Sunshine Project

Sunshine Coast Aggregate Potential Mapping Project

The Sunshine Coast has long been a major producer of aggregate products that are readily consumed by the expanding markets of southwestern British Columbia and those south of the border. As part of an ongoing initiative of resource inventory, the Geological Survey Branch of the Ministry of Energy and Mines has undertaken an aggregate potential mapping project along the Sunshine Coast during the...

Sunshine and the cardiovascular benefits – a dose of sunshine!

Sunshine on MS

tion, and thought that visual solar radiation might provide protection from developing MS. In 1970, a study from Switzerland (which is on a similar latitude in the northern hemisphere as Tasmania is in the southern hemisphere) [5] showed a higher clinical RR in winter and spring months, and a later study (also from the northern hemisphere) [6] of seasonal fluctuations in Gd-enhancing lesions on...

Sunshine or Shield?

How does the use of a secret vote affect the likelihood that legislators will punish their peers? Two contending arguments exist in the literature: some argue that secret voting may be prejudicial, while others argue that it may help accountability. We address this controversy by analyzing the case of the Brazilian Congress, which uses a sequential combination of open and secret voting procedur...

Sunshine and multiple sclerosis.

In 1960, Donald Acheson made the seminal observation that the global distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) may be related to available hours of sunshine; this observation was met with disbelief at the time. However, over the subsequent more than 50 years, it has become clear that he may well be right. The effect of sunlight exposure and subsequent vitamin D production (generated by photolysis...