Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2009-2010 by Issue Date

Using Digital Archives to Store and Create Knowledge About Colonial Print Cultures

Ellerman, Evelyn (2009-08-04)

HARP 2009 – Toronto Using Digital Archives to Store and Create Knowledge About Colonial Print Cultures This paper describes a project that addresses problems in the reconstruction of print culture history in former ...

QuizMASter – A Multi-Agent Game-Style Learning Activity

Lin, Fuhua (Oscar) (2009-08-12)

This paper describes a research project in progress of developing a Multi-Agent System-based educational game QuizMASter for e-learning that would help students learn their course material through friendly competition. ...

Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law

Dewhurst, Dale (2009-08-12)

Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law: A co-authored 2003 article, "Delegation as a Source of Law", recognized the traditional sources of law to be legislation and precedent. It went further to analyze the decisions ...

Predicting the Asian Currency Crises with Artificial Neural Networks: What Role of Function Approximation?

Roy, Saktinil (2009-08-13)

Indicators approach and probit and logit models are the two most widely used early warning systems for currency crisis. Several studies however suggest that despite their strengths these systems have high error rates ...

"Flying with a Safety Net"

Nielsen, Karen (2009-08-24)

Working as a member of a multidisciplinary team with non-offending spouses and children who have experienced or witnessed family violence can lead to a number of ethical dilemmas. There may be pressure from child protection ...

Family Members' 'Work of Getting Through' Critical Illness: A Call for Nurses to Lighten Our Load

Vandall-Walker, Virginia (2009-09-01)

Background A critical illness constitutes a crisis for family members. While family members necessarily yield primary responsibility for the physical well-being of their ill relative to the health professionals, they ...

From Komagata Maru to Kanishka: The Indian Diaspora in Canada in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Thompson, Veronica (2009-09-04)

Anita Rau Badami’s third novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? is dedicated to “the man on the bridge in Modinagar and the Victims of Air India Flight 182.” The sight of a Sikh man burned alive as retribution for Indira ...

RNCM-656 Negotations and Conflict Management

Hutchison, Maureen (2009-09-18)

In this elective, we will introduce and examine the various conflict management and negotiation strategies and techniques. Participants will be introduced to how the application of creative thinking to conflict situations ...

Determinates of Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Effects of Organizational Culture

Belassi, Walid (2009-10-01)

Buyer-supplier relationship has been gaining increasing attention in the last few decades. A skilled and loyal supplier base has proved to be a key source of competitive advantage. Despite such attention, most of the ...

Leadership in Open and Distance Higher Education

Cleveland-Innes, Martha (2009-10-01)

Distributed leadership is a valuable concept in terms of aligning leadership theory to changing conditions in post-industrial society. Changing economic, global and demographic formulations certainly play a role in ...

A Hermeneutic Study of Lived Hope among Older Adults Using Photography as Interview Prompt

Moore, Sharon L. (2009-10-21)

PURPOSE Aging around the world is a topic that has received increasing attention over the past decade. As life expectancies increase, efforts are being directed towards understanding and facilitating successful aging. A ...

Oil-exporting economies and political liberalism: comparative trends and their relevance for the Canadian Political Economy

Shrivastava, Meenal (2009-11-26)

Alberta oil has enabled Canada to become the largest supplier of oil and refined products to the United States, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Mexico. However, the largest mining operations in history, is also one of the most ...

The Determinants of the Corporate Hedging Decision: An Empirical Analysis

Foo, Merlyn (2009-11-26)

This paper is concerned with testing the hypotheses put forth by Smith and Stulz (1985) and Nance, Smith and Smithson (1993) regarding the four reasons for which a firm will hedge. In this paper, we extend the analysis ...

Continuous Response Evaluation of Digital Video Clips over the Internet” and Strategies for Success: Meta-Cognitive Vidcasts for Orientation of Online Learners

Richards, Griff (2009-11-26)

1. Continuous response evaluation of video and film has been a useful method in media. It has been particularly prevalent in advertising as it allows producers to pinpoint events that evoke particularly strong audience ...

Using RSS In Collaborative Course Development

Wang, Hongxue (Harris) (2009-11-26)

RSS (for Really Simply Syndication) is a new technology for syndicating contents on the World Wide Web, whereas collaborative course development in today’s Web-based distance education is to have several professors or ...

RNCM-656 Negotiations and Conflict Management

Hutchison, Maureen (2009-11-26)

In this elective, we will introduce and examine the various conflict management and negotiation strategies and techniques. Participants will be introduced to how the application of creative thinking to conflict situations ...

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

Lamarche, Kimberley (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. ...