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Title: Cassiar Courier - December 1990
Date added: 2017-10-10T15:50:11.88Z

Title: Over the Edge (newspaper), December 6, 1995
Date added: 2017-06-29T16:11:18.789Z

Title: Cassiar Courier - October 1982
Date added: 2017-10-10T16:37:33.828Z

Title: The Asbestos Sheet Feb. 1969
Date added: 2017-10-06T20:57:07.167Z

Title: Snapshots from the North Pacific: Letters Written by Bishop Ridley of Caledonia
Contributors: Ridley, William, 1836-1911 (Author), Alice J. Janvrin (Editor)
Date added: 2017-06-02T21:19:28.611Z

Title: Elementary school counsellors' perceptions of their role with families
Contributors: Jennifer Vivienne Martha Ritchie (author), Paul Madak (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Elementary school counsellors (ESC) play a crucial role in facilitating partnerships between family and school. lbis study explores ESCs' perceptions of their role with families. lbis qualitative, inductive research utilizes a descriptive/ exploratory approach. The participants were four ESCs, with backgrounds in teaching, and elementary school counselling, working in elementary schools within one school district in the Northern British Columbian public school system. Data were obtained using semi-structured interviews. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data analysis processes included: sorting, coding, categorizing, and memoing. The participants discussed a number of ways of working with families to promote the child's progress in school. A variety of role and family related challenges emerged from the participants' discussions. Strategies to address these challenges are explored. Findings from this study indicated that ESCs use consultation processes to work in partnership with families, and with the child, to support the child's positive academic and social development.
Discipline: Education-Counselling
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:15:17.723Z

Title: Hostility, smiling and elicited emotional experiences: Considerations for health outcomes.
Contributors: Darby Marie Eakins (author), Ken Prkachin (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Resilience is an increasingly invoked theoretical construct to explain why and how people manage to retain their health despite experiencing adversity. Improved vagal tone (higher heart rate variability HRV) is supported in the literature as an indicator of positive cardiovascular health outcomes. Utilizing a measure of HRV as a proxy for health resilience outcomes, historical datasets of healthy undergraduate students were utilized to elucidate the relationship between measured hostility (high and low), evoked emotions (happy and angry) and smiling behaviours to better understand some factors contributing to positive physiological health (i.e., heart rate variability as an indicator of positive health outcomes). Results indicate that smile parameters vary meaningfully as a function of the type of elicited emotion interview participants undergo and as a function of gender and hostility level. However, the smiling behaviour was not predictive of physiological outcomes. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Disability Management
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:12:18.123Z

Title: Regional displacement matching scheme for LBP based face recognition.
Contributors: Ling Yan (author), Uang Chen (Thesis advisor), David Casperson (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: In face recognition, alignment of the face images has been a known open issue. This thesis proposes a displacement based local aligning scheme to construct a structural descriptive image template for comparison. To conquer the registration difficulties caused by the non-rigidity of human face images, a block displacement strategy is introduced to apply the regional voting scheme to face recognition field. Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is adopted to construct this block LBP displacement-based local matching approach, we name LBP-DLMA. Experiments are performed and have demonstrated the outstanding performances of this LBP-DLMA over the original LBP approach. It is expected and shown by experiments that this approach applies to both large and small sized images, and that it also applies to descriptor approaches other than LBP. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Computer Science
Date added: 2017-04-11T21:12:44.531Z

Title: Indians of British Columbia
Contributors: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 (Author)
Date added: 2017-06-02T21:07:03.292Z

Title: Communication of pain and anxiety between mothers and infants during routine immunization procedures.
Contributors: T. Klassen-Ross (author), Kenneth Prakchin (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Infants are a very vulnerable population who undergo numerous common, yet painful, medical procedures, such as immunizations. Infants use social referencing, a complex level of communication and learning, during novel situations (i.e. medical procedures) to establish how they should react in novel situations. If the infant's mother is fearful of needles she may inadvertently send these danger messages to her infant making the immunization process a more painful experience for the infant. It was found that neither maternal self-reported needle fear nor maternal fear behaviour influenced infants' pain expression during immunizations. Results, however, did indicate that immediately following the immunization males, 12-months of age, exhibited more guarded body movement than males 18-months of age. It was also found that females, 12-months of age, exhibited more guarded body movement than females 18-months of age prior to the immunization.
Discipline: Psychology
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:03:50.697Z

Title: Modelling the distribution of advance regeneration in lodgepole pine stands in the Central Interior of British Columbia.
Contributors: Darin Warren Brooks (author), Phil Burton (Thesis advisor), Roger Wheate (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The recent mountain-pine beetle outbreak in the Central Interior of British Columbia is leaving unsalvaged stands with minimal silvicultural treatment, raising questions about their ability to regenerate and the implications of this uncertainty to future timber supply and habitat values. No system currently exists to predict, on a landscape level, which pine stands will have adequate stocking of advance regeneration suitable for release upon canopy death. My research takes a ground-truthed, landscape-level approach to modelling, predicting, mapping, and prioritizing stands for salvage or rehabilitation. The resulting model, derived from recursive partitioning of data from 964 sample plots, created a landscape level output with a predictive accuracy of 78%. Across the Sub-Boreal Spruce study area, I estimate that 58% of mature pine-leading stands (approximately 840,000 ha) are likely or very likely to be stocked with at least 600 stems/ha of living understory trees. --Leaf ii.
Discipline: Geography
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:13:41.892Z

