University of Victoria

Macroalgae respond to consumer‐mediated nutrient cycling in a temperate ecosystem

Primary production in coastal upwelling regions has often been presumed to be supported primarily by allochthonous nutrients, but inconsistent nutrient delivery and the metabolic cost of nitrate assimilation can leave producers nitrogen limited during the growing season. As a pot...

The Luminosity Function of Ultrafaint Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by JWST

Abstract We present a definitive discovery of 27 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) using the Near-Infrared Camera aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). By employing a shift-and-stack technique and a machine learning network geared specifically to identifying false-positive d...

Trends in HIV prevention outcomes among Northern and Indigenous adolescents: A repeated cross-sectional study of arts-based sexual health workshops in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Background: Arts-based sexual health workshops may improve adolescent sexual health, yet limited studies have evaluated outcome trends over time. This study examined HIV prevention outcomes before and after school-based workshop participation among adolescents in the Northwest Te...

Evaluate the thermal performance of green roofs as an urban heat island mitigation strategy under arid climate conditions in Bahrain

Purpose This study aims to evaluate the thermal performance of green roofs as an urban heat island mitigation strategy under arid coastal climate conditions by using Bahrain as a case study. Design/methodology/approach A scenario-based parametric simulation study was conducted us...

A Stochastic Model for Fog Forecasting

Abstract Despite significant advancements in parameterizations of boundary layer processes, forecasting, and nowcasting low‐level clouds using numerical models remain challenging. The purpose of this study is to test a prototype of a high‐resolution stochastic‐deterministic model...

Challenging Weight Stigmatizing Perspectives in Public Health During Pregnancy by Sharing Positive Stories and Images by Those Who Have Lived Experience

Most images depicting larger bodies or obesity in pregnancy are negative, such as promoting stereotypes of being physically inactive or eating unhealthily. Constantly viewing larger bodies or obesity in a negative light will contribute to advancing weight stigmatizing perspective...

Adultism in Canada and the Indigenous Democratic Alternative

Abstract Democracy is a fraught concept in the realm of Indigenous politics. In its western, state-centric forms, it is used to justify colonial and imperialist violence across the globe. While in some of its earliest Indigenous forms, it constitutes a way of being that rejects c...

The abundance and radial distribution of faint and ultra-faint dwarfs in galaxy clusters

Abstract Cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters are unable to resolve dwarf galaxies due to limited numerical resolution which drives the artificial disruption of dark matter substructures. We address these limitations by combining the results of the cosmological hydrodynami...

Cell‐Type‐Resolved Proteomics Reveals Distinct Immune and Metabolic Programs Between Primary and Recurrent Ascites in HGSOC

ABSTRACT High‐grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) frequently recurs after platinum–taxane therapy, yet recurrence‐associated changes within ascites remain unclear. We performed cell‐type‐resolved quantitative proteomics on paired ascites samples collected at primary diagnosis...

Regime Shifts and Transformations in Social-Ecological Systems: Advancing Critical Frontiers for Safe and Just Futures

Current research challenges in sustainability science require us to consider nonlinear changes—shifts that do not happen gradually but can be sudden and difficult to predict. Central questions are therefore how we can prevent harmful shifts, promote desirable ones, and better ant...

Stellar Interpretation of Meteoritic Data and PLotting for Everyone (SIMPLE): Isotope Mixing Lines for Six Sets of Core-collapse Supernova Models

Abstract Bulk meteorites and their inclusions exhibit, for many chemical elements, isotopic variability produced by nucleosynthetic events in stars and supernovae before the formation of the Sun. While the exact astrophysical origins of these variations are still a matter of deba...

Measuring Ocean Surface Waves

Abstract Propagating waves on the ocean surface can be represented as a stochastic process whose statistics are characterized by a spectrum. This paper reviews methods for measuring the wave spectrum and related quantities. Observations begin by sensing fluid dynamical properties...

Systematic review on the association between brain-related measures and upper limb movement characteristics after stroke

Abstract Background Upper limb (UL) movements are highly diverse, as are movement deficits following stroke. The relationship that stroke pathology has with UL impairments and their recovery has been studied with an increasingly complex array of neuroimaging and neurophysiology t...

Impact of soil and fluid physicochemical properties on erodibility: a review

Soil surface erosion, a process of removing earth materials such as soils or rocks by flows and/or waves, poses significant threats to the environment, infrastructure, and economy. The erodibility of soil is profoundly influenced by the physicochemical properties of both soil and...

Probabilistic Graphical Modeling for Machine Tool Dynamics with a Case Study in 3D Printer Vibration Compensation

Abstract This paper presents a new framework for modeling machine tool dynamics, aiming to enable their integration in machine tool digital twins. The framework is formulated as a Dynamic Bayesian Network, in which model parameters, sensor and process observations, and decision v...

Machine learning–guided identification of determinants of PD-L1 expression and tumor mutational burden in lung squamous cell carcinoma

Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression and tumor mutational burden (TMB) are widely used immunotherapy biomarkers, yet their variability and determinants in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) remain incompletely characterized in real-world testing settings. We analyzed a r...

LEMDO: Linked Early Modern Drama Online

LEMDO is a collaborative editing platform designed specifically for editing early modern drama by marking up files in TEI-XML and publishing those files as editions and anthologies. Our collective, collaborative mission is to create open-access, robust editions of early modern dr...