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- Acting Together (AT-CURA) (Author), Gira Bhatt (Author)
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- gang prevention, youth services for, Acting Together (AT-CURA) - SSHRC-CURA Project
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- info:fedora/kora:atcura
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- 49.183333, -122.85000000000002
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- Andy Rathbone (author), David P. Burns (author)
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- Science education, narrative, learning, teaching, identity, connection, higher education
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- There is a growing understanding of the importance of narrative in learning (Bruner, 1996; Connelly & Clandinin, 1988). This paper explores the significance of narrative to science education. We argue that since students learn, in part, through their narrative identity and its connection to their...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Karen M. Davison (Author), Bonnie J. Kaplan (Author)
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- Food insecurity, Nutrient intakes, Mood disorders, mental health
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- Background: Because little is known about food insecurity in people with mental health conditions, we investigated relationships among food insecurity, nutrient intakes, and psychological functioning in adults with mood disorders. Methods: Data from a study of adults randomly selected from the...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 53.7266683, -127.64762059999998
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- I. A. Lesser (Author), Amandah Hoogbruin (Author), T. J.M. Dick (Author), J. A. Guenette (Author), D. C. Mackey (Author), S. A. Lear (Author)
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- Visceral adipose tissue, Cardiorespiratory fitness, South Asian, Maximal oxygen consumption, Postmenopausal, women
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- In South Asians, a unique obesity phenotype of high abdominal fat is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with abdominal fat and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether CRF as...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.17656256820796, -122.82149640703125
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- Noemi Gal-Or (author)
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- state-sponsored terrorism, terrorism, war, diplomacy, foreign policy
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Mike Larsen (Author)
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- Bill C-51, anti-terrorism, access to information, freedom of information, privacy, Canadian Institute for Information and Privacy Studies
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- Pre-publication text of an address delivered at the 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Information and Privacy Studies. The author reflects on the implications of the passage of the C-51 omnibus anti-terrorism bill, with reference to information and privacy issues. The...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.2827291, -123.12073750000002
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- Katie Warfield (Author)
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- selfies, photography, social media, self-portraiture, phenomenological subjectivity
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- The contemporary and rising trend of the “selfie,” or self-portrait shared online through social media, has rarely been studied. When addressed, selfies by young women are criticized by mass media as acts of narcissism and self-absorption. Selfies, and the social critique of selfies, however, can...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.183333, -122.85000000000002
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- Stephen Peplow (Author)
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- faculty, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, offers of place, predictive model, recruiting, students
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- Institutions such as Universities spend considerable resources in recruiting and following up on applicants. Unfortunately, much wastage results from the sending out of follow-up letters to students who never arrive, and who perhaps had applied only as a form of insurance; and also in hiring...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.1329884, -122.87128530000001
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- Sam Migliore (author), Margaret Dorazio-Migliore (author)
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- Italian Canadians, immigrants, Canada
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Jillian Lang (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2017
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Natalie (Tally) Wade (author), Alice Macpherson (author)
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- call taking, short course, call centres, telephone etiquette, communication, business communication
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- The Call Processing Basics for Everyone text outlines the knowledge and skill needed by call takers in call centres, and provides practical strategies for call processing in many different environments. This short guide describes the characteristics of an effective call taker, communication model...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.1016121, -122.72071240000002
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- Olena Orlova (Author), Daniel Friedlander (Author), Shelby Baertl (Author), Jordyn Steeves (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-07-29
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- Negatively-valenced emotional expressions (NVEE) are identified by the use of extreme language, emoticons, bold lettering, capitalization, and exclamation marks. When used in online review forums, NVEE are indicative of the severity of negative reviews, which may be perceived as less valid than...
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- info:fedora/kora:studentwork
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- Levente L Orbán (Author), Sylvain Chartier (Author)
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- information processing, neural networks, decision making, flowers, vision, visual signals, grayscale, cognition
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- Untrained, “flower-naïve” bumblebees display behavioural preferences when presented with visual properties such as colour, symmetry, spatial frequency and others. Two unsupervised neural networks were implemented to understand the extent to which these models capture elements of bumblebees’...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.1329884, -122.87128530000001
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- Adam Vincent (Author)
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- Literary metissage, hybrid text, teaching writing, literacy, arts-based, poetry, autoethnography, discourse studies
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- As a mode of academic discourse, poetry offers pathways that lead to new and diverse ways of understanding. However, in my experiences as a learner and as an Instructional Associate at the Learning Centre at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), I have found that poetry is not being utilized to...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.2827291, -123.12073750000002
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- Levente L Orbán (Author), Catherine M. S. Plowright (Author)
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- visual recognition, bumblebees, honeybees, innate, unlearned behaviour, flower-naive
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Pallavi Nair (Author), Mary Langhorst (Author), Caitlin Van Kesteren (Author), Dennis Wang (Author), Emma Silversides (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-07-29
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- Research regarding biases against the transgender community is growing in the field of psychology, with one of the focal points being attraction. This study was conducted to determine if individuals are perceived as less attractive when identified as transgender, rather than cisgender. A between...
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- info:fedora/kora:studentwork
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- Päivi Koskinen (author), Solveiga Armoskaite (author)
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- Finnish language, suffixes, diminutive modifiers
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Solveiga Armoskaite (author), Päivi Koskinen (author)
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- serial verb construction, Finnish, syntax
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- Jason Brown (author), Päivi Koskinen (author)
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- Finnish, voicing, stops, consonant inventory
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- There is a common crosslinguistic claim about stop inventories, that if a language has a velar voiced stop, it also has coronal and a labial; that if a language has a voiced coronal stop, it also has a labial, etc. Thus, an unexpected inventory would contain only a voiced coronal and/or dorsal...
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- Noemi Gal-Or (author)
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- religion, inter-faith relations, education
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- This paper is conceived from a secular2 perspective, and designed to address three elements identified in the call for papers: “Pluralistic tendencies”, their counter-part of “exclusivist attitudes”, and “creating an ethos of inter-religious harmony”. I choose to tackle these aspects by (a)...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications