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Perspectives on Municipal Waste Management in Kingston, Ontario, 2012
Hird, Myra J.; Lougheed, Scott C.; Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra; Rowe, R. Kerry — 2016-07-06 The primary aims of this survey were to assess household waste management practices; participation in waste diversion practices; knowledge of local waste management politics; willingness to participate in local decision making regarding the development of a local waste processing facility; attitudes and perceptions of waste, waste management policies, and waste management technologies.
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Box Occupancy
Cox, Amelia — 2018-11-22 Column names Year: year YearlyTerr: The terretories available in a given year YearlyBox: The nest boxes available in a given year (differs slightly for terretories in years where terretoriality experiments were ongoing as 2 boxes were errected close together) BoxOccTotal: Nest boxes occupied by nesting tree swallow pair/YearlyBox TerrOccTotal: Nest boxes occupied by nesting tree swallow pair/YearlyTerr
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2014 Survey of Commute Patterns among Queen's University Employees
Collins, Patricia; Agaewal, Ajay — 2014 The objective of this survey was to investigate commute patterns among Queen's employees and to assess whether transit improvements have stimulated interest and willingness among Queen's employees to take Kingston Transit to commute to work. The survey data collected here will also serve as a baseline for subsequent surveys that will assess change in commute patterns to Queen's over time. The findings from this research will offer insights to researchers interested in the impacts of public transit as population health interventions, as well as to Queen's University in terms of understanding how members of their community could make better use of a key public resource in Kingston.
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Growing season trace gas and environmental measurements at an experimentally-warmed mesic tundra site
Hung, Jacqueline — 2021-08-25 The data set was collected as an ongoing study at the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) site examining the environmental controls over trace gas respiration in High Arctic mesic tundra. The goal of the study is to characterize the relationships between plant-available nitrogen and productivity and to see how these relationships are manifested in hyperspectral signatures. These data files contain trace gas concentrations and environmental measurements from an ITEX mesic tundra experiment. Snow fences were set up at two sites of each replicate to determine the effect of snow depth on soil respiration. Four treatments were sampled with eight replicates: snow-control, snow-warmed, control-control, and control-warmed. PVC collars (20 cm diameter) were placed on the ground from which opaque, static, non-steady state chambers were used to obtain a 25 mL sample in 12-mL pre-evacuated glass vials (Exetainer 739B, Labco Limited, Buckinghamshire, UK). Vials were analyzed using gas chromatography according to methods by Wilson and Humphreys (2010). Environmental measurements (soil moisture, soil temperature, and active layer depth) were taken twice weekly at site adjacent to the collars.
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Supplementary Materials to "Global Magnitude-Frequency Statistics of the Failures and Impacts of Large Water-Retention Dams and Mine Tailings Impoundments"
Rana, Nahyan M.; Ghahramani, Negar; Evans, Stephen G.; Small, Andy; Skermer, Nigel; McDougall, Scott; Take, W. Andy — 2022-08-02 The failures of engineered dams that retain freshwater or mining waste (tailings) have led to socioeconomic and environmental consequences. However, the global magnitude-frequency statistics of these occurrences remain poorly quantified, out-of-date and/or limited in scope. Addressing this gap would give insight into how the hazard-risk of water-retention (reservoir) dams and mine tailings impoundments has evolved over time, and would provide quantitative benchmarks for estimating likelihoods of facility failures and their societal impacts to support risk assessments. In this journal publication, we analyze new datasets and estimates of the construction and failures of large reservoir facilities (LRFs) and tailings storage facilities (TSFs) worldwide in the period 1965-2020. We address long-standing data gaps on LRF failures in China, and subsequently worldwide, and on constructed TSFs worldwide by adopting multiple estimation/extrapolation approaches to illustrate the range of uncertainty in our results. Our results are applicable broadly on a global scale and are conditioned by uncertainties in the data and the methods used to address data gaps. This Borealis Dataset, created under the CanBreach Data Archive umbrella, contains supplementary materials to the Related Publication in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. The files include the following: (i) A new database of TSF failures in the period 1965-2020 including new information such as location coordinates, altitude, and surface area; (ii) A detailed calculation sheet that outlines the conversion process from global mineral commodity production data to the estimated volume of tailings produced worldwide in the period 1965-2020 to the estimated number of TSFs constructed worldwide over the same period based on an upper- and lower-bound extrapolation approach; (ii) A new, incomplete database of historical LRF failures, including a summary calculation sheet that outlines how the upper- and lower-bound estimates of the number of LRF failures worldwide in the period 1965-2020 were developed; (iii) A supplementary article that describes the supplementary databases, includes the supplementary figures relevant to the journal publication, and includes the link to the open-access Google Drive folder that contains GIS-processed satellite and aerial images for many historical TSF and LRF failure cases; and (iv) Google Earth KMZ files that identifies the locations of historically failed TSFs and maps the impoundment surface areas.
