The coordination chemistry of compounds featuring P-P and P—Sb bonds has been investigated to define the fundamental features of bonding in these systems. New reaction methodologies to form P—P bonds have been evolved based ...

The close proximity of net-pen salmon farms and wild Pacific salmon stocks in British Columbia (BC) is an incentive for precautionary management of the environmentally and economically damaging parasites known as sea lice. ...

The restructuring of Canadian health care for more than twenty years has ushered in opportunities for growth in private home care services. Within this socio-economic reality, some seniors and families feeling the impacts ...

New survey data indicate that injection drug users (IDU) in Victoria, BC who share syringes do so with a single person. These partnerships pose an obvious health risk to IDU, as blood borne illnesses are transmitted ...

Our understanding of the global marine xed nitrogen budget has undergone rapid growth, and as a result there is debate as to whether or not it is balanced. The Arctic plays a disproportionately large role in the sink ...

This thesis is a case study using paleoethnobotanical analysis of Kilgii Gwaay, a 10,700-year-old wet site in southern Haida Gwaii to explore the use of plants by ancestral Haida. The research investigated questions of ...

Objective: When providing care for a loved one with a terminal illness, family members often look to health care providers for guidance and expertise. The objective of this study is to explore family caregiver accounts ...

When performing web searches, users manually open a web browser, direct it to a search engine, input keywords, and finally manually filter and select relevant results. This repetitive task can negatively impact the user's ...

A stimulating and thoroughly entertaining look at the rapid countdown to the year 2000, the Panic Encyclopedia argues that in the postmodern era, science, and technology are the real language of power and illustrates the ...