Scarborough Health Network

Dialysis Clinic Patient Flow and Work Design

Problem Definition: For 433,000 patients in the United States with advanced kidney failure, hemodialysis is a life-sustaining treatment. Approximately 7,600 outpatient dialysis clinics serve these patients, whose treatments cost over $25 billion annually. Each treatment involves...

Unlocking the potential of aquatic animal telemetry research to advance management and conservation: Barriers and a blueprint for Great Britain and Ireland

Aquatic animal telemetry research can provide important knowledge for how populations, anthropogenic pressures and, indeed, entire ecosystems are managed. However, the true scale, extent and impact in Britain and Ireland is poorly understood. We surveyed 53 researchers about past...

Niche occupancy of Jamaican bat caves: Diversity increases isotopic niche packing

There are over 1000 documented caves across Jamaica, many of them used by diverse communities of bats. Species across these communities fit within the same trophic guilds and families and can be found at the same sites, raising the question of how these species can coexist. We ca...

How do different phonics programs support word decoding? Insights from computational analyses

Abstract Phonics instruction involves teaching grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) and is widely recognized as an effective method of reading instruction. We examined what GPCs phonics programs teach, how those GPCs support a child’s ability to pronounce written words to unde...

Ecological performance of cultivated and feral populations of an invasive freshwater fish under current and near-future climatic conditions

Goldfish (Carassius auratus), a globally invasive species, is increasing in abundance in lakes and ponds within the Laurentian Great Lakes region. We hypothesized that current and future selection pressures imposed on feral goldfish populations adapted to urban and natural ponds...

Exploring pathways and barriers to wellbeing for racialized communities in public greenspaces: a photovoice study in Toronto, Canada

The presumption that all people experience greenspaces in the same ways and accrue universally positive impacts on health may inadvertently perpetuate social, environmental, and health inequities and uphold systemic barriers to wellbeing. The Park Perceptions and Racialized Reali...

A conserved small RNA-generating gene cluster undergoes sequence diversification and contributes to plant immunity

Abstract Small RNA-mediated gene silencing contributes to plant immunity. The secondary small interfering RNA (siRNA) pathway promotes defense by silencing target genes in invading fungal and oomycete pathogens. Many secondary siRNAs are derived from transcripts potentially encod...

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation and emotional responding in borderline personality disorder: a randomized single-blind, sham-controlled study

BACKGROUND: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe emotional vulnerability, including heightened sensitivity, exaggerated reactivity, and delayed recovery from emotional arousal. Altered interoceptive-affective processing may contribute to these features...