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(2012-04-13)Source water protection is a key component of the multiple barrier approach to drinking water. The management of contamination within source water ecosystems is associated with many benefits but also several challenges. ...
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Validation of an executive function screener in a sample of adolescents with neurological disorders (2017-10-10)Objective: It is thought that executive functions (EF) emerge as outcomes of interactions between cognitive and emotional processes. They are an integral component of the growing regulatory abilities of children and ...
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(2012-04-26)The purpose of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of an 8-flight tower climb test (TCT) to assess anaerobic performance in urban firefighters. Twenty-five professional urban firefighters participated ...
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(2010-01-25)The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) Structural Summary was developed to aid in parsimonious interpretation of the instrument s 69 scales and subscales. The current study of 130 male and ...
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(2010-06-14)The subject of this dissertation is the architectural history of big-box stores on Southern Vancouver Island since their arrival in 1992. It examines the architecture and cultural significance of stores located in the ...
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(2018-06-27)In two separate studies, with two different samples, relationships between values, and participation in the physical sciences and engineering or the humanities were investigated for university students. Overall differences ...
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(2009-08-25)Presently, conventional development does not adequately incorporate functional ecosystems into development design. Largely due to the intangible nature of most ecosystem services, functional ecosystems have not been directly ...
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(2015-09-29)Four years ago, on May 15th 2011, we witnessed in the Spanish State ‘something’ that was quickly and popularly referred to as 15M or the Indignados. Since that day, 15M has had a tremendous impact on the way a large part ...
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(2010-04-07)Concord Pacific Place, a glass wall of tall, thin condominium towers lining the north shore of Vancouver's False Creek, is an urban mega-project being developed on the former Expo '86 lands sold to Hong Kong property magnate ...
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(2018-04-16)Vapour products (e-cigarettes) have rapidly grown in sales. While competing claims about the effects of vaping are fiercely debated within the public health community, no studies have examined the claims accepted in the ...
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(2016-08-18)Variability in neural activity has historically been treated as noise, in favour of deriving estimates based on central tendency (e.g., mean). Recently, researchers have shown that variability and mean confer different ...
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(2013-05-23)In Saanich Inlet, a fjord located in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, dense aggregations of euphausiids exhibit diel vertical migration behavior and their capability of generating turbulence has been suggested. ...
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Variability in the energy density of prey and its consequences for growth in juvenile chinook salmon (2019-04-30)Understanding how energy flows through ecosystems reveals underlying ecological patterns that can drive processes such as growth and survival of organisms. To understand how energy is transferred through organisms, the ...
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(2017-08-15)This thesis examines variation in clitic placement among neofalantes—a speech community of urban, L2 speakers of Galician, in a bilingual region in Northwestern Spain (Dubert 2005; Freixeiro Mato 2014; O’Rourke & Ramallo ...
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(2008-07-10)Recruitment of pelagic fish populations is believed to be regulated during the planktonic larval stage due to high rates of mortality during the early life stages. Starvation is thought to be one of the main sources of ...
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(2014-01-09)Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) is the most wide-ranging pine in North America. Populations in British Columbia vary widely in phenotypic and genotypic characteristics. The effect of climate on variation ...
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(2018-02-01)The growing industry of whale-watching is allowing increasing numbers of people access to whales in their natural environment, and constitutes a non-consumptive use of the whales compared to whaling. At the same time, ...
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(2019-10-29)Philosophical and psychological theories of social understanding have largely focused on the construct of “theory of mind” (ToM) and the inferential processes that may be necessary for understanding the meaning of others’ ...
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(2012-12-12)Pollen records from southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, show changes in vegetation and climate from the late Olympia Interstade through the Fraser Glaciation. This study provides important insights into ...
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