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Brunt, Michael; Kreiberg, Henrik; von Keyserlingk, Marina — 2022-07-19 In this study our aim was to undertake the first study to describe differences in confidence, trust, and expectations for the oversight of scientists using animals in research. Participants were presented with one of four treatments using a 2 by 2 design; terrestrial (T; mice and grasshoppers) vs aquatic (A; zebrafish and sea stars) and vertebrates (V; mice and zebrafish) vs invertebrate (I; grasshoppers and sea stars). A representative sample of census matched Canadian participants (n=959), on a 7-point scale, stated their confidence in oversight, trust in scientists and expectation of oversight for invertebrates. Participants’ open-ended text reasoning for confidence and expectations of oversight were subjected to thematic analysis. Confidence in oversight was highest for TV (mean±SE; 4.5±0.08) and AV (4.4±0.08), less for TI (3.8±0.10), and least for AI (3.5±0.08), indicating the absence of oversight decreased public confidence. Four themes emerged to explain participant confidence, centered on: 1) animals, 2) participant, 3) oversight system, and 4) science. Trust in scientists was similar for TV (4.3±0.07) and AV (4.2±0.07), but higher for TV compared to TI (4.1±0.07) and TV and AV compared to AI (4.0±0.06); absence of oversight decreased public trust in scientists. Participants believed invertebrates should receive some level of oversight but at two thirds of that currently afforded to vertebrates. Four primary themes emerged to explain participant expectation: 1) value of life, 2) animal experience, 3) participant centered, and 4) oversight system centered. We conclude that a gap exists between current and public expectations for the oversight of invertebrates which may threaten the social licence to conduct scientific research on these animals.

Howatt, Tara; Ross, Tetjana; Waterman, Stephanie — 2022-07-19 Processed and quality controlled CTD, oxygen, and echosounder data along with other flight parameters from three underwater gliders from a 2017 deployment around Clayoquot Canyon.

Adam, Marie-Christine; Beckett, Janine; Bradley, Alyssa; Burgess, Dan; Dean, Kiri; Gill, Karen; Gordon-Walker, Johanna; Haggarty, Dana; Herman, Tom; LaBorde, Heather; Macnab, Magnus; Matteson, Ann; McMullen, Terra; LeRoy, Sean; O, Miriam; Purdy, Shannon; Ross, Amanda; Rudd, Heather; Willson, Marie-Josee; Zayac, Scott — 2001 http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10651 Trees in the one-hectare second growth SI/MAB plot were recensused in 2001. Data were also collected for shrubs and small trees, coarse woody debris (CWD), and small mammals, and are presented here. For results on canopy cover, dwarf mistletoe, and slugs, see the 2001 student report. <p/> The SI/MAB plot was established in 1997 following the Smithsonian Institution / Man and Biosphere Program (now Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity) or SI/MAB protocol. It is located on the north side of Grappler Inlet near Bamfield, British Columbia on property owned and administered by the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. The centre of the plot has GPS coordinates 48°50’19.00”N, 125°08’02.00”W (48.83861111, -125.13388889). <p/> The SI/MAB plot is divided into 25 quadrats (20m x 20m). In 2001 quadrats were renumbered for north/south discrepancies. Trees with a DBH (diameter at breast height) ≥ 4 cm were recensused for species, DBH and status (physical condition). For the 2001 census, dead fallen trees were counted as coarse woody debris instead of trees. <p/> Shrubs and small trees (maximum DBH of 4cm) were identified and tagged following the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN) protocol for Shrub and Small Tree Sampling. In 1999, 11 5x5m quadrats were randomly chosen in corners of randomly chosen 20mx20m quadrats in the SI/MAB plot. In 2001, the 11 quadrats were resampled, and 4 more quadrats were sampled. A species list of shrubs and small trees is presented here. <p/> Coarse woody debris was measured along three 90m transects within the SI/MAB plot (labeled site A = wet; site B = steep slope; site C = flat, stem exclusion). Methodology is described in the Vegetation Resources Inventory: Ground Sampling Procedures (2007) with decay classes 1-5 defined on page 196. The methodology was modified such that each 90m transect consisted of an equilateral triangle with sides of 30m each (vs. two transects at 90 degrees to each other). Triangles were used to ensure that any orientation biases were accounted for as pieces may have a dominant direction of fall. Data for coarse woody debris and volume calculations are presented here. <p/> Three days of live trapping of small mammals (i.e. deer mice) was done using two edge transects parallel but 3m from south and east edges of plot to minimize disturbance. Data is presented here. <p/> The majority of data was collected by students in the Coastal Biodiversity and Conservation course taught by Dr. Tom Berman July 23-Aug 31, 2001 with Teaching Assistant Dana Haggarty. Shrub and small tree data from 1999 was collected by students in the Coastal Biodiversity and Conservation course taught by Dr. Tom Berman and Dr. Andre Martel June 7-July 16, 1999.

