University of New Brunswick

Robust and Sustainable Starch Adhesive Inspired by the Feline Meniscus

Abstract With the continual reinforcement of low-carbon and environmental protection concepts, the development of high-performance formaldehyde-free bio-based adhesives has become a research hotspot in application fields. The robust meniscal structure is composed of a rigid, inte...

ERGA-BGE reference genome of the bladderpod Alyssoides utriculata (L.) Medik. (Brassicaceae), a yellow-flowering shrub native to Switzerland

We present the chromosome-level genome assembly for bladderrpod, Alyssoides utriculata (Brassicales: Brassicaceae), the only currently accepted species in the genus Alyssoides. The phased assembly comprises two haplotypes with total lengths of 1.01 Gb and 0.98 Gb, respectively. F...

Position: AI Systems Should Be Designed to Develop Their Users, Not Just Assist Them

Human-facing AI systems are mainly designed and evaluated for what they do for users, and seldom for what sustained use does to users' own capabilities. Evidence that AI use can erode, preserve, or improve human capability is accumulating across several fields, but it remains sca...

Community Social Pediatrics in an Underserved Canadian City: Design and Early Outcomes of an Exploratory Pilot Study

Background: In Saint John, New Brunswick, nearly 1 in 3 children live in poverty, and the traditional pediatric care model is often ill-equipped to address the complex social realities that children experience. Community Social Pediatrics (CSP) is an interdisciplinary model that...

Hospitality as Living Heritage: Migrant Heritage-Making, Belonging, and the Cultural Politics of Welcome

This article conceptualizes hospitality as a form of living heritage through which migrants and refugees preserve cultural practices, negotiate belonging, and reshape relations of welcome in receiving societies. Drawing on Walker and Avant’s concept analysis approach, literature...

On the Discovery of the First Tetrapod Burrow from the Pennsylvanian-Age Clifton Formation, Stonehaven, New Brunswick, Canada

Reported trace fossils from the Clifton Formation, New Brunswick, Canada, are limited to a single occurrence of a temnospondyl trackway and invertebrate trackways identified in the Pennsylvanian continental strata. Our study builds on this with a description of a horizontal burro...

No effect of short‐term exposure to ocean acidification on individual‐level variation in behaviour and susceptibility to predation in a Great Barrier Reef damselfish

Abstract Ocean acidification, caused by rising carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the atmosphere, has been reported to negatively impact a wide variety of behaviours in fishes, including activity, exploration, and predator avoidance. These effects have been documented at the population le...

Inter-strain diversity among coastal picocyanobacteria across salinity gradients

Strains of the picocyanobacteria genera Synechococcus and Cyanobium occur in cold-temperate zones, from coastal waters to the open ocean, spanning a range of salinities and water depths. To thrive across different salinities, picocyanobacteria strains acclimate internal turgor by...

Deformation, metamorphism, and time: a multi-method approach to mid-low temperature geochronology in Precambrian cratons

Abstract This study examines the microstructural, petrological, and geochemical processes that disrupt date relationships within biotite and apatite. We combine SEM-EBSD, cold/SEM-cathodoluminescence, EPMA and LA-ICP-MS geochemical mapping, with in situ multi-system geochronology...

Fibrous fabric-derived solar interfacial evaporators for renewable water production: A review on material tuning, structural design, and applications

Growing global freshwater scarcity has motivated solar-driven interfacial water evaporation (SIWE) to emerge as a sustainable and carbon-neutral strategy for desalination and wastewater remediation. Compared with conventional rigid porous substrates or swollen hydrogels, fibrous...

Deferred cyclotomic representation for stable and exact evaluation of q-hypergeometric series

We introduce a cyclotomic representation for finite q q -hypergeometric series and q q -deformed amplitudes that separates algebraic structure from evaluation. By expressing each summand in a sparse exponent basis over irreducible cyclotomic polynomials, all products and ratios o...

Interoception as a Mechanism Linking Anxiety, Cardiovascular Disease, and their Co-Occurrence

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review summarizes current research on interoception in cardiovascular disease (CVD), highlights the clinical implications of interoceptive processes in CVD management, and provides recommendations for prescribing symptom monitoring based on findings. RECEN...

Mapping client outcomes of patient navigation across care contexts: a scoping review

Patient navigation has been used to reduce barriers to care and improve access to health and social services across diverse health conditions, populations, and care settings. Past scoping and systematic reviews have synthesized reported client outcomes within specific care contex...

Supporting the acute care clinical nurse educator workforce: A scoping review of job satisfaction and turnover intentions

Objective To map the literature on job satisfaction and turnover intentions among clinical nurse educators (CNEs) in acute care settings. Background The global nursing shortage poses a critical threat to healthcare quality and patient safety. CNEs play a pivotal role in workforce...

“I am the only one doing anything at all here”: Sponsored, shared, and felt unplugged videogame play in Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care classrooms

Young children create broader playscapes by moving fluidly between devices and surrounding artefacts and invoking screens and nondigital interfaces—enacting playful literacies of unruly affect and patterned discourse. We present findings from a video-ethnographic case study of th...

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...

“Queer Joy in Sex Ed Is an Act of Repair”: Queering Sex Education in New Brunswick, Canada, Through Cellphilm and Zine Production

Sex Education Queer Youth Need (SEQuYN) is a collaborative, arts-based action research project addressing gaps in sexuality education for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in New Brunswick, Canada. The project responds to the exclusion of diverse sexual identities and experiences from school curric...

Development and psychometric evaluation of the WISE scale: a multidimensional measure of well-being among retired older adults

Abstract Background Well-being in retirement is multidimensional, encompassing physical, mental, social, financial, and spiritual domains. Existing measures are often developed for general populations and may not fully capture retired older adults’ experiences. This study aimed t...

Recruiting a geographically, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population of postpartum women into a behavioural weight management intervention trial: an evaluation of strategies used in the Supporting MumS (SMS) randomised controlled trial

Abstract Background Engaging women in behavioural weight management interventions in the postpartum period has proved challenging. Previous trials of such interventions have frequently experienced issues with participant recruitment and retention and recruited samples have been s...

Winter sediment resuspension in a submarine canyon drives the offshore export of toxigenic Alexandrium catenella cysts

Abstract Harmful algal blooms (HABs) caused by the toxigenic dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella recur regularly in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (LSLE, eastern Canada). Using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) to detect A. catenella DNA as a proxy for cyst abundance...