University of British Columbia

Letting go and writing past shame

Abstract In an age of LLM‐powered AI, skipping past the painful feelings writing can engender is more tempting than ever before. But painful emotions are both meaningful and valuable for the writing process. Accordingly, I offer concrete strategies for writing with and past shame...

Can Nonprofits Gain an Advantage in Employee Retention Through Management Practices? A Comparative Lens for Managing Nonprofit Versus for‐Profit Employees

ABSTRACT Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) face growing competition for human capital from for‐profit organizations (FPOs). However, little research adopts a comparative lens to explore management practices that are associated with an advantage in retaining employees for NPOs relati...

Increased Energy Expenditure through Intermittent Cold Exposure Does Not Enhance Tirzepatide Induced Weight-loss in Obese Mice

Obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. While pharmacological approaches such as tirzepatide, a dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist, reduce food intake and body weight, enhancing energy expenditure via intermittent cold exposure–induced activat...

Assessment fairness at the nexus of validity: Linking fairness threats to score meaning

INTRODUCTION: Nearly a century after Kelley's seminal work Interpretation of educational measurements, we revisit the concept of validity to argue that fairness is not a downstream equity add-on but a core requirement throughout the assessment lifecycle. In health professions edu...

Adapting and implementing health systems guidelines: learning lessons from countries

Adapting and implementing evidence-based health system guidelines presents numerous challenges, particularly when they are introduced in settings that differ from those in which they were originally developed [ 1 ]. Effective implementation requires careful consideration of local...

Correlations of error terms for weighted prime counting functions

Standard prime-number counting functions, such as ψ(x), θ(x), and π(x), have error terms with limiting logarithmic distributions once suitably normalized. The same is true of weighted versions of those sums, like πr(x)=∑p≤x1p and πℓ(x)=∑p≤xlog(1−1p)−1, that were studied by Merten...

Why Metrics Matter in Thyroid Eye Disease

Importance Advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of thyroid eye disease (TED) provide an opportunity to use novel, targeted therapeutic agents. However, our capacity to assess the efficacy and indications for the new agents is potentially limited by the clinical me...

The development and initial validation of the Perinatal Intrusions Interpretation Index: A novel scale that measures negative appraisals of infant‐related intrusive thoughts

OBJECTIVES: Unwanted and often distressing intrusive thoughts of infant-related harm are common during the perinatal period and are associated with poorer maternal mental health. The mechanisms linking perinatal intrusive thoughts to mental health remain poorly understood. One pr...

Tree-based structural equation model for assessing measurement invariance in patient-reported outcome measures

Evidence of measurement invariance (MI) is essential to ensure that scores based on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are comparable across groups or over time. Conventional methods for evaluating MI in PROMs are mostly group-based methods that require that relevant diffe...

Functional neurological disorders: misunderstanding “Dualism”

Psychological and psychiatric explanations for Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) are routinely dismissed as embodying "dualism" or "mind-body dualism", strongly implying that any notion of psychogenicity should be rejected outright. This reflects a widespread misunderstandi...

Enhancing Our View from Above: A Downscaling Technique to Reveal Finer-Scale Urban Heat Patterns

Remotely sensed surface temperature data are widely used by researchers and municipal practitioners to characterize urban thermal patterns and assess the impacts of increasing urban heat. While satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) data effectively identify broad-scale...

Does where you live matter? Rurality and 30-day hospital readmission among people with HIV

OBJECTIVE: We examined whether rural residence would compound existing challenges in continuity of HIV care and post discharge follow-up among people with HIV (PWH), leading to higher odds of 30-day hospital readmission compared to urban residence. METHODS: We used data from the...

Novel therapies for refractory idiopathic inflammatory myopathy-associated interstitial lung disease

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases in which interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a frequent extra-muscular manifestation and a major driver of morbidity and mortality. ILD occurs most commonly in antisynthetase syn...

A Soft, Conformal, and Implantable Sensor for On-Demand Bladder Volume Monitoring

Abstract Reliable bladder volume monitoring remains a major unmet need for individuals living with an impaired bladder sensation. Current clinical methods provide only intermittent measurements, while recent implantable sensors often rely on localized sensing or relatively rigid...

The Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan as Early Fascism

Abstract Why did the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan and interwar fascism share such profound similarities? My basic argument is that the Klan prefigured interwar fascist movements that sought political revolution after military defeat. Modern warfare, mass demobilization, and la...

A qualitative study of cancer survivors’ exercise behaviour 4 months after a telerehabilitation program

Abstract Purpose Although telerehabilitation can improve access to exercise programs for cancer survivors, it is not known if these programs lead to ongoing change in exercise habits. This study explored participant experiences of exercise 4 months after finishing specialized can...

Autism and ADHD social media short-form video content: A systematic review protocol

Rationale Social media platforms have made information about mental health more accessible than ever, with over 60% of young adults using social media as a primary information source. Content about neurodiversity issues, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) a...

Contemporary Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease Outcomes: A Multicentre National Cohort Study

ABSTRACT Background and Objective This study determined contemporary transplant‐free survival in fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD), identified baseline factors associated with death or transplant, and assessed performance of the ILD‐GAP (Gender, Age, Physiology) index in a...

Winters and biogeography: Diploptera cockroaches and biotic sorting in greenhouse and icehouse climates

Abstract We examine the effects of mean annual temperature (MAT) and coldest month mean temperature (CMMT) on Eocene and modern distributions of the cockroach genus Diploptera de Saussure, 1864. Today, Diploptera range in parts of the Sino–Japanese, Oriental, and Oceanian Realms...

Psychometric properties of the 7-item game addiction scale among Ghanaian university students

Recent studies have reported that video game addiction is prevalent among university students. Despite this, video game addiction studies in Ghana are scarce. In addition, there is no validated scale for assessing video game addiction in Ghana. The purpose of this study was to ex...