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2019-01-01

Thiessen, A.N., Ha, M., Hooper, R.W., Yu, H., Oliynyk, A.O., Veinot, J.G.C., Michaelis, V.K.

Silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) are biologically compatible, metal-free quantum dots that exhibit size and surface tailorable photoluminescence. The nanostructure of these materials influences their optical, chemical, and material properties and hence plays an important role in their...

2021-01-14

Virginia M. C. Tze, Johnson C.-H. Li, Lia M. Daniels

Although previous research showed that discrete social-emotional skills such as empathy, motivation, and social relationships in school significantly predict academic achievement, students tend to use various social-emotional skills in combination. As such previous investigations cannot comment...

2022-01-01

Peter R. Thompson, Melodie Kunegel-Lion, Mark A. Lewis

Animal learning has interested ecologists and psychologists for over a century. Mathematical models that explain how animals store and recall information have gained attention recently. Central to this work is statistical decision theory (SDT), which relates information uptake in animals to...

2014-01-01

Rahmati, H, Nouri, A, Chan, D, Vaziri, H

Rock failure is observed around boreholes often with certain types of failure zones formed which are called breakouts. Drilling experiments in some high porosity quartz-rich sandstone have shown that breakouts are formed by developing a narrow localized compacted zone in the minimum horizontal...

2015-11-25

Forbes, D., Innes, A., Morgan, D. G., Quail, J. M., O'Connell, M. E., Teare, G. F., Kosteniuk, J. G., Stewart, N. J., Bello-Haas, V. D., Crossley, M., Kirk, A., Mou, H., McBain, L.

Background: Original studies published over the last decade regarding time trends in dementia report mixed results. The aims of the present study were to use linked administrative health data for the province of Saskatchewan for the period 2005/2006 to 2012/2013 to: (1) examine simultaneous...

2019-01-01

Lia M. Daniels, Lauren D. Goegan, Amanda I. Radil, Jona R. Frohlich

Pre-service teachers can be considered simultaneously students and teachers and therefore likely have both academic and professional goals. However, once in a professional program, predicting professional outcomes becomes somewhat more important than academic ones. This distinction may have...

2021-10-01

Petrosyan, Rafayel, Narayan, Abhishek, Woodside, Michael T

The use of force probes to induce unfolding and refolding of single molecules through the application of mechanical tension, known as single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS), has proven to be a powerful tool for studying the dynamics of protein folding. Here we provide an overview of what has...

2014-01-01

Ojeda, Dario I., Dhillon, Braham, Tsui, Clement K. M., Hamelin, Richard C.

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are rapidly becoming the standard markers in population genomics studies; however, their use in nonmodel organisms is limited due to the lack of cost-effective approaches to uncover genome-wide variation, and the large number of individuals needed in the...

2014-01-01

M. Haftani, A. Nouri, M. Moosavi, B. Bohloli, M.R. Maleki Javan

Size DependencyIn this study, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of limestone rocks was estimated by indentation testing on small rock fragments. Here, the effects of rock fragment dimensions (particularly area and thickness) on indentation indices were studied. The investigation shows size...

2019-01-01

Morteza Roostaei, Siavash Taghipoor, Alireza Nouri, Vahidoddin Fattahpour, Dave Chan

There are aspects of the hydraulic fracturing process that remain unresolved for weakly consolidated sandstones. These issues include fracture modes and geometries for weak sandstones, and higher-than-expected fracture pressure in some field projects. The development of shear bands and the...