Vaginal Microbiota and the Use of Probiotics by Sarah Cribby, Michelle Taylor, Gregor Reid

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Advanced PHWR Safety Technology: PHWR Challenging Issues for Safe Operation and Long-Term Sustainability by Jin Ho Song, Wei Shen, Malcolm Griffiths, Bo Wook Rhee, YongMann Song, Masanori Naitoh

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Yield Responses of Black Spruce to Forest Vegetation Management Treatments: Initial Responses and Rotational Projections by Peter F. Newton

“…Based on a fixed-effects meta-analytic approach using 44 treated-control yield pairs derived from 12 experiments situated throughout the Great Lakes—St. Lawrence and Canadian Boreal Forest Regions, the resultant mean effect size (response ratio) and associated 95% confidence interval for basal diameter, total height, stem volume, and survival responses, were respectively: 54.7% (95% confidence limits (lower/upper): 34.8/77.6), 27.3% (15.7/40.0), 198.7% (70.3/423.5), and 2.9% (−5.5/11.8). …”
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Developmental Trends of Black Spruce Fibre Attributes in Maturing Plantations by Peter F. Newton

“…A size-based stratified random sample procedure within 5 semimature plantations located in the Canadian Boreal Forest Region was used to select 50 trees from which radial cross-sectional xylem sequences at breast-height (1.3 m) were cut and analyzed. …”
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A study of a complex of bioactive compounds in the fruits of promising blue honeysuckle (<i>Lonicera caerulea</i> L.) cultivars by I. B. Perova, K. I. Eller, M. A. Gerasimov, V. A. Baturina, M. Yu. Akimov, O. M. Akimova, A. M. Mironov, V. A. Koltsov

“…The berries of 20 released honeysuckle cultivars of Russian, Canadian and U.S. origin, reproduced at the I.V. Michurin Federal Science Center in Tambov Province, were studied for the content of the main BAC groups using modern methods (spectrophotometry, HPLC-UV, HPLC-RID, and HPLC-DAD-MS).Results and discussion. …”
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Durvalumab and tremelimumab in patients with advanced rare cancer: a multi-centre, non-blinded, open-label phase II basket trialResearch in context by Abha A. Gupta, Anna Tinker, Derek Jonker, Rahma Jamal, Hal Hirte, Eric W. Winquist, Quincy Chu, Christian Kollmannsberger, Ralph Wong, Thierry Alcindor, Torsten O. Nielsen, Ming Tsao, Tricia R. Cottrell, Diane Provencher, John Hilton, Monika K. Krzyżanowska, Christine Elser, Sebastien Hotte, Joana Sederias, Siwei Zhang, Wei Tu, Janet Dancey

“…Funding: AstraZeneca and Canadian Cancer Society.…”
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Synchrotron X-ray imaging study on the mechanism of solids transfer to bitumen froth during oil sands flotation 1: True flotation by Hanyu Zhang, Liuyin Xia, Ning Zhu, Sergey Gasilov, Iris He, Xiaofan Ding

“…The collected bitumen froth was immediately characterized using synchrotron-based X-ray imaging by a monochromatic X-ray with photon energy of 60 keV provided by 05ID-2 beamline of the BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) facility at the Canadian Light Source (CLS). This characterization method can finish a typical CT scan with 2000 projections in less than 3 min, and thus allows for in-situ imaging of freshly prepared bitumen froth without the need for special arrangements, such as freezing. 14, 234 unwanted solids carried over into bitumen froth were visualized, 98.9 wt% of them were sand particles, which is consistent with mineral liberation analysis (MLA) results. …”
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A Review of Factors Influencing the Banking of Collected Umbilical Cord Blood Units by David Allan, Tanya Petraszko, Heidi Elmoazzen, Susan Smith

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Implementation of Student Course Evaluation: Pandemic Impact on the Non-Constraint Engagement (NCE) Model by Faridah Maarof, Said El-Emam, Raudah Mohd Yunus

