• The Role of the Goal in Solving Hard Computational Problems: Do People Really Optimize? 

  Carruthers, Sarah; Stege, Ulrike; Masson, Michael (Journal of Problem Solving, 2018)

  The role that the mental, or internal, representation plays when people are solving hard computational problems has largely been overlooked to date, despite the reality that this internal representation drives problem ...
• Bias in Research Grant Evaluation Has Dire Consequences for Small Universities 

  Murray, Dennis L.; Morris, Douglas; Lavoie, Claude; Leavitt, Peter R.; MacIsaac, Hugh; Masson, Michael; Villard, Marc-Andre (PLoS One, 2016)

  Federal funding for basic scientific research is the cornerstone of societal progress, economy, health and well-being. There is a direct relationship between financial investment in science and a nation’s scientific ...
• Components of action representations evoked when identifying manipulable objects 

  Bub, Daniel N.; Masson, Michael; Lin, Terry (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015)

  We examined the influence of holding planned hand actions in working memory on the time taken to visually identify objects with handles. Features of the hand actions and position of the object's handle were congruent or ...
• Conceptual processing of text during skimming and rapid sequential reading 

  Masson, Michael (Memory & Cognition, 1983)

  Potential conceptual processing difficulties associated with abbreviating the duration of eye fixations during reading were explored using a rapid sequential visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm in which each word of a text ...
• An Evaluation of the Venture Capital Program in British Columbia 

  Hellmann, Thomas; Schure, Paul (Ministry of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, 2010-06)

  The objective of this study is to evaluate the economic impact of the venture capital program (VCP) in the province of British Columbia. The study focuses on the economic and financial performance of the companies in the ...
• Co-Use of Alcohol and Cannabis: Longitudinal Associations with Mental Health Outcomes in Young Adulthood 

  Thompson, Kara; Holley, Maria; Sturgess, Clea; Leadbeater, Bonnie (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021)

  Increases in cannabis use among young people has heightened concern about the potential interactive health effects of cannabis with other drugs. We examined the longitudinal association between concurrent and simultaneous ...
• Beneficial cognitive effect of lamotrigine in severe acquired brain injury: A case report 

  Ng, Maxwell; Ali, Sheliza; Sue, Joanna; Cullen, Nora; McCullagh, Scott; Perera, Gihan; Hosseini, Hossein; Muniz-Rodriguez, Flor; Deng, Zhihui (Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021)

  Background: Acquired brain injuries (ABI) can cause various negative sequelae, including cognitive impairment, leading to poor functional outcomes for patients. Evidence is limited on pharmacological interventions ...
• Biophysical controls of increased tundra productivity in the western Canadian Arctic 

  Chen, Angel; Lantz, Trevor C.; Hermosilla, Txomin; Wulder, Michael A. (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021)

  Rapid climate warming has widely been considered as the main driver of recent increases in Arctic tundra productivity. Field observations and remote sensing both show that tundra “greening” has been widespread, but ...
• Generalized model for mapping bicycle ridership with crowdsourced data 

  Nelson, Trisalyn; Roy, Avipsa; Ferster, Colin; Fischer, Jaimy; Brum-Bastos, Vanessa; Laberee, Karen; Winters, Meghan (Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2021)

  Fitness apps, such as Strava, are a growing source of data for mapping bicycling ridership, due to large samples and high resolution. To overcome bias introduced by data generated from only fitness app users, researchers ...
• A synthesis of the prevalence and drivers of non-compliance in marine protected areas 

  Iacarella, Josephine C.; Clyde, Georgia; Bergseth, Brock J.; Ban, Natalie C. (Biological Conservation, 2021)

  Non-compliance regularly negates the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. Understanding and addressing non-compliance is critical given continued efforts to establish MPAs to meet international milestones ...
• "We are to be like machines... fill the bed before it gets cold": Exploring the emotional geographies of healthcare providers caring for dying residents in long-term care facilities 

  Giesbrecht, Melissa; Stajduhar, Kelli I.; Cloutier, Denise; Dujela, Carren (Social Science & Medicine, 2021)

  The end-of-life context is imbued with emotions, with death and dying transforming everyday places, like long-term care facilities, into entirely new emotional topographies that can evoke profound effects on those who live ...
• Mapping bicycling exposure and safety risk using Strava Metro 

  Ferster, Colin; Nelson, Trisalyn; Laberee, Karen; Winters, Meghan (Applied Geography, 2021)

  Overcoming concerns about bicycling safety is critical to increasing the health benefits of bicycling for transportation. While exposure measures are critical for monitoring and understanding bike safety, lack of spatially ...
• Values, identity and pro-environmental behaviour 

  Gatersleben, Birgitta; Murtagh, Niamh; Abrahamse, Wokje (Contemporary Social Science, 2012)

  The importance of understanding and promoting pro-environmental behaviour among individual consumers in modern Western Societies is generally accepted. Attitudes and attitude change are often examined to help reach this ...
• Introduction to “Economic and Financial Governance in the European Union after a decade of Economic and Political Crises.” 

  D’Erman, Valerie; Schure, Paul; Verdun, Amy (Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2020)

  This paper offers the Introduction to the Special Issue “Economic and Financial Governance in the European Union after a decade of Economic and Political Crises.” We introduce the five papers. We distill three important ...
• Economic and Monetary Union at twenty: A stocktaking of a tumultuous second decade: introduction 

  Howarth, David; Verdun, Amy (Journal of European Integration, 2020)

  This contribution discusses the two main asymmetries of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as they developed over the past two decades since the launch of the Single Currency. From the outset, EMU involved asymmetric ...
• Modelling and control of cholera on networks with a common water source 

  Shuai, Zhisheng; Driessche, van den (Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2014)

  A mathematical model is formulated for the transmission and spread of cholera in a heterogeneous host population that consists of several patches of homogeneous host populations sharing a common water source. The basic ...
• Preface 

  Allen, Linda J.S.; Li, Jia; van den Driessche, Pauline (Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2015)
• Crowdsourced data for bicycling research and practice 

  Nelson, Trisalyn; Ferster, Colin; Laberee, Karen; Fuller, Daniel; Winters, Meghan (Transport Reviews, 2020)

  Cities are promoting bicycling for transportation as an antidote to increased traffic congestion, obesity and related health issues, and air pollution. However, both research and practice have been stalled by lack of data ...
• The Google Earth Engine Mangrove Mapping Methodology (GEEMMM) 

  Yancho, J. Maxwell M.; Jones, Trevor Gareth; Gandhi, Samir R.; Ferster, Colin; Lin, Alice; Glass, Leah (Remote Sensing, 2020)

  Mangroves are found globally throughout tropical and sub-tropical inter-tidal coastlines. These highly biodiverse and carbon-dense ecosystems have multi-faceted value, providing critical goods and services to millions ...
• Introduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice 

  Verdun, Amy; Zeitlin, Jonathan (Journal of European Public Policy, 2017)

  The ‘European Semester’, a new framework for policy co-ordination across European Union (EU) member states, represents a major step in EU governance. Created in 2010 in the wake of the financial and sovereign debt crises ...

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