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Bullying in a Multicultural Context: The Influences of Race, Immigrant Status, and School Climate on the Incidence of Bullying in Canadian Children and Adolescents
(2009-09-16)Strong group affiliations based on race have been found in children at a very young age (Aboud, 1988) and may lead to a higher risk of involvement in bullying for certain racial groups. Little research, however, has addressed ... -
Bullying Involvement and Adolescent Substance Use: A Study of Multilevel Risk and Protective Factors
(2016-08-05)Bullying, frequent drunkenness, and frequent cannabis use are significant health-risk behaviours among youth. While many studies have demonstrated that bullying involvement may initiate a developmental pathway to both types ... -
The Burden of Obesity and Physical Inactivity Across the Lifespan, with a Focus on Health-Related Quality of Life
(2010-12-15)Obesity and physical inactivity are major risk factors for numerous chronic diseases, conditions, and early mortality. Healthy body weight and physical activity (PA) are also positively associated with health-related ... -
"The Burden of the Image:" Jane Morris in Art and Life
(2014-03-31)"'The Burden of the Image:' Jane Morris in Art and Life" examines the work and life of Pre-Raphaelite model Jane Burden Morris (1839-1914). Burden Morris, an embroiderer and wife of the arts and crafts designer William ... -
Burnout and Coping Strategies Utilized by Occupational Therapists in Ontario
(2010-09-22)Introduction: Burnout is a familiar term for today’s health care professionals with emotional, psychological, physical, and social consequences for those who experience it. It leads to job dissatisfaction, low organizational ... -
Business Improvement Areas in Metro Vancouver: The Convergence of Economic Development and Social Responsibility
(2011-04-28)In Experiential Planning: A Practitioner’s Account of Vancouver’s Success, Jill Grant draws attention to the intervolution of social issues and urban planning and specifically the role of Vancouver’s “ambitious social ... -
A Business Process Driven Approach for Automatic Generation of Business Applications
(2011-01-31)Business processes describe a set of tasks for accomplishing business objectives of an organization. Business applications automate business processes to improve the productivity of business users. Nowadays, the business ... -
Business Process Recovery Using UI Design Patterns and Clone Detection in Business Processes
(2008-10-28)A business application automates a collection of business processes. A business process describes how a set of logically related tasks are executed, ordered and managed by following business rules to achieve business ... -
But What Kind of Thing is a 'Fusion'?: Circular Reasoning in Sider’s Argument from Vagueness
(2015-09-23)Ordinarily, we suppose that material objects sometimes do, and sometimes do not, form a further object. In his book Four-Dimensionalism, Theodore Sider develops an argument that attempts to show this assumption is mistaken. ... -
By the Road: Fordism, Automobility, and Landscape Experience in the British Columbia Interior, 1920-1970
(2012-12-13)This dissertation examines how popular experiences of nature and history in the British Columbia Interior were structured by automobility – the system of objects, spaces, images, and practices that surrounded private ... -
Bystander Narratives: The Fiction of J.M. Coetzee and the Holocaust
(2011-09-30)J.M. Coetzee’s novels are suffused with a pervasive, though often oblique, Holocaust awareness. Direct references to the event and to the historical era to which it belongs, subtle stylistic and thematic echoes of Holocaust ... -
Ca2+ influx and release in Aplysia bag cell neurons
(2008-02-08)Intracellular Ca2+ is influenced by extracellular Ca2+ influx and release from internal stores. Depending on the initial influx, a range of responses can result. To better understand the processes surrounding Ca2+ handling, ... -
Calcium and Phosphate Disposition in Chronic Kidney Disease
(2015-09-08)Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Vascular calcification (VC) is the most prevalent form of cardiovascular disease in this population and the attributable ... -
Calcium Influx and Release Controls Neuroendocrine Cell Secretion and Excitability
(2009-09-19)Ca2+ dynamics affect many critical cellular processes. In the bag cell neurons of Aplysia californica, intracellular Ca2+ is elevated during a prolonged period of firing known as the afterdischarge. This consists of a fast ... -
Calculating and Limiting Local Strains in Geomembranes From Gravel Indentations
(2013-10-02)Short-term tensile strains that arise from local gravel indentations in municipal solid waste landfill base geomembrane liners are investigated with an emphasis on quantifying how strains are obtained and providing methods ... -
Calculating Strain and Stress in Geomembranes at Gravel Indentations
New methods were developed, validated and applied to calculate strain and stress in geomembrane liners from the local deformed shape imposed by overlying coarse gravel under vertical pressure. Previous strain calculation ... -
Calibration Hardware Research and Development for SNO+
(2014-06-02)The SNO+ experiment is a kilo-tonne scale liquid scintillator detector located at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. As the successor to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, SNO+ will use linear alkylbenzene (LAB) as the ... -
Calibration of a Mobile-Gantry CT Scanner for Surgical Navigation
(2013-09-05)In image-guided surgical navigation, instruments tools are tracked by a position sensor and their locations rendered along with the patient's anatomy. Conventional methods require an invasive, time-consuming and potentially ... -
Calibration of Infrared Photons in Cryogenic Germanium Detectors
A significant evidence from galaxies and astrophysical observations, suggests that ~ 85% of the matter in our Universe is invisible matter. The observations of the so-called “dark matter” suggest that it consists of ... -
Calling for resistance: The political economy of Indian and Canadian call centre industries
(2011-08-18)Call centres have in the last three decades come to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. From telemarketing to tele-health ...