Search Results - "Levesque, Ann"

Remote participatory research has logistical benefits, but presents scientific and ethical challenges by Fouqueray, Timothée, Lévesque, Ann, Turgeon, Katrine, Bissonnette, Jean-François, Calmé, Sophie, Dupras, Jérôme

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Expressing citizen preferences on endangered wildlife for building socially appealing species recovery policies: A stated preference experiment in Quebec, Canada by Lévesque, Ann, Gagné, Lynda, Dupras, Jérôme

“…•Choice experiments inform wildlife conservation policy and its communication.•Megafauna recovery is valued far more than that of other species.•Megafauna…”
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Boating with whales: Exploring values, knowledge and behaviors of recreational boaters in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Saguenay Fjord using Q-methodology by Kowalski, Camille, Lévesque, Ann, Sénécal, Jean-François, Dupras, Jérôme, Chion, Clément

“…The whales of the St. Lawrence Estuary in Quebec, Canada, including the resident beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) population, classified as endangered and…”
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The “right‐to‐farm” in Lac Saint‐Pierre (Québec, Canada) floodplains: Are problem‐framing processes able to foster conservation conflict resolution? by Lévesque, Ann, Bissonnette, Jean‐François, Dupras, Jérôme

“…Using qualitative data, we investigate the impact of the problem‐framing process on stakeholder mobilization for fish habitat restoration and its influence on…”
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Financing on-farm ecosystem services in southern Quebec, Canada: A public call for pesticides reduction by Lévesque, Ann, Kermagoret, Charlène, Poder, Thomas G., L'Ecuyer-Sauvageau, Chloé, He, Jie, Sauvé, Sébastien, Dupras, Jérôme

“…Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs in agriculture are designed to encourage farmers to adopt agro-environmental practices through financial or…”
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The pitchfork or the fishhook: a multi-stakeholder perspective towards intensive farming in floodplains by Lévesque, Ann, Dupras, Jérôme, Bissonnette, Jean-François

“…When conservation conflicts occur, the recognition of a plurality of perspectives among the stakeholders makes it possible to better understand the divergences…”
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Conflicting perspectives on ecosystem conservation in a cultivated floodplain: The role of science and the challenge of pluralism in decision‐making in Lac Saint‐Pierre (Quebec, Canada) by Lévesque, Ann, Bissonnette, Jean‐François, Vansintjan, Aaron, Dupras, Jérôme

“…By generating and explaining facts, science holds an important role in environmental policy decision‐making. However, scientific knowledge is often framed as…”
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Beyond setting conservation targets: Q-method as a powerful tool to collectively set an action plan agenda by Levesque, Ann, Fouqueray, Timothée, Dupras, Jérôme

“…Nature conservation begins with detailed knowledge of the ecosystem based on inventories and maps. A difficult part of the conservation process subsequently…”
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From white to green gold: Digging into public expectations and preferences for ecological restoration of asbestos mines in southeastern Quebec, Canada by Lévesque, Ann, Bélanger, Nicolas, Poder, Thomas G., Filotas, Élise, Dupras, Jérôme

“…•Despite an attachment to their mining heritage, residents want mine reclamation.•Individual preferences for ecological restoration scenarios are…”
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From low- to high-throughput analysis by Lévesque, Ann, Gagnon-Carignan, Sofi, Lachance, Sylvain

“…The high throughput is routinely used for the first steps of drug development such as drug discovery screening and toxicity. However, for PK analysis of…”
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The importance of choosing the appropriate matrix to validate a bioanalytical method according to the study needs by Lachance, Sylvain, Lévesque, Ann

“…Sylvain Lachance is a Bioanalytical Scientific Expert in the Bioanalytical Division of inVentiv Health Clinical Quebec City's (Canada) site, a CRO offering…”
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Analyte and internal standard cross signal contributions and their impact on quantitation in LC–MS based bioanalysis by Tan, Aimin, Lévesque, Isabelle A., Lévesque, Isabelle M., Viel, François, Boudreau, Nadine, Lévesque, Ann

“…Cross signal contributions between an analyte and its internal standard (IS) are very common due to impurities in reference standards and/or isotopic…”
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Impact of hemolysis during sample collection: How different is drug concentration in hemolyzed plasma from that of normal plasma? by Tan, Aimin, Gagné, Sébastien, Lévesque, Isabelle A., Lachance, Sylvain, Boudreau, Nadine, Lévesque, Ann

“…► Systematic evaluation of hemolysis impact on drug sequestration in plasma. ► Proposed a formula for estimating the impact for the first time. ► Hemolysis…”
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2015 White Paper on recent issues in bioanalysis: focus on new technologies and biomarkers (Part 2 - hybrid LBA/LCMS and input from regulatory agencies) by Ackermann, Brad, Neubert, Hendrik, Hughes, Nicola, Garofolo, Fabio, Abberley, Lee, Alley, Stephen C, Brown-Augsburger, Patricia, Bustard, Mark, Chen, Lin-Zhi, Heinrich, Julia, Katori, Noriko, Kaur, Surinder, Kirkovsky, Leo, Laterza, Omar F, Le Blaye, Olivier, Lévesque, Ann, Santos, Gustavo Mendes Lima, Olah, Timothy, Savoie, Natasha, Skelly, Michael, Spitz, Susan, Szapacs, Matthew, Tampal, Nilufer, Wang, Jian, Welink, Jan, Wieling, Jaap, Haidar, Sam, Vinter, Stephen, Whale, Emma, Witte, Bärbel

