Background: Much remains unknown about the effect of timing and prioritization of vaccination against pandemic (pH1N1) 2009 virus on health outcomes. We adapted a city-level contact network model to study different ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

This dissertation is composed of three related yet independent studies, with a consistent theme on stakeholder management and value creation of organizations. Using the instrumental stakeholder theory lens, in Essay 1, I ...

This report explores how storytelling can enhance the strategic communications planning goals within the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy, a nonprofit organization in south-eastern BC.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...