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Appetizing loss: Anorexia as an experiment in living
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-21)
This paper turns upside-down the commonly held assumption that anorexia nervosa is inherently destructive or counter-productive. The author delves beneath the façade of anorexia’s main symptom, self-starvation, to explore ...
Income
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
For each a > 2 there is an Infinite Binary Word with Critical Exponent a
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2008-08-31)
The critical exponent of an infinite word w is the supremum of all rational numbers α such that w contains an α-power. We resolve an open question of Krieger and Shallit by showing that for each α>2 there is an infinite ...
Downtown Winnipeg Pedestrian Intercept Study
(2005-01-01)
This report presents the results of a survey of pedestrians in downtown Winnipeg
undertaken by the Winnipeg Downtown Biz in March / April 2005. The purpose of the
survey was to develop a demographic and socio-economic ...
Report on the proceedings of the Housing Forum 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba November 19 and 20, 2001
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2002)
On November 19 and 20, approximately 120 people from various backgrounds came together to discuss important issues related to the inner city housing stock. The government, third and private sectors were all represented at ...
Long-term effects of surgically implanted telemetry tags on the nutritional physiology and condition of wild freshwater fish
(Inter-Research, 2009-03-09)
Little is known about the long-term consequences of surgically implanted telemetry
devices on wild fish, as they are rarely recaptured. We used wild largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides as a model to evaluate the long-term ...
The Rooming Houses of Furby Street
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2008)
This magazine is part of a much larger historical study, Living on Furby, Narratives ofHome. The larger study is a detailed history of one block of Furby, between Portage and Broadway, from its beginnings to the present ...
Poverty and Social Exclusion
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2008)
Sustainable Churchill Discussion Paper
(2009-08-24)
This Discussion Paper introduces the Sustainable Churchill initiative between the Town of Churchill and the University of Winnipeg. It provides an overview of major concepts, including what is meant by community sustainability, ...