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A 15-minute Nanaimo?
(VIU Press, 2023-11)We’re standing in the exact same spot. But you’re in a 15-minute city and I’m not. Why? We examine the City of Nanaimo, British Columbia, to find (overlapping amenity isochrone) zones where residents can live and have ... -
Social work's colonial past with Indigenous children and communities in Australia and Canada: A cross-national comparison
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-08-02)This article offers a cross-national comparison of social work in two countries, Australia and Canada, about the care of Indigenous children within the context of colonization and the evolving profession. The discussion ... -
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa: Reflections of social workers
(Sage, 2023-07-14)This article reports on social worker reflections on the benefits and barriers of a multisectoral community of practice to improve child well-being for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant in poor urban communities ... -
Social work journals: A key disciplinary resource
(Unisa Press Journals, 2023-07-04)Social work journals are repositories of disciplinary knowledge. The recent critiques of Western and anglophone dominance in knowledge production and publication barriers experienced by scholars from the Global South and ... -
Elder abuse in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus communities (Evidence Summary)
(2023-06-22)This evidence brief summarizes the literature on the abuse of older adults who identify as 2SLGBT+ (Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer plus) published in the past decade (2013-2023), and discusses policy ... -
Elder abuse in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus communities
(2023-06-17)This knowledge synthesis reports on the literature on the abuse of older adults who identify as 2SLGBT+ (Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer plus) published in the past decade (2013-2023). Although there is ... -
2023 Library Survey Data
(2023-06-08)Cleaned raw data from the 2023 Library survey of VIU students, faculty, and staff. -
International Journal of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves - Volume 7, Issue 1 (2023)
(VIU Press, 2023-06)Volume 7, Issue 1 of the International Journal of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. -
Comparative evaluation of antioxidant status and mineral composition of Diploschistes ocellatus, Calvatia candida (rostk.) Hollós, Battarrea phalloides and Artemisia lerchiana in conditions of high soil salinity
(VIU Press, 2023-06)Natural reserves play a fundamental role in maintaining flora and fauna biodiversity, though biochemical characteristics of such ecosystems have been studied in an extremely fragmentary way. For the first time mineral ... -
Flash flood drivers, devastations and directions in UNESCO biosphere reserves: Evidence from a systemic map
(VIU Press, 2023-06)This paper answers a key primary question: "what evidence exists on the drivers, devastations and directions of flash floods in biosphere reserves?" -
Biosphere reserves and conservation of subterranean aquatic ecosystems in Brazil
(VIU Press, 2023-06)Subterranean systems and aquifers are functional units of karst, constituting habitat units for the aquatic fauna. These are open systems, under the influence of external factors controlling the internal processes. Major ... -
Updates to the EuroMab Literature Database 2023
(VIU Press, 2023-06)The International Journal of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Literature Database has been significantly updated in 2022. This article details the changes that occurred to the database during March 2022 to December 2022. -
Toward automated infrared spectral analysis in community drug checking
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-05-29)The body of knowledge surrounding infrared spectral analysis of drug mixtures continues to grow alongside the physical expansion of drug checking services. Technicians trained in the analysis of spectroscopic data are ... -
Safety and tolerability of intramuscular and sublingual ketamine for psychiatric treatment in the Roots To Thrive ketamine-assisted therapy program: A retrospective chart review
(Sage, 2023-05-25)This study reports on adverse effects of intramuscular and sublingual ketamine dosing in a community group psychotherapy setting among 128 participants across four cohorts. -
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis
(Sage, 2023-05-22)Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To ... -
The role of phonology-to-orthography consistency in predicting the degree of pupil dilation induced in processing reduced and unreduced speech
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-05-22)The relationship between the ways in which words are pronounced and spelled has been shown to affect spoken word processing, and a consistent relationship between pronunciation and spelling has been reported as a possible ... -
A passive membrane system for on-line mass spectrometry reagent addition
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-04-30)Rationale: Post-separation addition of chemical modifiers in liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry is widely used for improving ionization sensitivity and selectivity. This is typically accomplished using a post-column ... -
Velocity relationships of isolated galaxy pairs in support of MOND-type theories
(Oxford University Press, 2023-04-14)The MOND-type theories of AQUADratic Lagrangian (AQUAL) and GRavitational Anti-Screening (GRAS) are applied to isolated galaxy pairs. Theoretical relationships between their intervelocities, line-of-sight velocities, and ... -
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence with different-script languages: Evidence from eye tracking
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-04-11)This study compared patterns of non-selective cross-language activation in L1 and L2 visual word recognition with different-script bilinguals. The aim was to determine (1) whether lexical processing is non-selective in ... -
Strategies to support ADHD learners in the classroom
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2023-04)Poster exploring what is ADHD and how educators can adopt simple strategies in classroom in order to enhance learning of students in ADHD?
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