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    The role of temperate treed swamps as a carbon sink in southwestern Nova Scotia 
    Kendall, Rachel A.; Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Burton, David; Hamdan, Kevin (Canadian Science Publishing, 2021-01)
    Forested wetlands may represent important ecosystems for mitigating climate change effects through carbon (C) sequestration because of their slow decomposition and C storage by trees. Despite this potential importance, few ...

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    Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change? 
    Rees, W. Gareth; Hofgaard, Annika; Boudreau, Stéphane; Cairns, David M.; Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Mamet, Steven; Mathisen, Ingrid; Swirad, Zuzanna; Tutubalina, Olga (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2020-07)
    Recent climate warming and scenarios for further warming have led to expectations of rapid movement of ecological boundaries. Here we focus on the circumarctic forest–tundra ecotone (FTE), which represents an important ...

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    A Theoretical Proposal for Examining the Integration of Cooperative and Competitive Mothering Behavior 
    Fisher, Maryanne; Burch, Becky; Sokol-Chang, Rosemarie I. (International Society for Human Ethology, 2017-03-30)
    Over the course of evolutionary history, women have faced situations where they presumably have needed to both compete and cooperate with the same group of kin and non-kin individuals for the purposes of advancing reproductive ...

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    Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection 
    Kehoe, S. Karly (Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2017)
    Review of: Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection, edited by T. M. Devine.

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    Multiscale habitat characterization of herbaceous Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora on lakeshores in Nova Scotia 
    Dazé Querry, Natasha; Bordeleau, Xavier; Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Basquill, Sean P. (NRC Research Press, 2017-06)
    Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora (ACPF) are a group of plants mostly inhabiting lakeshores along the Atlantic coast of the United States, with disjunct populations in Nova Scotia and Ontario. To better define their ecological ...

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    “Eastern Métis” Studies and White Settler Colonialism Today 
    Leroux, Darryl, 1978- (Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, 2019)
    Two books published in the first half of 2019 by Presses de l’Université Laval - Le statut de Métis au Canada and Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais - are the latest in a primarily ...

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    Corrigendum: Marital Satisfaction, Sex, Age, Marriage Duration, Religion, Number of Children, Economic Status, Education, and Collectivistic Values: Data from 33 Countries 
    Sorokowski, Piotr; Randall, Ashley K.; Groyecka, Agata; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Hilpert, Peter; Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh; Alghraibeh, Ahmad M.; Aryeetey, Richmond; Bertoni, Anna; Bettache, Karim; Fisher, Maryanne (Frontiers Media, 2017-10-05)
    A corrigendum on Marital Satisfaction, Sex, Age, Marriage Duration, Religion, Number of Children, Economic Status, Education, and Collectivistic Values: Data from 33 Countries by Sorokowski, P., Randall, A. K., Groyecka, ...

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    "You Talkin' to Me?" The Implied Reader in Canadian Business Magazine 
    Grandy, Karen (CISP Journal Services, 2017)
    Background: This Research in Brief asks whether the implied reader of Canadian Business is gendered and exclusive of women, as claimed in the November 2013 Letters to the Editor of that magazine.
    Analysis: To answer ...

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    Procedural learning in Tourette syndrome, ADHD, and comorbid Tourette-ADHD: Evidence from a probabilistic sequence learning task 
    Takacs, A.; Shilon, Y.; Janacsek, K.; Kóbor, A.; Tremblay, Antoine; Németh, D.; Ullman, M. T. (Elsevier, 2017-10)
    Procedural memory, which is rooted in the basal ganglia, plays an important role in the implicit learning of motor and cognitive skills. Few studies have examined procedural learning in either Tourette syndrome (TS) or ...

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    First results on the experimental search for η[prime]-mesic nuclei with the 12C(p, d) reaction 
    Tanaka, Y. K.; Ayyad, Y.; Benlliure, J.; Brinkmann, K. T.; Friedrich, S.; Fujioka, H.; Geissel, H.; Gellanki, J.; Guo, C.; Gutz, E.; Haettner, E.; Harakeh, M. N.; Hayano, R. S.; Higashi, Y.; Hirenzaki, S.; Hornung, C.; Igarashi, Y.; Ikeno, N.; Itahashi, K.; Iwasaki, M.; Jido, D.; Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N.; Kanungo, Rituparna; Knöbel, R.; Kurz, N.; Metag, V.; Mukha, I. (Jagiellonian University, 2017-10)
    We performed a missing-mass spectroscopy experiment of the 12C(p, d )reaction in order to search for η′-mesic nuclei. Excitation spectrum of 11C around the η′< ...

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    The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: 850 μm maps, catalogues and number counts 
    Geach, J. E.; Dunlop, J. S.; Halpern, M.; Smail, Ian; van der Werf, P.; Alexander, D. M.; Almaini, O.; Aretxaga, I.; Arumugam, V.; Asboth, V.; Banerji, M.; Beanlands, J.; Best, P. N.; Blain, A. W.; Birkinshaw, M.; Chapin, E. L.; Chapman, S. C.; Chen, C-C.; Chrysostomou, A.; Clarke, C.; Clements, D. L.; Conselice, C.; Coppin, K. E. K.; Cowley, W. I.; Danielson, A. L. R.; Eales, S.; Edge, A. C.; Farrah, D.; Gibb, A.; Harrison, C. M. (Oxford University Press, 2017-02)
    We present a catalogue of ∼3000 submillimetre sources detected (≥3.5σ) at 850 μm over ∼5 deg2 surveyed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey ...

