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Business, Security and Human Rights: Governance Insights from Canadian Transnational Mining Firms in Ghana and South Africa
Over the last two decades, we have seen the proliferation of nonstate actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs) on the global stage. Despite evidence pointing to the socio-economic contributions of TNCs, there have ...
Investigating and Understanding the Effects of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement and Shingles on the Rheology and Performance Grading of Asphalt Cement.
The incorporation of Recycled Asphalt Pavements (RAP) and Shingles (RAS) into neat asphalt binder is a useful development towards environmental sustainability apart from its economic savings benefits, which comes as a ...
Inequities in Education: A Study of Left-behind Children and Migrant Children
In the 1950s, China’s household registration system (hukou) was set up to serve the planned economy, becoming in turn a vital tool to manage migration. After the launching of Reform and Opening policies in 1978, the planned ...
Investigating low temperature resistance in Brachypodium distachyon, a cold stress and crop model
Low temperature poses one of the most biologically taxing and economically significant stresses for a variety of agricultural crops. To combat cold stress, resilient plants can undergo cold acclimation, a process involving ...
Environmental influences on microbial communities of lake whitefish, cisco, and Arctic char on and surrounding King William Island, Nunavut
Partnered with the Nunavut community of Gjoa Haven on King William Island, a large-scale Genome Canada project, the Towards a Sustainable Fishery for Nunavummiut (TSFN) project endeavoured to integrate Inuit traditional ...
Multi-Sensor Fusion of Automotive Radar and Onboard Motion Sensors for Seamless Land Vehicle Positioning in Challenging Environments
Positioning services for land vehicle navigation have long relied on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) including GPS; however, GNSS cannot maintain an accurate position while travelling under bridges, around tall ...
Environmentally Friendly Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries
Recycling lithium ion batteries (LIBs) and using their recovered materials to make new ones has many economic, social, and environmental benefits. The greatest benefits come from recycling metals from cathode active ...
The Safety, Efficacy, and Tolerability of Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutic-2 in People with Major Depression and/or Generallzed Anxiety Disorder
Objective: The primary objective of this study is to assess subjective changes in mood and anxiety symptoms before, during, and after administration of the microbial therapeutic. The secondary objectives of this study are ...
Safety Through Uncertainty in Wastewater Treatment: Monte Carlo Simulation-Based First Order Kinetic Design of Waste Stabilization Ponds
Waste stabilization pond (WSP) systems are a simple and low-cost form of wastewater treatment. Forecasting the treatment efficiency of these systems can be challenging given the complexity of their treatment processes and ...
Evaluating conservation strategies for a threatened population of gray ratsnakes (Pantherophis spiloides)
Wildlife populations across the globe are declining due to the effects of increasing anthropogenic activities. Among the most vulnerable taxa are snakes, which face several threats including road mortality and habitat loss. ...