York University Libraries' Open Access Author Fund
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York University Libraries have directed a small portion of their collections budget in support of an open access author fund to cover Author Processing Charges for York researchers who wish to publish their work in open access journals. Please apply as early as possible as once the annual allocation has been expended, no further requests can be considered until the following fiscal year.
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Integrative Genomics Reveals the Genetics and Evolution of the Honey Bee’s Social Immune System
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Social organisms combat pathogens through individual innate immune responses or through social immunity—behaviors among individuals that limit pathogen transmission within groups. Although we have a relatively detailed ... -
Ten simple rules for writing statistical book reviews
(PLOS, 2019-01-24)Statistical books can provide deep insights into statistics and software. There are, however, many resources available to the practitioner. Book reviews have the capacity to function as a critical mechanism for the learner ... -
Importance of safety climate, teamwork climate and demographics: understanding nurses, allied health professionals and clerical staff perceptions of patient safety
(BMJ, 2018-11-28)Background: There is growing evidence regarding the importance of contextual factors for patient/staff outcomes and the likelihood of successfully implementing safety improvement interventions such as checklists; however, ... -
A proof of concept application of aptachain: ligand-induced self-assembly of a DNA aptamer
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019-01-14)A challenge for the use of aptamers as biosensors is how to signal the occurrence of their ligand binding event into a signal that can be exploited in a detection scheme. Here, we present the concept of “aptachain” formation, ... -
Models of Concurrent Disorder Service: Policy, Coordination, and Access to Care
(Frontiers, 2019-02-19)Background: Societal capacity to address the service needs of persons with concurrent mental health and substance-use disorders has historically been challenging given a traditionally siloed approach to mental health and ... -
Female Mice Have Higher Angiogenesis in Perigonadal Adipose Tissue Than Males in Response to High-Fat Diet
(Frontiers, 2018-10-23)Background: Impaired capillary growth (angiogenesis) in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue contributes to the development of metabolic disorders in obese males. This association remains unexplored in females, despite ... -
Glycoprotein Hormone Receptor Knockdown Leads to Reduced Reproductive Success in Male Aedes aegypti
(Frontiers, 2019)Glycoprotein hormone receptors mediate a diverse range of physiological functions in vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. The heterodimeric glycoprotein hormone GPA2/GPB5 and its receptor LGR1, constitute a recently ... -
An Embedded Systems Perspective in Conceptualizing Canada’s Healthcare Sustainability
(MDPI, 2019)Healthcare sustainability has been dominated by a strong fiscal orientation. In an era of budget cuts and staff reductions, the financial challenges in Canadian healthcare are immediate and must be addressed. However, an ... -
Conservation Genomics of the Declining North American Bumblebee Bombus terricola Reveals Inbreeding and Selection on Immune Genes
(Frontiers Media, 2018-08-10)The yellow-banded bumblebee Bombus terricola was common in North America but has recently declined and is now on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. The causes of B. terricola’s decline are not well understood. Our ... -
Sexual communal motivation in couples coping with low sexual interest/arousal: Associations with sexual well-being and sexual goals
(PLOS, 2019-07-17)Women coping with female sexual interest/arousal disorder (FSIAD) report lower sexual and relationship satisfaction compared to healthy controls. In community samples, high sexual communal strength (i.e., the motivation ... -
The fast contribution of visual-proprioceptive discrepancy to reach aftereffects and proprioceptive recalibration
(PLOS, 2018-07-17)Adapting reaches to altered visual feedback not only leads to motor changes, but also to shifts in perceived hand location; “proprioceptive recalibration”. These changes are robust to many task variations and can occur ... -
What image features guide lightness perception?
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2018-12-04)Lightness constancy is the ability to perceive black and white surface colors under a wide range of lighting conditions. This fundamental visual ability is not well understood, and current theories differ greatly on what ... -
Factors Associated with Premenstrual Syndrome and its Different Symptom Domains among University Students in Lebanon
(ClinMed International Library, 2018-04-21)Objectives: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and examine the characteristics of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) among female university students. It also aimed to determine the factors associated with the affective ... -
Interventions to Promote Patient Utilization of Cardiac Rehabilitation: Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(MDPI, 2019-02-05)Too few patients utilize cardiac rehabilitation (CR), despite its benefits. The Cochrane review assessing the effectiveness of interventions to increase CR utilization (enrolment, adherence, and completion) was updated. A ... -
Barriers to cardiac rehabilitation delivery in a low-resource setting from the perspective of healthcare administrators, rehabilitation providers, and cardiac patients
(Biomed Central, 2019-09-02)Background: Despite clinical practice guideline recommendations that cardiovascular disease patients participate, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs are highly unavailable and underutilized. This is particularly true in ... -
Early myopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with elevated mitochondrial H2O2 emission during impaired oxidative phosphorylation
(Wiley, 2019-04-02)Background Muscle wasting and weakness in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes severe locomotor limitations and early death due in part to respiratory muscle failure. Given that current clinical practice focuses on ... -
Space and time in episodic memory: Effects of linearity and directionality on memory for spatial location and temporal order in children and adults
(PLOS, 2018-11-08)Episodic memory is a critical capacity that involves remembering past events along with their spatial and temporal contexts. Relatively little is known about the relations between spatial and temporal information in long-term ... -
Women in clinical trials: a review of policy development and health equity in the Canadian context
(Biomed Central, 2019-04-15)Health equity in pharmaceutical research is concerned with creating equal opportunities for men and women to partake in clinical trials. Equitable representation is imperative for determining the safety, effectiveness, and ... -
Associations between mother-preschooler attachment and maternal depression symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(PLOS, 2018-10-02)The current study aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze concurrent and longitudinal associations between maternal depression symptoms and mother-child attachment during the preschool period (aged 2 to 7 years) ... -
An adiponectin-S1P axis protects against lipid induced insulin resistance and cardiomyocyte cell death via reduction of oxidative stress
(Biomed Central, 2019-02-21)Background: Adiponectin exerts several beneficial cardiovascular effects, however their specific molecular mechanisms require additional understanding. This study investigated the mechanisms of adiponectin action in the ...
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