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Opioid use disorder has become an epidemic over the past 20 years. Contamination of the street sourced drug supply with fentanyl and fentanyl analogues has resulted in a substantial increase in the associated overdose rate. Evidence-based treatments…

The provisions of CSA O86 (2019) for Cross-laminated Timber (CLT) shear walls recommend the design of non-dissipative hold-downs with sufficient deformability to facilitate wall rocking. A hyperelastic hold-down system was proposed to satisfy these…

Due to an exponential increase in number of electronic documents and easy access to information on the Internet, the need for text summarization has become obvious. An ideal summary contains important parts of the original document, eliminates…

The widespread availability of Cross-laminated timber (CLT) provides opportunities to extend the use of wood beyond traditional low-rise residential construction. Glued-in rods (GiR) are an interesting technical solution for numerous structural…

Archaea, a domain of organisms possibly linked to the ancestry of eukarya and bacteria, displays a dichotomic evolutionary pattern. Haloarcula marismortui (H. marismortui), an archaeon discovered in the Dead Sea, has unique traits enabling survival…

Obesity results when energy intake chronically exceeds energy expenditure, driving accumulation and malfunctioning of white adipose tissue and increasing risk for comorbidity. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns energy via adaptive thermogenesis, a…

Obesity is a disease that occurs when energy intake exceeds energy expenditure, concomitantly increasing risk of chronic diseases, including metabolic diseases such as diabetes. Research into therapeutics to correct dysregulations in energy balance…

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the primary form of arthritis that affects a large portion of the Canadian population. With expected increases in OA prevalence over time, the magnitude of outcomes related to inadequate pain control will place further burdens…