Percy Mayfield has been widely described as "the poet laureate of the blues." Armed with a dry baritone, songwriter and singer Mayfield sang blues ballads that pondered worlds of trouble, melancholy, pain, and suicide. He was one of the...

The West Coast blues is a type of blues music characterized by jazz and jump blues influences, strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players relocated to California in the 1940s.[1] West Coast blues also...

ABSTRACT OVER THE LAST DECADE, B.C.'s three largest universities have experienced major conflicts sparked by allegations of institutionalized sexism and racism. The Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria was accused of harbouring a chilly climate toward women. At...

Abstract-Portunus pelagicus was collected at regular intervals from two marine embayments and two estuaries on the lower west coast of Australia and from a large embayment located approximately 800 km farther north. The samples were used to obtain data on the reproductive biology...