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A Walk for 09.09.17 was a walking practice that invited engagement of the senses through the geography of Vancouver and focused on being present. Traversing through Vancouver’s Chinatown and…

Calculus Early Transcendentals Differential & Multi-Variable Calculus for Social Sciences has been redesigned in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University from Calculus Early…

Calculus Early Transcendentals Integral & Multi-Variable Calculus for Social Sciences has been redesigned in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University from Calculus Early…

This report documents the program "Keeping it ReAL (Research in Academic Libraries) 2017: From Ideas to Action" that was held at UBC on November 3, 2017. This event is the second annual…

While risky sexual behaviours related to illicit drug use among street youth have been explored, the impacts of alcohol use have received less attention. This longitudinal study examined hazardous…

In Canada, Indigenous youth suicide represents one of several health disparities burdening Indigenous populations, and like many other of these disparities, can be understood as an expression of…

Finding suitable and affordable housing is increasingly a challenge for families in the City of Vancouver. The City has a limited supply of primary rental units large enough for families. Most family…

A hierarchical credibility model is a generalization of the Bühlmann credibility model and the Bühlmann-Straub credibility model with a tree structure of four or more levels. This project aims to…

Treatment noncompliance is a common issue in randomized controlled trials that may plague the randomization settings and bias the treatment effect estimation. The complier-average causal effect (CACE…

Access to government information varies widely and is, in many cases, changing rapidly. This presentation provided an overview of the American and Canadian government information contexts as well as…

Introduction and Aims: Street-involved youth are known to be at elevated risk of initiating injection drug use. However, the impact of so-called “gateway” drugs, such as cannabis, on injection…

“Grey Matter”, a forty-two minute, 4-movement suite for string quartet and Disklavier (Yamaha’s automated piano), ambiguously explores themes of aging (and the body’s attendant neural/psychic…

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations to the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein. Ivacaftor (1) was the…

Environmental velocity has emerged as an important concept but remains theoretically underdeveloped, particularly with respect to its multidimensionality. In response, we develop a framework that…

Background and Aim: Although methadone, an opioid agonist, has been an effective medication used to treat opioid use disorder for over 40 years, recent studies have found that methadone was…

Books, conceived and directed by Patrick Blenkarn, is a performance with and about books. Over 70min, four performers perform a series of tasks with books upon an empty stage. In the process, they…

Health promotion - and education researchers and practitioners advocate for more democratic approaches to school-based health education, including participatory teaching methods and the promotion of…

In July of 2017, many people in education were dismayed to learn that Access Copyright had won its lawsuit against York University. Yes, York has appealed and yes, both sides have the option to…

Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is a model under which a library would digitize physical books in its collection, including in-copyright works, and lend out the digital version to one user at a time…