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2015-10-01
Chemicals play a crucial role in the textile industry. Without chemicals, the production of yarn, fabric, garments, and other textile products would be close to impossible on an industrial basis. In addition, the available textile products would be whatever color the color the natural fiber was...
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Chemometric classification of casework arson samples based on gasoline content.
2013-01-01
Nikolai A. Sinkov, P. Mark L. Sandercock and James J. Harynuk
Detection and identification of ignitable liquids (ILs) in arson debris is a critical part of arson investigations. The challenge of this task is due to the complex and unpredictable chemical nature of arson debris, which also contains pyrolysis products from the fire. ILs, most commonly...
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2016-01-01
Jenna V. Congdon, Allison H. Hahn, Neil McMillan, Marc T. Avey, Christopher B. Sturdy
Chickadees produce many vocalizations, including chick-a-dee calls which they use as a mobbing call in the presence of predators. Previous research has shown that chickadees produce more D notes in their mobbing calls in response to high-threat predators compared to low-threat predators, and may...
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2017-04-05
McMillan, Neil, Hahn, Allison H., Congdon, Jenna V., Campbell, Kimberley A., Hoang, J., Scully, Erin N., Spetch, Marcia L., Sturdy, Christopher B.
Chickadees are high-metabolism, non-migratory birds, and thus an especially interesting model for studying how animals follow patterns of food availability over time. Here, we studied whether black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) could learn to reverse their behavior and/or to anticipate...
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2005
Li, S., Dai, M., He, X., Zhang, Y., Ruan, J., Burt, D., Yu, J., Wang, J., Yang, H., Hu, Y., Liu, B., Wong, G., Ye, C., Chen, J., Cong, L., Fang, L.
Working in parallel with the efforts to sequence the chicken (Gallus gallus) genome, the Beijing Genomics Institute led an international team of scientists from China, USA, UK, Sweden, The Netherlands and Germany to map extensive DNA sequence variation throughout the chicken genome by sampling...
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Childhood maltreatment, alcohol use disorders, and treatment utilization in a national sample of emerging adults.
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Henriksen, C. A., Kimber, M., Pitre, N. Y., Davidov, D. M., Afifi, T. O., Goldstein, A. L.
Childhood Maltreatment, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Treatment Utilization in a National Sample of Emerging Adults The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between childhood maltreatment and alcohol use disorders (AUDs), treatment utilization, and barriers to treatment in a...
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Children are not just small adults: the urgent need for high-quality trial evidence in children.
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Offringa, M., Hartling, L., Craig, J. C., Klassen, T. P.
Children are often touted as being very important members of society because they represent our future. Optimizing their health outcomes has the potential for a huge impact on public health because children are at an early stage in the life trajectory. But it is often unclear how society...
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2005
Swingler, G., Williams, K., Hartling, L., Moyer, V., Cramer, K., Klassen, T. P., Wiebe, N.
Background The delivery of optimal medical care to children is dependent on the availability of child relevant research. Our objectives were to: i) systematically review and describe how children are handled in reviews of drug interventions published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews...
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2009
Schopflocher, D., Newburn-Cook, C. V., Yu, H., Dundon, B., Drummond, J., Neufeld, S. M.
Background Nausea and vomiting is a problem for children after neurosurgery and those requiring posterior fossa procedures appear to have a high incidence. This clinical observation has not been quantified nor have risk factors unique to this group of children been elucidated. Methods A six year...