Zachary Patterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1341090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Patterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Patterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATTERSON Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0804-2688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The diversity hypothesis
Recent years have witnessed many strong claims that ‘diversity’ leads to more original and impactful science, which is a science-focused form of what we call “The Diversity Hypothesis.” However, what evidence supports the claim that diversity enhances scientific output or impact? This pre-registered rapid scoping review seeks to collate and evaluate the scientific evidence for the Diversity Hypothesis as a foundation for future, methodologically …
Bus passenger flow prediction with a dynamic graph neural network and bidirectional gated recurrent unit
Which variables influence electric vehicle adoption
The post-critical social sciences
Roape at 50
Voices for African liberation
Tuning into the messages, social media stories and viral videos shared by citizens during the recent protests in Kenya, it is not difficult to see the historical connections between notable pan-Africanists and Kenyan freedom fighters' visions for the continent and the declarations and demands expressed by today's new voices for radical change in Africa.The hints of revolutionary ideological continuity on display in Kenya can also be found in rece…
How to effectively communicate about greenhouse gas emissions with different populations
Time-Geographic Project of Household Food Provision
Geographers and health researchers routinely analyze data on food-related behaviors to understand potential relationships between the food environment and diet. Analytical uncertainties arise, however, from discounting the sequential connections and household coordination of various food tasks. This study employed the time-geographic construct of the project, which is defined as a series of goal-oriented activities conducted by one or more indivi…
The climate change stage of change measure
Various measures have been proposed and validated to assess environmental motivation and explain peoples’ consumer behavior. However, most of the measures are rather complex, sometimes comprising dozens of items. In order to overcome the associated response burden, the goal of our research is to validate a much simpler measure of environmental motivation, namely the measure of Climate Change-Stage of Change. To do so we analyze data from a discre…
Disentangling Time Use, Food Environment, and Food Behaviors Using Multi‐Channel Sequence Analysis
Geographic access to food retailers has long been considered an important determinant of food‐related behaviors. Despite methodological improvements in assessing food environments, their associations with food behaviors have remained inconsistent. We argue that one possible reason for these inconsistencies is the lack of information about how an individual’s time use dynamics play out in space. To this point, few studies on the combined effects o…
Application of Machine Learning to Child Mode Choice with a Novel Technique to Optimize Hyperparameters
Travel mode choice (TMC) prediction is crucial for transportation planning. Most previous studies have focused on TMC in adults, whereas predicting TMC in children has received less attention. On the other hand, previous children’s TMC prediction studies have generally focused on home-to-school TMC. Hence, LIGHT GRADIENT BOOSTING MACHINE (LGBM), as a robust machine learning method, is applied to predict children’s TMC and detect its determinants …
Who's cooking tonight? A time-use study of coupled adults in Toronto, Canada
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related health and gender equity. Studies from the time-use perspective argue that daily activities such as work, caregiving, and non-food-related housework can potentially compete for time with foodwork. However, studies in this regard are mostly centered on in…
Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens
Geographers and public health researchers have long been interested in social, spatial, and economic factors that drive access and exposure to food retail. A growing body of evidence draws on mobility data to capture locations accessed by individuals beyond the home address. Given that food-related activities are shared by household members and often gendered, taking an individual-level approach might limit researchers’ ability to accurately desc…
Activity space-based measures of the food environment and their relationships to food purchasing behaviours for young urban adults in Canada
Objective To examine the potential links between activity spaces, the food retail environment and food shopping behaviours for the population of young, urban adults. Design Participants took part in the Canada Food Study, which collected information on demographics, food behaviour, diet and health, as well as an additional smartphone study that included a seven-day period of logging GPS (global positioning system) location and food purchases. Usi…
Impacts of built environment and emerging green technologies on daily transportation greenhouse gas emissions in Quebec cities
Potential Path Areas and Activity Spaces in Application
The potential path area (PPA) and activity space (AS) concepts play a central role in the substantial amount of applied research focusing on the quantitative analysis and description of people's spatial behaviour. Given this large literature, and the surprising lack of a formal review of the research, the time is ripe for a systematic review. This paper examines how the key concepts of PPAs and ASs have evolved, how they have been applied, what i…
Urban rapid rail transit and gentrification in Canadian urban centres
