scholarly journals Soil nitrogen contents and classification of selected post-fire sites in the sub-boreal spruce zone of central British Columbia.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Gordon Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Soil Nitrogen ◽  
Nitrogen Contents

scholarly journals Fall-related deaths among older adults in British Columbia: cause and effect of policy change

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 412-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aayushi Joshi ◽  
Fahra Rajabali ◽  
Kate Turcotte ◽  
M Denise Beaton ◽  
Ian Pike
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Change In Practice ◽  
Classification Of Diseases ◽  
International Statistical Classification ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Causes Of Deaths

BackgroundThe British Columbia Coroners Service implemented a policy in 2010 advising the reclassification of underlying causes of deaths due to falls from ‘natural’ to ‘accidental’. This study investigates whether observed data trends reflect this change in practice, are artefacts of inconsistent reporting, or indicate a true increase in fall-related deaths.MethodsMortality data were analysed from 2004 to 2017 for cases with International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision fall codes W00–W19, occurring among adults aged 60 years and older.ResultsFrom 2010 to 2012, accidental fall-related deaths increased among those aged 80 years and older, followed by an increase in natural deaths with fall as the contributing cause.ConclusionsChanges in reporting resulting from the 2010 policy change were observed; however, post-2012 data indicate a reversion to previous reporting practices.

EXISTING AND POSSIBLE NEW GLEYSOLIC ORDER CRITERIA APPLIED TO FIVE PEDONS FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA

1986 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. McKEAGUE ◽  
C. TARNOCAI ◽  
H. A. LUTTMERDING
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Soil Water Regime ◽  
Reducing Conditions ◽  
Current Classification ◽  
Bulk Chemical ◽  
Iron Manganese ◽  
Iron And Manganese ◽  
Do So

Use of the current criteria for distinguishing Gleysolic soils from gleyed intergrades to other soil classes resulted in the apparent misclassification of some soils in British Columbia. Pedologists of the area selected five pedons encompassing several degrees of expression of gley features. Current classification criteria based on soil color and possible new differentiating features based on chemical and micromorphological analyses were applied in considering the classification of the soils. Application of the current specific color criteria involving low chromas and prominent mottling result in the classification of three pedons in the Gleysolic order and two in gleyed subgroups of other orders. This classification was appropriate in the view of B.C. pedologists except for one Gleysolic pedon in which the water table is rarely within 1 m of the surface. Prior to drainage, however, the soil was probably saturated to the surface and under reducing conditions for prolonged periods each year. Thus, classification as a Gleysolic soil is appropriate as it probably reflects the prevailing conditions and processes during most of the period of soil genesis.Segregation of iron and manganese as nodules and coatings was most marked in the Gleysolic pedons. Walls of some voids were bleached due to depletion of iron oxides. Though study of thin sections, bulk chemical analysis and analysis of specific features by scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDXRA) were useful in providing information on soil properties, they did not indicate an improved basis for differentiating Gleysolic soils from others. The color criteria used to distinguish soils of the Gleysolic order do not necessarily reflect the current soil water regime, and they are not intended to do so. The current criteria resulted in the appropriate classification of the five soils. Key words: Gleying, reduction, iron, manganese, micromorphology, SEM-EDXRA

scholarly journals Epigenetics and Politics in the Colonial Present

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-388
Author(s):  
Karen Bridget Murray
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Early Development ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Aboriginal Child ◽  
Style Of Thought ◽  
The Relationship

This article draws attention to the importance of including the colonial present in critical inquiries into the relationship between epigenetics and politics. Focusing on British Columbia (Canada) at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the assessment illustrates how an epigenetic style of thought rendered tangible the “vulnerable Aboriginal child” as a category amenable to settler-colonial governmental interventions. More specifically, the article demonstrates how prominent elements of this classification interconnected with a mediating device undergirded by epigenetic reason, the Early Development Instrument. Eugenic sensibilities produced through epigenetic logics wove through this relationship. In turn, linkages between the EDI and the classification of the at-risk Aboriginal child comprised a terrain that shaped settler-colonial power and privilege through mechanisms of population management and related implications for territorial control. The article evaluates what these findings suggest for extending debates about the political elements of epigenetic reason.

Unsettling the Classification of Nature, Culture and History

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-260
Author(s):  
Caitlin Gordon-Walker
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
First Peoples ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
European Colonialism

Abstract: This paper examines the implications of the categorical separation between Nature, Culture and History that is common in Western museums. It focuses on the Royal British Columbia Museum’s (RBCM) configuration of galleries, which separates, first, the human from the natural world, and, second, First Peoples from modern history. With the basic structure of its galleries remaining largely unchanged since the 1970s, but with significant alterations and additions, the RBCM is a palimpsest whose layers can be read in relation to the changing sociopolitical contexts and hegemonic ideals through which British Columbia has been imagined and represented. Its division of Nature, Culture and History represents a perspective entangled with European colonialism and thus reproduces colonial relations of authority, regardless of the intentions of those working within the institution. At the same time, it offers opportunities for contesting colonial legacies and rethinking what these categories might mean.

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