Author(s): Liu X; Vadiyar MM; Oh JK; Ye Z;

The present work demonstrates the efficient design of ultrasmall porous carbon nanospheres with tailored sizes (5-40 nm in diameter) and optimized intrasphere textural properties for high-rate high-energy supercapacitor application. The carbon nanospheres are synthesized via a miniemulsion polymerization technique followed by KOH activation. It is shown t ...

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Author(s): Liang KE; Dawson JQ; Stoian MD; Clark DG; Wynes S; Donner SD;

Background: Each spring, thousands of Canadian medical students travel across the country to interview for residency positions, a process known as the CaRMS tour. Despite the large scale of travel, the CaRMS tour has received little environmental scrutiny. Purpose: To estimate the national carbon footprint of flights associated with the CaRMS tour, as we ...

Article GUID: 34227912

Author(s): Selvaraj C; Selvaraj G; Mohamed Ismail R; Vijayakumar R; Baazeem A; Wei DQ; Singh SK;

Bacillus anthracis is a gram positive, deadly spore forming bacteria causing anthrax and these bacteria having the complex mechanism in the cell wall envelope, which can adopt the changes in environmental conditions. In this, the membrane bound cell wall proteins are said to progressive drug target for the inhibition of Bacillus anthracis. Among the cell ...

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Author(s): Wübbeler M; Geis S; Stojanovic J; Elliott L; Gutierrez-Ibarluzea I; Lenoir-Wijnkoop I;

ntroduction: An important requirement for successful public health interventions is a standardized classification in order to make these health technologies comparable in all contexts and recognized by all parties. The WHO International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI), including an integrated public health component, has been developed to pr ...

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Author(s): Perveen S; Akram M; Nasar A; Arshad-Ayaz A; Naseem A;

This study explores the mechanism for timely and equitable distribution of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination among the various communities in Pakistan. It examines the factors that support and/or impede peoples' access and response towards COVID-19 vaccination in Pakistan. The study uses a literature synthesis approach to examine and ana ...

Article GUID: 34217150

Author(s): Chen Z; An C; Tan Q; Tian X; Li G; Zhou Y;

Alberta has over 70% of total irrigated land in Canada and 13 irrigation districts are mainly located along the rivers in southern Alberta. The runoff and irrigation return flow can carry excess nutrients, pesticides, and sediments, which adversely affect the river water quality. In the present study, the comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of land use ...

Article GUID: 34214919

Author(s): Sultana A; Kwok TH; Hsu CC; Ng HD;

Energy can be represented in the form of deformation obtained by the applied force. Energy transfer is defined in physics as the energy is moved from one place to another. To make the energy transfer functional, energy should be moved into the right direction. If it is possible to make a better use of the energy in the right direction, the energy efficien ...

Article GUID: 34198446

Author(s): Fatile BO; Pugh M; Medraj M;

The present research aimed to investigate the effect of working parameters on the electrospinning of niobium-tungsten oxide nanofibers and optimize the process using central composite design (CCD) based on the response surface methodology (RSM). An experiment was designed to assess the effects of five variables including the applied voltage (V), spinning ...

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Author(s): Stojanovic J; Boucher VG; Gagne M; Gupta S; Joyal-Desmarais K; Paduano S; Aburub AS; Sheinfeld Gorin SN; Kassianos AP; Ribeiro PAB; Bacon SL; Lavoie KL;

The success of large-scale COVID-19 vaccination campaigns is contingent upon people being willing to receive the vaccine. Our study explored COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its correlates in eight different countries around the globe. We analyzed convenience sample data collected between March 202 ...

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Author(s): Kaliamurthi S; Selvaraj G; Selvaraj C; Singh SK; Wei DQ; Peslherbe GH;

Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 is the leading global health threat to date caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Recent clinical trials reported that the use of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors to treat COVID-19 patients could reduce dyspnea and hypoxia, thromboinflammation, hypercoagulability and improve oxy ...

Article GUID: 34209188

Author(s): Gostolupce D; Iordanova MD; Lay BPP;

Adaptive behaviour is under the potent control of environmental cues. Such cues can acquire value by virtue of their associations with outcomes of motivational significance, be they appetitive or aversive. There are at least two ways through which an environmental cue can acquire value, through first-order and higher-order conditioning. In first-order con ...

Article GUID: 34197867

Author(s): Sidorenkov AV; Borokhovski EF;

This paper explores the relationships of various employees' identifications (personal, interpersonal, micro-group, group and organizational) in their two components (cognitive and affective) with two dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB): offering quality ideas and suggestions, and providing help and support within small work groups. ...

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