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(International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2014)Human memory is not always an accurate record of experienced events. Information that has never been experienced but is consistent with a relevant schema is sometimes mistaken as memory, giving rise to false memories. In ...
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(2019-07-30)The combined use of alcohol and caffeine has been identified as a public health concern, and yet, our knowledge of this type of use and how it relates to the risk of incurring an alcohol-related injury remains limited. ...
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(2019-07-30)Degrowth is an emerging field of research and a social movement founded on the premise that perpetual economic growth is incompatible with the biophysical limits of our finite planet (D’Alisa, Demaria & Kallis, 2014a; ...
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(Canadian Studies in Population, 2017)
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(2019-07-24)Children have received far less attention than adults in bioarchaeology as it has been believed that little relevant information can be obtained through their study. This is problematic due to the fact that not only are ...
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(2019-07-15)Objective: Cultural neuropsychologists face barriers such as access to culturally appropriate psychometric instruments and norms. Further, three commonly encountered dilemmas in cultural neuropsychology include the following ...
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(Remote Sensing, 2019)The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) presents unique challenges to the determination of melt onset (MO) using remote sensing data. High spatial resolution data is required to discern melt onset among the islands and narrow ...
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(2019-07-15)Marine protected areas (MPAs) are important conservation tools that can support the resilience of marine ecosystems. Many countries, including Canada, have committed to protecting at least 10% of their marine areas under ...
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(2019-06-26)The success of Chinese foreign policy since 1949 can be demonstrated empirically in terms of core national interests defined by the realist international relations perspective: state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and ...
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(Remote Sensing, 2017)Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) within the Amazon region has created several environmental impacts, such as mercury contamination and changes in water quality due to increased siltation. This paper describes ...
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(2019-05-31)This work is a theoretical exploration that seeks to better understand the grooming process involved in some cases of domestic trafficking for sexual exploitation in North America. It theorizes the grooming process as a ...
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(2019-05-29)This thesis asks what effects concepts of resilience may have on political action and the ongoing ecological crises we see developing throughout the world. Specifically, it addresses disruptions in wild salmon migration, ...
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(2019-05-23)The dissertation reinterprets the concept of forces of production through an ecological lens and analyzes the fettering of “green productive forces” in the context of the deepening climate crisis. In contrast to more ...
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(2019-05-23)As increased mobility of workers challenges the ability of the traditional labour movement to protect workers’ rights, global union federations such as Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) attempt to organize ...
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(Social Sciences, 2019)Over the past years much attention has been placed on the ordeal of migrants as they leave their home countries and seek refuge or better lives in others. Given the sudden surge of Bangladeshi migration to Italy in recent ...
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(2019-05-03)Amidst recent mobilizations of Indigenous land-based resistance and the hypocrisy inherent in the state’s implementation of UNDRIP they render visible, resource-extractive corporate capital is uniquely invested in the ...
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(2019-05-03)Money, in conventional scholarship, is represented as a commodity or a token. In a conventional economy, most money is created through bank loans based on interest-bearing debt. However, Islam prohibits the payment of ...
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(2019-05-03)Over the past several years, slow lorises, a group of endangered primate species found in Southeast Asia, have fallen victims to the illegal primate pet trade. Slow lorises do not fare well in captivity, as they are nocturnal ...
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“These Paintings Have a Spirit”: Voices Found in Childhood Artwork from Indian Residential Schools (2019-05-03)The residential school system has had profound negative and lasting impacts on the Indigenous peoples in the land now known as North America. Children as young as the age of four were forcibly removed from their families ...
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(2019-05-03)HIV/AIDS has been the subject of culturally produced stigma since its emergence in the 1980s when a positive diagnosis meant certain death. HIV was transformed to a chronic condition with the introduction of antiretroviral ...
