From the earliest arrival of European peoples on the coast of what is now British Columbia, the intricate knowledge systems and traditional resource and landscape management practices of First Nations were generally overlooked. This was true, even as the landscape…

Plants shape landscapes, and are in turn responsive to the characteristics of the land. In British Columbia, people interacted, and still interact, with plants through their movements on their territories, through the pattern of the seasons, through the course of…

Palaeoethnobotany is a steadily growing sub-discipline of archaeology in British Columbia. This paper summarizes what we have learned from the study of ancient plant remains in the Coast and Interior of British Columbia. Although plants have been identified in the…

Studies on the naming and classification of plants by First Peoples of British Columbia began with the works of early ethnographers like Franz Boas. In the 1970s, however, research in this area became more focused in BC, following general trends…

This paper provides an overview of the diverse plant resource management strategies of First Nations of BC. Contrary to the predominant “hunter-gatherer” designation by anthropologists and others, First Peoples of many parts of the province were actually astute managers of…

ABSTRACT Indigenous Peoples’ food systems benefit the health of Indigenous Peoples. Recognizing that contemporary diets are composed of both local foods and food purchased in markets, it is important to build community nutrition activities in indigenous communities to maximize the…

This empirical study investigates the type of knowledge the NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) transfer to the beneficiaries in Bangladesh.  About 22,000 NGOs are in operations in Bangladesh with a view to developing the socio-economic conditions of their beneficiaries. Knowledge transfer is…

The following research proposes a first approximation to the Dynamic Hypermedial Device modeling based on the analysis of interactions. In addition, the DEVS (Discrete EVents dynamic Systems) formalism is employed, which is particularly suitable for the modeling of discrete event…

En este artículo se presenta WRPA, un sistema para la Adquisición de Paráfrasis de Relaciones de la Wikipedia. Aprovechando la estructura de la Wikipedia, WRPA extrae patrones de paráfrasis que expresan una determinada relación entre dos entidades. La novedad de…

The glacigenic boulders from the Hirnantian Don Braulio Formation of the Argentine Precordillera contain a well preserved shelly fauna allowing to a better knowledge of brachiopods and bivalves, but gastropods remain undescribed. The purpose of this paper is to give…