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Developing and Testing a Framework to Measure the Sanitation Efficacy on a Random Particle Level in Composting Industry
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Both direct and indirect process validation regulations are being used to ensure the safety of compost products. The North American guidelines specify upper limits for certain pathogenic and indicator microbes, which are presumably achieved by exposing every particle of compost to temperatures...
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Effect of Environmental Conditions on Flight Capacity in Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
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Wijeranthna, Asha, Evenden, Maya
Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is a major pest of pine (Pinaceae) in western North America. Mountain pine beetle has an obligatory dispersal phase during which beetles fly in search of new hosts to colonize. Climatic factors may influence...
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Effect of fluctuating temperature and propagule flow on invasibility of global marine habitats and species distribution
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Invasive colonizers propagated through human-mediated vectors are bio-homogenizing the world’s oceans and impacting the ecological structures and functions. Where do they come from, and where do they go? What bio-physical mechanisms drive them to do what they do? Can we control the human-mediated...
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2011
Scott, J. D., Sego, D. C., Zarnani, S.
Abstract: Temperatures were measured along instrumented geogrids to determine thermal strains and their changes with seasonal temperatures. It was observed that the application of temperature correction to the measured strain values by electrical wire resistance (EWR) strain gauges to compensate...
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Fall 2014
The modelling of the electrical activity in cardiac tissue can enable researchers to study heart phenomena such as arrhythmias which are difficult to observe in vivo. However, the nature of the mathematical equations used to represent these behaviors present multiple numerical difficulties which...
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Environmental factors affecting an experimental low-density mass grave near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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The investigation of mass graves involves aspects of high political, judicial, and emotional impact. Understanding how bodies held within mass graves change between the time they are deposited and the time they are discovered (the realm of forensic taphonomy) is vital for competent collection of...
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Exploration of the effects of pressure and temperature on the evaporation rate of selected liquids
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The rate of evaporation of liquids has been a topic of research for over a century. A detailed understanding of this phenomena is required to make scientific advancements in various areas. The principal objective for conducting this work was to study the effect of pressure on the rate of...
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Ice-atmosphere interactions in the Canadian high Arctic: implications for the thermo-mechanical evolution of terrestrial ice masses
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Wohlleben, Trudy Monique Heidi
Canadian High Arctic terrestrial ice masses and the polar atmosphere evolve co-dependently, and interactions between the two systems can lead to feedbacks, positive and negative. The two primary positive cryosphere-atmosphere feedbacks are: 1) The snow/ice-albedo feedback (where area changes in...
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2012
Rajakaruna, H., Lewis, M., Strasser, C.
If a non-indigenous species is to thrive and become invasive it must first persist under its new set of environmental conditions. Net reproductive rate (R 0) represents the average number of female offspring produced by a female over its lifetime, and has been used as a metric of population...
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2012
Lewis, M. A., Rajakaruna, H., Strasser, C.
If a non-indigenous species is to thrive and become invasive it must first persist under its new set of environmental conditions. Net reproductive rate (R 0) represents the average number of female offspring produced by a female over its lifetime, and has been used as a metric of population...