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Culture, proximity to the past and future, and self-continuity Restricted content
Ji, Li-Jun — 2018-09-21 The present research explores how culture influences individuals’ psychological proximity to the past and future, which may predict differences in perceived self-continuity across time. In Studies 1 and 2, we hypothesized and found that Chinese participants saw the past and future as more connected and subjectively closer to the present compared to Euro-Canadians. Following this, we expected and found in Studies 3 and 4 that Chinese participants perceived greater self-continuity over time than Euro-Canadians. Additionally, perceived closeness to the past mediated the effect of culture on past-present self-continuity, which subsequently predicted present-future self-continuity. Study 5 further documented a causal effect of perceived distance to the past on self-continuity. These results suggest that cultural differences in temporal attention to the past and future play a pivotal role in people’s sense of self-continuity across time. This has important implications for temporal focalism, intertemporal discounting, and social interactions between Chinese and Euro-Canadians.
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Violence Risk Appraisal Guide - Revised, 2013 Restricted content
Harris, Grant T.; Rice, Marnie; Quinsey, Vernon — 2016 The VRAG-R is designed to assess the likelihood of violent or sexual reoffending among male offenders. The data set comprises demographic, criminal history, psychological assessment, and psychiatric information about the offenders gathered from institutional files together with post-release recidivism information. The VRAG-R is a twelve-item actuarial instrument and the scores on these items form part of the data set. Because one of the goals of the VRAG-R development project was to compare the VRAG-R to the VRAG, subjects' VRAG scores are included in this data set.
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Privacy and Surveillance: February-March 2014 Globalization of Personal Data Follow-up
Angus Reid Global — 2014 <p>Privacy and Surveillance: February/March 2014 Globalization of Personal Data Follow-up is a study (fieldwork was conducted between February 29 and March 4 2014) by the Vision Critical division of the polling company Angus Reid Global as a second follow-up to the earlier international multidisciplinary and collaborative research initiative - The Globalization of Personal Data (GPD) Project International Survey on Privacy and Surveillance (2006) (<a href="http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle /1974/7656">http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/7656</a>) as well as Angus Reid Global’s Privacy and Surveillance: June 2012 Globalization of Personal Data Follow-up (<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8583">http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8583</a>).</p> <p>Initiated and sponsored by Angus Reid Global, the 2014 follow-up online survey queried citizens in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom regarding their interactions with, and attitudes toward, surveillance and privacy. Sample sizes were 1,502 in Canada, 1,018 in the US and 2,040 in the UK. The study was conducted on behalf of the international scholarly research group based out of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University ( <a href="http://www.sscqueens.org/">http://www.sscqueens.org/</a>). It re-asked some of the same categories of questions as the earlier 2006 Globalization of Personal Data (GPD) Project, and the Angus Reid Global follow-up in 2012, allowing for a comparison of awareness of and attitudes towards surveillance and privacy between 2006, 2012 and 2014.</p>
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Culture, Aging, Self continuity and Life Satisfaction Restricted content
Ji, Li-Jun — 2021-02-02 The present work examines how culture and age interact to influence self-continuity and life satisfaction. Specifically, we compared Canadian and Chinese young (17-26 years old) and older adults (60-88 years old) in their sense of self-continuity and life satisfaction. Consistent with past research, older adults reported greater self-continuity compared to their young counterparts, while young Chinese reported greater self-continuity than young Canadians. In terms of life satisfaction, older adults scored higher than younger adults, while cultural differences illuminated that, this time, young Canadians reported higher life satisfaction than young Chinese. Although the data were cross-sectional, indirect effects analyses showed that self-continuity mediated the effect of age on life satisfaction in both cultural groups, with the indirect effect stronger among Canadians than among Chinese. These findings highlight the importance of considering culture and age when examining psychological outcomes, and the potential of self-continuity as a mechanism to enhance overall life satisfaction.
