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- Kyle Jackson (Author), Maja Kominko (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2015
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- If today the sky were to thunder and the local church bell to peal in the mountaintop village of Aithur in Northeast India’s Mizoram state, the resident Christian Mizo villager would simply pack an umbrella to church. However, a century ago the same soundscape would have held radically different...
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- Liam Dempsey (Author), Jason Holt (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2014-10-17
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- David Sadoway (Author), Satyarupa Shekhar (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-02
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- Karen Meijer-Kline (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-11-28
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- Today many libraries are seeking new creative partnerships with faculty in open textbook and OER creation. This presentation reviews a case study at a library that is in initial stages of establishing an open textbook publishing program. At Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC, Canada), the...
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- Gurkeerit (Gary) Bal (author), Ruby Kundi (author), Ashley Hoyem (author), Harneet Sandhu (author)
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- We will be presenting a poster board for research that examines how the children’s television show “Jessie” portrays ethnic minorities. We conducted a latent content analysis to uncover the portrayal of ethnic minorities in the show. We will focus on the subliminal racial content that is being...
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- Shaveta Gahunia (Author), Keiron McConnell (Author), Andy Bain (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-06-18
- Author Keywords
- gangs, intervention, gang violence, problem-oriented policing, gang suppression
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- Gang violence poses a significant concern for the police and the public. In response, in 2008 policing agencies in British Columbia introduced Restaurant Watch, a targeted strategy aiming to deter unwanted gang-involved patrons from attending participating restaurants. In response to a lack of...
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- Sarah Murray (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-01-01
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- This study guide is designed to accompany the Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition open text by Jennifer Walinga and Charles Stangor. For each chapter it summarizes the learning objectives and presents multiple-choice, true-false and fill-in-the-blank test of the material covered. It...
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- Gangwei Wang (author), Kamran Fakhar (author), A. H. Kara (author)
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- Third-order Burger equation, Nonlocal 11 symmetry analysis, Linearization, multiplier 12 approach, Conservation laws
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- The nonlocal residual symmetry related to truncated Painlevé expansion of third-order Burgers equation is performed. Then, the potential symmetries of the equation are derived; on the basis of nonlocal symmetries, we linearize the nonlinear third-order6 Burgers equation to a linear third-order...
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- Andrew Redden (Author), Kyle Jackson (Author), Jonathan Hogg (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2019-03
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- In this chapter we will be looking at primary sources that deal specifically with human interaction with non-human entities – in particular, gods and spirits. You might initially categorise this as religious history, or even the history of religion and, to a certain extent, you would be right....
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- Louis Giguere (author), Susan Power (author)
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- Francophones, Canada, Official-Language Minorities, Health Care Usage
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- We test Landry's (2012) ethno-linguistic community development model in the context of Canadian Francophone minorities, using two social responses as indicators of social development. These minorities are spread over 12 Canadian Provinces and Territories and represent a broad spectrum of minority...
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- Noemi Gal-Or (author)
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- borders, dispute settlement
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- The malaise felt by both Canadians and Americans regarding several areas of trade does not exist in a vacuum. It is not difficult to surmise that besides the genuine tension owing to actual implementation of liberal trade principles in the trade practise between the two states, and to their...
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- Kathy Dunster (author)
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- streets, public spaces, street vendors, city life, civil rights, protest
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- Streets are an open and common space being reclaimed by people of all ages, in all kinds of weather, at all times of day and night for purposes never envisioned by planners and designers nor permitted by politicians. Streets are being used in creative ways to individually and collectively express...
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- Sarah Emilie Braaten (author)
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- In Canada the laws around euthanasia are outdated and no longer fit the needs of Canadian citizens. Since there are other countries that have legalized different types of euthanasia, it is time for Canadians to have the right to die with dignity too. This paper will address other models of...
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- Puneet Rangi (author)
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- As undergraduate students, the fear and uncertainty of our future and career comes full swing. Anxiety seeped its way into my mind during my first year of university. I knew that given the criminal justice systems impact on my family, a career in criminology was not going to be an easy task, but...
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- Pin Ju Rachel Chen (Author), Mike Larsen (Thesis advisor)
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- immigration law, refugee policy, security certificates, Syrian refugee crisis, construction of non-citizens, admissibility, inadmissibility, security, politicization of immigration, Access to Information
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- While legal discourse commonly interprets ‘admissibility’ as ‘inadmissibility’ within Canadian immigration law and policy, this research explores ‘admissibility’ as a concept of its own and how it is implemented through Canadian immigration practice. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act...
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- Shane Kubeska (author)
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- The prison-industrial complex is a term used to refer to the rapid expansion of the prison population, specifically in privatized correctional institutions. This term acknowledges the fact that sentencing and incarceration have become tools for generating profit for the correctional corporations...
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- Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship. (Author)
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- spatial data, statistics
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- Researcher Profile of Dr Stephen Peplow, a faculty member in the School of Business at KPU whose research interests are in geographical information systems (GIS), statistics and agent-based modeling.
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- Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship. (Author)
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- mindfulness, memory skills, gender, Klinefelter's syndrome psychological impacts
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- Kathrin Arcari is a KPU student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Counselling who has a keen interest in education abroad and human interaction. While travelling the world and promoting human rights advocacy, Kathrin has been given the opportunity to develop her research.
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- Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship. (Author)
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- organizational strategy, financial planning, supply chain management, accounting, decision making, logistics
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- Ron Messer is a faculty member in the School of Business at KPU whose research interests focus broadly on management accounting and decision making.
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- Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship. (Author)
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- Visual Media Workshop, digital visual literacy, data visualization, digital media
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- Katie Warfield, Aaron Goodman and Chad Skelton are members of the Visual Media Workshop, a research hub recently launched at KPU to publish cutting-edge research, lead community and student workshops, and work with world-renowned academics. The three members are interested in three main...
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