Acadia University

Progressive Functional Improvements in Older Adults After Repeated Participation in a Community Exercise Program

Introduction: Age-related declines in physical function increase fall risk, chronic disease, and loss of independence in older adults. While short-term exercise interventions can mitigate this decline, there is limited evidence on the impact of consecutive participation in commun...

Tissue-specific trace element accumulation, mercury and arsenic speciation in Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus)

Walruses ( Odobenus rosmarus ) are long-lived Arctic marine mammals and play an important ecological and cultural role in northern communities. We quantified and compared concentrations of 34 elements in blubber, liver, and muscle tissues from 97 Atlantic walruses ( Odobenus r. r...

Using movement data from satellite telemetry to infer nesting status and breeding propensity of a colonial breeder, the American common eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri)

Abstract Background American common eiders ( Somateria mollissima dresseri ) are ecologically and culturally important sea ducks in northeastern North America. Female eiders may not breed every year, making breeding propensity (the proportion of sexually mature females breeding i...

Will work for sardines: 20 years of animal-borne ocean observing by Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tagging Facility

The world’s ocean stores ~90% of the excess heat generated by anthropogenic global warming, making sustained ocean observations essential for understanding physical, biological and climate processes. Here, we describe how the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Taggi...

In vino veritas? The long search for a definition of wine tourism

Purpose This paper aims to address the persistent definitional issue surrounding wine tourism and argues that such pluralism is not a sign of theoretical immaturity, nor evidence of a singular underlying essence, but a structural feature of the concept itself. Design/methodology/...

Telephone versus in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030: a crossover study, Brazil, Canada, India and Malawi.

Objective: To examine agreement between telephone and in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) survey. Methods: -tests and intraclass correlation coefficients. Findings: : -0.36), regardless of modality. However, pooled and stratified intr...