AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 581-600 of 2001
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"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. ... -
"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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Westlock Grain Terminals : A Case Study
(Alberta Community & Co-operative Association (ACCA), 2009)This is a case study of Westlock Grain Terminals, a very successful new generation co-operative located in Westlock, Alberta. In 2002, when the community found out that their grain terminal was going to be sold, they ... -
BALTA Newsletter - Autumn 2010 - Winter 2011
(2011-03-22)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. -
Issues in OER: Panel Presentation
(2011-03-21)Open Educational Resources (OERs) are becoming increasingly popular in educational institutions. OERs include all educational resources - normally digital in nature such as learning objects, open courseware, etc. that can ... -
Remediation and "V for Vendetta:": The Case for Bibliographical Cultural Studies
(2011-03-09)From his Vancouver location, Dr. James Gifford, AU Tutor and Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, will use reproductions of the various bibliographical states of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta" to ... -
Extending the Boundaries of Online Education
(2011-03-09)How are students using social media to support educational learning? Online educational initiatives tend to focus on formal dimensions of education, yet most learning occurs outside learning management systems. The social ... -
Learning Support for Calculus
(2011-03-09)Centre for Learning Design & Development (CLDD) Director Dr. Cindy Ives, Centre for Science Math Academic Coordinator Dr. Maria Torres, along with (CLDD) Instructional Media Analysts Sandra Law and Hongxin Yan will report ... -
Between the Auden Generation and the New Apocalypse: Politics & Poetry Networks in the 1930s and 40s
(2011-03-09)From his Vancouver location, Dr. James Gifford, AU Tutor and Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson university, will retrace anarchist and socialist English poetry networks competing in the 1930s and 1940s in continental ... -
LANGblog - Audioblog for Parctising Oral Skills Online
(2011-03-09)Developed by a team of teachers and technologists at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain, LANGblog is an audioblog created to enable students to practice oral skills in an online asynchronous setting. Dr. Federico ... -
Role of the Online Learner: A Comprehensive Model Put Forward
(2011-03-09)Dr. Federico Borges, Professor of English at UOC, and Visiting Researcher at AU, has focused his research on the online learner as a key—and at times disregarded—element in e-learning. Dr. Borges will explain The Role of ... -
Visual Stress Theory and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome
(2011-03-09)How does the functional design of text—its color, size, spacing, background page color—add to or diminish visual stress? Paul Brennan, AU MScIS graduate, will present some of his thesis work during an overview of visual ... -
The Status and Future of Broadcasting
(2011-03-09)In deciding not to try to regulate the Internet, is the Canadaian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in danger of becoming an anachronism? Dr. Fil Fraser, Visiting Graudate Professor, Centre for ...