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Increase in daily steps after a 6-month lifestyle intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes in primary care: a controlled Trial
(2014-01-16)Background: Healthy eating and active living are cornerstones of diabetes management, yet due to a number of systematic factors, patients in primary care settings don’t often receive adequate support for lifestyle change. ... -
Incrementality - This Strange Term Is Key To Setting Realistic Goals And Standards For CED Practice
(Making Waves, 2000)Funders and policy analysts have unrealistic notions about evaluating CED, which applies unique combinations of resources to complex social and economic problems. That said, community groups could improve their effectiveness ... -
The Influence of Network Convergence on VoIP
(2010-08-11)Voice traffic operating within a shared packetized data network must meet the stringent expectations set forth by its circuit switched predecessor. Increases in network throughput, decreases in end-to-end latency, jitter ... -
Informal Learning Evidence in Online Communities of Mobile Device Enthusiasts
(2007-10-05)This paper describes a study that investigated the informal learning practices of enthusiastic mobile device owners. Informal learning is far more widespread than is often realised. Livingston (2000) pointed out that ... -
"Information Access and Protection of Privacy: Cornerstones of the Democratic Administrative State”
(2009-05-01)The protection of privacy has received significant attention recently, particularly the threats posed to privacy by new technologies for mass data collection as well as post-911 security measures. Much less attention has ... -
Information Access, Transparency, and Good Governance: the Alberta record
(2013-07-09)Access to information is recognized worldwide as a crucial component of a democratic state because transparency helps to expose corruption, ensures due process in law, and encourages the citizen engagement that is central ... -
Information Literacy: Case Studies and Practices
(2010-08-04)Athabasca University Library, Red Deer College Library, and the University of Alberta Libraries have developed and implemented collaborative curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction. Participants will learn ... -
Information Needs of Men and Their Partners about Prostate Surgery
(2011-03-29)Prostate cancer is the single greatest cancer threat facing Canadian men, affecting one in eight men with a mortality rate of one in 27. Over 22,300 Canadian men were newly diagnosed in 2007, compared with 12,000 newly ... -
Infrastructure for the Social Economy: A literature Review for BALTA’s Social Economy Research Cluster 3
(2009-04-06)One of the first steps in any research process is to undertake a thorough review of the existing literature in a particular area in order to understand the field of knowledge that is being drawn from and built upon. It ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training
(2010-08-11)The need for studies on learning via mobile device, particularly how workplace and language training might be conducted, grows in importance as more and more people become mobile device users.The Athabasca University (AU) ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training: The Athabasca University Mobile Workplace
(2010-07-14)Abstract of Workshop #2: Empowering Learners with Mobile Learning Anytime and anywhere learning is here with mobile learning. The use of mobile technologies will allow adult learners to access learning materials and ... -
Innovation Through Convention? Building Consensus for RPL Practice in Canadian Universities
(2009-06-16)Dramatic changes in the last several years, marked by the advent of a globalized economy and attendant technological innovations, have thrust us from industrial to conceptual thinking, engendering an era of instant ... -
Innovative Uses of Co-operative Housing Assets
(2009-01-16)As housing co-operatives start to reach the point where they are retiring their mortgages, questions arise as to whether and how those assets might be leveraged to further support the needs of the affordable and co-operative ... -
Integrating JADE Agents into Moodle
(2010-06-23)This paper presents an approach to integrating the JADE-based multiagent system with the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) -- an open source learning management system. This approach overcomes ... -
An Intelligent System for Generating and Managing FAQs in Online Education
(2010-06-23)With the development of the Web, online course delivery is gaining its popularity everyday. But no matter how courses delivered, there is one thing that never changes in education. For students, they will have to get all ... -
An Interactive OER Course Development at Athabasca University based on ODL Principles
(2014-02-06)Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five ... -
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Accreditation course
(2011-05-17)Executive Accreditation course towards achieving the designation as an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC). -
The InterSSCT Model: Systemic Cross-Cultural School-Based Mental Health Programming
(2011-08-25)This paper describes the InterSSCT (“intersect”) approach to the delivery of school-based counselling services. The InterSSCT approach is a transcultural, transtheoretical, systemic heuristic to assess needs, plan, execute, ... -
Introduction to SE Reader
(2007-07-20)The wide ranging articles in this volume engage us in the critical reflections and learning of individuals, groups, organizations, enterprises and institutions that are in the trenches, actors and researchers who believe ... -
Investigations about the Effects and Effectiveness of Adaptively for Students with Different learning Styles
(2009-11-27)Considering learning styles in technology enhanced learning seems to be a promising concept for making learning easier for students. However, contradictory opinions exist on this issue. In this paper, we aim at investigating ...