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2016-02-01

Davies, Nicola

In January 2015, the World Economic Forum announced that the water crisis is the number one global risk, according to its impact to society. It is said that future wars will be fought over this precious and diminishing resource. Accordingly, any effort to conserve water or to prevent its...

2004-01-01

Lewis, Mark A., Potapov, A.

Predictions for climate change include movement of temperature isoclines up to 1000 meters per year, and this is supported by recent empirical studies. This paper considers effects of a rapidly changing environment on competitive outcomes between species. The model is formulated as a system of...

1993

Scott, M.E., Shostak, A.W.

Density-dependent constraints on parasite growth, survival or reproduction are thought to be important in preventing the unchecked increase in parasite numbers within individual hosts or host populations. While it is important to know where, and with what severity, density dependence is acting...

2018-07-20

McCabe, Erin

Objective: We conducted a scoping review of the tools used to measure therapeutic relationship in patients with haemophilia. Background: Haemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency of a clotting factor in the blood. Therapeutic relationship is foundational to the...

2011

Hewitt, J.A., Goodwin, B.L., Wilson, D.M.

An investigation was done to assess for and describe the end-of-life education provided in Canadian nursing programs to prepare students for practice. All 35 university nursing schools/faculties were surveyed in 2004; 29 (82.9%) responded. At that time, all but one routinely provided this...

2012

Spittlehouse, D.L., Hamann, A., Murdock, T.Q., Wang, T.

This study addresses the need to provide comprehensive historical climate data and climate change projections at a scale suitable for, and readily accessible to, researchers and resource managers. This database for western North America (WNA) includes over 20 000 surfaces of monthly, seasonal,...

2020-06-01

Artur Udovichenko, Lexuan Zhong

The air-source heat pump (ASHP) is a popular system that does not see much use in cold-climates despite its high potential in low carbon footprint. This study was designed to evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of its application to single-detached homes in Canada. First, a set of support...

2016-01-01

Arnhold, Anja

By investigating prosody beyond pitch and duration, this article provides a detailed and multifaceted picture of focus marking in a language that differs substantially from more extensively studied languages like English. A production study examined prosodic focus marking in Finnish based on...

2020-10-01

Carp, Belinda

The word “sustainability” implies simply that something can be continued. From the textile industry perspective, sustainability refers to environmental and social responsibility. In other words, the textile industry must not harm the natural environment or the people who produce, or use, its...

2007

Johnson, S.J., Carroll, R.T., Vidmar, J.J., Stroeher,V., Taylor, G.T., Good, A.G., DePauw, M., Lu, Z., Savidov, N.

Nitrogen (N) is the most important factor limiting crop productivity worldwide. The ability of plants to acquire N from applied fertilizers is one of the critical steps limiting the efficient use of nitrogen. To improve N use efficiency, genetically modified plants that overexpress alanine...