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A Geospatial Expose of Flood-Risk and Vulnerable Areas in Nigeria
Flooding is recurrent in Nigeria, occurring yearly at different scales. This geared the need for a study to reveal local government areas (LGAs) that are at risk and vulnerable to flooding. The multi-criteria approach was...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
A history of Preparing Teachers for Northern Labrador
This article explores the history of Indigenous teacher education in Labrador, Canada. The focus is on Memorial University’s involvement in this area from the 1970s to the present, including the Teacher Education Program in...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
MCDM Approach for Mitigation of Flooding Risks in Odisha (India) Based on Information Retrieval
Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) provides a suitable platform for groups as well as promotion of the participants' role in decision processes. This also enables the development of real participatory processes essential for...
Published by: IGI Global
Peak flow prediction using fuzzy linear regression
The 2013 floods in Alberta highlighted the need for better flood prediction. Though the mechanisms behind floods and extreme events in urban areas are understood and documented, the uncertainty in data during these events makes...
Psy-Times
Katie Aubrecht
Dec 29, 2016
Guided by insights from interpretive sociology, Mad Studies, and Disability Studies, this paper explores the role of universities in a psycho-social politics of resilience. I examine how the concept of resilience is used to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
GEView (Gene Expression View) Tool for Intuitive and High Accessible Visualization of Expression Data for Non-Programmer Biologists
This article describes how the last decade has been characterized by the production of huge amounts of different types of biological data. Following that, a flood of bioinformatics tools have been published. However, many of...
Published by: IGI Global
“Why Didn’t Our Boys Just Shoot Him and Leave a Little Note?”
Katie Anne Cranford
Aug 22, 2017
Historically speaking, the trial of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann was an unavoidable spectacle of the 1960s. For some, it could have been seen as a farce due to its inherent impartiality as the accused was illegally kidnapped out...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
IT Applications
Shafqat Niaz
Jan 01, 2022
IT revolution is the largest one which is transforming the world completely. These applications are providing new ways of managing the organizations. Study was conducted on the employees of Natural Disaster Management Authority...
Published by: IGI Global
Statistical Downscaling of Rainfall using Large-Scale Predictors
A warmer climate is expected to lead to more serious natural disasters, such as heavy storms, prolonged droughts and frequent floods. For a high-density urban region, the flash flood problem may become worse due to possible...
Numerical simulations of oil spill trajectories in the Danjiangkou Reservoir in China
Oil spills in surface water happen each year in the world and significantly damage water quality and ecosystems. Numerical simulation of oil spill trajectories is helpful for risk assessment and risk controlling. Previous...
Restoration of the Barataria Basin Barrier Islands
Steven Thomas Kent
Apr 09, 2013
Barataria Bay is located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, immediately south of New Orleans,
LA. The southern half of the basin consists of approximately 1,900km2 of marshland and 600km2 of
swampland. These wetlands are all...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Impact on alcohol selection and online purchasing of changing the proportion of available non-alcoholic versus alcoholic drinks
Natasha Clarke, Anna K M Blackwell, Jennifer Ferrar, Katie De-loyde, Mark A Pilling, Marcus R Munafò, Theresa M Marteau, Gareth J Hollands
Apr 17, 2023
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Increasing the availability of non-alcoholic options is a promising population-level intervention to reduce alcohol consumption, currently unassessed in naturalistic settings. This study in an online retail...
Published by: PLoS Medicine
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations.
Katie Dunkley, Kathryn E Whittey, Amy Ellison, Sarah E Perkins, Jo Cable, James E Herbert-Read
Apr 17, 2023
Mutualisms are driven by partners deciding to interact with one another to gain specific services or rewards. As predicted by biological market theory, partners should be selected based on the likelihood, quality, reward level...
Assessment of association between lower ureteric excision technique and oncological outcomes for upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma
James Peter Blackmur, Etienne Chew, Matthew Trail, Katie Brodie, Nicola Santoni, Flora Rodger, David Hamilton, Fortis Gaba, Sophie Randall, Sarika Nalagatla, Brian Little, Khalid Janjua, Clare Sweeney, Andrew Martindale, Khaver Qureshi, Antony Riddick, Kevin O'Connor, S Alan McNeill, Simon Phipps, Mark L Cutress, Edward AA Mains, Ian Dunn, Sarah Reid, Grant D Stewart, Gavin Lamb, Muhammad Zeeshan Aslam, Steve Leung, Ross Clark, Ian Wilson, Grenville Oades, Alexander Chapman, Alexander Laird
Apr 08, 2023
Potent Stimulation of the Androgen Receptor Instigates a Viral Mimicry Response in Prostate Cancer.
Mohammadreza Alizadeh-Ghodsi, Katie L Owen, Scott L Townley, Damien Zanker, Samuel PG Rollin, Adrienne R Hanson, Raj Shrestha, John Toubia, Tessa Gargett, Igor Chernukhin, Jennii Luu, Karla J Cowley, Ashlee Clark, Jason S Carroll, Kaylene J Simpson, Jean M Winter, Mitchell G Lawrence, Lisa M Butler, Gail P Risbridger, Benjamin Thierry, Renea A Taylor, Theresa E Hickey, Belinda S Parker, Wayne D Tilley, Luke A Selth
Apr 15, 2023
UNLABELLED: Inhibiting the androgen receptor (AR), a ligand-activated transcription factor, with androgen deprivation therapy is a standard-of-care treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. Paradoxically, activation of AR can...
Structural brain alterations associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young people
Laura S. van Velzen, Maria R. Dauvermann, Lejla Colic, Luca M. Villa, Hannah S. Savage, Yara J. Toenders, Alyssa H. Zhu, Joanna K. Bright, Adrián I. Campos, Lauren E. Salminen, Sonia Ambrogi, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola, Nerisa Banaj, Zeynep Başgöze, Jochen Bauer, Karina Blair, Robert James Blair, Katharina Brosch, Yuqi Cheng, Romain Colle, Colm G. Connolly, Emmanuelle Corruble, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Kathryn R. Cullen, Udo Dannlowski, Christopher G. Davey, Katharina Dohm, Janice M. Fullerton, Ali Saffet Gonul, Ian H. Gotlib, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Ben J. Harrison, Mengxin He, Ian B. Hickie, Tiffany C. Ho, Frank Iorfino, Andreas Jansen, Fabrice Jollant, Tilo Kircher, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Melissa Klug, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Katie A. McLaughlin, Susanne Meinert, Adam Bryant Miller, Philip B. Mitchell, Benson Mwangi, Igor Nenadić, Amar Ojha, Bronwyn J. Overs, Julia-Katharina Pfarr, Fabrizio Piras, Kai G. Ringwald, Gloria Roberts, Georg Romer, Marsal Sanches, Margaret A. Sheridan, Jair C. Soares, Gianfranco Spalletta, Frederike Stein, Giana I. Teresi, Diana Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, Aslihan Uyar-Demir, Nic J. A. van der Wee, Steven J. van der Werff, Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren, Alexandra Winter, Mon-Ju Wu, Tony T. Yang, Paul M. Thompson, Miguel E. Rentería, Neda Jahanshad, Hilary P. Blumberg, Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Lianne Schmaal
Apr 07, 2023