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1) Singing the Unspeakable: from ‘Sheath and Knife’ to ‘O Bondage, Up Yours! and 2) Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folksong Revival, 1889-1904
(2010-06-23)
1) In their desire to shock their listeners, the British punk bands of the mid-late 1970s delighted in performing lyrics that extolled mob violence and sexual deviance. The Sex Pistols, the Clash, X-Ray Spex and Wire (among ...
Making History Meaningful: The German Plays of Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen
(2010-06-23)
Alberta playwrights Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen both explore the tragic consequences of a political expropriation of the creative imagination for nationalistic ends. Their “German” plays interrogate history in terms ...
Virtual Stability: Constructing a Simulation Model”
(2010-06-23)
After a discussion of the importance of stability and instability for complex systems theory we define the concept of virtual stability as a state in which a system employs self-monitoring and adaptive control to maintain ...
When Retailers are More Powerful
(2010-06-23)
The long-term effects of promotions on sales are increasingly linked to the supposed shift of economic power within channels from manufacturers to retailers. However, formal knowledge about how they influence channel ...
Computer Science: Where (and why) have all the women gone?
(2010-06-23)
Like other post-secondary institutions in North America, Athabasca University has not been successful in either recruiting or retaining women to its Computing and Information Science programmes. The gradual decline in ...
Towards a Real Virtual Classroom
(2010-07-14)
Distance education is well regarded as a better way to bring education to those who are unable to attend classes at traditional schools and universities. In recent years, new Web technologies and systems such as Ajax, RSS, ...
Workplaces of Teleworkers
(2010-07-14)
Teleworking has become quite popular in developed countries in recent years, but its growth has stabilized. A comfortable work environment at home is often cited as one key advantage of teleworking from home. Little ...
Preparing Effective Codes of Ethics in Aboriginal Agency
(2010-07-14)
An Aboriginal agency that:
(a) conducts business in a cross-cultural setting;
(b) employs Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal employees;
(c) wants to conduct its operations in keeping with Aboriginal protocols; may wish ...
Concretizing Asian Canadian Theatre
(2010-07-14)
Founded in Edmonton in 1989 as a community-action collective company, Concrete Theatre has prioritized in its mandate a focus on cultural diversity. For the past twenty years, it has created workshops for schools and ...
Growth Model for Academic Program Life Cycles: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
(2010-08-04)
Academic program life cycle concept states that each program’s life flows through several stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to enrollment ...