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  • C. elegans as a model organism to study female reproductive health 
    Athar, Faria; Templeman, Nicole M (Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 2022-04)
    Female reproductive health has been historically understudied and underfunded. Here, we present the advantages of using a free-living nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, as an animal system to study fundamental aspects of ...
  • The Ca and Mg isotope record of the Cryogenian Trezona carbon isotope excursion 
    Ahm, Anne-Sofie C.; Bjerrum, Christian J.; Hoffman, Paul F.; Macdonald, Francis A.; Maloof, Adam C.; Rose, Catherine V.; Strauss, Justin V.; Higgins, John A. (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021)
    The Trezona carbon isotope excursion is recorded on five different continents in platform carbonates deposited prior to the end-Cryogenian Marinoan glaciation (>635 Ma) and represents a change in carbon isotope values of ...
  • Cadmium zinc telluride as a mid-infrared variable retarder 
    FitzGerald, William; Taherion, Saeid; Kumar, F. Joseph; Giles, David; Hore, Dennis K. (Journal of Applied Physics, 2018)
    The electro-optic behavior of cadmium zinc telluride is examined in the mid-infrared region between 3 and 11 μm, for applied DC field strengths of up to 106 V/m. The measurements performed here include full characterization ...
  • Calcium carbonate hexahydrate (ikaite): History of mineral formation as recorded by stable isotopes 
    Whiticar, Michael J.; Suess, Erwin; Wefer, Gerold; Müller, Peter J. (Minerals, 2022)
    Calcium carbonate hexahydrate (ikaite) is a rare mineral that forms as metastable species in the organic-carbon-rich sediments of the King George Basin, Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, as a consequence of early diagenetic ...
  • Calcium stannyl formation by organostannane dehydrogenation 
    Morris, Louis J.; Hill, Michael S.; Manners, Ian; McMullin, Claire L.; Mahon, Mary F.; Rajabi, Nasir A. (Chemical Communications, 2019)
    Reaction of the dimeric calcium hydride, [(BDI)CaH]2, with Ph3SnH ensues with elimination of H2 to provide [(BDI)Ca-μ2-H-(SnPh3)Ca(BDI)] and [(BDI)Ca(SnPh3)]2 alongside dismutation to Ph4Sn, H2 and Sn(0). DFT analysis ...
  • Can Cold Brew Coffee be Convenient? A Pilot Study for Caffeine Content in Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography 
    Lane, Sarah; Palmer, Josh; Christie, Brian R.; Ehlting, Juergen; Le, Cuong H. (The Arbutus Review, 2017)
    Cold brew coffee is a brewing method that is increasing in prevalence. While it has been anecdotally suggested that this method may provide a more aromatic and flavourful coffee product, there is little research published ...
  • Canadian Sex Workers Weigh the Costs and Benefits of Disclosing Their Occupational Status to Health Providers 
    Benoit, Cecilia; Smith, Michaela; Jansson, Mikael; Magnus, Samantha; Maurice, Renay; Flagg, Jackson; Reist, Dan (Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019)
    Prostitution stigma has been shown to negatively affect the work, personal lives, and health of sex workers. Research also shows that sex workers have much higher unmet health care needs than the general population. Less ...
  • Capture severity, infectious disease processes and sex influence post-release mortality of sockeye salmon bycatch 
    Teffer, Amy K.; Hinch, Scott G.; Miller, Kristi M.; Patterson, David A.; Farrell, Anthony P.; Cooke, Steven J.; Bass, Arthur L.; Szekeres, Petra; Juanes, Francis (Conservation Physiology, 2017)
    Bycatch is a common occurrence in heavily fished areas such as the Fraser River, British Columbia, where fisheries target returning adult Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) en route to spawning grounds. The extent to which ...
  • Carbon Nanotube Assembly and Integration for Applications 
    Venkataraman, Anusha; Amadi, Eberechukwu Victoria; Chen, Yingduo; Papadopoulos, Chris (Nanoscale Research Letters, 2019)
    Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted significant interest due to their unique combination of properties including high mechanical strength, large aspect ratios, high surface area, distinct optical characteristics, high ...
  • Cardiac arrest in a mother and daughter and the identification of a novel RYR2 variant, predisposing to low penetrant catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in a four-generation Canadian family 
    Tung, Matthew; Van Petegem, Filip; Lauson, Samantha; Collier, Ashley; Hodgkinson, Kathy; Fernandez, Bridget; Connors, Sean; Leather, Rick; Santani, Shubhayan; Arbour, Laura (Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2020)
    Background: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a rare inherited arrhythmia syndrome characterized by adrenergically driven ventricular arrhythmia predominantly caused by pathogenic variants ...
