University of New Brunswick

Declarative Causal Inference and Counterfactual Reasoning via SQL-Dialect Operators

Relational databases power high-stakes decisions in lending, healthcare, and justice, yet SQL lacks native constructs for causal and counterfactual reasoning. Prior SQL-based causal systems address parts of this gap but do not unify treatment-effect estimation with counterfactual...

From protection to empowerment: A rights-based approach to promoting children’s resilience in the digital environment

This study explores children’s experiences and rights in the digital environment through an interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research (PAR) design involving a Child Advisory Board of 14 teenagers and interviews with five members, analysed using narrative inquiry. While chil...

The Database of Religious History as an Open-Access Digital Resource for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean World

In the current digital world, there is an incredible amount of information at our fingertips. In fact, there is so much information that the sheer amount of data can be overwhelming. As historians, archaeologists, and cultural heritage experts, a significant amount of research or...

Empirical evidence for a trade-off between reproduction and tumour dynamics in the freshwater cnidarian Hydra oligactis

Abstract Reproduction is a key life-history trait but often comes at the expense of somatic maintenance, including ageing and susceptibility to disease. While reproduction–immunity trade-offs have been experimentally demonstrated in the context of infectious diseases, whether rep...

Clean, Pleasant, Governed: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bathing Without a Battle

Bathing Without a Battle is a widely circulated video training resource in residential dementia care, but the assumptions it advances about bathing, refusal, and appropriate nursing practice have received limited critical attention. This paper analyzes how the text constructs res...