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Currently, mineral fiber or cellular plastic insulation materials dominate the building construction market because of their relatively competitive price and low thermal conductivity properties; however, the environmental impacts of cellular plastic…
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In this study, an effective and low-cost water treatment system is developed. At first, an investigation combining published literature, available information through different health regions and raw water sample data from participating communities…
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Wind resources are investigated and estimated offshore of the northern and central coasts of British Columbia, Canada. Remote sensing-based wind speed observations from a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mounted on the Canadian RADARSAT-2 satellite…
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from progressive loss of β-cell insulin secretion frequently on the background of insulin resistance. T2DM, also known as non-insulin-dependent…
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Armillaria root disease, caused by the fungus Armillaria ostoyae (Romagn.) Herink, is an important agent of diversity in the forests of British Columbia. Forest operations can disrupt co-evolved host-pathogen balances, leaving behind a supply of…
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Habitat loss and climate change are two of the leading causes of the global decline of biodiversity. Declines in the abundance of moose (Alces americanus) in British Columbia, Canada, in the 2000s were hypothesized to result from an interaction…
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