This thesis proposes a novel recommendation approach to take advantage of the information available in user-created lists. Our approach assumes associations among any two items appearing in a list together. We consider ...

Health promotion identifies health as a resource for daily living and emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between people and their environments in creating health (MacDonald, 2002). In this thesis. I explore how community ...

In this thesis, I critique the representation of pre-adolescent and teen femininity in M and the influence of the teen fan genre on identity development. This discussion revolves around a social semiotic analysis of four ...

This study examines how traumatized individuals have experienced some healing from trauma using music, on their own. Its significance is in its unique findings, contributing to the extensive body of trauma literature. ...

Different people can have different cultural interpretations of the person—atomic versus embedded—and these may affect health care decision-making. This study examines both the ethics of variations in personhood as well ...

Children and youth in state or statutory care (children-in-care) are at a higher risk of not having their health needs met than the general pediatric population. A literature review found a paucity of evidence on the health ...

This study used population level administrative data from the B. C. Ministry of Health to assess the health of parents and siblings of children who have a developmental disability. The study found strong evidence that ...

Chronic illnesses and disabilities are the number one health problems in North America, and are the health challenges of this era. Many studies have investigated the illness experience for people with chronic conditions, ...

There is a breadth of literature on educating international students. The typical foci are on international students as economic contributors to foreign countries, or on challenges they face. Canadian educational institutions ...

Despite repeated calls internationally, nationally and provincially to place the development of ecoliteracy as a curricular priority, there continues to be a lack of attention provided towards this goal, in particular ...