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Now showing items 1703-1722 of 2001
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A Species-Based Environmental Ethic in Hegel’s Logic of Life
(The Owl of Minerva, 2009)In this paper I will argue that Hegel’s account of the category of life in the Science of Logic provides ontological grounds for the recognition of living species along with their various ecosystems as the proper objects ... -
Speeding Return of Student Assignments
(2011-03-09)Presenting results of recent Mission Critical Research which evaluated five technologies, AU's Dr. Robert Holmberg (Professor, Biology) and Konrad Michalski (Instructional Media Designer) will discuss options for returning ... -
Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy
(2007-08-21)The idea of a web of supports being of central importance to the revitalization and renewal of a particular place, or to the development of social enterprises, has been amply illustrated in several of the contributions ... -
Spiraling Out of Darkness: Mothering and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV
(2010-08-04)1. "Spiraling Out of Darkness: ‘Mothering’ and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV" (Presenters: Gina Wong-Wylie & José Pruden) Abstract: An artful process of revealing narratives and photographic images was central in the ... -
Staff Utilization of Explicit Hope Facilitation Strategies in Long Term Care
(2008-06-09)Research offers compelling evidence of the pivotal role that hope plays in health and personal well-being outcomes for individuals who are acutely, chronically or terminally ill. Many individuals who are living in long ... -
Stage Predicting Student Stay Time Length on Webpages of Online Courses Based on Grey Models
(2012-01-24)To provide adaptive learning, an e-learning system needs to gather information about what student state is while the student learns online course. A student state index is the length of time the student stays on a webpage ... -
Standards: it is not just about compliance
(Elearning Reports, 2005-01)On a recent conference tour of the Americas, and before setting off to Australia for CORDRAs and Hawaii for IEEEs PERL workshops, respectively, CanCore’s Norm Friesen and Rory McGreal took a breather to discuss the latest ... -
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Artistry, Expertise, and Professionalism in Mediation and the Role of Higher Education
(2009-05-12)This paper examines what it takes to be a good mediator. It suggests that mediators should strive for artistry in their work which is the result of “reflection in action”. The paper then surveys the fields of knowledge ... -
Starting Over: A. L. Lloyd and the Search for a New Folk Music, 1945-49
(Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/Revue de musique folklorique canadienne, 2000)In a previous article in this Journal (1997), the author has outlined Lloyd's early involvement with folk music during the decade 1934-1944 and analyzed the significance of The Singing Englishman. Here he continues the ... -
State of PLAR at our Alberta Post-Secondary Institutions?
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Statistical and Semantic Question Analysis for Situated Question Answering
(2009-09-18)Natural Language Processing (NLP) aims to study techniques and systems for processing and eventually understanding natural language speech and text. Typical NLP tasks include speech recognition, natural language generation, ... -
The Status and Future of Broadcasting
(2011-03-09)In deciding not to try to regulate the Internet, is the Canadaian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in danger of becoming an anachronism? Dr. Fil Fraser, Visiting Graudate Professor, Centre for ... -
Status of Social Economy Provision of Wind Electric Energy in Alberta
(2010-07-10)This is one of three reports arising from BALTA research project B6 - Prospects for Socializing the Green Economy: The Case of Renewable Energy. It examines the current status of involvement in wind power generation by ... -
Stealing the goose: Copyright and learning
(International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004-11)The internet is the world’s largest knowledge common and the information source of first resort. Much of this information is open and freely available. However there are organizations and companies today that are trying ... -
STEP Forward 2007-2007 Space Science Enhancement Proposal to CSA
(2006-05-19)The most effective way to exploit Canada’s ideal position for auroral zone science is to emplace instruments with sufficient density for meaningful studies. Magnetometers are useful instruments for this since their cost ... -
Stephen Harper as killer robot
(English Studies in Canada, 2017)In popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes ... -
"Stewart Lemoine's Teatro la Quindicina: Edmonton's Exotic Community Theatre"
(2011-03-29)For twenty-five years, playwright Stewart Lemoine has negotiated aesthetic distance in Edmonton, setting common human fiobles and social dilemmas in foreign and exotic locales for a loyal local audience. Lemoine's gently ... -
Stop paying twice for educational material: Online resources, open content make textbooks obsolete
(2009-10-22)Let’s eliminate government waste AND save the environment. Paper-based school textbooks, workbooks, and test materials, not to mention multimedia, videos and educational games are being bought and re-bought or licensed and ... -
Stories from the field: narratives by practitioners from across Canada demonstrating the integration of social justice into counselling practice
(2009-06-08)Workshop A: Across Canada, thousands of individuals face barriers to improving their mental, emotional, and economic status. In an effort to address the environmental factors (e.g., poverty) that impede client well-being, ... -
Stories of Aboriginal Children Raised in NonAboriginal Families
(2009-06-08)Despite the significant number of transracial Aboriginal adoptions that haven taken place in Canada, little research is available that addresses the psychological and psychosocial ramifications for the children involved. ...