Fear at First Sight: Library Anxiety, Race, and Nova Scotia by K-Lee Fraser, Joan C Bartlett, PhD

“…This study examined racial differences in library anxiety and the coping methods undergraduates used in Nova Scotia, Canada. To examine student experiences, this study used a mixed-methods approach with surveys and interviews. …”
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With Respect to the Dead: Reconstructing a Historic View of Death in Gaelic Nova Scotia by Shamus Y. MacDonald

“…Inspired by studies in culturally related communities in Ireland, Scotland, and Newfoundland, this study highlights insider perspectives of local customs and beliefs in order to develop a clearer understanding of the relationship previous generations had to death in Gaelic Nova Scotia. …”
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Expanding Free School-based Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccination Programs to Include School-aged Males in Nova Scotia, Canada by Hannah Kraicer-Melamed, Caroline Quach

“… Bill 70 (HPV Vaccine Act) was presented to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly with the aim of expanding the current Nova Scotia school-based HPV vaccination program to include males. …”
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On the Front Lines: Nonprofits in the Homeless-serving Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Catherine Leviten-Reid, Jeff Karabanow, Kaitrin Doll, Jean Hughes, Haorui Wu

“…Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers from frontline organizations in the two largest communities in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants reported much strain on their organizations' human resources, but also the ability to adjust service delivery mechanisms quickly in order to continue offering supports. …”
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Magmatic and Inherited Zircon Ages from a Diorite Xenolith of the Popes Harbour Dyke, Nova Scotia: Implications for Late Ediacaran Arc Magmatism in the Avalon Terrane of the Northe... by J. Gregory Shellnutt, Jaroslav Dostal

“…The Meguma terrane is a unique unit of the Northern Appalachians as it is only identified in Nova Scotia. It was thrust over the Avalon terrane during the Early Devonian Acadian Orogeny. …”
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Benefits following community treatment orders have an inverse relationship with rates of use: meta-analysis and meta-regression by Steve Kisely, Laura McMahon, Dan Siskind

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Improved blowup time estimates for fourth-order damped wave equations with strain term and arbitrary positive initial energy by Shaohua Chen, Runzhang Xu, Chao Yang

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White matter microstructure predicts measures of clinical symptoms in chronic back pain patients by Jason W. Robertson, Guillermo Aristi, Javeria A. Hashmi

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Transplantation of Bioreactor-Produced Neural Stem Cells into the Rodent Brain by M. Mcleod Ph.D., M. Hong, A. Sen, D. Sadi, R. Ulalia, L. A. Behie, I. Mendez

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Successful childhood obesity management in primary care in Canada: what are the odds? by Stefan Kuhle, Rachel Doucette, Helena Piccinini-Vallis, Sara F.L. Kirk

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Modeling the effect of cage drag on particle residence time within fish farms in the Bay of Fundy by Y Wu, B Law, F Ding, M O’Flaherty-Sproul

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Simulation of air and ground temperatures in PMIP3/CMIP5 last millennium simulations: implications for climate reconstructions from borehole temperature profiles by A García-García, F J Cuesta-Valero, H Beltrami, J E Smerdon

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Establishing a Municipal Climate Network in Atlantic Canada by M. Samantha Peverill

“…The Municipal Energy Learning Group in Nova Scotia serves as a resource for knowledge mobilization among municipal staff and for these staff members to gather relevant information, learn about successful plans, visit projects in action, and network with their colleagues. …”
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Provincial policies affecting resident quality of life in Canadian residential long-term care by Pamela Irwin, Deanne Taylor, Janice M. Keefe

“…Methods The study analysed policies related to quality of life of long-term care residents in four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia). Three policy orientations were framed utilising a comparative approach: situational (environmental conditions), structural (organisational content), and temporal (developmental trajectories). 84 long term care policies were reviewed, relating to different policy jurisdictions, policy types, and quality of life domains. …”
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Routine evaluation of tonsillectomy specimens: a cross-sectional survey of Canadian Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgeons by Alexi Kuhnow, Ahmed A. Al-Sayed, Benjamin Taylor

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Characterization of Annual Air Emissions Reported by Pulp and Paper Mills in Atlantic Canada by Gianina Giacosa, Codey Barnett, Daniel G. Rainham, Tony R. Walker

“…The highest exceedance of a reporting threshold was for particulate matter (PM_2.5) at Northern Pulp in Nova Scotia. The emissions of PM_2.5 were on average (over a 17-year period) about 100,000% above the reporting threshold of 0.3 tonnes per year.…”
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THE SHIFTING SCOTTISH DIASPORA: IMAGES OF HOME IN ALISTAIR MACLEOD’S NO GREAT MISCHIEF by Miasol Eguíbar Holgado

“…No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod, is a novel set in Nova Scotia, Canada, whose characters constantly turn to the land of their ancestors, Scotland, in order to find connections and give meaning to their present lives. …”
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Evaluating Instability in Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis by Mark A. MacLean, MD, MSc, Chris Bailey, MD, MS, FRCSC, Charles Fisher, MD, MHSc, FRCSC, Yoga Raja Rampersaud, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Ryan Greene, MSc, Edward Abraham, MD, FRCSC, Nicholas Dea, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Hamilton Hall, MD, FRCSC, Neil Manson, MD, FRCSC, Raymond Andrew Glennie, MD, MSc, FRCSC

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Site Safety and Food Affect Movements of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) Migrating Through the Upper Bay of Fundy by Ashley J. Sprague, Diana J. Hamilton, Antony W. Diamond

“…In 2004, sandpipers from the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia and Chignecto Bay, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, were tracked, and in 2005, sandpipers were tracked only in Chignecto Bay. …”
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“I only know I must”: Transfiguring Irish Shame in Paula Meehan’s “Troika” by Seán Kennedy

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