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2015 Survey of Commute Patterns among Queen's University Employees
Collins, Patricia; Agaewal, Ajay — 2014 The objective of this survey was to investigate commute patterns among Queen's employees and to assess whether transit improvements have stimulated interest and willingness among Queen's employees to take Kingston Transit to commute to work. The survey data collected here will also serve as a baseline for subsequent surveys that will assess change in commute patterns to Queen's over time. The findings from this research will offer insights to researchers interested in the impacts of public transit as population health interventions, as well as to Queen's University in terms of understanding how members of their community could make better use of a key public resource in Kingston.
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Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities
McClymont, Alexandra; Arnott, Shelley — 2021-09-03 To determine the effects of increasing chloride and temperatures on freshwater plankton communities and investigate the adequacy of the current Canadian Water Quality Guideline for chloride (CWQG), we conducted a mesocosm experiment, using 30 nominal concentrations of chloride from ambient (16.9 mg/L) to 1500 mg/L, either ambient or warmed temperatures, and a plankton community from a Canadian Shield lake. This experiment extended for six weeks. We collected samples for chlorophyll a concentration, phytoplankton community composition, and zooplankton biomass and community composition.
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Paravertebral vs. Epidural Analgesia for Liver Surgery (PEALS): protocol for a randomized controlled pilot study
Mizubuti, Glenio B.; Ho, Anthony M.-H.; DuMerton, Deborah; Phelan, Rachel; Hopman, Wilma M.; Cheng, Camilyn; Xiong, Jessica; Shelley, Jessica; Vowotor, Elorm; Nanji, Sulaiman; Jalink, Diederick; Navarro e Lima, Lais Helena — 2022-07-15 Perioperative thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) is commonly used in hepatectomy patients since it is opioid-sparing and reduces cardiorespiratory complications. However, TEA has a high failure rate and is associated with potentially devastating complications (particularly spinal hematoma) and the risk is increased with hepatectomy. Thus, some centres favour systemic opioid-based modalities which, in turn, are associated with inferior analgesia and well-known risks/side-effects. Hence, alternative analgesic methods are desirable. Paravertebral block (PVB) has been used in liver resection with advantages including hemodynamic stability, low failure rates, and low risk of spinal hematoma. Our purpose is to conduct a blinded, pilot RCT with hepatectomy patients randomized to receive TEA or PVB for perioperative analgesia.
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Lantz_Cui_Cuddy_2019
Cui, Anja-Xiaoxing; Lantz, Mike E.; Cuddy, Lola L. — 2019 <p>To survive, organisms need to organize perceptual input into coherent, usable structures. Research has illuminated the potential role of frequency of occurrence and duration as cues to extract statistical regularities from our environment. Musical stimuli provide a unique opportunity to study how these cues are used to organize auditory input into higher level perceptual entities, i.e., pitch structure, and to assess the influence of cognitive schema.</p> <p>To examine the relative importance of these two cues in pitch structure perception, we constructed novel tone sequences in which frequency of occurrence and duration cues were pitted against each other. We assessed perceived pitch structure in musically trained and untrained listeners using a probe tone paradigm.</p> <p>This dataset contains the raw data from three experiments in which the stimuli were also manipulated so as to assess the influence also of previous schematic knowledge.</p>
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Mechanics of very slow human walking
Simpson, Cole S; van Asseldonk, Edwin HF; van der Kooij, Herman; Ijspeert, Auke J; Wu, Amy R — 2019-11-22 Replication data for "Mechanics of very slow human walking"
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Data for a manuscript about rapid cold hardening and the sodium pump in locusts
Robertson, Mel; Moyes, Chris — 2022-05-02 The purpose of the experiments was to examine the effect of rapid cold hardening on the activity of the sodium pump (NKA) in biochemical assays and in the axon of a visual interneuron in locusts. There are 3 spreadsheets of data (described in the Readme file): spectrophotometric data on NKA activity in homogenized ganglia and electrophysiological data on the activity of a visual circuit and on parameters of action potential conduction in the axon of the descending contralateral movement detector neuron.

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