University of Victoria

Electrochemical and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy-Based Biosensing Strategies for Wound Infection Detection: Recent Advances and Applications in Point-of-Care Diagnostics

The growing prevalence of chronic wound infections presents a major global healthcare challenge due to delayed healing, prolonged hospitalization, and increased rates of limb amputation. Conventional diagnostic approaches, including clinical assessment, microbiological culture, a...

Effects of 10, 90, 120 and 150 G.H -1 CHO on Substrate Metabolism, Exogenous Oxidation and Exercise Capacity: Implications for CHO Personalization

Purpose: Given recent controversy surrounding the optimal CHO intake during exercise, we assessed the effects of CHO ingestion at rates of 10, 90, 120 and 150 g.h -1 on substrate metabolism and exercise capacity. Methods: Eight trained males cycled for 3 hours, followed by an exe...

Towards Common Ground: Perspectives on Energy Transitions in Canadian Oil and Gas Producing Municipalities

Abstract Oil and gas producing municipalities host Canada's highest‐emitting industries while facing economic and social risks as the country pursues carbon neutrality. Understanding how these communities envision their economic futures, and the barriers and enablers they encount...

Maintaining cognitive gains in type 2 diabetes: Barriers, supports, and patterns of strategy use

In this study, we report how adults with type 2 diabetes maintained cognitive strategies learned in the Memory, Attention, and Problem-Solving Skills for Diabetes (MAPSS-DM) intervention. We identify three patterns of strategy maintenance that emerged from follow-up interviews wi...

A Territorial Approach to Transitioning Oil and Gas Producing Regions: Comparative Practices and Prospects for Canada

Abstract Oil and gas transitions are relatively new and especially difficult because the sector is large, economically central, and deeply embedded in national energy systems. Territorial approaches—grounded in regional political economies, institutions, and community impacts—off...

Evaluating Kelp Feedstock for Alginate-Based Materials: Physicochemical Characterization of Sodium Alginate and Aquaculture Considerations

Abstract Cultivated kelps are a scalable marine feedstock for renewable polymers, but regional aquaculture supply chains lack engineering benchmarks for the alginate yield and quality. Here, we apply a lower-hazard citrate-based process to quantify bioplastics-relevant alginate m...

Supercritical phase transition on the Toeplitz algebra of ${\mathbb N^\times}\ltimes \mathbb{Z}$

We study the high-temperature equilibrium for the \mathrm{C}^{*} -algebra \mathcal{T}({\mathbb{N^}\times}\ltimes \mathbb{Z}) recently considered by an Huef, Laca, and Raeburn. We show that the simplex of \mathrm{KMS}_{\beta} states at each inverse temperature \beta in the critica...

Canadian Paramedic User Requirements for Speech Recognition Aided Documentation

Objective: Developing technology may assist paramedics in the competing tasks of providing life-saving care and accurately documenting that care. The objective of this study was to identify and classify paramedic user requirements for speech recognition (SR)-aided documentation....

A mixed-scale hardware-in-the-loop testing framework for wave energy converter-autonomous underwater vehicle systems

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) offers a promising pathway for evaluating wave energy converter–autonomous underwater vehicle (WEC–AUV) systems in the laboratory, where a mix of laboratory-scale waves and full-scale AUVs present significant challenges for conventional testing approach...

Open Ocean Biogeochemical Impacts of Extreme Terrestrial Precipitation

Abstract Extreme events reshape ocean ecosystems with significant implications for nutrient and carbon cycling. Here, we demonstrate that flooding on land can be a significant driver of biogeochemical variability in the open ocean, even in relatively dry climates. Using satellite...

Principles of Justice for a Sustainable Economy

Abstract Empirical evidence suggests that decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gases is impossible, thus requiring zero growth. What principles of distributive justice does a zero-growth economy call for? This article focuses on two distribuenda in a zero-growth economy. We...

Mediators and mechanisms of change in digital health interventions for physical activity behaviour: a systematic review

Digital health interventions are used to promote physical activity (PA), but the mechanisms through which they work remain unclear. This systematic review synthesised evidence on mediators and mechanisms of change in digital PA interventions for adults, using the Theoretical Doma...

Inequalities in life expectancy at birth: descriptive trends by urbanicity and deprivation in British Columbia, Canada, 2001–2023

Life Expectancy at birth (LE) in British Columbia (BC) has been increasing but disparities exist among various populations. This study describes trends in LE inequalities by urbanicity and by material and social deprivation among females and males in BC from 2001 to 2023. Additio...

How Spatial Skills Predict Language and Reading Outcomes in Chinese-Speaking Preschoolers With Familial Risk for Dyslexia

This longitudinal study investigated cognitive-linguistic profiles of Hong Kong preschool children with a familial risk for dyslexia (FRD) and examined whether constructive spatial assembly contributed to later language and reading development. Among 204 children, 102 with FRD we...

Reclaiming multilingualism in Saskatchewan schools: historical thinking, policy discontinuities, and language futures

This article explores past struggles over planned language shift in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to demonstrate how historical thinking about language policy can be used to provide insight into contemporary and future efforts to reclaim societal multilingualism. We write...

A Narrative Inquiry Into the Menopause Experiences of Women With Spinal Cord Injury

Menopause presents distinct medical and social challenges for women with spinal cord injury (SCI), yet little is known about the lived experiences of this population, in part due to gender bias in SCI research and care. This narrative inquiry explores how disability, gender, and...

Underwater Computer Vision for Ecologists: A Framework for Curating Image Training Datasets for Object Detection

As marine ecosystems experience accelerating change, there is an urgent need for efficient and scalable biodiversity monitoring tools. We present a 10-step framework for integrating computer vision (CV) tools into long-term underwater biodiversity monitoring, using a case study f...

Fundamental movement skills among children participating in community sport programs in a northern Canadian city: implications for equitable access and physical literacy development

Fundamental movement skills (FMS) are an important component of physical literacy and are associated with children’s physical activity participation and longer-term health. However, many children demonstrate suboptimal motor competence, and opportunities for FMS development may v...

Identifying thermally tolerant bull kelp ( Nereocystis luetkeana ) source populations for restoration under climate change

Kelp forests are declining in many parts of the world due to climate change and other stressors. Restoration is one solution to return kelp forests to places where they have been lost, yet continually warming oceans may necessitate the identification of thermally tolerant strains...

Mapping quark-level kinematics to hadrons in a new hybrid model of semileptonic B meson decays

A bstract The need to map parton-level processes to color-neutral hadrons in a way that respects quark-hadron duality arises in several areas of physics, including in the semileptonic decays of B mesons. Integrated over large regions of phase space, the quark-level and hadron-lev...