Academic and Professional Development Fund (APDF) Awards: Recent submissions
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"Keeping Older Adults at Home: Are Family/Friend Caregivers at Risk for Compassion Fatigue? and Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers Located in Long-Term Care Facilities"
(2010-09-21)“Keeping older adults at home: Are family/friend caregivers at risk for compassion fatigue?” In Canada there are an estimated 2.7 million family/friend caregivers, including 216,000 over age 75. These older adult ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training
(2010-08-11)The need for studies on learning via mobile device, particularly how workplace and language training might be conducted, grows in importance as more and more people become mobile device users.The Athabasca University (AU) ... -
Attend the Hope or Next Hope Conference
(2010-08-11)The main visual theme of the conference is visions of the future from the past, so things that reference The World’s Fairs, The Jetsons, flying cars, DaVinci, Asimov, and so forth would be very appropriate. However, projects ... -
A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping & Multi-Object Oriented Augmented Reality for Location-based Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2010-08-11)1) A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping This paper presents a collaborative mobile learning system: Mobile Virtual Campus (MVC) powered by the location-based dynamic grouping ... -
What might cause a benevolent government to be corrupt when agents are honest? An Insight with triadic relationships
(2010-08-11)Note: In order to make my points clear, I am providing an executive summary rather than an abstract. Executive Summary The extant literature that seeks to explain corruption in government bureaucracies usually refers ... -
Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours
(2010-08-11)Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours Cheryl Kiera and Ambrose Leungb Athabasca University Mount Royal University This study explored the relationships between authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive ... -
Spiraling Out of Darkness: Mothering and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV
(2010-08-04)1. "Spiraling Out of Darkness: ‘Mothering’ and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV" (Presenters: Gina Wong-Wylie & José Pruden) Abstract: An artful process of revealing narratives and photographic images was central in the ... -
Female Viewers’ Central and Peripheral Processing or Commercial TV Ads and Movies and Corresponding Changes in their Body Esteem
(2010-08-04)Two experiments examined the complex and elusive process by which women experience changes in their body esteem while paying attention to commercial media messages featuring competing messages that invite them to value ... -
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – Enclosing the Internet?
(2010-08-04)This paper examines the ongoing negotiation process over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement from a Canadian perspective. ACTA, in brief, would represent a globalized version of the U.S. Digital Management Copyright ... -
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 ... -
Domestic citizenship and Disability in Saskatchewan in the 1930's
(2010-08-04)This paper is based on a diary written from 1937 to 1942 by my great aunt, Hilda Butcher, a white upper middle class English immigrant to Canada. Impaired by achondroplasia (“dwarfism”), Hilda used a wheelchair for the ... -
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. ... -
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, ... -
Economic and Social Satisfaction in Marketing Channels: The Impact of Influence Strategies in an African County
(2010-07-14)This article seeks, among others, to empirically validate the theory proposed by Geyskens et al. (1999) on the impact of influence strategies on economic and social satisfaction in the context of an African Country. New ... -
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 ... -
The Power of Virtual Professional Networking
(2010-07-14)Research in the business community indicates that virtual professional networks are used to keep internal staff and remote employees connected, to connect with potential clients, and to showcase the skills of the business. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Motivation to Move-Nurse Practitioners and Physical Activity Counseling and Canadian Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction
(2010-07-14)POSTER #1: Motivation to Move - Nurse Practitioners and Physical Activity Counseling Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore Canadian NPs perceived competence and importance pertaining to counseling/prescribing ...