Harper, Sarah — 2020-03-04 The role that women play in fisheries around the world is receiving increasing international attention yet the contributions by women to fisheries catches continues to be overlooked by society, industry and policy makers. Here, we address this lack of visibility with a global estimation of small-scale fisheries catches by women. Our estimates reveal that women participate in small-scale fishing activities in all regions of the world, with approximately 2.1 million (± 86,000) women accounting for roughly 11% (± 4%) of participants in small-scale fishing activities, i.e., catching roughly 2.9 million (± 835,000) tonnes per year of marine fish and invertebrates. The landed value of the catch by women is estimated at USD 5.6 billion (± 1.5 billion), with an economic impact of USD 14.8 billion per year (± 4 billion), which is equivalent to 25.6 billion real 2010 dollars (± 7.2 billion). These catches are mostly taken along the shoreline, on foot, or from small, non-motorized vessels using low-technology, low-emission gears in coastal waters. Catches taken by women are often for home consumption, and thus considered part of the subsistence sub-sector. However, in many contexts, women also sell a portion of their catch, generating income for themselves and their families. These findings underscore the significant role of women as direct producers in small-scale fisheries value chains, making visible contributions by women to food and livelihood security, globally.

Vedam, Saraswathi et al. — 2019-02-27 Our multidisciplinary team of legal, clinician, and perinatal epidemiology experts designed a study to assess the effects of state regulation of midwives on patient access to high quality maternity care in the US. We developed a novel, weighted scoring system that ranks all 50 states and DC on level of midwifery integration, and then linked state scores to maternal and newborn outcomes. <p>In our study we demonstrate that greater integration of midwives is associated with significantly higher rates of physiologic birth outcomes, lower rates of obstetric interventions, and fewer adverse neonatal outcomes. Our new Midwifery Integration Scoring System provides an evidenced-informed tool that can identify barriers to effective health human resource allocation in maternity care, based on population-level health outcomes data. In the current context of the Sustainable Development Goals to facilitate equitable access to skilled maternity providers, we believe that our findings will be of great interest to your readers. <p>We uploaded the 1) Midwifery Integration Scoring System and 2) the data set that includes all data points needed to replicate the results presented in our paper. Most of the data is for the year 2014 and comes from the CDC. Other data sources are detailed in the publication and a short data dictionary will be uploaded soon. http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10528

LeDue, Jeffrey — 2020-01-21 This is a copy of the MATLAB code used in https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0405-14.2014 to characterize microglia morphology.

