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People who use drugs (PWUD) face significant stigma and are often excluded from or afforded little decision-making power in the development of services and policies that affect their health. This…

Background: Indigenous-awareness education programs have been implemented in healthcare organizations to improve culturally-safe healthcare practices across Canada. Although many education programs…

Introduction: Psycho-social factors affect biological processes, including inflammation and immune response, yet their contribution to gender and socio-economic disparity of HIV is not well…

Poppers (alkyl nitrites) are vasodilators used by many gay men to relieve pain, enhance pleasure, and facilitate penetration during sex. Poppers have been studied by medical researchers since the…

This research aims to identify the challenges and opportunities to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the energy sector in Uzbekistan and to identify possible ways to improve the investment…

Resource subsidies across ecosystems can have strong and unforeseen ecological impacts. Marine-derived nutrients from Pacific salmon (Onchorhycus spp.) can be transferred to streams and riparian…

This paper aims to add to conversations on access, diversity, and representation in libraries by addressing the importance of language as a factor in library service and providing some of the first…

Drawing on our recent experiences with implementing and supporting several course journal projects at Simon Fraser University (SFU), this presentation explores opportunities for academic librarians…

Restoration of estuarine and tidal marsh habitats in Canada’s Fraser River estuary is imperative for the conservation and recovery of select depressed Pacific salmon populations and the many species…

This paper attempts to situate alternative media in relation to Bourdieu's journalistic (or media) field. More specifically, it explores the various conceptions of media power and the ways in…

This paper builds on the body of literature led by Ann Markusen in exploring where different types artists live in urban metropolitan areas. Findings from this paper provide further understanding of…

Essay 1: The foundational premise of this paper is that influencing an organism’s action depends upon intervention into its psychological processes. Risk communication is not merely about the…

Ordinarily, mass attitude change takes place slowly if at all. Many attitudes remain relatively stable over time and even generations. American attitudes on abortion, for example, have remained…

Prescribed burning and hand-pulling are used to manage invasive plants but treatments can deferentially affect species. My objective is to determine the effect of time-since-burning and hand-pulling…

This project analyses mental health related emergency department visits from children and adolescents in Alberta, Canada to understand the spatio-temporal patterns and identify risk factors. The data…

This research investigates the integration of policies, processes and priorities in planning for sustainable development. Following case-study methodology at the neighbourhood scale in the City of…

This project explores the effect of ideology on the policy-making process through a case-study analysis of the NDP majority government which governed the province from 1991-1996. The focus is…

Segmentation of medical images is one of the most critical steps in many clinical applications. In brain MRI analysis, image segmentation is commonly used for measuring and visualizing the brain’s…

One of the contaminants possibly contributing to declining sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in the Fraser River is pesticides. In this 4-month study, the effects of environmentally relevant…

This project proposes a simple method of forming two-player and four-player golf teams for the purposes of net best-ball tournaments in stroke play format. The proposal is based on the recognition…