Despite the existing knowledge that urban rapid rail transit has many effects on surrounding areas, and despite some attempts to understand the links between transit and gentrification, there remain methodological gaps in the research. This study addresses the relationship between the implementation of urban rapid rail transit and gentrification, which is conceived of as an event. As such, an event analysis approach using ‘survival analysis’ is a…
Use of the Urban Core Index to analyze residential mobility
The Changing Faces of Citizen Action
Changing faces of citizen action: For the activist, the academic interested in power and politics, the development practitioner and the engaged citizen, the last couple of years or so have offered a veritable treasure of moments with which to re‐imagine the world, and the place of the ‘citizen’ in it, the relationships between rulers and the ruled, and the very meaning of ‘democracy’. In this context this working paper develops an approach based …
Understanding Context in Learning-centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication
Communication on climate change research has long been dominated by top-down delivery of information aimed at informing on future climate scenarios and climate-related events. However, emphasis in this field is slowly shifting to more process-oriented approaches to communication, and the need to integrate learning is receiving increasing attention. This article argues that despite the challenges in shifting research communication on climate chang…
Approaches to Development Research Communication
This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility of communication technologies has emerged alongside a strong revival of more linear, marketing?style understanding of development research communication, which threatens to undermine their progressive potential. It argues that des…
Urban rapid rail transit and gentrification in Canadian urban centres
Despite the existing knowledge that urban rapid rail transit has many effects on surrounding areas, and despite some attempts to understand the links between transit and gentrification, there remain methodological gaps in the research. This study addresses the relationship between the implementation of urban rapid rail transit and gentrification, which is conceived of as an event. As such, an event analysis approach using ‘survival analysis’ is a…
The Changing Faces of Citizen Action
Changing faces of citizen action: For the activist, the academic interested in power and politics, the development practitioner and the engaged citizen, the last couple of years or so have offered a veritable treasure of moments with which to re‐imagine the world, and the place of the ‘citizen’ in it, the relationships between rulers and the ruled, and the very meaning of ‘democracy’. In this context this working paper develops an approach based …
Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens
Geographers and public health researchers have long been interested in social, spatial, and economic factors that drive access and exposure to food retail. A growing body of evidence draws on mobility data to capture locations accessed by individuals beyond the home address. Given that food-related activities are shared by household members and often gendered, taking an individual-level approach might limit researchers’ ability to accurately desc…
Use of the Urban Core Index to analyze residential mobility
Who's cooking tonight? A time-use study of coupled adults in Toronto, Canada
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related health and gender equity. Studies from the time-use perspective argue that daily activities such as work, caregiving, and non-food-related housework can potentially compete for time with foodwork. However, studies in this regard are mostly centered on in…
Time-Geographic Project of Household Food Provision
Geographers and health researchers routinely analyze data on food-related behaviors to understand potential relationships between the food environment and diet. Analytical uncertainties arise, however, from discounting the sequential connections and household coordination of various food tasks. This study employed the time-geographic construct of the project, which is defined as a series of goal-oriented activities conducted by one or more indivi…
Approaches to Development Research Communication
This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility of communication technologies has emerged alongside a strong revival of more linear, marketing?style understanding of development research communication, which threatens to undermine their progressive potential. It argues that des…
Understanding Context in Learning-centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication
Communication on climate change research has long been dominated by top-down delivery of information aimed at informing on future climate scenarios and climate-related events. However, emphasis in this field is slowly shifting to more process-oriented approaches to communication, and the need to integrate learning is receiving increasing attention. This article argues that despite the challenges in shifting research communication on climate chang…
Approaches to Development Research Communication
This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility of communication technologies has emerged alongside a strong revival of more linear, marketing?style understanding of development research communication, which threatens to undermine their progressive potential. It argues that des…
The Changing Faces of Citizen Action
Changing faces of citizen action: For the activist, the academic interested in power and politics, the development practitioner and the engaged citizen, the last couple of years or so have offered a veritable treasure of moments with which to re‐imagine the world, and the place of the ‘citizen’ in it, the relationships between rulers and the ruled, and the very meaning of ‘democracy’. In this context this working paper develops an approach based …
Use of the Urban Core Index to analyze residential mobility
