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A new staples industry? Complexity, governance and Canada's diamond mines
(Oxford University Press, 2007)The discovery of indicator minerals in the Slave geological province began a staking and development rush that, in a little over a decade, saw Canada becoming one of the world’s largest producers of diamonds. An examination ... -
New Uses for Old Buildings: Organic Renewal in the West Exchange District, 1975-2010
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-09-26)Since 1975, the Exchange District west of Main Street has emerged as downtown Winnipeg’s most successful and interesting neighbourhoods. Built up as a wholesale warehouse district in the late 19th and early 20th century, ... -
Newsletter, No. 28 (August 1989)
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Nitrogen and phosphorus loads to temperate seepage lakes associated with allochthonous dissolved organic carbon loads
(American Geophysical Union, 2018-06-16)Terrestrial loads of dissolved organic matter (DOM) have increased in recent years in many north temperate lakes. While much of the focus on the “browning” phenomena has been on its consequences for carbon cycling, much ... -
Nitrogen dynamics and nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry in cold region agricultural streams
(Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, 2021-05-12)Cold agricultural regions are getting warmer and experiencing shifts in precipitation patterns, which affect hydrological transport of nutrients through reduced snowpack and higher annual proportions of summer rainfall. ... -
‘‘No place like home’’: the facts and figures of homelessness in contemporary texts for young people
(2013)The most common story for children is one in which a central character leaves home in search of an adventure or is pushed out of an originary home, journeys to an unfamiliar place, and, after a series of exciting and/or ... -
Non repetitive walks in graphs and digraphs
(The University of CalgaryUniversity of Calgary, 1987-06)A word $w$ over alphabet $\Sigma$ is {\em non-repetitive} if we cannot write $w=abbc$, $a,b,c\in\Sigma^*$, $b\ne\epsilon$. That is, no subword of $w$ appears twice in a row in $w$. In 1906, Axel Thue, the Norwegian number ... -
Non-Repetitive Tilings
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2002-07-03)In 1906 Axel Thue showed how to construct an infinite non-repetitive (or square-free) word on an alphabet of size 3. Since then this result has been rediscovered many times and extended in many ways. We present a two-dimensional ... -
Northern housing : needs, policies and programs
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1987) -
Northern housing : perspectives on design and construction
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Not of African Descent: Dental Modification among Indigenous Caribbean People from Canímar Abajo, Cuba
(PLoS, 2016-04-12)Dental modifications in the Caribbean are considered to be an African practice introduced to the Caribbean archipelago by the influx of enslaved Africans during colonial times. Skeletal remains which exhibited dental ... -
A Note on Antichains of Words
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 1995-10-14)We can compress the word 'banana' as xyyz, where x= 'b', y= 'an',z= 'a'. We say that 'banana' encounters yy. Thus a 'coded' version of yy shows up in 'banana'. The relation 'u encounters w' is transitive, and thus generates ... -
Notes on the Nevius Family
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Notes on urban planning and railroads, railway conference
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1976) -
The number of order–preserving maps of fences and crowns
(Springer, 1991-06)We perform an exact enumeration of the order-preserving maps of fences (zig-zags) and crowns (cycles). From this we derive asymptotic results. -
The Number of Ternary Words Avoiding Abelian Cubes Grows Exponentially
(2004-06-19)We show that the number of ternary words of length n avoiding abelian cubes grows faster than r^n, where r = 2^{1/24} -
Nursing Resources in Manitoba 1995 A Description of the Current Situation and Consequent Policy Implications
(University of Manitoba & University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 1995-08)The purpose of this study is to describe the nursing resources available in Manitoba as of April, 1995 and to delineate possible policy initiatives based on the collected data. After years of inattention and neglect, the ... -
Observer-Rated Housing Quality Scale (OHQS)
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2015-12-03)In partnership with the West Broadway Community Organization, the Institute of Urban Studies is proud to launch the Observer-Rated Housing Quality Scale (OHQS) - Rooming house and Single Room Occupancy Hotel Edition. This ... -
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing
(The University of Chicago Press, 1981-01-01)