., Butson,S., Price, M. A.

A serial slaughter experiment is described using 48 yearling bulls: 24 Hereford crossbred (HX) and 24 Beef synthetic (SY). Twelve bulls of each breed type were fed a high-energy, mainly grain diet (Hi) and the other 12 a pelleted alfalfa diet (Lo). The two breed types showed similar growth rate...

2020-12-05

Zhan, Yingxin, Shi, Peng, Zhang, Xueqiang, Ding, Fei, Huang, Jiaqi, Jin, Zhehui, Xiang, Rong, Liu, Xingjiang, Zhang, Qiang

Lithium (Li) metal is strongly regarded as a promising anode for next-generation secondary batteries. However, the nonuniform plating/stripping and volume fluctuation of the Li metal anode give rise to low Coulombic efficiency and short lifespan of Li metal batteries, which hinder practical...

2005

Brigandt, Ingo

Peculiar to Konrad Lorenz’s view of instinctive behavior is his strong innate-learned dichotomy. He claimed that there are neither ontogenetic nor phylogenetic transitions between instinctive and experience-based behavior components, thus contradicting all former accounts of instinct. The present...