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Moral Foundations in the Aboriginal/British Crown 'Tradition': Virtue and The Covenant Chain
(2011-03-29)Whether a mutually recognized respectful relationship between North America's First Nations and the British Crown existed forms one concern of this paper. A second, assuming sufficient evidence to affirm the first, is to ... -
Burkholderia Pseudomallei: An Emerging Bacterial Pathogen and Potential Bioweapon
(2011-03-29)Burkholderia pseduomallei is a bacteria that lives in the soil and water in tropical areas. It is the causative agent of the disease melioidosis which affects both humans and animals. Melioidosis is a fatal pneumonia ... -
Larry David's Jewish Comedy as an Extension of Yiddish Ashkenazic Culture in Later Hollywood Generations
(2011-03-29)On Sienfeld, Larry David mentions earlier American Jewish comedy writers such as Neil Simon. Some shows are based on models that reach far back into the history of Yiddish film, theatre and comedy. For instance, in one ... -
Language and Communication: Can Voice-Conferencing Software Assist Students to Face the Challenge of Learning to Speak a Second Language in a Distance Education Setting
(2011-03-29)The focus of this presentation is a pilot project completed in 2005 to assess the suitability of the voice-based conferencing system Horizon Wimba for use by Athabasca students registered in second language courses. In a ... -
Archaeology in the Rocky Mountains
(2011-03-29)For ten years, Dr. Sheila Greaves, AU's Chair of the Centre for Work and Community Studies; has been analyzing stone tool collections from a series of unique pre-contact housepit villages in the Rocky Mountains. Jointly ... -
"Stewart Lemoine's Teatro la Quindicina: Edmonton's Exotic Community Theatre"
(2011-03-29)For twenty-five years, playwright Stewart Lemoine has negotiated aesthetic distance in Edmonton, setting common human fiobles and social dilemmas in foreign and exotic locales for a loyal local audience. Lemoine's gently ... -
"Cognitive Illusions and the History of Science"
(2011-03-29)A Cognitive illusion is the mental analogue of an optical illusion. In an optical illusion we see something as other than it is and, even knowing this to be the case, continue to experience the illusion. In a cognitive ... -
"The Alberta Disadvantage: Toxic Emissions, Shoddy Science and Muzzled Voices in Alberta's Industrial Heartland"
(2011-03-29)Alberta is reaping profits from its gas fields and tar sands but at what price to public health and the environment? Drive just forty-five minutes northeast of Edmonton and you enter the Alberta Industrial Heartland. ... -
"The Arachnids of Alberta: Spiders, Scorpions and Other Things Nice"
(2011-03-29)This will be an overview of the research that Robert has done on harvestmen, spiders and solifugids, as well as some interesting aspects of the biology of mites and ticks, pseudoscropions and scorpions of Alberta. In other ... -
"Critical Illness, Family & Nurses: Connecting the Dots"
(2011-03-29)Critical Illness of an adult constitutes a crisis for family members. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to delineate nursing support for family members from their perspective. Results indicated that they were ... -
The Changing North American Family.
(2011-03-29)There is a popular belief that changes in the family over the past century (away from the traditional form of two biological parents with father as breadwinner and mother as homemaker) are responsible for declines in moral ... -
"Linguistic Fingerprinting and Literary Fraud"
(2011-03-29)Many experts of literary style postulate that style is dictated by the subconscious and forms the "genetic" fingerprint of a writer's work. This implies that (a) it is impossible to disguise one's style and (b) that works ... -
"Of rice-root, Crabapples, and Huckleberries: Evidence for Environmental Management by First Nations in Northwest British Columbia"
(2011-03-29)In northwest British Columbia, long indigenous occupancy and management of the landscape has had pervasive ecological effects. In such an environment discriminating "natural" and "anthropogenic" vegetation and plant ... -
Going Global and the World Social Forum: The Struggle for Justice Beyond the Nation-State
(2011-03-29)In the past ten years beginning with the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle 1999 there has been an intense wave of international activism not unlike the political activism of the late 1960s. Unlike ... -
Lucy Broadwood and English Folksong: the Early Years
(2011-03-29)Lucy E. Broadwood was closely involved with the first English Folksong Revival from the late 1880s until her death in 1929. An accomplished singer and pianist, Broadwood was an important folksong collector who also served ... -
Lost in Transmission: Contextual Variation in Chimpanzee Pant Hoots and its Implications for Referential Communication in Primates
(2011-03-29)Pant hoots are the species-typical 'loud' call used by chimpanzees to communicate over long distances. Some previous studies have explored the possibility that there are acoustically distinct subtypes of pant hoots that ... -
Re-Mapping Policy Space: Understanding the Intersection of International Trade Law and Domestic Health Policy in Canada
(2011-03-29)Debates about the impact of international trade agreements such as the WTO General Agreement on trade in services (GATS) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on health care usually focus upon the scope of ... -
Close your eyes with holy dread: Reckonings, retribution, revenge and redemption in the new Old West
(2011-03-29)This presentation formalizes some preliminary work on a larger research project that will investigate the western genre in film and will eventually include western literature, post 1990. There has been much work done on ... -
Environment, Women and Politics-perspectives on Canadian Environmentalism
(2011-03-29)Elizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and leader of the Green Part of Canada. Elizabeth became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s. She is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and ...