CLIMATE change, acid deposition and increasing solar ultraviolet irradiance1 have all combined to produce marked effects on lake waters and their ecosystems. Schindler et al.2 have shown that both climate warming and lake acidification have led to decreases in dissolved...

We study the effects of environmental policy commitments in a futuristic world in which solar radiation management (SRM) can be utilized to reduce climate change damages. Carbon and sulfur dioxide emissions (correlated pollutants) can be reduced through tradable permits...

This paper introduces a new way of thinking that characterizes itself by uniting two entities, namely state estimation in the smart grid (SG) and cognitive dynamic system (CDS). False data injection (FDI) attacks are a family of new attacks that have been considered to ...

We consider the energy-efficient transmission of traffics with hard delay constraint over wireless ad hoc networks. We adopt a cross-layer design approach and develop a route configuration method such that the average energy cost for packet delivery is minimized while m...

The soil microbial community controls all biological processes in soils and is considered a good indicator of general soil health. Assessment of the microbial community in intensively cropped soils that are under reduced tillage management is especially important becaus...

BACKGROUND: The Rapid Risk Factor Surveillance System (RRFSS) is an ongoing population health survey conducted by a collaborating group of Ontario public health units. This formative evaluation examined the process effectiveness, collaboration, utility and cost-effectiv...

The nanoscale materials properties of bone apatite crystals have been implicated in breast cancer bone metastasis and their interactions with extracellular matrix proteins are likely involved. In this study, we used geologic hydroxyapatite (HAP, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2), closel...

In my time at the Laboratory of Membrane and Protein Dynamics at McMaster University, it has been our goal to investigate the fundamental properties of model membranes and how some common membrane molecules, namely water, ethanol, and cholesterol, interact with the bila...

Abstract In reflecting on the human domination of our planet in the Anthropocene, some have argued that concrete is among the most destructive materials created by humans. Here we explore this idea, specifically in the context of what we consider “the concrete conquest ...

This article is on the energy efficient precoder design in multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems which is also robust with respect to the imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters. In other words, we design the precoder matrix a...