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University of Guelph
Education•Guelph, Ontario, Canada•
About: University of Guelph is a education organization based out in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 26542 authors who have published 50553 publications receiving 1715255 citations. The organization is also known as: U of G & Guelph University.
Topics: Population, Poison control, DNA barcoding, Soil water, Skeletal muscle
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TL;DR: The catalytic defunctionalization of a series of biomass-derived molecules to provide linear alkanes suitable for use as transportation fuels and is applicable to a range of precursors with different carbon content (chain length).
Abstract: The development of methodology to convert biomass into fuels and chemical feedstocks is part of a drive to reduce the world's dependence on crude oil. Here, the catalytic defunctionalization of a series of biomass-derived molecules is described, which allows the selective generation of alkanes with carbon chain lengths between eight and sixteen for use as transportation fuels.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the research on consumer repurchase intention, perceived value, and perceived risk into the realm of the peer-to-peer economy, specifically in the context of Airbnb.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to extend the research on consumer repurchase intention, perceived value, and perceived risk into the realm of the peer-to-peer economy, specifically in the context of Airbnb. A total of 395 surveys were collected in Canada and the United States. The results showed that perceived risk negatively impacts Airbnb consumers’ perceived value and repurchase intention while perceived value positively enhances their repurchase intention. Interestingly, price sensitivity was found not to reduce customers’ perceived risk but can improve their perceived value and positively influences them to repurchase the Airbnb products. Perceived authenticity was found to have a significant effect in reducing Airbnb consumers’ perceived risk and positively influencing their perceived value. Electronic word-of-mouth has a positive effect on repurchase intention as well as perceived value whereas it negatively affects perceived risk. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed and fut...
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TL;DR: In this article, the results of electron microscopy, selected-area electron diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy point analyses were obtained from Lower Moose Lake in the Onaping region near Sudbury, Canada.
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Northern Arizona University1, Forest Research Institute2, University of Eastern Finland3, University of Florida4, Sewanee: The University of the South5, University of Exeter6, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation7, University of Alberta8, Oak Ridge National Laboratory9, Michigan Technological University10, University of Hamburg11, National University of Singapore12, Woods Hole Research Center13, National Park Service14, Marine Biological Laboratory15, University of Alaska Fairbanks16, University of Guelph17, United States Geological Survey18
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of soil incubation studies from the permafrost zone suggests that thawing under aerobic conditions, which releases CO2, will strengthen the carbon feedback more than waterlogged systems, which release CO2 and CH4.
Abstract: A meta-analysis of soil incubation studies from the permafrost zone suggests that thawing under aerobic conditions, which releases CO2, will strengthen the permafrost carbon feedback more than waterlogged systems, which releases CO2 and CH4. Increasing temperatures in northern high latitudes are causing permafrost to thaw1, making large amounts of previously frozen organic matter vulnerable to microbial decomposition2. Permafrost thaw also creates a fragmented landscape of drier and wetter soil conditions3,4 that determine the amount and form (carbon dioxide (CO2), or methane (CH4)) of carbon (C) released to the atmosphere. The rate and form of C release control the magnitude of the permafrost C feedback, so their relative contribution with a warming climate remains unclear5,6. We quantified the effect of increasing temperature and changes from aerobic to anaerobic soil conditions using 25 soil incubation studies from the permafrost zone. Here we show, using two separate meta-analyses, that a 10 °C increase in incubation temperature increased C release by a factor of 2.0 (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.8 to 2.2). Under aerobic incubation conditions, soils released 3.4 (95% CI, 2.2 to 5.2) times more C than under anaerobic conditions. Even when accounting for the higher heat trapping capacity of CH4, soils released 2.3 (95% CI, 1.5 to 3.4) times more C under aerobic conditions. These results imply that permafrost ecosystems thawing under aerobic conditions and releasing CO2 will strengthen the permafrost C feedback more than waterlogged systems releasing CO2 and CH4 for a given amount of C.
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TL;DR: Even mild Zn deficiency may contribute to pregnancy complications, low birth weight, impaired immune competence, maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, and growth failure in infancy and childhood in many developing countries.
Abstract: Recently the United Nations has urged that priority should be given to developing programmless industrialized countries to prevent deficiencies of iodine, vitamin A, and Fe (United Nations, 1991). Nutritional Fe deficiency is associated with plant based diets which contain high levels of dietary fibre and phytate, components known to inhibit nonhaem Fe absorption, and low levels of flesh foods, rich sources of readily available haem iron (Monsen, 1988). Such plant based diets will also induce Zn deficiency. The consequences of Zn deficiency on human health in developing countries, however, have not yet been recognized. This is unfortunate because even mild Zn deficiency may contribute to pregnancy complications, low birth weight, impaired immune competence, maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, and growth failure in infancy and childhood (Swanson & King, 1987; Hambidge, 1989; National Academy of Sciences, 1991 ; United Nations, 1991). Hence Zn deficiency may have far reaching consequences on maternal, infant, and child health in many developing countries.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Dirk Inzé | 149 | 647 | 74468 |
Norbert Perrimon | 138 | 610 | 73505 |
Bobby Samir Acharya | 133 | 1121 | 100545 |
Eduardo Marbán | 129 | 579 | 49586 |
Benoît Roux | 120 | 493 | 62215 |
Fereidoon Shahidi | 119 | 951 | 57796 |
Stephen Safe | 116 | 784 | 60588 |
Mark A. Tarnopolsky | 115 | 644 | 42501 |
Robert C. Haddon | 112 | 577 | 52712 |
Milton H. Saier | 111 | 707 | 54496 |
Hans J. Vogel | 111 | 1260 | 62846 |
Paul D. N. Hebert | 111 | 537 | 66288 |
Peter T. Katzmarzyk | 110 | 618 | 56484 |
John Campbell | 107 | 1150 | 56067 |
Linda F. Nazar | 106 | 318 | 52092 |