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Now showing items 321-340 of 2001
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Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development
(Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development, 2002)This report defines the language of outcomes, indicators, and performance measures and then summarizes a review of applications of several strategies and tools for tracking progress that have been developed since the late ... -
Alternatives For Public Sector Reform: Co-operatives & the ASD Debate
(Making Waves, 2002)Local, non-governmental contractors may well outperform the bureaucrats in service delivery, assuming communities have social capital adequate to the job. What kind of business offers efficiency and accountability while ... -
From this Earth: NECRC & the evolution of a development system in Winnipeg's North End
(Making Waves, 2002)The power and promise of the community development corporation (CDC) lies in the way residents can use it to co-ordinate and focus the energy that people and organizations, near and far, are willing to pour into local ... -
Use of Linguistic Qualifiers and Intensifiers in a Computer Conference
(The American Journal of Distance Education, 2002)Previous research in text-based computer conferencing has reported that analysis of transcripts of online discussions can reveal how participants network socially, exchange information, and attempt to construct knowledge. ... -
An experimental investigation of the relationship between catastrophizing and activity tolerance
(Pain, 2002)The present study examined the value of a measure of catastrophizing as a predictor of activity intolerance in response to delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). A sample of 50 (17 men, 33 women) sedentary undergraduates ... -
Epistolary and Expository Interaction Patterns in a Computer Conference Transcript
(Journal of Distance Education, 2002)Epistolary and expository discourse types have been associated with gender in earlier research on transcripts from listservs and other unmoderated sources. A procedure for transcript analysis (the Transcript Analysis ... -
Medical research: a bettor's guide
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Merchants, Mining, and Concessions on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1893-1912 Penultimate versions before editing
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The Teaching Imaginary: Collective Identity in a Post-Prefixed Age
(Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002)Every society up to now has attempted to give an answer to a few fundamental questions: Who are we as a collectivity? What are we for one another? Where and in what are we? What do we want; what do we desire; what are ... -
Students with disabilities: Their experience and success at Athabasca University
(IDCE/CADE Conference, 2002)Preliminary findings of a study examining the experience and success of Athabasca University students with disabilities, over a three-year period, are presented in this session. Student characteristics, including the ... -
Nutrition and disease: challenges of research design
(Nutrition, 2002)This review discusses research methodology in the relation between diet and disease. Medical research can be divided into two types: complex research (the detailed study of disease mechanisms using such methods as ... -
Local-Sized Democracy
(The Parkland Institute, 2002)Political struggle at the local level is out of fashion. In today’s increasingly “globalized” world, appeals to the local can often appear parochial and tradition-bound. Determining whether effective political responses ... -
Exploring Social Presence In Computer Conferencing
(Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2002)This study explores the relationship between asynchronous, text-based forms of social communication and students' perceptions of the social climate of computer conferences. A 21-item questionnaire was administered to 74 ... -
Telelearning Research and the TeleLearning-Network of Centres of Excellence
(Journal of Distance Education, 2002)This article provides a personal perspective on funding and organizational issues related to e-learning, distance education, and other distributed forms of educational technology research. It examines the largest single ... -
Revealing The Hidden Curriculum Of E-learning
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Examining the psychometric properties of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire
(Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2002)The purpose of this study was to examine select psychometric properties of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ; Mullen, Markland, & Ingledew, 1997). To accomplish this aim, data were gathered in 2 ... -
Cross-validation of the revised motivation for physical activity measure in active women
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Examining the Role of Social Support and Group Cohesion in Exercise Compliance
(Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2002)The present study sought to examine the role of social support and group cohesion in the compliance behavior of females required to exercise for healthrelated reasons. Compliance behavior was assessed as attendance and ... -
A clinical teaching guide for psychiatric mental health nursing: A qualitative outcome analysis project.
(The Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2002)Limited curriculum enhancement resources are available to psychiatric nurse educators. This article provides a clinical teaching guide for novice instructors teaching an introductory psychiatric nursing course. The ... -
Prairie spiders of Alberta and Saskatchewan
(Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, 2002)In the prairie ecozone of Alberta and Saskatchewan, 356 species of spiders in 2 I families have been collected. The 10 families with the most species were Linyphiidae (30%), Gnaphosidae (13%), Salticidae (8%), Theridiidae ...