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Now showing items 598-617 of 2001
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Distance learning – Social software’s killer ap?
(the Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia, 2005)This paper discusses the challenges of developing modes of distance education that afford maximum freedom for learners—including the ability to enroll continuously and to pace one’s own learning—and yet still create ... -
The Distant Crowd: Transactional Distance And New Social Media Literacies.
(International Journal of Learning and Media, 2014)Sociality is not just a cultural phenomenon but is embedded in our genes as eusocial creatures (E. O.Wilson 2012). Learning is an innately social activity, and the processes of teaching, the passing of knowledge from one ... -
Distributed Teaching
(Springer, 2019-11)The central phenomenon that this entry seeks to explore is that people with the job title of “teacher” are almost never the only teachers in a learning transaction, and autodidacts are almost never solely responsible for ... -
The DJ as Critic, "constructing a sort of argument"
(English Studies in Canada, 2015)Countering romanticized representations of the disc jockey (DJ) as author, rock star, or shaman, this essay argues that the DJ is best understood as a critic, emblematic of appropriation as criticism in a mediascape ... -
Does Beta-Carotene Prevent Cancer? A Critical Appraisal
(Nutrition Research, 1988)The possible role of beta-carotene as a protective nutrient against cancer is reviewed. Human prospective and retrospective studies strongly indicate that beta-carotene protects against lung cancer and probably against ... -
Does participation in cardiac rehabilitation affect health outcomes and health care utilization and costs?
(2007-10-23)Exercise based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs have been shown to be efficacious in the reduction of recurrent cardiovascular events and increased physical and psychological function. However, in North America ... -
Domestic citizenship and Disability in Saskatchewan in the 1930's
(2010-08-04)This paper is based on a diary written from 1937 to 1942 by my great aunt, Hilda Butcher, a white upper middle class English immigrant to Canada. Impaired by achondroplasia (“dwarfism”), Hilda used a wheelchair for the ... -
Domestic Health Policies and International Trade: a Framework for Assessing Trade-Related Legal Risk
(2011-06-09)this was an invited talk delivered at the International Conference on Healthcare and Trade in Rotterdam Netherlands, December 10-11, 2009. -
Don't park your brain outside: A practical guide to improving shareholder value with SMART project management
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Don’t blame the policy
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Downloading Doppelgängers: New Media Anxieties and Transnational Ironies in Battlestar Galactica
(SFFTV, Liverpool University Press, 2009)This essay reads the re-made Battlestar Galactica series—-a 21st-century Frankenstein—-according to the Canadian contexts of its production and the globalized contexts of its distribution, both formal (on cable TV) and ... -
Downstream Horizontal Integration and Dealer Network Performance
(2012-11-15)A game theoretical model featuring a manufacturer and two dealers is proposed to investigate the effects of downstream horizontal integration on network performance. It is shown that the decision to integrate depends on ... -
Draft Mandate and Role of the Finance Research Cluster (FRC) - BALTA Partnership Development Project on Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-11-28)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ... -
Draft Mandate and Role of the Finance Research Cluster (FRC) - BALTA Partnership Development Project on Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-11-27)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ... -
Draft Mandate for the Community-Based Research - Research Cluster (CBR) BALTA 2 Partnership Development Project Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-12-05)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ... -
Draft Mandate of the Micro, Mezzo, Macro Research Cluster (MMM) - BALTA Partnership Development Project: Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-12-01)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ... -
Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, McLuhan, and Intellectual Property)
(2014-03-20)From the editors' introduction to the book in which this chapter appears, _McLuhan's Global Village Today_ (Pickering & Chatto, 2014): "Mark A. McCutcheon’s contribution, ‘Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, ... -
Dynamic Effects of African Economic Integration: Evidence from Panel Data
(2012-11-15)This paper uses panel data to estimate the impact of AMU, COMESA, ECCAS, ECOWAS and SADC regional economic integrations on the level and rate of growth of economic activity in Africa. The impacts of each integration scheme ... -
Dynamic Pricing for Subscription Services
(2013-07-09)This paper investigates the use of pricing schemes in subscription services that consist of various combinations of activation, subscription, and cancellation fees as applied in certain industries. It is assumed that ... -
e Evolution of the Substorm Current Wedge from Ground and Space-based Magnetic Fields
(2010-06-23)Over the past several years, intensive efforts have resulted in a significant improvement in the ground instrumentation for auroral studies in North America. A major part of this is due to the THEMIS ground program, both ...