Suiyven, Dzelamunyuy — 2022-11-16 <strong>Objective(s):</strong>The purpose of the Environmental Scan is to support health facilities in identifying and assessing quality improvement (QI) priorities and initiatives to treat children with sepsis. <br /><strong>Data Description:</strong> This dataset includes Environmental Scan data collected at Bamenda Regional Hospital in Cameroon and an executive summary of the reported findings.<br /> <br /> Baseline Date of Assessment: 2019-07-19 to 2022-02-10. <br /><strong>Limitations:</strong> NA <br /><strong>Abbreviations (if applicable):</strong> NA <br /><strong>Ethics Declaration (if applicable):</strong> NA <br /><strong>NOTE for restricted files:</strong> If you are not yet a CoLab member, please complete our <a href = "https://rc.bcchr.ca/redcap/surveys/?s=EDCYL7AC79">membership application survey</a> to gain access to restricted files within 2 business days. <br />Some files may remain restricted to CoLab members. These files are deemed more sensitive by the file owner and are meant to be shared on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the CoLab coordinator on <a href = "https://www.bcchr.ca/pediatric-sepsis-data-colab">this page</a> under "collaborate with the pediatric sepsis colab."

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre — 2002 In 1997 the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre established a long-term monitoring project to collect baseline data on the distribution and abundance of macroorganisms at two intertidal sites on Wizard Islet in Barkley Sound. Both sites were resampled in 2001. In 2002 ten transects at the exposed site only were resampled (tag numbers unknown), and data is presented here for algal cover (%), invertebrate cover (%), and invertebrate density including sea stars. <p/> Wizard Islet (48°51’29.5”N, 125°09’31”W) is located within the Deer Group Islands in Barkley Sound and has an area of 1.73 hectares at low tide. The sheltered site (with less wave exposure) is located on a 50m stretch of fixed rocky shore on the northeast side and is characterized by Fucus and Phyllospadix (seagrass). The exposed site is located on a 50m stretch of fixed rocky shore on the southwest side and is characterized by Egregia (feather-boa kelp), goose-necked barnacles and Alaria (brown alga). http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10679

Nduna, Norman — 2023-04-04

Tu, Qingshi — 2022-06-03 "Meta-analysis Tool for Algal Biofuels" (MATAB) is an Excel-based tool for evaluating the climate change impacts of algal biodiesel and renewable diesel production pathways. <p> - A quick video walkthrough of the tool is available here: https://youtu.be/h_xBhCGFv-E

Sheng, Kehan; Foris, Borbala; von Keyserlingk, Marina; Gardenier, John; Clark, Cameron; Weary, Daniel — 2023-04-05

Allen, Jeremy — 2022-03-31 The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has had profound consequences for both the political and physical geography of the South Caucasus region. Since the fighting of the 1990s there has been a relative status quo, with a militarised line of contact separating the two sides. This changed on September 27 2020, when intense fighting erupted along the whole of the front, and especially in the south-east. After a month and a half, fighting concluded on 10 November 2020 which saw the implementation of a ceasefire which ceded large portions of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic to Azerbaijan. There has yet to be an investigation on the kinds of changes to human and natural systems that the most recent conflict (2020) engendered. In response to this research lacuna, this paper asked whether the effects of the 2020 armed conflict had a significant effect on the region’s agricultural systems. This paper approached the question by examining per-pixel NDVI metrics - derived from Landsat 8 composites from April through June - before and after the conflict. These per-pixel metrics were correlated with conflict data from ACLED. This approach aims to test the hypothesis that areas which witnessed the most intense fighting saw significant drops in NDVI, indicating land fallowness and abandonment. The results from this study indicate that conflict intensity has a significant effect on vegetation health (p-value < 2.2e-16), and supports the hypothesis that conflict leads to a decrease in NDVI, however conflict intensity on its own does not have strong explanatory power for estimating changes in NDVI (R2 0.09667) and future work ought to segment the study area in order to obtain a non-obfuscated regression coefficient (coefficient -0.0057322).