Title: The effects of the PARTY program on youths' risk-taking behaviours and beliefs
Contributors: David Paul Steindl (author), Cindy Hardy (Thesis advisor), Kathryn Banks (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: The PARTY (Prevent Alcohol Related Trauma in Youth) program is a one-day hospital-based program that targets youth in Grade 10. The programs' intention is to educate youth in the dangers of irresponsible alcohol use and how this contributes to preventable trauma. The study of the PARTY program used a 12-item questionnaire to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in changing youths' risk-taking behaviors. The main objectives were to (a) carry out psychometric analysis of the questionnaire, (b) assess cognitive changes in regards to risk-taking behaviors and beliefs of Grade 10 students three months after completing the PARTY program, and (c) assess gender, location, and school structure differences in risk-taking behaviors and beliefs. The study utilized a mixed design as the program is using a pre-and post-program survey for data collection. The study sample consisted of Grade 10 students from senior and junior secondary schools in the School District 57 region that included one rural senior secondary school, three urban senior secondary schools, one urban junior secondary school and a private senior secondary school. Two of the schools had an insufficient number of participants completing all three times of measurement and were not included in analyses involving individual schools. A total of280 students completed the first questionnaire and of those 162 (57.8%) completed all three times of measure and were used in the study. Results indicate that the PARTY program has a positive effect on the risk-taking behaviors and beliefs of urban girls and boys, and rural girls attending senior secondary schools. The PARTY program showed no significant effect on the risk-taking behaviors and beliefs of junior secondary boys and girls, or rural boys.
Discipline: Community Health
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:13:09.558Z

Title: Unit rate contracts: is it a model for oil sands projects?
Contributors: Patrick Anthony Hibbitts (author), Raymond Cox (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: This project will investigate strategies that help provide cost surety to the oil sands construction industries. The project will begin with a review of the historical cost overruns and the lessons learned. The next focus point will be reviewing the demographics of Wood Buffalo to demonstrate the changes that have occurred since the early 2000s and refute the labour availability claim. Following the demographic review we will review construction contracts and the use of good faith as a contractual term. We will then conclude with a review of a unit rate simulation and discussion. --Leaves 2-3.
Discipline: Business Administration
Date added: 2017-03-29T17:24:45.395Z

Title: Adolescent women's perspectives of homelessness in the Canadian north.
Contributors: Janet Le Camp (author), Kwong-leung Tang (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: No abstract available.
Discipline: Community Health
Date added: 2017-03-30T17:01:21.092Z

Title: The role of the nurse practitioner in the implementation of group prenatal visits for aboriginal women: exploring a new type of care
Contributors: Rona Loewen (author), Lela Zimmer (Thesis advisor), Linda Van Pelt (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Nurse practitioners in British Columbia have an opportunity to introduce an innovative model of prenatal care for Aboriginal women. BC Aboriginal women are at greater risk for pregnancy complications than non-Aboriginal women are. Prenatal care has traditionally offered standardized individual visits for every pregnant woman, regardless of their needs, preferences, or culture. Nurse practitioner (NP)-facilitated group prenatal visits (GPVs) have the potential to provide culturally relevant and accessible prenatal care. An integrative review of the literature demonstrates that by using the Centering Pregnancy model of group prenatal care, NPs can provide relevant, holistic, and safe GPVs. Group prenatal visits can improve the experience of prenatal care for Aboriginal women in British Columbia. Further research is recommended to explore the outcomes of NP-facilitated GPVs and define culturally relevant and safe prenatal care according to BC Aboriginal women. --P. 2.
Discipline: Nursing-Family Nurse Practitioner
Date added: 2017-04-10T22:04:33.458Z

Title: The healing experiences of adult survivors of complex trauma
Contributors: Serena George (author), Henry Harder (thesis advisor), Linda O'Neill (committee member), Shannon Wagner (committee member), Sylvia Barton (committee member), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
Abstract: Complex trauma is a critical area to explore in terms of the emotional, physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being of survivors. This research explored the personal experiences of 12 adult survivors of childhood trauma by interpreting the meanings they attach to their stories of healing. A three phase analysis approach adapted from the work of Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach, and Zilber (1998) was carried out. Individual interviews were analyzed following a narrative approach to capture each participant’s perspective and meaning. The themes that emerged from the narratives were organized into ten main categories. Five overarching metathemes occurring across all of the participants’ narratives included: Trauma Effects, Establishing Safety, Reclaiming Self, Healing through Relationships, The Healing Journey. The results of this study add important findings that increase understanding of how to address complex trauma in counselling and health care settings in order to restore individual’s sense of safety and well-being. By targeting the possible issues linked to the seven domains of complex trauma that underlie the presentation of traumatized individuals, survivors will feel more supported in their recovery and may be more likely to access appropriate support.
Discipline: Health Sciences
Date added: 2019-04-04T21:32:37.817Z

Title: Over the Edge (newspaper), November 4, 2002
Date added: 2017-06-29T16:00:28.372Z

Title: Over the Edge (newspaper), February 3, 1997
Date added: 2017-06-29T16:19:31.809Z

Title: Placer Mines of Antler Creek in Cariboo District, B.C.
Date added: 2017-06-30T18:36:22.488Z

Title: The Asbestos Sheet 8 Oct. 1958
Date added: 2017-10-06T20:37:28.71Z

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