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Venture Capital for Social Enterprise: SCP's Approach to the Social Capital Market
(Making Waves, 2004)Like any venture capital organization, Social Capital Partners of Toronto has to separate "exciting ideas" from "worthwhile investments." But that's where the similarity ends. SCP is looking for partners with the will and ... -
Vernacular Song, Cultural Identity, and Nationalism in Newfoundland, 1920-1955
(Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2006)Although a force in Newfoundland politics and culture, nationalist sentiment was not strong enough in 1948 to prevent confederation with Canada. The absence among many Newfoundlanders of a strong sense of belonging to an ... -
Video-Conferencing with Audio Software
(The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006)An online conference is illustrated using the format of a TV talk show. The conference combined live audio discussion with visual images spontaneously selected by the moderator in the manner of a TV control-room director. ... -
The view from here: Forward through the rear-view mirror
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The Virtual Conference: Extending Professional Education in Cyberspace
(International Jl. of Educational Telecommunications, 1996)This paper describes the use of Internet based tools to support professional interaction and education in a format known as the virtual conference. The paper discusses characteristics of the virtual conference and ... -
The Virtual Expanses of Canadian Popular Culture
(2011-03-09)Dr. Derek Briton, Associate Director, Centre for Integrated Studies, will provide an overview of the impact of virtual worlds—Massiviely Multiple Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs)—on Canadian popular culture, including ... -
Virtual platforms at Athabasca University
(2012-08-12)The Athabasca University environment includes a virtual media lab (the e-Lab) which is an integrated website platform for curriculum enhancement and development, social networking, and pedagogical and disciplinary research. ... -
Virtual Stability: Constructing a Simulation Model”
(2010-06-23)After a discussion of the importance of stability and instability for complex systems theory we define the concept of virtual stability as a state in which a system employs self-monitoring and adaptive control to maintain ... -
Vision for Change: a concept paper for the development of a virtual learning system
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Visioning Sunnyhill: Executive Report
(2010-07-11)This report and an accompanying presentation were developed as part of BALTA research project A7 - Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach. The project involved a team of Environmental Design students ... -
Visioning Sunnyhill: Presentation
(2010-07-11)This presentation and an accompanying report were developed as part of BALTA research project A7 - Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach. The project involved a team of Environmental Design students at ... -
Visual Stress Theory and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome
(2011-03-09)How does the functional design of text—its color, size, spacing, background page color—add to or diminish visual stress? Paul Brennan, AU MScIS graduate, will present some of his thesis work during an overview of visual ... -
Voice Interaction Online
(Nova, 2011)This chapter examines the potential for voice activities to enhance online learning. Although research related to online writing tools (such as e-mail, discussion threads, blogs, and wikis) is growing and the use of ... -
Vorkuta: Three Chapters in the Making of a Working Class
(2014-01-16)In the 1930s, Vorkuta in Siberia emerged as one of the Soviet Union’s principle sources of coal. It was also the principal site of the final horror of Stalin’s extermination of the politicized workers who had raised the ... -
Waist circumference predicts clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in older South Africans
(Cardiovascular Journal of Southern Africa, 2001)Objecti~'eand design. A cross-sectional analytical study to determine the cardiovascular risk factor profile of older residents of fishing villages on the West Coast of South Africa, and to det.ermine which anthropome ... -
Walking the Walk: George Elliott Clarke's Creative Practice
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The war on cancer: failure of therapy and research
(Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1991)A generally-held beliefby both the medical profession and the lay public is that therapeutic medicine greatly affects health. Providing more hospital beds, doctors and resources is viewed as the path to improve ... -
Warhol Wild: Applied Colour Theory Course
(2011-03-30)The Pop Art movement and the iconic themes of Andy Warhol have opened up many doors to the joyous notions of colour and have allowed it to move beyond the boundaries of tradition. The wild experiments of the colour field ... -
Water: a neglected nutrient in the young child? A South African perspective
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007)Water is considered an essential nutrient because the body cannot produce enough water itself, by metabolism of food, to fulfil its need.When the quantity or quality of water is inadequate, health problems result, most ...