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    Arcus: exploring the formation and evolution of clusters, galaxies, and stars 
    Smith, R. K.; Abraham, M.; Allured, R.; Bautz, M.; Bookbinder, J.; Bregman, J.; Brenneman, L.; Brickhouse, N. S.; Burrows, D.; Burwitz, V.; Cheimets, P. N.; Costantini, E.; Dawson, S.; DeRoo, C.; Falcone, A.; Foster, A. R.; Gallo, Luigi C.; Grant, C. E.; Günther, H. M.; Heilmann, R. K; Hertz, E.; Hine, B.; Huenemoerder, D.; Kaastra, J. S.; Kreykenbohm, I.; Madsen, K. K.; McEntaffer, R.; Miller, E.; Miller, J.; Morse, E.; Mushotzky, R.; Nandra, K.; Nowak, M.; Paerels, F.; Petre, R.; Poppenhaeger, K.; Ptak, A.; Reid, P.; Sanders, J.; Schattenburg, M.; Schulz, N.; Smale, A.; Temi, P.; Valencic, L.; Walker, S.; Willingale, R.; Wilms, J.; Wolk, S. J. (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2017-08-29)
    Arcus, a Medium Explorer (MIDEX) mission, was selected by NASA for a Phase A study in August 2017. The observatory provides high-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy in the 12-50Å bandpass with unprecedent-ed sensitivity: ...

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    Detection of QTLs for seedling characteristics in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grown under hydroponic culture condition 
    Wang, Qifei; Sun, Genlou; Ren, Xifeng; Wang, Jibin; Du, Binbin; Li, Chengdao; Sun, Dongfa (BMC, 2017-11-07)
    Background: Seedling characteristics play significant roles in the growth and development of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), including stable stand establishment, water and nutrients uptake, biotic resistance and abiotic ...

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    Key principles of ecosystem-based management: the fishermen's perspective 
    Long, Rachel D.; Charles, Anthony Trevor, 1956-; Stephenson, Robert L. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017-03)
    Despite the growing popularity of ecosystem-based management (EBM) in national legislation and in research and institutional literature, there is often an implementation gap ‘on the ground’, impeding widespread adoption ...

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    Solar abundance ratios of the iron-peak elements in the Perseus cluster 
    Hitomi Collaboration; Aharonian, F.; Akamatsu, H.; Akimoto, F.; Allen, S. W.; Angelini, L.; Audard, M.; Awaki, H.; Axelsson, M.; Bamba, A.; Bautz, M. W.; Gallo, Luigi C. (Springer Nature, 2017-11--2)
    The metal abundance of the hot plasma that permeates galaxy clusters represents the accumulation of heavy elements produced by billions of supernovae1. Therefore, X-ray spectroscopy of the intracluster medium ...

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    On the estimation and detection of the Rees–Sciama effect 
    Fullana, M. J.; Arnau, J. V.; Thacker, Robert John, 1970-; Couchman, H. M. P.; Sáez, D. (Oxford University Press, 2017-02)
    Maps of the Rees–Sciama (RS) effect are simulated using the parallel N-body code, hydra, and a run-time ray-tracing procedure. A method designed for the analysis of small, square cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps is ...

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    Revealing structure and evolution within the corona of the Seyfert galaxy I Zw 1 
    Wilkins, D. R.; Gallo, Luigi C.; Silva, C. V.; Costantini, E.; Brandt, W. N.; Kriss, G. A. (Oxford University Press, 2017-11)
    X-ray spectral timing analysis is presented of XMM–Newton observations of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy I Zwicky 1 taken in 2015 January. After exploring the effect of background flaring on timing analyses, X-ray ...

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    V473 Lyr, a modulated, period-doubled Cepheid, and U TrA, a double-mode Cepheid, observed by MOST 
    Molnar, L.; Derekas, A.; Szabo, R.; Matthews, J. M.; Cameron, C.; Moffat, A. F. J.; Richardson, N. D.; Csak, B.; Dozsa, A.; Reed, P.; Szabados, L.; Heathcote, B.; Bohlsen, T.; Cacella, P.; Luckas, P.; Sodor, A.; Skarka, M.; Szabo, Gy. M.; Plachy, E.; Kovacs, J.; Evans, N. R.; Kolenberg, K.; Collins, K. A.; Pepper, J.; Stassun, K. G.; Rodriguez, J. E.; Siverd, R. J.; Henden, A.; Mankiewicz, L.; Zarnecki, A. F.; Cwiek, A.; Sokolowski, M.; Pal, A.; Guenther, David B.; Kuschnig, R.; Rowe, J.; Rucinski, S. M.; Sasselov, D.; Weiss, W. W. (Oxford University Press, 2017-05)
    Space-based photometric measurements first revealed low-amplitude irregularities in the pulsations of Cepheid stars, but their origins and how commonly they occur remain uncertain. To investigate this phenomenon, we present ...

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    On the existence of young embedded clusters at high Galactic latitude 
    Turner, David Gerald, 1945-; Carraro, G.; Panko, E. A. (Oxford University Press, 2017-05-24)
    Careful analyses of photometric and star count data available for the nine putative young clusters identified by Camargo et al. at high Galactic latitudes reveal that none of the groups contain early-type stars, and most ...

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    Probing the geometry and motion of AGN coronae through accretion disc emissivity profiles 
    Gonzalez, A. G.; Wilkins, D. R.; Gallo, Luigi C. (Oxford University Press, 2017-12)
    To gain a better understanding of the inner disc region that comprises active galactic nuclei, it is necessary to understand the pattern in which the disc is illuminated (the emissivity profile) by X-rays emitted from the ...

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