Today's 'backseat generation' of children is more often driven to school. Active school travel (AST) can contribute up to 30% of recommended daily physical activity. Although governed by a complex set of factors, parents are considered 'gatekeepers' of children's travel mode decisions. Therefore, we investigate the relationship between parental support and children's AST. Data were from Active ...

Seagrass ecosystems face widespread threat from reduced water quality, coastal development and poor land use. In recent decades, their distribution has declined rapidly, and in the British Isles, this loss is thought to have been extensive. Given increasing knowledge of how these ecosystems support fisheries production, the understanding of their potential rapid loss, and the difficulty in rest...

E. Yip, P. Low, B. Mädler, C. Lebel, C. Beaulieu, L. Siegel, and A. Mackay Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Education and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Philips Medical Systems, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universit...

1Departments of Zoology and Botany and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4; 2Departments of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4 and 3Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydn...

BACKGROUND Although the need to retain rural registered nurses is pressing, little is known about what influences them to stay in their current employment. The objectives of the study were: to examine public health nurses' (PHNs) job and community satisfaction; to relate job and community satisfaction to their decision to stay in their current employment in rural British Columbia. METHODS A s...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine diffusion of and predictors of helmet use among skiers and snowboarders in the Western United States and Canada. DESIGN 6400 skiers and snowboarders at 29 ski resorts in the Western United States and Canada were interviewed on chair lifts and observed for helmet use during two consecutive ski seasons (winters 2001 and 2002). SETTING Skiers ...

This paper reports an Australian trial of the British Army Recruit Battery (BARB), an innovative set of computer administered tests designed to provide measures of cognitive abilities. The trial was made possible because Australia, along with Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America participate in a non-atomic military research agreement called The Technical Coop...