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Calcitonin for Treating Acute and Chronic Pain of Recent and Remote Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
(2010-04-14)Background: Vertebral collapse is one of the most common fractures associated with osteoporosis. The subsequent back pain may be severe and often requires medications and bed rest to control pain and improve mobilization. ... -
CAMEG – A Multi-Agent Based Context-Aware Mobile Educational Game for On-the-Job Training
(2011-03-30)This presentation will report the research findings of the Alberta-North/Athabasca University research project, entitled “Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal and Low-Literacy Learners in Northern Communities”. ... -
"Can Undergraduate/Graduate Students in Individual Self-Paced Distance Courses Participate in Discussion Forums? - Absolutely"
(2009-07-14)This paper examines the use of an innovative monthly discussion forum for undergraduate and graduate students, studying at a distance in an individualized self paced course. The forums consisted of multimedia presentations ... -
Canadian adult education and work and learning research
(2011-12-15)Canadian Adult Education and Work and Learning Research The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the contributions to Canadian work and learning research from a review of the Canadian Association for the Study of ... -
A Canadian E-lection 2008? New Media and Political Competition
(2009-06-05)The results of the research are an informative study of the specific use of new media in the Canadian national election of 2008 and provide comparative data for other national and provincial studies. This election may ... -
Canadian NP Job Satisfaction” and co-presenting a paper with Dr. C. Park, entitled “NP Students’ Views on the Value of PDAs in Clinical Practice
(2009-11-26)Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the current level of NP job satisfaction and its association with extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction characteristics among Canadian primary healthcare NPs. ... -
A Canandian E-lection 2008? Online Media and Political Competition
(2009-06-16)This paper examines the use and impact of internet submedia on the 2008 Canadian federal election. Based on content analysis of party and candidate use of different internet submedia during the campaign, combined with ... -
CASE: Annual Conference for Publications Professionals: New Media, Timeless Qualities
(2011-12-15)The word "publications" is rapidly being redefined. What once meant putting ink on paper and distributing copies through the mail has come to describe the dissemination of information and ideas in many forms, through many ... -
Causes of Banking Crises: Deregulation, Credit Booms and Asset Bubbles, Then and Now
(2014-02-06)We examine similarities in the run-up to banking crises using two essential criteria for their predictability: i) the percentage of a specified number of years prior to a crisis correctly called; and ii) the percentage of ... -
Challenges to Connection- Changes in the Land and in Ways of Life in Kaska Dena Territory
(2012-11-15)The relationship to land is crucial for the well being of Kaska people. To maintain connection to the land, skills and language are both needed. Much knowledge about the land and how to live well on the land and with other ... -
Challenging the Toxic Footprint of Chemical Fertilizers, Soil Amendments and Sewage Sludge
(2010-06-22)While is a growing awareness of the environmental health impacts of pesticide exposure, many people around the world are unaware of the contaminants that are added to farmland. This is a serious food sovereignty issue and ... -
Chaos and Organizational Emergence: Towards Short Term Predictive Modeling to Navigate a Way Out of Chaos
(2011-11-03)Organizational emergence from chaotic events has often been described as unpredictable and random, at least when observed over the long term. Through a literature review this paper paves the path for the possible development ... -
Chunking and Extracting Text Content for Mobile Learning: A Query-focused Summarizer Based on Relevance Language Model
(2013-03-05)Millions of text contents and multimedia published on the Web have potential to be shared as the learning contents. However, mobile learners often feel it difficult to extract useful contents for learning. Manually creating ... -
Circumscribing Regulation or Reforming the Regulatory Process
(2009-07-30)ABSTRACT In Canada, environmental regulation is circumscribed by several directives, framework documents and guidelines such as “The Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation,” the “Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide,” ... -
Cloud Computing-based IT Solutions For Organizations with Multiregional Branch Offices
(2011-05-05)One of the most significant phenomena of the new century is globalization. As business goes global, multiregional branch offices are needed and networked computing and information services must then be established for those ... -
Co-presented 3 papers: "E-Portfolios: A Viable Capstone Activity for Graduate Programs", "Developing Community of Inquiry in a Mobile Learning Context", and "Connecting at the Point of Care: Indirect Supervision in Nursing Practice Education."
(2009-05-21)Paper 1:E-Portfolios: A Viable Capstone Activity for Graduate Programs Abstract: A pilot study was conducted to explore the use of e-portfolios as an alternative to the standard written and oral comprehensive examination ... -
Collaborating Towards a Global Community: Bridges to the Future Workshops
(2013-07-10)“Collaborating Towards a Global Community: Bridges to the Future” Workshops and sessions at the AACRAO Annual Meeting will demonstrate the development and implementation of a vision that guides decision makers toward ... -
Collaborating with Unions to Tell the Workers’ Story: the Celanese Edmonton Workers’ Commemoration Project
(2010-06-23)Over the past 8 years, the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI) has produced videos and transcriptions of over 200 interviews with trade union leaders, activists, and rank-and-filers in an effort to produce a workers' ... -
A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping & Multi-Object Oriented Augmented Reality for Location-based Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2010-08-11)1) A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping This paper presents a collaborative mobile learning system: Mobile Virtual Campus (MVC) powered by the location-based dynamic grouping ...