Vedam, Saraswathi; Stoll, Kathrin — 2019-02-26 This minimum dataset includes variables reported in our publication entitled 'The Mother’s Autonomy in Decision Making (MADM) Scale: Patient-led development and psychometric testing of a new instrument to evaluate experience of maternity care' , published by PLOS ONE. <p>Secondary use of this data must be approved by an ethics committee/ institutional review board. Data is available in csv format and in SPSS (version 23). Please contact Saraswathi Vedam at saraswathi.vedam@ubc.ca or Kathrin Stoll at kstoll@alumni.ubc.ca if you would like access to the data. For your information, the original ethics application number at the University of British Columbia was H12-02418. http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10432

Gillis, Jesse; Pavlidis, Paul — 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10551 Many previous studies have shown that by using variants of "guilt-by-association", gene function predictions can be made with very high statistical confidence. In these studies, it is assumed that the "associations" in the data (e.g., protein interaction partners) of a gene are necessary in establishing "guilt". In this paper we show that multifunctionality, rather than association, is a primary driver of gene function prediction. We first show that knowledge of the degree of multifunctionality alone can produce astonishingly strong performance when used as a predictor of gene function. We then demonstrate how multifunctionality is encoded in gene interaction data (such as protein interactions and coexpression networks) and how this can feed forward into gene function prediction algorithms. We find that high-quality gene function predictions can be made using data that possesses no information on which gene interacts with which. By examining a wide range of networks from mouse, human and yeast, as well as multiple prediction methods and evaluation metrics, we provide evidence that this problem is pervasive and does not reflect the failings of any particular algorithm or data type. We propose computational controls that can be used to provide more meaningful control when estimating gene function prediction performance. We suggest that this source of bias due to multifunctionality is important to control for, with widespread implications for the interpretation of genomics studies.

Chua, Romeo — 2019-02-26 Perturbations applied to the upper limbs elicit short (M1: 25-50 ms) and long-latency (M2: 50-100 ms) responses in the stretched muscle. M1 is produced by a spinal reflex loop, while M2 receives contribution from a longer trans-cortical pathway and is susceptible to intention. Thus when the participant is asked to counteract the perturbation, M1 is usually unaffected while M2 increases in size. While many studies have examined modulation of M2 between passive and active conditions, through the use of constant foreperiods (interval between warning signal and a perturbation), it has also been shown that the magnitude of M2 response in a passive condition can change based on factors such as habituation and anticipation of perturbation delivery. To prevent anticipation of a perturbation, most studies have used variable foreperiods; however the range of possible foreperiod duration differs between experiments. The present study examined the influence of different variable foreperiods on modulation of the M2 response. Fifteen participants performed active and passive responses to a perturbation that stretched wrist flexors. Each block of trials had either a short (2.5-3.5 seconds; high predictability) or long (2.5-10 seconds; low predictability) variable foreperiod. As expected, no differences were found between any conditions for M1, while M2 was larger in the active rather than passive conditions. Interestingly, within the two passive conditions, the long variable foreperiods resulted in a larger M2 (p=.006) than the trials with short foreperiods. These results suggest that perturbation predictability, even when using a variable foreperiod, can influence excitability of the circuitry contributing to the long-latency stretch response. http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10368

Gagné, Monique; Ward, W. Peter — 2012 <p>http://hdl.handle.net/11272/JMBOK<p> <p>Info:Migration:<br> UBC Library Data Services repository software migration from DSPACE to DATAVERSE. Dataset 10573/42728 was migrated on 2013/10/03.<br> The former URI for this resource (<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10573/42728">http://hdl.handle.net/10573/42728</a>) is deprecated.<p> The variables contained in the data sets are primarily concerned with perinatal outcomes and maternal health. A number of variables with respect to the social and economic status of the mothers and their families were also included (ie. Occupation, Marital status, Region). While all nine data sets are centered around these common themes and hold many variables in common, each data set has a unique combination of variables. The types of fields are wide-ranging but are primarily concerned with infant birth, maternal health, and socioeconomic status. The Dublin patients are a random sample of those found in the clinical records of the hospital. Case files were compiled from two sources, the Register of Patients, which included the administrative record of each patient, and the Master’s Ward Book, which noted the medical circumstances of each case. These records exist in continuous series during the years with which this study is concerned, and only minor changes occurred in the categories of information collected. Most of these documents were held by the Rotunda Hospital when they were consulted for this project, but all of them have now been transferred to the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dublin. As birth weights were first recorded in July 1869, 100 cases were selected for that year. In all subsequent years 200 cases were chosen. The preliminary data base consisted of 12,454 cases. The weight and length means in the sample are accurate to 84 grams and 0.4 centimeter at a confidence level of 95 percent