“…This study aims to examine the stability and sustainability of the NCE model implementation before, during and after the peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Canadian University Dubai (CUD). The NCE Model was initially piloted between 2014 and 2015 and was found to be effective. …”
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Real-World Treatment Patterns, Survival, and Costs for Ovarian Cancer in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Provincial Administrative Data by Manjusha Hurry, Shazia Hassan, Soo Jin Seung, Ryan N. Walton, Ashlie Elnoursi, Jacob D. McGee

“…**Background:** In 2020, approximately 3100 Canadian women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer (OC), with 1950 women dying of this disease. …”
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Farm factors associated with increased free fatty acids in bulk tank milk by Hannah M. Woodhouse, Stephen J. LeBlanc, Trevor J. DeVries, Karen J. Hand, David F. Kelton

“…This study aimed to identify farm-level FFA risk factors in Canadian dairy herds. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 293 Canadian dairy farms in Ontario (n = 238) and British Columbia (n = 55). …”
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Waiting for Treatment for Chronic Pain – a Survey of Existing Benchmarks: Toward Establishing Evidence-Based Benchmarks for Medically Acceptable Waiting Times by Mary E Lynch, Fiona A Campbell, Alexander J Clark, Michael J Dunbar, David Goldstein, Philip Peng, Jennifer Stinson, Helen Tupper, the Canadian Pain Society Wait Times Task Force

“…In December 2005, the Canadian Pain Society struck a Task Force to identify benchmarks for acceptable wait times for treatment of chronic pain. …”
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Flexibility Training and Functional Ability in Older Adults: A Systematic Review by Liza Stathokostas, Robert M. D. Little, A. A. Vandervoort, Donald H. Paterson

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Large increase in extreme fire weather synchronicity over Europe by Miguel Ángel Torres-Vázquez, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Alberto Moreno-Torreira, Andrina Gincheva, Sonia Jerez, Marco Turco

“…Here, we quantify the synchronicity of extreme fire weather in Europe by analysing historical data of the Canadian fire weather index (FWI) from 1981 to 2022 and projecting FWI future scenarios with temperature increases from 1 °C to 6 °C and precipitation changes from −40% to +60%. …”
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The Need for Improved Management of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy in Primary Care by Teresa Sobhy

“…Much international research exists on the prevalence and impact of PDN in primary care; however, Canadian research is lacking. Furthermore, the quantity and quality of research on treatment modalities for PDN are inadequate. …”
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Becoming Socialized into a New Professional Role: LPN to BN Student Nurses' Experiences with Legitimation by Sherri Melrose, Jean Miller, Kathryn Gordon, Katherine J. Janzen

“…This paper presents findings from a qualitative descriptive study that explored the professional socialization experiences of Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) who attended an online university to earn a Baccalaureate degree in nursing (BN), a prerequisite to writing the Canadian Registered Nurse (RN) qualifying exam. The project was framed from a constructivist worldview and Haas and Shaffir’s theory of legitimation. …”
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Rethinking Social Support and Conflict: Lessons from a Study of Women Who Have Separated from Abusive Partners by Sepali Guruge, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Joan Samuels-Dennis, Colleen Varcoe, Piotr Wilk, Judith Wuest

“…Based on the data from 309 English-speaking Canadian women who experienced IPV in the past 3 years and were no longer living with the abuser, we tested four hypotheses examining the relationships among severity of past IPV and women’s social support, social conflict, and health. …”
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Short-term evolutionary implications of an introgressed size-determining supergene in a vulnerable population by Pierre Lesturgie, John S. S. Denton, Lei Yang, Shannon Corrigan, Jeff Kneebone, Romuald Laso-Jadart, Arve Lynghammar, Olivier Fedrigo, Stefano Mona, Gavin J. P. Naylor

“…While both Gulf of Maine (GoM) and Canadian (CAN) populations exhibit the size polymorphism, we detected a significant deficit of heterozygotes at the supergene and longer stretches of homozygosity in GoM population. …”
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Flexibility of Older Adults Aged 55–86 Years and the Influence of Physical Activity by Liza Stathokostas, Matthew W. McDonald, Robert M. D. Little, Donald H. Paterson

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