The bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857), also called golden mussel, is native to Asia but becoming dispersed around the world. The golden mussel resembles the invasive dreissenid bivalves in many respects, and although much less studied it evidently has broader…

This research focuses on tracking generic non-rigid objects at close range to an infrared triangulation-based RGB-D sensor. The work was motivated by direct industry demand for a foundation for a low-cost application to operate in a surveillance setting. There are…

This study addresses the influence of Russian religious thought on the French philosopher and Islamicist Henry Corbin (1903-1978). In the 1930s, Corbin came into contact with religious thinkers of the Russian emigration in Paris, particularly Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948), who had…

Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBI) and concussions are complex injuries with high incidence rates in children and adolescents. There currently exists no 'gold standard' for the diagnosis of concussions, and detection and monitoring are made challenging by highly variable clinical…

Translational research, as defined by the National Institutes of Health, "includes two areas of translation. One is the process of applying discoveries generated during research in the laboratory, and in preclinical studies, to the development of trials and studies in…

Poultry and liquid swine manure are major sources of bioactive levels of natural steroidal sex hormones, including 17β-estradiol, estrone, testosterone and progesterone. Although several detailed studies have investigated the environmental pathways and ecotoxicology of high-toxicity-at-low-concentrations of sex hormones in soil…

Corrective feedback (CF) has been identified as an effective means for improving pronunciation in second language (L2) speech production, but there has been a general lack of relevant empirical studies regarding its effects on L2 speech perception. The current study…

This qualitative inquiry focuses on the perceptions and reflections of five Muslim-Canadians who studied Arabic as a second language in Egypt or Syria. I conducted in-depth, conversational interviews with each participant and audio recorded face-to-face or telephone interviews to develop…

Professors have three main functions in universities: research, teaching and service. This study focuses on the teaching function. Effective teaching in higher education enhances students' learning while ineffective teaching can have detrimental impact on students' learning and their attitudes toward…

Distributed estimation in a wireless sensor network has many advantages. It eliminates the need of the centralized knowledge of the measurement model parameters and does not have a single point of failure. Also, any sensor node can be queried to…