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Investigating the Social Capital and Capacity of Older Adults in Rural Manitoba
(2008-01-01)
The report is composed of a review of the literature as well as key findings and
recommendations illustrating how seniors are contributing to their communities, the
factors that affect their involvement and the barriers ...
Neighbourhoods Alive!: Community Outcomes Final Report
(2005-11-01)
The following evaluation of the Neighbourhoods Alive! strategy was undertaken in 2005. Neighbourhood outcomes—or present conditions in Neighbourhoods Alive!
neighbourhoods as expressed in both quantitative and qualitative ...
Local knowledge in community-based approaches to medicinal plant conservation: lessons from India
(2006-04-07)
Community-based approaches to conservation of natural resources, in particular medicinal plants, have attracted attention of governments, non governmental organizations and international funding agencies. This paper ...
Excitable speech: Judith Butler, Mae West and sexual innuendo
(Springer, 2001-04)
Working with Judith Butler's Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, this essay pursues a series of questions on the performativity of speech acts, using sexual innuendo as an example. As performed by the provocative ...
Locating the Franciscans within the Cities of Thirteenth Century Northern Italy Using the Chronicles of Salimbene de Adam
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2007)
In 1210, a young man later to be canonized as St. Francis went to Pope Innocent III and obtained permission to form a new religious order that was radically different from any order that had gone before. In the beginning ...
Putting the spirit of giving in context
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009)
Picture This: Hudson's Bay Company Calendar Images and their Documentary Legacy, 1913-1970
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2000-12)
Between 1913 and 1970, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) produced an annual calendar which it distributed free of charge through its department stores, fur trade posts, and various administrative offices. While quantities ...
Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants
(EDP Sciences, 2006)
We consider the position and number of occurrences of squares in the Thue-Morse sequence, and show that the corresponding sequences are 2-regular. We also prove that changing any finite but nonzero number of bits in the ...
The influence of dissolved oxygen on winter habitat selection by largemouth bass: an integration of field biotelemetry studies and laboratory experiments
(University of Chicago Press, 2009-01-20)
In this study, field biotelemetry and laboratory physiology approaches were coupled to allow understanding of the behavioral and physiological responses of fish to winter hypoxia. The biotelemetry study compared dissolved ...