British Columbia Institute of Technology

About: British Columbia Institute of Technology is a education organization based out in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Smart grid & Belief revision. The organization has 458 authors who have published 785 publications receiving 16140 citations.

The Needs of Small Business Owners: Perceptions of Entrepreneurs and Service Providers

Abstract: Many government and private organizations have a stake in increasing the rate of success of new business ventures in Canada. Federal, provincial and municipal governments, private and public banks, educational institutions, chambers of commerce and other organizations provide services with the objective of encouraging entrepreneurship and sustaining new ventures. Are the services offered the ones that owners of startup business require? Do entrepreneurs attribute the same level of importance to start-up assistance as do the providing organizations? The data from this study indicate agreement on the types of venture services needed, but disagreement on how important those services are to startup business managers. Entrepreneurs in different industries rate access to various types of assistance quite differently.

Application of a Whole-Building Hygrothermal model in energy, durability, and indoor humidity retrofit design

Abstract: A building shall be classified as high performance building if it is energy efficient and durable and at the same time provides comfortable and healthy indoor environment for occupants. To achieve ...

A comparison between the effects of ozone and alkaline peroxide treatments on tmp properties and subsequent low consistency refining

Abstract: As part of a program to reduce electrical energy consumption in the refining process, the effects of the ozone and alkaline peroxide treatments on fibre and handsheet properties, prior and subsequent to low consistency (LC) refining, were assessed and compared by applying different levels of ozone and a range of peroxide and alkali charges to a primary stage hemlock thermomechanical pulp (TMP). Both highly alkaline peroxide treatments and ozone treatments decreased the specific energy required for strong mechanical pulp. The improvement in pulp strength through alkaline peroxide treatment mainly resulted from pulp surface changes caused by generation of acid groups. The highly alkaline peroxide treatments significantly increased pulp brightness but did not promote the further fibrillation during the subsequent LC refining. On the other hand, ozone treatments provided tensile strength increases, along with small brightness enhancements for the dark hemlock TMP, and increased the tensile gains obtained through LC refining. The effects of ozone treatments on tensile strength before and after LC refining were the result of pulp surface modifications, fibre swelling, and loss of fibre wall integrity due to non-selective chemical attack. High levels of ozone treatment caused tear strength to decrease during subsequent LC refining.