Comparative studies have suggested that the British colonization is more beneficial than those of France and other colonizers. It is argued that the British cultures and institutions contributed to stable politics and robust economic development of its colonies. However, evidence is still inconclusive because a controlled experiment is very difficult in social science. Vanuatu – a Pacific islan...

This study investigated the cross-cultural differences and similarity in health behaviors between Saudi and British adolescents. A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted at four cities in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Al-Khobar; N = 1,648) and Britain (Birmingham and Coventry; N = 1,158). The participants (14-18 year-olds) were randomly selected using a multistage stratified cluster sampli...

Peter L. Russo,1 Jun Sugiyama,2 Jess H. Brewer,3,* Eduardo J. Ansaldo,1 Scott L. Stubbs,4 Kim H. Chow,5 Rongying Jin,6 Hao Sha,7 and Jiandi Zhang7 1TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A3 2Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan 3CIfAR, TRIUMF and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbi...

Louk Rademaker,1,* Steve Johnston,2,3 Jan Zaanen,1 and Jeroen van den Brink4,5 1Institute-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, PO Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1 3Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canad...

Jizhong Lou, Shaojin Qin, Tai-Kai Ng, Zhaobin Su, and Ian Affleck 2,4,5 Institute of Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1 Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China Canadian Institute for Ad...

Robarts Research Institute and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Adult Metabolic Disease Clinic, Department of Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

1Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4V6 (e-mail: [email protected]); 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Range Research Unit, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2B 8A9; 3Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4B1; 4Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada V0H 1Z0; 5Agricul...

1 TNFα Mechanically Sensitizes Masseter Muscle Nociceptors by 2 Increasing Prostaglandin E2 Levels. 3 4 5 Akhlaq W. Hakim, Xudong Dong, Brian E. Cairns 6 7 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 V6T 1Z3, Canada 9 10 11 12 13 14 Running title: TNFα-induced nociceptor sensitization 15 16 17 18 19 20 Correspondence should be addressed...

The British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Montréal Chest Institute Immunodeficiency Service Cohort, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, ...

Th e popularity of community-based natural resource management has grown both within British Columbia’s forests and around the world. It is oft en assumed that increased local control of resources will enable more ecologically sensitive forestry practices, but this is not necessarily the case. Th rough case study examples of “earlier” community forest models in British Columbia and Mexico, the ...