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A Bayesian Approach to Locating the Red Giant Branch Tip Magnitude (Part II); Distances to the Satellites of M31
(2012-09-21)In `A Bayesian Approach to Locating the Red Giant Branch Tip Magnitude (PART I),' a new technique was introduced for obtaining distances using the TRGB standard candle. Here we describe a useful complement to the technique ... -
Beating the heat: Development and evaluation of a Canadian hot weather health-response plan
(2001-12)An increasing number of cities subject to hazardous summer weather in the United States and Canada have began to develop and implement hot weather response plans to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths. In this study ... -
Becke's virial exciton model gives accurate charge-transfer excitation energies
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Becoming Radio Active: Using Public Service Announcements to Encourage Students to Cycle
(2011-04)The Greening the Campus movement seeks to foster a powerful environmentally sustainable campus culture. Transportation plays a major role in the making of sustainable choices on campus and in everyday life. This study ... -
BEDFORM SEDIMENTOLOGY AND MORPHODYNAMICS OF SABLE ISLAND BANK
(2001-04-15)A series of shoreface-connected sand ridges occur on Sable Island Bank adjacent to Sable Island, are best developed to its south and southwest and extend as far as 23 km south of the island in water depths up to 45m. In ... -
BEDFORMS IN WAVE–FORCED NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENTS: OBSERVATIONS WITH A PROTOTYPE HUMAN-POWERED SURFACE VEHICLE
(2017-04-15)Bedforms in nearshore environments are undulatory sedimentary structures formed by wave-forced fluid-sediment interactions at the seabed. Signature characteristics imprinted on the sediment fabric may be used to infer ... -
Bees on Dalhousie Campus
(2015-04)Implementation of an apiary on Dalhousie’s Studley campus would positively impact the biodiversity of the entire Halifax Urban core. Bees are influential to our environment because of their contributions to human economies ... -
Behavioral reactions of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) to biopsy darting and tag attachment procedures
(2001-04)The effects of invasive or intrusive research techniques need to be thoroughly documented in order to satisfy appropriate standards of animal care. How cetaceans react to either biopsy darting ol tag attachment procedures ... -
Behaviour of sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis grazing fronts: food-mediated aggregation and density-dependent facilitation
(2007)The occurrence of destructive grazing fronts is a common phenomenon in sea urchins, but mechanisms governing front formation and dynamics remain poorly understood. We experimentally examined the effect of kelp biomass ... -
Benthic community structure within Eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds in southern Nova Scotia
(2011-03)Seagrass beds are productive coastal habitats that provide numerous ecosystem services. Declines in seagrass beds worldwide will have profound influences on the trophic structure and overall functioning of coastal ecosystems. ... -
Best Stormwater Management Designs using Bio-retention Retrofits at Dalhousie University
(2012-04)This project was designed to reduce Dalhousie University’s contribution to the stormwater surges that cause the city’s treatment facilities to overflow by answering: What external bio-retention retrofit designs can Dalhousie ... -
Better Planning from Better Understanding: Incorporating Historically Derived Data into Modern Coastal Management Planning on the Halifax Peninsula
(2012-09-20)As the terrestrial and marine effects of climate change continue to intensify, the value of native habitats like coastal wetlands is becoming clear. A sound understanding of how these ecosystems work is of vital importance ... -
Beyond GDP: Measuring Economic Well-being in Canada and the Provinces, 1981-2010
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The bi-variate luminosity-color distribution of IRAS galaxies, and implications for the high redshift Universe
(2003-05)We present a characterization of the local luminosity-color, bi-variate distribution of IRAS galaxies from the 1.2Jy sample, selected at 60 micron. The S60/S100 infrared color is used as the best single parameter description ... -
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Bio-diesel: The New Driving Force Behind Dalhousie’s Maintenance Vehicles
(2007-04)This project investigates the feasibility of running Dalhousie University’s maintenance vehicles on bio-diesel. This project proposes the use of an on campus bio-diesel refinement facility to convert waste cooking oil ... -
The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats
(2010-08)The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hot spot. Here we combined an extensive literature analysis with expert opinions to update publicly available estimates of major taxa in this marine ecosystem and to revise ... -
Biological husbandry and the "nitrogen problem"
(Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 1986)Since 1978, the author has been conducting research into the theory and practice of biological husbandry in collaboration with a farmer who stopped using pesticides and mineral fertilizers in 1976. Eggs are exported from ... -
Biological processes and optical measurements near the sea surface: Some issues relevant to remote sensing
(1995)There is good evidence that bio-optical relationships are altered near the surface: (1) the fluorescence yield from chlorophyll declines, leading to bias in the estimation of pigment from fluorometry; (2) the modeled ...