Author(s): Wu N; Joyal-Desmarais K; Linkins LA; Flórez ID; Bacon SL;

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic demanded evidence synthesis approaches that could keep pace with rapidly evolving science and urgent policy needs. Rapid reviews and living evidence syntheses (LES) emerged as critical methodological responses, yet limited guidance exists for teams undertaking such work, particularly regarding the operational challenges o ...

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Author(s): David LeRue

This practitioner reflection examines how painting in plein-air-meaning outdoors from life-inspired multimodal fieldnotes that became the node between research, teaching, and place. This work was conducted during a 4-year, community-engaged art education study where the community art classroom was employed to develop participatory arts-based research meth ...

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Author(s): Brusseau AJP; Synnott FD; Nagl A; Morris J; Mathis A; Ramnarine IW; Crane AL; Brown GE;

Males and females, especially in species with more pronounced sexual dimorphisms, may face very different trade-offs between detecting and avoiding predation threats and the need to court potential mates. Within aquatic ecosystems, the use of reliable publicly available chemosensory risk assessment cues allows prey to assess local threats and optimize the ...

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Author(s): Delaney KZ; Nadeem MI; Plissonneau C; Khor N; Delaney J; Morais JA; Tsoukas MA; Pescarus R; Garneau PY; Santosa S;

Adipose tissue (AT) immune cells are implicated in the pathology of type 2 diabetes (T2D), and their content likely differs between abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (abSAT), femoral SAT (fmSAT), and visceral adipose tissue (VAT). Therefore, the objective of the current study was to develop a ...

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Author(s): Teló C; O' Brien MG; Trofimovich P;

Accented second language (L2) speakers are frequently evaluated less favorably than first language (L1) speakers in employment contexts. Processing fluency (the subjective ease of understanding a speaker) has been identified as an experiential variable that helps explain why L2 speakers tend to receive lower workplace-relevant evaluations. However, less i ...

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Author(s): Chukwuejim S; Fatoki TH; Aluko RE;

Arginase is a binuclear manganese metalloenzyme that modulates L-arginine availability and downstream metabolic pathways. It was hypothesized that C-terminal arginine-containing peptides generated through simulated gastrointestinal digestion of white lupin (Lupinus albus) proteins would exhibit arginase inhibitory activity. To test this hypothesis, integr ...

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Author(s): Freeman-Cole CE; Jaeger JAG;

While landscape connectivity is an important focus of Canada's conservation goals, Canadian national parks are vulnerable to habitat loss, the breaking-up of habitat patches, and a reduction in their connectivity to surrounding ecosystems. This study measured landscape fragmentation in 43 Canadian national parks and control areas throughout their hist ...

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Author(s): Brancheriau CR; Larocque K; Schick G; Tountas I; Perlman A; Piekny A;

Cytokinesis, the final step of cell division, relies on ingression of a precisely positioned actomyosin ring. Chromatin-associated Ran-GTP fine-tunes ring position, although the mechanism remains unclear. We hypothesize that depletion of Ran-GTP between segregating chromosomes leads to equatorial enrichment of importins, promoting recruitment of the scaff ...

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Author(s): Coulter K; Dash T; Best T; Grant N; Ansaldo AI; Phillips NA;

Speaking more than one language is hypothesized to lead to greater brain resilience in aging and Alzheimer's disease, resulting in a delay in the symptom onset of Alzheimer's disease. While previous research has used structural neuroimaging measures to explore the neural underpinnings of this protective effect, few studies have used functional bra ...

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Author(s): Sander-Montant A; Fibla L; Killam H; Byers-Heinlein K;

A persistent challenge in experimental developmental psychology is determining which of many possible outcome measures best captures underlying behaviors and processes. In the looking-while-listening paradigm for studying early word comprehension, researchers have developed more than 12 distinct outcome measures, but have limited empirical basis for choos ...

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Author(s): Clayton EJ; Smith-Uffen M; Tribble TW; Duennwald ML; Kohalmi SE;

Background: Phenylalanine is an essential aromatic amino acid that can only be synthesized de novo by microorganisms and plants. In microorganisms, phenylalanine is synthesized through the prephenate pathway, requiring the activity of a prephenate dehydratase (PDT). In plants, phenylalanine is synthesized instead mostly through the arogenate pathway, requ ...

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