“…The 2015 9th Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis (9th WRIB) took place in Miami, Florida with participation of over 600 professionals from pharmaceutical…”
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Comparative bioavailability of two oral formulations of clopidogrel: Determination of clopidogrel and its carboxylic acid metabolite (SR26334) under fasting and fed conditions in healthy subjects by Brvar, Nina, Lachance, Sylvain, Lévesque, Ann, Breznik, Marjanca, Cvitkovič Marčič, Lea, Merslavič, Mateja, Grabnar, Iztok, Mateovič-Rojnik, Tatjana

“…Two randomized, single dose, 2-period, 2-sequence crossover studies were conducted to evaluate the comparative bioavailability of two clopidogrel formulations…”
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2014 White Paper on recent issues in bioanalysis: a full immersion in bioanalysis (Part 3 - LBA and immunogenicity) by Stevenson, Lauren, Amaravadi, Lakshmi, Myler, Heather, Salazar-Fontana, Laura, Gorovits, Boris, Kirshner, Susan, Xue, Li, Garofolo, Fabio, Alley, Stephen C, Thway, Theingi, Joyce, Alison, Bansal, Surendra, Beaver, Chris, Bergeron, Annik, Cai, Xiao-Yan, Cojocaru, Laura, DeSilva, Binodh, Dumont, Isabelle, Fluhler, Eric, Fraser, Stephanie, Gouty, Dominique, Gupta, Swati, Haidar, Sam, Hayes, Roger, Ingelse, Benno, Ishii-Watabe, Akiko, Kaur, Surinder, King, Lindsay, Laterza, Omar, Leung, Sheldon, Lévesque, Ann, Ma, Mark, Petit-Frere, Corinne, Pillutla, Renuka, Rose, Mark, Schultz, Gary, Smeraglia, John, Swanson, Steven, Torri, Albert, Vazvaei, Faye, Wakelin-Smith, Jason, Wilson, Amanda, Woolf, Eric, Yang, Tong-Yuan

“…The 2014 8th Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis (8th WRIB), a 5-day full immersion in the evolving field of bioanalysis, took place in Universal City,…”
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Justifying the lack of incurred sample reproducibility in a study: considerations and strategies by Gagnon-Carignan, Sofi, Lachance, Sylvain, Saint-Laurent, Audrey, Gendron, Mariève, Lévesque, Ann

“…In 2012 with the issuance of its Guideline on Bioanalytical Method Validation, the European Medicine Agency (EMA) made the incurred sample reproducibility…”
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2014 White Paper on recent issues in bioanalysis: a full immersion in bioanalysis (Part 1--small molecules by LCMS) by Fluhler, Eric, Hayes, Roger, Garofolo, Fabio, Dumont, Isabelle, Blaye, Olivier Le, Arnold, Mark, Bansal, Surendra, Verhaeghe, Tom, Wilson, Amanda, Stevenson, Lauren, Myler, Heather, Bauer, Ronald, Bergeron, Annik, Bustard, Mark, Cai, Xiao-Yan, Carbone, Mary, Cojocaru, Laura, Desai-Krieger, Daksha, Duggan, Jeff, Haidar, Sam, Ho, Stacy, Ingelse, Benno, Katori, Noriko, Lévesque, Ann, Lowes, Steve, Ma, Mark, Mettke, Katalina, Michon, Josée, Musuku, Adrien, Olah, Timothy, Patel, Shefali, Rose, Mark, Schultz, Gary, Smeraglia, John, Spooner, Neil, Stouffer, Bruce, Vazvaei, Faye, Wakelin-Smith, Jason, Wang, Jian, Welink, Jan, Whale, Emma, Woolf, Eric, Xue, Li, Yang, Tong-Yuan

“…The 2014 8th Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis (8th WRIB), a 5-day full immersion in the evolving field of bioanalysis, took place in Universal City,…”
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Comparison of blood microsampling with DBS and conventional blood collection techniques used in a midazolam biostudy by Lachance, Sylvain, Théberge, Marie-Claude, Havard, Guy, Anctil, Dominique, Barrière, Olivier, Croteau, Sara, Pellerin, Brigitte, Lévesque, Ann

“…Quantitative DBS LC-MS/MS assay for midazolam was used to compare two sample collection techniques (venipuncture and finger prick) and the midazolam…”
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Importance of measuring testosterone in enzyme-inhibited plasma for oral testosterone undecanoate androgen replacement therapy clinical trials by Lachance, Sylvain, Dhingra, Om, Bernstein, James, Gagnon, Stéphanie, Savard, Caroline, Pelletier, Nathalie, Boudreau, Nadine, Lévesque, Ann

“…Testosterone undecanoate (TU) is metabolized by nonspecific esterases in blood to testosterone (T). Typical clinical practice has been to analyze testosterone…”
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