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Technical Services Roundtable
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Reading Ursula Bowlby’s Letters (1939-1940): A Chronicle of First Time Motherhood
(2011-06-29)Following the birth of her first child, Ursula Bowlby wrote numerous letters to her husband, Dr. John Bowlby. He was working away from home and returned only for brief weekend visits. Ursula’s letters express her absorption ... -
Recognizing the Embeddedness of Ethics and Economics
(2011-06-29)The relationship between ethics and economics is far more intimate than the West, since the Enlightenment, has typically recognized. Indeed, as I will try to show, the actual relationship is best explained by adopting a ... -
A Place called Home: The Social and Cultural Context of Health
(2011-06-29)Background Arts in health-care is an emerging movement that links the expressive arts with the healing arts and brings these into the mainstream of traditional health-care to promote well-being. Dr. Gene Cohen, who was ... -
The Association Between Older Age, Co-Morbidity, and Treatment Status of Incident Osteoporotic Fractures: A Population-Based Nested Cohort Study
(2011-06-29)BACKGROUND: Despite strong evidence-based rationale for both the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis, there remains an overall low prevalence of osteoporosis treatment in older adults. Furthermore, there is ... -
Landscape and Ethnoecology - an Ethnobiological View
(2011-06-29)Landscape is often taken for granted in ethnobiological work, treated as setting, described in geographic or biological terms. Landscape is productive to examine as the (literal) foundation of ethnobiological work: where ... -
Story Not (Yet) My Own: First World War Correspondence and Prosthetic Memory
(2011-06-29)In this paper I will explore the role of material culture in the convergence of narrative and memory with specific reference to a family archive of World War I letters and photos. I take as my jumping off point Michele ... -
Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital.
(2011-06)After four decades of research, scholars of happiness continue to debate its causes. While it is generally agreed that a combination of internal and external factors play a role, predicting happiness well remains a ... -
Music preferences and young people's attitudes towards spending and saving.
(2010-12)We aimed to find patterns among young people’s music preferences in relation to their attitudes towards saving or spending money. Previous research found that certain music genres (e.g. rap and dance) are associated with ... -
BALTA Newsletter - Spring 2011
(2011-06-23)This is the newsletter of the of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). It contains news about BALTA and social economy developments in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. -
Three generations of distance education pedagogy
(2011-06-16)This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the pedagogy that defines ... -
(Ir)responsible Government, Deliberat(iv)e Democracy and the Evasion of Democratic Constitutionalism since Meech Lake
(2011-06-09)The de-legitimation of elite representation and bargaining in constitutional politics since the mid-1980s has resulted in a more challenging environment both for the management of inter-cultural relations and the reform ... -
Toward New Governance: Interest Groups and NGOs in British Columbia
(2011-06-09)Chapter 10 of the textbook, BC GOvernment and Politics -
Pluralism,Institutionalism and the Theories of BC Politics
(2011-06-09)THis article looks back on the classic theories of BC politics from the perspecctive of contemporary institutionalism -
Domestic Health Policies and International Trade: a Framework for Assessing Trade-Related Legal Risk
(2011-06-09)this was an invited talk delivered at the International Conference on Healthcare and Trade in Rotterdam Netherlands, December 10-11, 2009. -
No Watertight Compartments: Trade Agreements, International Health Care Reform, and the Legal Politics of Public Sector Exemptions
(2011-06-06)Debates over the legal interpretation of trade treaty (WTO and NAFTA) exemption clauses for public services display a common pattern. Critics of trade agreements argue that these clauses are likely to be narrowly interpreted, ... -
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Accreditation course
(2011-05-17)Executive Accreditation course towards achieving the designation as an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC). -
Something Old, Something New: Reflective Journals and Social Networking
(2011-05-17)The practice of writing journals is a tried and tested method for developing student writing skills and reflection on the process of writing. With current technology, this method can be updated and given a new dimension ... -
Student-Student Interaction In An Online Continuing Professional Development Course: Testing Anderson's Equivalency Theorem
(2011-05-11)Continuing education programs for laboratory professionals benefit from the creation of a community of inquiry which encourages students to think critically and learn deeply. Student-student interactions are an essential ... -
Factors Affecting Implementation of Educational Media Casting As an Instructional Resource in Distance Education
(2011-05-11)This study examined the factors affecting the implementation of podcasting within a post secondary educational institution. The institution in the present investigation is a member of iTunes University and has provided ...