Water, energy, and food are all essential components of human societies. Collectively, their respective resource systems interconnected in what is called the “nexus”. There growing consensus that a holistic understanding interdependencies trade-offs between these sectors other related critical to solving many global challenges they present. While nexus research has grown exponentially since 201...

This study examined the research trends on reputational risk in banks using a systematic literature review and network analysis (SLRNA) approach 35 articles published between 2010 2020. It was found that only developed countries (i.e., United States Europe) have been actively contributing to risks banks, suggesting management of has not gained global attention it deserves. Moreover, we identifi...

Within the social psychological understanding of dementia, individuals' personhood is central. A respect for personhood has been linked to successful person-centred care, yet research exploring subjective personhood in dementia is scarce. This study aimed to understand personhood by exploring the subjective experiences of those with dementia. Seven individuals with dementia were interviewed and...

BACKGROUND 'Evidence-based policy making' for immigrants is a complicated undertaking. In striving toward this goal, federal Canadian partners created the Metropolis Project in 1995 to optimize a two-way transfer of knowledge (researchers - policy makers) within five Canadian Centres of Excellence focused on migrants newly arrived in Canada. Most recently, Metropolis federal partners, including...

Applications in which data take nonnegative values but have a substantial proportion of values at zero occur in many disciplines. The modeling of such “clumped-at-zero” or “zero-inflated” data is challenging. We survey models that have been proposed. We consider cases in which the response for the non-zero observations is continuous and in which it is discrete. For the continuous and then the d...