The aim of this study was to research the population structure and genetic diversity of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (NS) and the Lancashire Heeler (LH) dog breeds. Data consisted of nearly all the worldwide registration history for both breeds, including 28,668 NS and 4,782 LH individuals. A reference population, including the females born between 1999 and 2008, was defined for genet...

GABA and muscimol Running Head: Excitatory actions of GABA Keram Pfeiffer, Izabela Panek, Ulli Höger, Andrew S. French, Päivi H. Torkkeli. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5, Canada Corresponding author: Päivi H. Torkkeli. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5, E-mail: Paivi.Torkkeli@d...

Adrian R. West, Nishat Zaman, Darren J. Cole, Matthew J. Walker, Wesley R. Legant, Thomas Boudou, Christopher S. Chen, John T. Favreau, Glenn R. Gaudette, Elizabeth A. Cowley, and Geoffrey N. Maksym School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Biomedical E...

Daniel E. Ruzzante,* David C. Hamilton, Donald L. Kramer, and James W. A. Grant* "Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada, Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada, and ...

In 1996 six hospitals in Halifax, Nova Scotia, merged to become the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. The largest adult academic health sciences centre in Atlantic Canada, the QEII Health Sciences Centre occupies 10 buildings on two sites and provides tertiaryand quaternary-care services for patients across Nova Scotia. In 2000 it became part of the province’s Capital District Health A...

By Trevor Platt, David S. Broomhead, Shubha Sathyendranath, Andrew M. Edwards and Eugene J. Murphy 1Biological Oceanography Section, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2, Canada Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax...

David Iron; Department of Mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada, John Rumsey; Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada, Michael Ward; Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Canada, Juncheng Wei, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouve...

David Iron; Department of Mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada, John Rumsey; Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5, Canada, Michael Ward; Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Canada, Juncheng Wei, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouve...

The dogwhelk Nucella lapillus is a rocky intertidal gastropod of the North Atlantic coast. Individual shell color varies. Common colors range between white and brown, with darker dogwhelks being more affected by heat stress than lighter-colored conspecifics. Other reported shell colors are black, mauve, pink, yellow, and orange from European coasts, red and grey from the Bay of Fundy coast of N...

Quality of surgical care of Canadian patients with pancreatic Introduction: cancer (PC) is inadequately known. Primary aim of this study was to analyze the quality of care received by patients who underwent resections of PC in Nova Scotia over a 10-year period (2001-2011). All patients with PC (n. 1094) were identified using provincial cancer Methods: registries and only adult patients with res...