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Development, Testing, and Application of an Enhanced Oil Spill Model for Ice-Covered Waters (OSMT-Ice) through Multiscale Field Experiments

Author(s): Yang Z; Chen Z; Lee K;

Amid growing concerns about oil spills in vulnerable Arctic and sub-Arctic regions driven by climate-induced ice retreat, this study presents the development and validation of the OSMT-ice model, an enhanced oil spill modeling system designed to predict the movement and fate of oil in ice-covered waters. The model incorporates ice-concentration-based (ICB ...

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Multivariate white matter microstructure alterations in older adults with coronary artery disease

Author(s): Tremblay SA; Potvin-Jutras Z; Sabra D; Rezaei A; Sanami S; Gagnon C; Intzandt B; Mainville-Berthiaume A; Wright L; Leppert IR; Tardif CL; Steele CJ; Iglesies-Grau J; Nigam A; Bherer L; Gauthier CJ;

Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) face an increased risk of cognitive impairment, dementia, and stroke. While white matter (WM) lesions are frequently reported in patients with CAD, the effects on WM microstructure alterations remain largely unknown. We aimed to identify WM microstructu ...

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The age of obesity onset affects changes in subcutaneous adipose tissue macrophages and T cells after weight loss

Author(s): Murphy J; Morais JA; Tsoukas MA; Cooke AB; Daskalopoulou SS; Santosa S;

Introduction: Adipose tissue inflammation, driven in part by immune cells, may contribute to the elevated type 2 diabetes risk in adults with childhood-onset obesity (CO) compared to those with adult-onset obesity (AO). Weight loss can modify adipose tissue immune cell composition, but whether these changes differ by obesity onset remains unknown. Method ...

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Efficient neural encoding as revealed by bilingualism

Author(s): Moore C; Donhauser PW; Klein D; Byers-Heinlein K;

The remarkable human capacity for bilingual and multilingual acquisition raises fundamental questions about how the brain develops efficient systems for processing multiple languages. In this study, we used neural network models trained on natural speech input to examine how these efficient representations emerge. Our models show that multiple phonologica ...

Article GUID: 40828024


Surgical hyperspectral imaging: a systematic review

Author(s): Ali HM; Xiao Y; Kersten-Oertel M;

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a technique that captures and processes information across a wide spectrum of wavelengths, providing detailed spectral data for each pixel in an image to identify and analyze materials or objects. In the surgical domain, it can provide quantitative and qualitative tissue information without the need of any contrast agent, th ...

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The PREVENT-AD cohort: accelerating Alzheimer s disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond

Author(s): Villeneuve S; Poirier J; Breitner JCS; Tremblay-Mercier J; Remz J; Raoult JM; Yakoub Y; Gallego-Rudolf J; Qiu T; Valdez AF; Mohammediyan B; Javanray M; Metz A; Sanami S; Ourry V; Wearn A; Pastor-Bernier A; Edde M; Gonneaud J; Strikwerda- ...

The PREVENT-AD is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older adults with a family history of sporadic AD. Participants are deeply phenotyped and have now been followed annually for more than 12 years [median follow-up 8.0 years,SD 3.1]. Multimodal ...

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Enhancing nutrition education resources through the development and refinement of a checklist using the suitability assessment of materials (SAM)

Author(s): Sage O; Wang F; DiAngelo C; Marsden S; Faustini C; Grant S; Cohen TR;

BackgroundEvidence-based nutrition education resources are one way to help registered dietitians (RDs) translate scientific knowledge to consumers.AimTo develop a checklist based on suitability assessment of materials (SAM) and to assess its use to refine nutrition education resources.MethodsRDs were recruited online to assess two nutrition education reso ...

Article GUID: 40820296


Dopamine inhibits excitatory synaptic responses in layer I of the rat parasubiculum

Author(s): Carter F; Hobishi H; Chapman CA;

The parasubiculum is a component of the hippocampal formation that projects to the entorhinal cortex and plays an important role in spatial navigation. Dopamine has marked effects on excitatory synaptic transmission in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, and the present study investigated the effects of dopamine on evoked field excitatory postsynaptic ...

Article GUID: 40818632


Syngap1 regulates the synaptic drive and membrane excitability of Parvalbumin-positive interneurons in mouse auditory cortex

Author(s): Francavilla R; Chattopadhyaya B; Damo Kamda JL; Jadhav V; Kourrich S; Michaud JL; Di Cristo G;

SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency-related intellectual disability (SYNGAP1-ID) is characterized by moderate to severe ID, generalized epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing dysfunction, and other behavioral abnormalities. While numerous studies have highlighted a role of Syngap1 in corti ...

Article GUID: 40810392


Open-source platforms to investigate analytical flexibility in neuroimaging

Author(s): Sanz-Robinson J; Wang M; McPherson B; Chatelain Y; Kennedy D; Glatard T; Poline JB;

Researchers in brain imaging have access to a multitude of analysis tools, many of which carry out the same or similar tasks but yield different results when applied to the same data. This analytical flexibility often undermines reproducibility and raises concerns about the robustness of neuroimaging studies. However, the array of software packages to inv ...

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Feasibility analysis of recycling and repurposing end-of-life vehicle batteries in isolated island areas: A case study in British Columbia, Canada

Author(s): Wang Z; Lyu L; Huang G; An C;

The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is widely recognized as a pivotal strategy for mitigating climate change. However, the surge in EV usage brings significant challenges regarding the end-of-life management of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in geographically isolated islands, such as Vancouver Island, Canada. This study addresses the ...

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An analytical framework to decode socioeconomic interplays in pesticides and fertilizer container collection patterns using land dynamics metrics

Author(s): Chowdhury R; Karimi N; Xu X; An C; Gitifar A; Ng KTW;

This study analyzes pesticide and fertilizer container collection trends across Canadian agricultural regions over a seven-year period from 2016 to 2022 through an analytical framework and proposed two land metrics. A 28.3 % decrease in the collection of small empty pesticide and fertilizer containers (EPFCs) coincides with a 41.4 % increase in the collec ...

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