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Factors affecting post-secondary pathway choices
University has long been considered the gold standard for post-secondary education. This study used a survey of current post-secondary students enrolled in a science or engineering program at an Ontario university in order ... -
Factors influencing community recovery decision making : a case study of recovery from the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires
When large-scale disasters impact entire communities, entire communities must in turn collectively negotiate the recovery process and the associated recovery decisions. While these decisions affect the recovery outcomes ... -
Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) : weaving Alberta’s social fabric
(2013-11-14)The Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) program is a provincial/municipal partnership that serves over 99% of Alberta’s population through a network of community and regional programs (FCSSAA, 2013). This network ... -
Family Nature Clubs: Exploring the Parent-Child-Nature Relationship
Because parents have been found to ultimately influence the degree to which their children have contact with the natural world (Chawla, 2015; Clements, 2004; Louv, 2005, Rivkin, 1998; Sobel, 2008), the parent-child-nature ... -
Fear and power in Northern Uganda : a symbolic interactionist approach
(2013-05-17)This thesis explores how fear is used as a communication strategy to create and enhance power in conflict setting. I drew the data from six in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in northern Uganda, a region that ... -
“Fear promotes the status quo” : surveillance discourses and environmental activism in Canada
This paper explores the topics of state surveillance and democratic participation. It examines how targeted surveillance—backed by the implicit threat of state violence—shapes the behaviour and sense of identity of Canadian ... -
The fentanyl crisis
(Verywell Mind, 2018-06-12)Although the medical use of fentanyl has declined recently, illicit fentanyl and its analogs and derivatives have become a significant part of the larger opioid crisis which has spread across the United States and Canada, ... -
Financial analysis, asset allocation, and portfolio construction: Theory & practice
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Finding meaning in hospice palliative care : an interpretive phenomenological study
This interpretive phenomenological study examines five caregivers’ hospice palliative care experiences. The goal of this study was to find out how hospice palliative care became meaningful to these caregivers and what that ... -
First report on bottom studies of Esquimalt Harbour
(Nov-1978)Studies of the bottom and sub-bottom sediments of Esquimalt Harbour were undertaken principally during the later part of FY 1978, using a sub-bottom profiler, side scan sonar, and grab sampler with position fixing by radar. ... -
Fisheries-related collaboration in the Skeena River Watershed : impacts and implications of historical conflict
(2016-05-27)Conflict has surrounded Skeena fisheries management on British Columbia's north coast for decades however limited Skeena-specific collaborative fisheries management research (Jones, 2006; Knox, 2008; Pinkerton, 1996, 2009b; ... -
Five-year invasive species management plan : Royal Roads property
(2015-05-06)Ornamental plant species, such as English holly (Ilex nquifolium) and English ivy (Hedera helix), which are maintained in the formal gardens and grounds of the Royal Roads property, have spread as invasive species into ... -
Flexible admission and academic performance
(Royal Roads University, 2016-06-01)The effect of flexible admission practices on academic performance are examined. A data set consisting of over 8,000 student records of which 27% consisted of non-traditional (flexible) admissions was examined. The results ... -
Floating and wall project panels
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Floating project panels
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Foliar reflectance and vector analysis reveal nutrient stress in prey-deprived pitcher plants ( nepenthes rafflesiana )
(International Journal of Plant Sciences, 1998-11)Pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes trap invertebrate prey in pitchers formed from modified leaf tips. This study investigates the benefits of carnivory to Nepenthes rafflesiana, a common Bornean lowland species. Plants ... -
Forest patch size and breeding territory selection by coastal swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatis ustulatis) in BC's Georgia Basin
(2014-11-05)Many of North America's 250 species of Neotropical migrant songbirds have declined in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Forest fragmentation can introduce limiting factors to bird habitats as edge to interior ratios ... -
Forest product markets, forests and poverty reduction
(Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2005)There is a new and increasing emphasis on poverty alleviation and livelihoods improvement in forestry, representing both a challenge and an opportunity. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the ‘livelihoods’ issue, ... -
Forest-based livelihoods strategies conditioned by market remoteness and forest proximity in Jharkhand, India
(World Development, 2015)The study uses a novel method to investigate the role of forest proximity, market remoteness, and caste in determining household income, especially forest income, in an underdeveloped region of India. A high (>50%) ... -
Forests, livelihoods, and conservation: Broadening the empirical base
(World Development, 2014)More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging forests and wildlands as from cultivating crops. ...
