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Philippe J. Giabbanelli and Grace MacEwan
The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia suggested that a paradigm shift from weight to well-being could address the unintended consequences of focusing on obesity and improve the outcomes of efforts to address the challenges f...
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Zhongda Huang, Andy Ogilvy, Steve Collins, Warren Hare, Michelle Hilts and Andrew Jirasek
A derivative-free optimization (DFO) method is an optimization method that does not make use of derivative information in order to find the optimal solution. It is advantageous for solving real-world problems in which the only information available about...
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Guoqi Han, Jon Chamberlain, Colin Webber and Charles Hannah
The world?s largest living glass sponge reefs, located in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia, are impacted by bottom contact fishing gear. The existing Adaptive Management Zones (AMZs) for the protection of these reefs were ...
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Rianna Burnham, Svein Vagle, Peter Van Buren and Christie Morrison
The spatial extent of a dual-frequency echosounder and its potential impact on cetacean species were examined. Sound emissions of output frequencies of 83 kHz and 200 kHz were tested at a maximum distance of 400 m. This is the minimum vessel approach dis...
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Haonan Zhang, Haibo Feng, Kasun Hewage and Mehrdad Arashpour
Assessing the energy performance of existing residential buildings (ERB) has been identified as key to improving building energy efficiency and reducing associated greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. However, identifying optimal retrofit packages require...
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Alysha van Duynhoven and Suzana Dragicevic
An open problem impeding the use of deep learning (DL) models for forecasting land cover (LC) changes is their bias toward persistent cells. By providing sample weights for model training, LC changes can be allocated greater influence in adjustments to m...
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George E. Mustoe and Graham Beard
Calcite-mineralized wood occurs in marine sedimentary rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia at sites that range in age from Early Cretaceous to Paleocene. These fossil woods commonly have excellent anatomical preservation that resulted from a permi...
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Yibing Yao, Yuyang Zhang, Taoyu Yao, Kapo Wong, Jin Yeu Tsou and Yuanzhi Zhang
Canadian emergency management planners have historically ignored the self-motivated evacuation procedures of people who cannot initially choose the safest evacuation areas. In densely developed urban areas, open spaces can be seen as ideal evacuation are...
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Muntahith Orvin, Daryus Ahmed, Mahmudur Fatmi, Gordon Lovegrove
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This study develops vehicular and non-vehicular trip generation models for mid-rise, multi-family residential developments. A comparative analysis of observed and Instiutue of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip rates suggests that ITE rates consistently...
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Paul-Mark DiFrancesco, David A. Bonneau and D. Jean Hutchinson
Key to the quantification of rockfall hazard is an understanding of its magnitude-frequency behaviour. Remote sensing has allowed for the accurate observation of rockfall activity, with methods being developed for digitally assembling the monitored occur...
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