  • Causes and risk factors for infant mortality in Nunavut, Canada 1999–2011 
    Collins, Sorcha A; Surmala, Padma; Osborne, Geraldine; Greenberg, Cheryl; Bathony, Laakkuluk Williamson; Edmunds-Potvin, Sharon; Arbour, Laura (BioMed Central, 2012-12-12)
    Abstract Background: The northern territory Nunavut has Canada’s largest jurisdictional land mass with 33,322 inhabitants, of which 85% self-identify as Inuit. Nunavut has rates of infant mortality, postneonatal mortality ...
  • Causes and risk factors for infant mortality in Nunavut, Canada 1999–2011 
    Collins, Sorcha A; Surmala, Padma; Osborne, Geraldine; Greenberg, Cheryl; Bathony, Laakkuluk Williamson; Edmunds-Potvin, Sharon; Arbour, Laura (BioMed Central, 2012-12-12)
    Abstract Background: The northern territory Nunavut has Canada’s largest jurisdictional land mass with 33,322 inhabitants, of which 85% self-identify as Inuit. Nunavut has rates of infant mortality, postneonatal mortality ...
  • Cell and Gene Therapies for Mucopolysaccharidoses: Base Editing and Therapeutic Delivery to the CNS 
    Christensen, Chloe L.; Ashmead, Rhea E.; Choy, Francis Y. M. (Diseases, 2019)
    Although individually uncommon, rare diseases collectively account for a considerable proportion of disease impact worldwide. A group of rare genetic diseases called the mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs) are characterized by ...
  • Cellular uptake and targeting of low dispersity, dual emissive, segmented block copolymer nanofibers 
    Street, Steven T. G.; He, Yunxiang; Jin, Xu-Hui; Hodgson, Lorna; Verkade, Paul; Manners, Ian (Chemical Science, 2020)
    Polymer-based nanoparticles show substantial promise in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. Herein we report an exploration of the cellular uptake of tailored, low dispersity segmented 1D nanoparticles ...
  • Certain Admissible Classes of Multivalent Functions 
    Aouf, M.K.; Srivastava, H.M.; Seoudy, T.M. (Journal of Complex Analysis, 2014)
    We investigate some applications of the differential subordination and the differential superordination of certain admissible classes of multivalent functions in the open unit disk. Several differential sandwich-type results ...
  • A certain class of completely monotonic sequences 
    Guo, Senlin; Srivastava, H.M.; Batir, Necdet (Advances in Difference Equations, 2013-11-07)
    In this article, we present some necessary conditions, a sufficient condition and a necessary and sufficient condition for sequences to be completely monotonic. One counterexample is also presented. MSC: Primary 40A05; ...
  • A Certain Family of Integral Operators Associated with the Struve Functions 
    Mahmood, Shahid; Srivastava, H.M.; Malik, Sarfraz Nawaz; Raza, Mohsan; Shahzadi, Neelam; Zainab, Saira (Symmetry, 2019)
    This article presents the study of Struve functions and certain integral operators associated with the Struve functions. It contains the investigation of certain geometric properties like the strong starlikeness and strong ...
  • Certain Inequalities Pertaining to Some New Generalized Fractional Integral Operators 
    Srivastava, H.M.; Kashuri, Artion; Mohammed, Pshtiwan Othman; Nonlaopon, Kamsing (Fractal and Fractional, 2021)
    In this paper, we introduce the generalized left-side and right-side fractional integral operators with a certain modified ML kernel. We investigate the Chebyshev inequality via this general family of fractional integral ...
  • Certain new models of the multi-space fractal-fractional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and Korteweg-de Vries equations 
    Srivastava, H.M.; Saad, Khaled Mohammed; Hamanah, Walid M. (Mathematics, 2022)
    The main objective of this paper is to introduce and study the numerical solutions of the multi-space fractal-fractional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation (MSFFKS) and the multi-space fractal-fractional Korteweg-de Vries ...
  • Certain Results for the Twice-Iterated 2D q-Appell Polynomials 
    Srivastava, H.M.; Yasmin, Ghazala; Muhyi, Abdulghani; Araci, Serkan (Symmetry, 2019)
    In this paper, the class of the twice-iterated 2D q-Appell polynomials is introduced. The generating function, series definition and some relations including the recurrence relations and partial q-difference equations of ...

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