Author(s): Mosharafian S; Jaeger JAG;

Rapid increases in urban sprawl in many cities across the planet pose a challenge that needs to be addressed urgently. This study proposes targets, limits, and warning values to urban sprawl as a quantitative reference framework for exploring potential future pathways and to provide guidance for future land management. The reference framework serves to ev ...

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Author(s): Hayot-Sasson V; Glatard T;

Neuroimaging open-data initiatives have led to increased availability of large scientific datasets. While these datasets are shifting the processing bottleneck from compute-intensive to data-intensive, current standardized analysis tools have yet to adopt strategies that mitigate the costs associated with large data transfers. A major challenge in adaptin ...

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Author(s): Biglieri S; Ahmed N; Main S; Tupling OL; Vijayakumar R; Boger J; Daum C; Dupuis S; Koch M; Liu L; Lopez K; Mann J; Martin M; McAiney C; Nasir HJ; Nasir N; Pearce B; Weldrick R; Vanderlinden K; Middleton L;

Exclusion, marginalization and stigma remain common experiences for people living with dementia. Dementia capable communities offer a pathway to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia by creating spaces where people living with dementia and their care partners are supported and empo ...

Article GUID: 41432943

Author(s): Morrison K; Pottier P; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Yang Y; Beillouin D; Cardoso SJ; Ferreira V; Gallagher B; Gan JL; Hao G; Keikha M; Kozlowsky-Suzuki B; Kiran Kumara TM; Latterini F; Leverkus AB; Macartney EL; Manrique SM; Martinig ...

Meta-analysis is commonly a core component of systematic reviews and has become an important method to reconcile conflicting findings, increase statistical power, and chart new research directions. However, poor reporting practices make it challenging to evaluate the validity of meta-analyses. De ...

Article GUID: 41411971

Author(s): Khaled Touati

Effective brine management remains a major challenge for the desalination industry, particularly as plants encounter increasingly high-salinity waste streams. This study presents a comparative performance assessment of advanced reverse osmosis-based technologies, low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis (LSRRO), high-pressure reverse osmosis (HPRO), osmotically ...

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Author(s): Titov A; Drouin S; Kersten-Oertel M;

Background: One of the bottlenecks of visualization research is the lack of volunteers for studies that evaluate new methods and paradigms. The increased availability of web-based marketplaces, combined with the possibility of implementing volume rendering, a computationally expensive method, on mobile devices, has opened the door for using gamification i ...

Article GUID: 41341989

Author(s): Plante C; Datta Gupta S; Bandara T; Beland D; Blaser C; Camillo CA; Villa E; Dutton D; Fuller D; Hasselback J; Lix LM; Marouzi A; Muhajarine N; Notten G; Reimer B; Wolfson M; Young M; Concha DY; Neudorf C;

Background: Two decades of research have highlighted persistent income-related health inequities in Canada across municipal, provincial, and national levels. While there is broad consensus among researchers, advocates, and health professionals that social determinants are the primary drivers of h ...

Article GUID: 41313634

Author(s): Wilansky J; Cao K;

This study investigated the effectiveness of municipal waste collection policies within England and Wales by examining how variations in local waste management strategies correlate with recycling rates. Using data from 297 council districts, we analysed the impact of different policy variables (frequency of residual waste and recycling collection, sorting ...

Article GUID: 41297338

Author(s): Lazzari G; Ferreri L; Cattaneo L; Penhune V; Lega C;

The ability to internally generate and maintain a rhythmic pulse, i.e., beat imagery, is a fundamental aspect of musical cognition. While recent theories propose that premotor regions support internal temporal predictions during rhythm perception and imagery, direct causal evidence remains limited. In this study, we investigated the specific contributions ...

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Author(s): Quirk E; Brouillard M; Ahooja A; Ballinger S; Polka L; Byers-Heinlein K; Kircher R;

Many parents have concerns about raising their children with multiple languages. However, there is a paucity of previous research regarding parental concerns about multilingual child-rearing, particularly in multilingual societies. We address this gap with a corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing in Quebe ...

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Author(s): Spence DS; Painter KJ; Nazemi A; Venkiteswaran JJ; Baulch HM;

Drinking water treatability is defined by multiple parameters that are strongly impacted by climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Working in a shallow reservoir in the Canadian Prairies, generalized additive models (GAMs) were applied to a 33-year dataset to identify drivers of interannual variability in multiple indicators of drinking water treatability. I ...

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