Laura A. Lewis, Krzysztof Polanski, Marta de Torres-Zabala, Siddharth Jayaraman, Laura Bowden, Jonathan Moore, Christopher A. Penfold, Dafyd J. Jenkins, Claire Hill, Laura Baxter, Satish Kulasekaran, William Truman, George Littlejohn, Justyna Prusinska, Andrew Mead, Jens Steinbrenner, Richard Hickman, David Rand, David L. Wild, Sascha Ott, Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Nick Smirnoff, Jim Beynon, Ka...

I have documented the shift in youth alcoholic beverage preference from beer to distilled spirits between 2001 and 2009. I have assessed the role of distilled spirits industry marketing strategies to promote this shift using the Smirnoff brand marketing campaign as a case example. I conclude with a discussion of the similarities in corporate tactics across consumer products with adverse publi...

The biosynthesis of L-ascorbic acid (L-AA) in an Arabidopsis (L.) Heynh. cell suspension culture was studied by quantifying the effects of incubation with a range of potential biosynthetic precursors, analogs, and inhibitors on the intracellular levels of reduced and oxidized forms of L-AA. Our results support the recently published biosynthetic pathway of L-AA from L-galactose (G.L. Wheeler, M...

The poweRlaw package provides code to fit heavy tailed distributions, including discrete and continuous power-law distributions. The fitting procedure follows the method detailed in Clauset et al.1. The parameter 1 A. Clauset, C.R. Shalizi, and M.E.J. Newman. Power-law distributions in empirical data. SIAM review, 51(4):661– 703, 2009 values are obtained by maximising the likelihood. The cut-of...

IMPACT ASSESSMENTS OF MILITARY TRAINING RANGES IN CANADA Martin Ross, Richard Martel, Geneviève Parent, and Alex Smirnoff Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1; Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-ETE), 490 de la Couronne, Québec, QC, Canada G1K 9A9; Geological Survey of Canada, 490 de la...

The process of creating multi-unit 3D geological models by successive unit interpolation may be tedious and time-consuming. Here, we propose to automate this procedure through presenting the problem as a classification task and solving it simultaneously with the Support Vector Machine (SVM), a method known from the field of artificial intelligence. Experiments with various input data and kernel...

The Open Force Field (OpenFF) Initiative develops open, reproducible force fields for atomistic molecular simulations as well automated infrastructure and systematic methodology their parametrization validation. Here we describe the extension of OpenFF to support biopolymers, enabling both small molecules biopolymers with a self-consistent field. workflow includes QCSubmit submission curation q...