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Factors Mediating Female Viewers’ Processing of Realistic or Unrealistic Female Beauty Appeals in Movies and Affecting their Body Esteem: A Mixed Method Study
(2012-11-15)This study examined female movie female viewers’ attention to onscreen relational information and their response to feminine beauty appeals that may explain why they experienced different body esteem outcomes. Body esteem ... -
Faith Based Support for CED: God's call for Justice
(Making Waves, 2001)Karl Polanyi did not look upon the reconstruction of society as primarily a political task that could be achieved by a government with socialist ideas. Reconstruction had to be social. -
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy in Western Canada
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of BALTA research (Project A4) into the role that faith based organizations have played in supporting ... -
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy in Western Canada
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-11)Community organizations in what is now called the social economy have been an important part of Canadian economic and community development for generations. Local communities from coast to coast to coast have organized ... -
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy: The Example of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonites
(2013-08-18)This research report is the second phase of a two-part research program investigating the recent contributions of faith communities to social economy initiatives in Canada. The first phase broadly explored the involvement ... -
Fall of the House of Euro – German capitalism and the long search for a ‘spatial fix
(2012-11-15)From the standpoint of capitalism in Germany, the European Union and the Eurozone are but the two most recent stations on the long pilgrimage to find a spatial fix, attempts to alleviate the perennial problem of a ... -
Family Members' 'Work of Getting Through' Critical Illness: A Call for Nurses to Lighten Our Load
(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 ... -
Farmers Markets as Social and Economic Drivers of Local Food Systems
(2008-11-13)This presentation reported on the results to date of BALTA research project B5 which is exploring the current and potential role of farmers’ markets in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, as social economy drivers for ... -
Farmers Markets as Social and Economic Drivers of Local Food Systems
(2009-11-24)This presentation reported on the results to date of BALTA research projects B5 and B7 (second phase of research) which are exploring the current and potential role of farmers’ markets in British Columbia and Alberta, ... -
Farmers Markets, Local Food Systems and the Social Economy: A Thematic Literature Review
(2011-03-01)Alternative food systems, often drawing heavily on local and ‘embedded’ markets, have emerged as a response to the dissipating connection between food systems and ecological systems brought about by the globalization trend. ... -
Farmers’ Markets as Social Economy Drivers of Local Food Systems
(2009-04-12)There is growing interest in the re-localization of food systems. Farmers’ markets are important and increasingly prevalent sites of economic and social exchange in the evolution of local food systems. Little is understood, ... -
Farmers’ Markets as Social Economy Drivers of Local Food Systems: Phases I and II
(2010-07-14)There is growing interest in the re-localization of food systems. Farmers’ markets are important and increasingly prevalent sites of economic and social exchange in the evolution of local food systems. Little is understood, ... -
Fashion, Freedom, and Female Agency: Iranian Women’s Deconstruction of Identity in Citizen Journalism
(2013-07-09)For close to a century in Iran, the female body has been the site for authorities to assert and exercise their political and ideological control over half of the population. Our paper explores how women in the Islamic ... -
Female Viewers
(2009-06-12)This paper presents findings of an experiment conducted with female college students to assess the effects of TV commercials and movie entertainment segments that feature stereotypical ( pro-thin) and realistic-looking ... -
Female Viewers’ Central and Peripheral Processing or Commercial TV Ads and Movies and Corresponding Changes in their Body Esteem
(2010-08-04)Two experiments examined the complex and elusive process by which women experience changes in their body esteem while paying attention to commercial media messages featuring competing messages that invite them to value ... -
Feminist Family Therapy: The Process of Writing a Women’s Studies Correspondence-Based Distance Course
(2010-06-23)This presentation will explore the process of writing a women’s studies correspondence-based distance course on Feminist Family Therapy, the third course written by these two authors. Along with the usual challenges of ... -
Final Mapping Report: Environmental Organizations
(2014-03-12)In 2010 the BALTA Mapping Team completed their survey of social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia. An important finding of this Mapping research was that a subsection of the population indicated that ... -
Financial Sustainability in the Not-for-Profit Housing Sector – Literature Review
(2010-08-13)This literature review arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits ... -
A Flexible Mechanism for Providing Adaptivity Based on Learning Styles in Learning Management
(2010-08-11)While today’s learning management systems (LMSs) provide lot of support for teachers to assist them in holding online courses, they typically do not consider students’ individual differences in the composition and structure ... -
Flexible paths to assessment for OER learners: A Comparative Study
(2012-11-15)The opportunities for innovation in the developing OER world are endless. Recognizing learners’ prior experiential learning (RPL), already an innovative practice in many tertiary or post-secondary educational institutions, ...