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"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 ...
Articulations of Wild Rose Conservation: The Land Trust Movement in Alberta
(2009-06-04)
The accelerating fragmentation of landscapes across Canada and their conversion into industrial, residential and recreational uses has sparked growing concern about how these areas might be protected from intensive and ...
“Tumplines” – a Look at the History and Ethnobiology of Northwest Coast Burden Straps, paper presentation.
(2009-05-01)
The burden straps called “tumplines” in the anthropological literature are a distinctive carrying device used by Gitksan, Witsuwit’en and other peoples of the northwestern part of British Columbia, Canada. The burden straps ...
Planes, Trains and Tour Buses: Libraries in Unexpected Places
(2009-06-22)
Destination travel readers are those who seek reading material while at or en route to their destination. There is a growing trend of hotel and tour operators offering books on loan to their guests. This has meant that ...
Reactive Attachment Disorder and its Implications in Defining the "Good Mother"
(2009-06-08)
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) made its first appearance in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ nosology in 1980 (DSM-III: American Psychiatric Association). Its inclusion was a response to ...
The Philosophical Canon: East and West
(2010-07-14)
This paper will examine the professional bias present in our philosophy departments against identifying Eastern traditions, such as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, as genuine philosophies that have a rightful place in ...
What Does Formal Online Debating Bring to Graduate Education?
(2010-07-14)
Debating is a formal process of argument that has a long tradition of application in education. Educators value it as a strategy for promoting the development of skills associated with influencing others using logic, facts, ...
Models for Strategy Choice in Random or Potentially Deceptive Environments
(2010-07-14)
Two simulation models are presented illustrative of decision and behavioural choice issues for complex adaptive systems involving cognitive agents. The first illustrates the value of managed instability for complex systems. ...
An Exploration of the Experience of Compassion Fatigue in Clinical Oncology Nurses" and The Role of Simple Gesture in Exemplary Palliative Nursing Care
(2010-08-04)
Abstract #1
Introduction
Oncology nurses are at risk for compassion fatigue (CF). Bush (2009) defines CF as an emotional state with negative psychological and physical consequences that emanate from caregiving to people ...