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Food Adverts on Children's Programs on TV in South Africa
(2008-06-09)
Research in the U.S.A. since the early 1990s has shown that adverts that appear on children’s programs on TV are the antithesis of the recommended diet. They are mainly for fast foods and for foods rich in sugar and fat. ...
Personal Digital Assistants – teachers prefer the personal
(2007-10-18)
This paper will present the results of a small-scale project, funded by the UK Teacher Development Agency, where 13 teachers and 3 trainee teachers in one secondary school science department were given handhelds (Personal ...
Supporting ubiquitous language learning with RFID tags
(2007-10-18)
Ubiquitous computing will help in the organization and mediation of social interactions wherever and whenever these situations might occur. With those technologies, learning environment can be embedded in real daily life. ...
A Hermeneutic Study of Lived Hope among Older Adults Using Photography as Interview Prompt
(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 ...
Staff Utilization of Explicit Hope Facilitation Strategies in Long Term Care
(2008-06-09)
Research offers compelling evidence of the pivotal role that hope plays in health and personal well-being outcomes for individuals who are acutely, chronically or terminally ill. Many individuals who are living in long ...
The Challenge In Designing Government Programs For CED
(Making Waves, 2002)
The often sorry record of government in community economic development has important lessons for future CED program designers. Ingrained socio-economic distress requires long-term, multidimensional action. Local people ...
Parental Power in the Health Care System
(2009-04-27)
This session will be the presentation of a 1990s Parenting the Hospitalized Child, Stage Theory (which has, until now, never been presented or published) and a review of the research on parent/child centered care over the ...
Credit Unions and the Social Economy: Being Competitive and Building Capacity
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-09)
The credit union sector occupies a significant place in both Alberta and British Columbia and credit unions are a prominent element of the social economy in the two provinces. This report examines the results of research ...
Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy and Rural Community Re-investment
(2009-04-06)
This proposal/plan documetns a research project that examines the role of credit unions in supporting the social economy and is a second stage of research building on SERC 3’s research project C11. At the same time, this ...
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
(2007-09-18)
How the two terms community economic development and community development finance are defined is crucial to the
construction of any development system, whether it be geographic or functional in scope. What the terms are ...