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If you Are What You Eat, Souldn't you Know What Is Inside That Package and Where It Comes From?
(2011-03-29)
This presentation examines national and international political struggles over food labeling, food scares, concerns about climate change and sustainable food production have increased public concern about food regulations ...
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 ...
Social Networking and Political Activism: The Great Canadian Copyright Fight - Over or Not?
(2011-03-29)
In 2007 and 2008 there was a hard fought campaign against proposed changes to the Canadian Copyright Act, changes which would have privileged producers and owners of copyright over users. Particularly notable about the ...
Boreal Fends & Plants: Conservation from an Ecoregional Perspective.
(2011-03-29)
Ecoregions are large areas of land and water that contain a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities. They are increasingly being used as a framework for conservation planning across the globe. Within a ...
Capitalizing the Beauties: Cultural Institutions, Tourism and Art in Alberta
(2011-03-30)
Avant-garde art movements, extension education programs and public museums all have histories of attempting to dissolve institutional barriers, both literal and otherwise, between the arts and humanities and everyday life. ...
"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 ...
Formal Student Debating: Does It Work Online?
(2011-04-01)
Formal debating is a process for argumentation that has a long history of use in classroom settings to promote the development of skills associated with critical thinking and influencing others. In Athabasca Unviersity's ...
"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 ...
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 ...
"Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): Where are they now?"
(2011-03-30)
1. How narcissism has been conceptualized throughout our recorded history, 2. When and why the narcissistic shift in our society began, 3. Why the DSM-5 study group has eliminated NPD from its official list of personality ...