Academic and Professional Development Fund (APDF) Awards: Recent submissions
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Challenging the Toxic Footprint of Chemical Fertilizers, Soil Amendments and Sewage Sludge
(2010-06-22)While is a growing awareness of the environmental health impacts of pesticide exposure, many people around the world are unaware of the contaminants that are added to farmland. This is a serious food sovereignty issue and ... -
Model-Driven Semantic Web Rule Engineering
(2010-06-22)Model Driven Engineering (MDE) and the Semantic Web represent two key technologies with a far-reaching vision for the future of software engineering and Web engineering. the main promise of MDE is to raise the level of ... -
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Training Programs Provided by WHO: The Feasibility of Incorporating Social Justice, Cultural Competency, Social Justice and Investment
(2010-06-22)The paper describes a study that examined training programs at WHO. The feasibility of incorporating indicators of return on investment, social justice and cultural competency was explored. Every year increasing amounts ... -
Forget Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: Learning to be a Writer in Papua New Guinea
(2010-06-22)For students and instructors at colonial universities, the choice and availability of books for instruction was of central importance. Was the curriculum to replicate that of metropolitan universities? Or to accommodate ... -
When a Guilty Verdict is in the Accused’s Best Interests
(2010-06-22)Lawyers’ ethical codes direct defence counsel to protect clients from criminal conviction. If acquittal isn’t possible, the minimal sentence should be secured. This paper argues that in specific case types neither an ... -
"My Own Darling Mother": An Examination of a Mother-Daughter Relationship
(2010-06-22)This paper will examine the relationship between Gladys Arnold and her Mother, Florida Mae Arnold Sutcliffe. It is based on correspondence between Arnold and her mother that spans more than forty years. The paper will ... -
Experiential Learning and Distance Education: Expanding Learning Frontiers
(2010-06-22)e-Learning combines communication technologies (e.g., e-mail, Web, conferencing, and forum), pertinent learning theories, and real-world learning (experiential learning). This session will demonstrate how this bridging can ... -
Serious Games
(2010-06-22)Serious games are computer games that train, educate and inform while entertaining. The serious games industry has been developing since 2000 but has only gained momentum since 2004. The lucrative games industry promised ... -
2010 Joint Association of Canadian College and University Ombudspersons (ACCUO) & European Network for Ombudsmen
(2010-06-17)This conference is an opportunity to explore the richness of ombudsman principles internationally in different higher education settings so as to improve individual practice and gain insight into alternative approaches for ... -
The Web of Identity: Selfhood and Belonging in Online Learning Networks
(2010-06-17)In this paper, the reflexive relationship between social interaction and understanding of self in online learning networks is examined. In keeping with constructionism, we acknowledge the significance of social interaction ... -
Economic and Social Satisfaction in Marketing Channels: The Impact of Influence Strategies in an African County
(2010-06-17)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 ... -
Mother Still Loves Best: Attachment Theory’s Influence on Mothering Practice-Then and Now
(2010-06-17)John Bowlby's (1907 - 1990) attachment theory was formulated to explain mother-infant bonding. The theory was bound by a number of assumptions that placed responsibility for child rearing soley in the hands of women. ... -
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Spring 2010 Management Symposium
(2010-05-04)This symposium focuses on topics relevant to IT decision-makers such as CIOs, directors, managers, project and team leaders, and staff on leadership tracks. Share your management experiences, ideas, and innovative approaches ... -
Deconstructing the Quest for Value: Language Games of Organizational Investment
(2010-04-14)Abstract of the paper For many years practitioners have attempted to define and measure what value project management brings an organization (see for example Kwak & Ibbs, 2000; Cooke-Davies, 2002; Reginato & Ibbs, 2002; ... -
Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments in Sonochemistry using an Ultrasonic Bath
(2010-04-14)Two undergraduate experiments in sonochemistry are presented. The first experiment involves the sonication of aqueous solutions of potassium iodide. Sonication of aqueous media generates hydroxyl radicals, which oxidizes ... -
Calcitonin for Treating Acute and Chronic Pain of Recent and Remote Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
(2010-04-14)Background: Vertebral collapse is one of the most common fractures associated with osteoporosis. The subsequent back pain may be severe and often requires medications and bed rest to control pain and improve mobilization. ... -
Management & Leadership Training for Law Enforcement
(2010-04-14)A pilot online management and leadership course was delivered to various law enforcement personnel, i.e. police officers, sheriffs, and corrections officers. Prior to the course, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, ... -
Attending workshop “The School for the Work”
(2010-04-14)Most of your Work at the School will consist of going deeper and deeper with the help of the four (self-inquiry) questions…. Another important part of the curriculum consists of exercises [that] are interpersonal; others ... -
Attending SITE Workshop
(2010-04-14)Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination ... -
American Library Association MidWinter Meeting
(2010-02-24)At ALA’s midwinter meeting I attended a number of discussion groups related to distance learning and information literacy. For example, the instruction section’s discussion group focused on whether librarians should be ...