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Condition assessment of reinforced concrete bridge decks as conductive media using GPR
(2014-07-07)
Bridge and overpass infrastructure are crucial parts of transportation networks that must be adequately maintained to ensure minimal repair costs and traffic disruption. The majority of the bridges and overpasses in North ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in the Forests of Central Nova Scotia
(2010-09-13)
Global climate change is at the forefront of issues in forest management. Forest managers are now faced with the challenge of incorporating climate change into their forest management values and objectives, as existing ...
A THREE-STAGE CONTROL MECHANISM FOR THE LUMBER PRODUCTION PROCESS OF A SAWMILL BASED ON A POWERS-OF-TWO MODELLING APPROACH
(2013-02-20)
To control the lumber production in a sawmill, a three-stage system is proposed. First, a quick program creates many cutting patterns and chooses the most valuable pattern for each log within a log class given a price list. ...
Detrital Production in Kelp Beds
(2012-03-07)
Detrital subsidy from highly productive kelp beds and forests to adjacent habitats represents a major form of connectivity between coastal ecosystems that regulates regional patterns of community organization and production. ...
Multiple Visions of Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Change in Higher Education: How Faculty Conceptualizations of Sustainability in Higher Education Suggest the Need for Pluralism
(2013-05-13)
As the United Nation Decade of Education for Sustainable Development draws to a close, there are growing calls for a critical reappraisal of the state of sustainability in Higher Education. The emerging literature suggests ...
FREE-RANGING MARINE MAMMALS: THE NEXT ACOUSTIC SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY?
(2014-11-20)
Understanding the nature of species interactions in the ocean is challenging because direct observation is usually impossible. The deployment of dual transmitting and receiving acoustic transceivers and satellite-linked ...
Calcium-activated chloride currents in salamander cone photoreceptors.
(Dalhousie University, 2005)
The Effects of Calcium Channel Blockade and Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Signalling on Proliferation and Differentiation of Cardiac Progenitor Cells
(2013-08-23)
Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) are abundant in the embryonic heart and have hallmark features which include a rapid rate of cell division and the ability to differentiate into mature heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes). ...
Historical and contemporary processes shaping population genetic structure in an anadromous fish (Osmerus mordax)
(2014-04-04)
The spatial scale at which populations are genetically structured is of immense interest for the understanding of a species’ ecology and evolutionary biology. This can have important implications for management of resources ...
DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTICAL METHODS AND REFERENCE MATERIALS FOR CYANOBACTERIAL TOXINS
(2013-05-30)
Cyanobacterial toxins present a real and growing threat to humans and animals due to the projected increases in algal blooms resulting from increasing global temperature and pollution. Wild animals, livestock, pet animals ...