BACKGROUND People who inject drugs (PWID) have worse health than non-injectors and are at heightened risk of incidents that necessitate hospital emergency department (ED) visits. STUDY OBJECTIVES To describe ED visits by PWIDs in Melbourne, Australia, and compare reasons with those given in Vancouver, Canada. METHODS In 2008-2010, 688 Melbourne PWIDs were interviewed about their ED visits; ...

Melissa H. Mageroy, Sharon Jancsik, Macaire Man Saint Yuen, Michael Fischer, Stephen G. Withers, Christian Paetz, Bernd Schneider, John Mackay, and Joerg Bohlmann Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T1Z4, Canada Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research, NO-1430 As, Norway Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,...

1 Changing Ocean Research Unit, Global Fisheries Cluster, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2 UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, 3 Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France, 4 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 5 Fisheries Economics Research Unit, ...

Yen-Yi Lin1,†, Alex Gawronski1,†, Faraz Hach1,3,†, Sujun Li, Ibrahim Numanagić, Iman Sarrafi, Swati Mishra, Andrew McPherson, Colin Collins, Milan Radovich, Haixu Tang, and S. Cenk Sahinalp School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada Dept. ...

M. Vellend ([email protected]), C. D. Brown and I. H. Myers-Smith, Dépt de Biologie, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada. – D. S. Srivastava, K. M. Anderson, J. E. Jankowski, E. J. Kleynhans, N. J. B. Kraft, A. D. Letaw, A. A. M. Macdonald, J. E. Maclean, Dept of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada. – A. ...

Locomotor adaptations and after-effects to resistance during walking in 1 individuals with spinal cord injury. 2 3 Adina Houldin (BA); Kathryn, Luttin, (BHK, MPT); Tania Lam (PhD, BScPT) 4 5 School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 6 International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, Canada 7 8 9 Corresponding Author: 10 Tania Lam 11 School of Human...

Introduction: There is a lack of consensus among researchers about the exact definition of homelessness [1] but in a broader context and in this research, a person is considered homeless who "lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence [2]”. Homelessness in Vancouver is a challenge to the social development of the community. A recent survey of homeless count [3] revealed that Vanc...

Surface wrinkling of a channelized flow BY A. C. SLIM, N. J. BALMFORTH, R. V. CRASTER* AND J. C. MILLER Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Ken...

E. Hernandez Torres, A. L. MacKay, E. MacMillan, T. Cordova Fraga, A. Ramirez Manzanares, A. Curt, D. Li, B. Mädler, and M. Dvorak Division de Ciencias e Ingenierias, Universidad de Guanajuato, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, Radiology, University of British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver, Brithish Columbia, Canada, Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver, Brithish Columbi...