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University of Waterloo

EducationWaterloo, Ontario, Canada
About: University of Waterloo is a education organization based out in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 36093 authors who have published 93906 publications receiving 2948139 citations. The organization is also known as: UW & uwaterloo.


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TL;DR: It is suggested that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability.
Abstract: Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social–ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social–ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social–ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere—a global sustainability agenda for humanity.

515 citations

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TL;DR: A comparison of traditional statistical and novel machine learning models applied for regional scale landslide susceptibility modeling is presented and it is suggested that the framework of this model evaluation approach can be applied to assist in selection of a suitable landslide susceptibility modeled technique.

515 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present observational constraints on the nature of dark energy using the Supernova Legacy Survey three-year sample (SNLS3) of Guy et al. and Conley et al., and they find that the cosmological constraints derived from these different subsamples are consistent.
Abstract: We present observational constraints on the nature of dark energy using the Supernova Legacy Survey three-year sample (SNLS3) of Guy et al. and Conley et al. We use the 472 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in this sample, accounting for recently discovered correlations between SN Ia luminosity and host galaxy properties, and include the effects of all identified systematic uncertainties directly in the cosmological fits. Combining the SNLS3 data with the full WMAP7 power spectrum, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy power spectrum, and a prior on the Hubble constant H_0 from SHOES, in a flat universe we find Ω_m = 0.269 ± 0.015 and w = –1.061^(+0.069)_(–0.068) (where the uncertainties include all statistical and SN Ia systematic errors)—a 6.5% measure of the dark energy equation-of-state parameter w. The statistical and systematic uncertainties are approximately equal, with the systematic uncertainties dominated by the photometric calibration of the SN Ia fluxes—without these calibration effects, systematics contribute only a ~2% error in w. When relaxing the assumption of flatness, we find Ω_m = 0.271 ± 0.015, Ω_k = –0.002 ± 0.006, and w = –1.069^(+0.091)_(–0.092). Parameterizing the time evolution of w as w(a) = w_0 + w_a (1–a) gives w_0 = –0.905 ± 0.196, w_a = –0.984^(+1.094)_(– 1.097) in a flat universe. All of our results are consistent with a flat, w = –1 universe. The size of the SNLS3 sample allows various tests to be performed with the SNe segregated according to their light curve and host galaxy properties. We find that the cosmological constraints derived from these different subsamples are consistent. There is evidence that the coefficient, β, relating SN Ia luminosity and color, varies with host parameters at >4σ significance (in addition to the known SN luminosity-host relation); however, this has only a small effect on the cosmological results and is currently a subdominant systematic.

514 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comparison of the performance of the two approaches using the commercial process simulation packages, Hysys & Aspen Plus, and show that both processes are expensive options to capture CO2 from coal power plants, however O2/CO2 appears to be a more attractive retrofit than MEA scrubbing.

512 citations

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TL;DR: Sagittal plane biomechanical and EMG analyses from eight below knee (B/K) amputee trials demonstrate considerably modified motor patterns from the residual muscles at the hip and knee as discussed by the authors.

512 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
John J.V. McMurray1781389184502
David A. Weitz1781038114182
David Taylor131246993220
Lei Zhang130231286950
Will J. Percival12947387752
Trevor Hastie124412202592
Stephen Mann12066955008
Xuan Zhang119153065398
Mark A. Tarnopolsky11564442501
Qiang Yang112111771540
Wei Zhang112118993641
Hans-Peter Seidel112121351080
Theodore S. Rappaport11249068853
Robert C. Haddon11257752712
David Zhang111102755118
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Performance
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023213
2022701
20215,359
20205,388
20195,200