Li, Yunyani — 2021-04-14 Due to the rapid growth of urbanization, species biodiversity is threatened and the innate relationship between humans and nature begins to fade gradually. Urban green spaces play a vital role in reconnecting human and urbanized landscape with its unique characteristics. Meanwhile, virtual gaming technology with applied geographic information has made a spectacular process to promote interactions between humans and their surroundings. Five types of green space were identified in the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus: lawn, planting bed, planting bed on structure, athletic field, and urban forest. A novel approach of combining Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, ground-based inventory data, geographic information system (GIS) data, and geocoordinates derived from reality game Pokémon GO was applied to explore geospatial gaming technology’s application in mapping cultural use and biodiversity hotspots at a university campus. LiDAR-derived individual tree crown polygons contributed to estimate canopy cover. Manually delineated tree crown from the study area's orthophoto was used to compare the crown area accuracy with LiDAR technology. The point density heat map illustrated the study area's cultural interests, which were generated by Pokestops' geospatial coordinates. A dataset containing two green space assessments was conducted with various factors: native species ratio, species richness, canopy cover, and cultural interest. Both assessments highlighted the importance of urban forest. This green space type achieved 0.396 in the first assessment and 0.501 for the second assessment of cultural and biodiversity values.

Dalmagro, Higo; Lathuillière, Michael J.; Sallo, Fernando da S.; Guerreiro, Maurel F.; Pinto, Osvaldo B. Jr; de Arruda, Paulo H.Z.; Couto, Eduardo G.; Johnson, Mark S. — 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10707 This data collection includes the Supporting Information for the paper: Streams with Riparian Forest Buffers versus Impoundments Differ in Discharge and DOM Characteristics for Pasture Catchments in Southern Amazonia. It contains measurements of precipitation, temperature, oxidation-reduction potential, discharge, baseflow, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), DOC components, slope ratio, and fluorescence indices (FI, HIX, BIX)

Selgrath, Jennifer C.; Gergel, Sarah E.; Vincent, Amanda C.J. — 2018 PLOS ONE ABSTRACT Locally sustainable resource extraction activities, at times, transform into ecologically detrimental enterprises. Understanding such transitions is a primary challenge for conservation and management of many ecosystems. In marine systems, over-exploitation of small-scale fisheries creates problems such as reduced biodiversity and lower catches. However, long-term documentation of how governance and associated changes in fishing gears may have contributed to such declines is often lacking. Using fisher interviews, we characterized fishing gear dynamics over 60 years (1950-2010) in a coral reef ecosystem in the Philippines subject to changing fishing regulations. In aggregate fishers greatly diversified their use of fishing gears. However, most individual fishers used one or two gears at a time (mean number of fishing gears was less than two in all years). Individual fishing effort (days per year) was fairly steady over the study period, but cumulative fishing effort by all fishers increased 240%. In particular, we document large increases in total effort by fishers using nets and diving. Other fishing gears experienced less pronounced changes in total effort over time. Fishing intensified through escalating use of non-selective, active, and destructive fishing gears. We also found that policies promoting higher production over sustainability influenced the use of fishing gears, with changes in gear use persisting decades after those same policies were stopped. Our quantitative evidence shows dynamic changes in fishing gear use over time and indicates that gears used in contemporary small-scale fisheries impact oceans more than those used in earlier decades. http://hdl.handle.net/11272/10540 Data from Jennifer Selgrath's PhD research on small-scale fisheries, coral reef habitats, and multiple stressors. https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0354473

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