Potential Path Areas and Activity Spaces in Application
The potential path area (PPA) and activity space (AS) concepts play a central role in the substantial amount of applied research focusing on the quantitative analysis and description of people's spatial behaviour. Given this large literature, and the surprising lack of a formal review of the research, the time is ripe for a systematic review. This paper examines how the key concepts of PPAs and ASs have evolved, how they have been applied, what i…
Urban rapid rail transit and gentrification in Canadian urban centres
Despite the existing knowledge that urban rapid rail transit has many effects on surrounding areas, and despite some attempts to understand the links between transit and gentrification, there remain methodological gaps in the research. This study addresses the relationship between the implementation of urban rapid rail transit and gentrification, which is conceived of as an event. As such, an event analysis approach using ‘survival analysis’ is a…
Impacts of built environment and emerging green technologies on daily transportation greenhouse gas emissions in Quebec cities
Activity space-based measures of the food environment and their relationships to food purchasing behaviours for young urban adults in Canada
Objective To examine the potential links between activity spaces, the food retail environment and food shopping behaviours for the population of young, urban adults. Design Participants took part in the Canada Food Study, which collected information on demographics, food behaviour, diet and health, as well as an additional smartphone study that included a seven-day period of logging GPS (global positioning system) location and food purchases. Usi…
The climate change stage of change measure
Various measures have been proposed and validated to assess environmental motivation and explain peoples’ consumer behavior. However, most of the measures are rather complex, sometimes comprising dozens of items. In order to overcome the associated response burden, the goal of our research is to validate a much simpler measure of environmental motivation, namely the measure of Climate Change-Stage of Change. To do so we analyze data from a discre…
Disentangling Time Use, Food Environment, and Food Behaviors Using Multi‐Channel Sequence Analysis
Geographic access to food retailers has long been considered an important determinant of food‐related behaviors. Despite methodological improvements in assessing food environments, their associations with food behaviors have remained inconsistent. We argue that one possible reason for these inconsistencies is the lack of information about how an individual’s time use dynamics play out in space. To this point, few studies on the combined effects o…
Application of Machine Learning to Child Mode Choice with a Novel Technique to Optimize Hyperparameters
Travel mode choice (TMC) prediction is crucial for transportation planning. Most previous studies have focused on TMC in adults, whereas predicting TMC in children has received less attention. On the other hand, previous children’s TMC prediction studies have generally focused on home-to-school TMC. Hence, LIGHT GRADIENT BOOSTING MACHINE (LGBM), as a robust machine learning method, is applied to predict children’s TMC and detect its determinants …
Who's cooking tonight? A time-use study of coupled adults in Toronto, Canada
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related health and gender equity. Studies from the time-use perspective argue that daily activities such as work, caregiving, and non-food-related housework can potentially compete for time with foodwork. However, studies in this regard are mostly centered on in…
Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens
Geographers and public health researchers have long been interested in social, spatial, and economic factors that drive access and exposure to food retail. A growing body of evidence draws on mobility data to capture locations accessed by individuals beyond the home address. Given that food-related activities are shared by household members and often gendered, taking an individual-level approach might limit researchers’ ability to accurately desc…
How to effectively communicate about greenhouse gas emissions with different populations
Time-Geographic Project of Household Food Provision
Geographers and health researchers routinely analyze data on food-related behaviors to understand potential relationships between the food environment and diet. Analytical uncertainties arise, however, from discounting the sequential connections and household coordination of various food tasks. This study employed the time-geographic construct of the project, which is defined as a series of goal-oriented activities conducted by one or more indivi…
Roape at 50
Voices for African liberation
Tuning into the messages, social media stories and viral videos shared by citizens during the recent protests in Kenya, it is not difficult to see the historical connections between notable pan-Africanists and Kenyan freedom fighters' visions for the continent and the declarations and demands expressed by today's new voices for radical change in Africa.The hints of revolutionary ideological continuity on display in Kenya can also be found in rece…
The diversity hypothesis
Recent years have witnessed many strong claims that ‘diversity’ leads to more original and impactful science, which is a science-focused form of what we call “The Diversity Hypothesis.” However, what evidence supports the claim that diversity enhances scientific output or impact? This pre-registered rapid scoping review seeks to collate and evaluate the scientific evidence for the Diversity Hypothesis as a foundation for future, methodologically …
Bus passenger flow prediction with a dynamic graph neural network and bidirectional gated recurrent unit
Which variables influence electric vehicle adoption
The post-critical social sciences
Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)