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Mercury transport and human exposure from global marine fisheries by Lavoie, Raphael A., Bouffard, Ariane, Maranger, Roxane, Amyot, Marc

“…Human activities have increased the global circulation of mercury, a potent neurotoxin. Mercury can be converted into methylmercury, which biomagnifies along…”
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Biomagnification of Mercury in Aquatic Food Webs: A Worldwide Meta-Analysis by Lavoie, Raphael A, Jardine, Timothy D, Chumchal, Matthew M, Kidd, Karen A, Campbell, Linda M

“…The slope of the simple linear regression between log10 transformed mercury (Hg) concentration and stable nitrogen isotope values (δ15N), hereafter called…”
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Understanding Food Web Mercury Accumulation Through Trophic Transfer and Carbon Processing along a River Affected by Recent Run-of-river Dams by Ponton, Dominic E, Lavoie, Raphaël A, Leclerc, Maxime, Bilodeau, François, Planas, Dolors, Amyot, Marc

“…Unlike large dams which favor methylation of Hg in flooded soils over long periods, run-of-river dams are designed to flood a limited area of soils and are…”
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Transcriptional regulation of steroidogenic genes: STARD1, CYP11A1 and HSD3B by Lavoie, Holly A, King, Steven R

“…Expression of the genes that mediate the first steps in steroidogenesis, the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (STARD1), the cholesterol side-chain…”
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Multidimensional niche differentiation of chick-rearing sympatric auks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by Petalas, Christina, Lavoie, Raphaël A., Elliott, Kyle H.

“…Niche theory predicts that similar species cannot occupy the same geographical space when resources are limited. Sympatric seabirds, such as auks, are ideal…”
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The Perceived Stress Scale: Evaluating Configural, Metric and Scalar Invariance across Mental Health Status and Gender by Lavoie, Jennifer A. A., Douglas, Kevin S.

“…The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24: 385–396, 1983 ) and its derivatives are among the…”
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Compound-specific stable nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids shows that bulk methods provide higher estimates of mercury biomagnification in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by Lacombe, Rose M., Barst, Benjamin D., Pelletier, David, Guillemette, Magella, Amyot, Marc, Lavoie, Raphaël A., Elliott, Kyle H.

“…Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) provides a method to estimate baseline δ15N values of food chains, allowing less biased…”
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A review of niche segregation across sympatric breeding seabird assemblages by Petalas, Christina, van Oordt, Francis, Lavoie, Raphaël A., Elliott, Kyle H.

“…Breeding seabirds challenge the concept of niche segregation among competing species because similar competitors with comparable life histories can coexist in…”
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Psychophysiological insights and user perspectives: enhancing police de-escalation skills through full-body VR training by Muñoz, John E, Lavoie, Jennifer A, Pope, Alan T

“…In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool for enhancing training responses in high-stress professions, notably among police…”
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The effects of spark timing, unburned gas temperature, and negative valve overlap on the rates of stoichiometric spark assisted compression ignition combustion by Olesky, Laura Manofsky, Martz, Jason B., Lavoie, George A., Vavra, Jiri, Assanis, Dennis N., Babajimopoulos, Aristotelis

“…► A SACI engine study demonstrated independent control of burn rate and phasing. ► Variations in SACI burn rate affected ringing intensity and combustion…”
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Foraging niche partitioning in sympatric seabird populations by Petalas, Christina, Lazarus, Thomas, Lavoie, Raphael A., Elliott, Kyle H., Guigueno, Mélanie F.

“…Sympatric species must sufficiently differentiate aspects of their ecological niche to alleviate complete interspecific competition and stably coexist within…”
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Developing Community Co-designed Scenario-Based Training for Police Mental Health Crisis Response: a Relational Policing Approach to De-escalation by Lavoie, Jennifer A. A., Alvarez, Natalie, Kandil, Yasmine

“…Using the current empirical landscape of police responses to people in mental health crisis as a backdrop, this methods paper makes an argument for the central…”
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Tracking Overwintering Areas of Fish-Eating Birds to Identify Mercury Exposure by Lavoie, Raphael A, Kyser, T. Kurt, Friesen, Vicki L, Campbell, Linda M

“…Migration patterns are believed to greatly influence concentrations of contaminants in birds due to accumulation in spatially and temporally distinct…”
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Trophic structure and mercury distribution in a Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) food web using stable isotope analysis by Lavoie, Raphael A., Hebert, Craig E., Rail, Jean-François, Braune, Birgit M., Yumvihoze, Emmanuel, Hill, Laura G., Lean, David R.S.

“…Even at low concentrations in the environment, mercury has the potential to biomagnify in food chains and reaches levels of concern in apex predators. The aim…”
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Acute Phase Proteins in Racehorses with Inflammatory Airway Disease by Leclere, M., Lavoie‐Lamoureux, A., Lavoie, J.‐P.

“…Background Systemic inflammation is observed in horses with heaves and could also be present in horses with a lesser degree of pulmonary inflammation…”
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Input-output properties and gain changes in the human corticospinal pathway by DEVANNE, H, LAVOIE, B. A, CAPADAY, C

“…Experiments were done to determine the form of the input-output relation (i.e. stimulus intensity vs response amplitude) of the corticospinal pathway of the…”
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Extra-skeletal impact of vitamin D supplementation protocol in an adult population with cystic fibrosis by Lehoux Dubois, C., Labrèche, E., Boudreau, V., Colomba, J., Mailhot, M., Lavoie, A., Rabasa-Lhoret, R., Coriati, A.

“…Due to lack of vitamin D absorption in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), vitamin D supplementation becomes necessary. Our aim was to study the association…”
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The propagation of a laminar reaction front during end-gas auto-ignition by Martz, Jason B., Lavoie, George A., Im, Hong G., Middleton, Robert J., Babajimopoulos, Aristotelis, Assanis, Dionissios N.

“…A transient, one dimensional premixed laminar reaction front is used as a model problem to further understand the physical processes influencing reaction front…”
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Markers of Systemic Inflammation in Horses with Heaves by Lavoie‐Lamoureux, A., Leclere, M., Lemos, K., Wagner, B., Lavoie, J.‐P.

“…Background Systemic inflammation in horses with heaves is poorly characterized. Objectives To assess acute phase proteins (APP) and inflammatory cytokine…”
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Wild bird mass mortalities in eastern Canada associated with the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) virus, 2022 by Avery‐Gomm, Stephanie, Barychka, Tatsiana, English, Matthew, Ronconi, Robert A., Wilhelm, Sabina I., Rail, Jean‐François, Cormier, Tabatha, Beaumont, Matthieu, Bowser, Campbell, Burt, Tori V., Collins, Sydney M., Duffy, Steven, Giacinti, Jolene A., Gilliland, Scott, Giroux, Jean‐François, Gjerdrum, Carina, Guillemette, Magella, Hargan, Kathryn E., Jones, Megan, Kennedy, Andrew, Kusalik, Liam, Lair, Stéphane, Lang, Andrew, Lavoie, Raphael A., Lepage, Christine, McPhail, Gretchen, Montevecchi, William A., Parsons, Glen J., Provencher, Jennifer F., Rahman, Ishraq, Robertson, Gregory J., Seyer, Yannick, Soos, Catherine, Ward, Christopher R. E., Wells, Regina, Wight, Jordan

“…In 2022, a severe outbreak of disease caused by clade 2.3.4.4b Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus resulted in unprecedented mortality among…”
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