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Subsidizing Professional Sports Teams and Building New Facilities: Flagship Projects for Urban Renewal or Corporate Welfare?
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-10-15)The issue of taxpayer support of professional sports teams and for building new downtown facilities is a contentious one. Proponents argue this practice is beneficial to the community in terms of municipal revenue, economic ... -
Success stories and emerging themes in conservation physiology
(Oxford University Press and the Society for Experimental Biology, 2016)The potential benefits of physiology for conservation are well established and include greater specificity of management techniques, determination of cause–effect relationships, increased sensitivity of health and disturbance ... -
Suffix conjugates for a class of morphic subshifts
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-09)Let A be a finite alphabet and f: A^* --> A^* be a morphism with an iterative fixed point f^\omega(\alpha), where \alpha{} is in A. Consider the subshift (X, T), where X is the shift orbit closure of f^\omega(\alpha) and ... -
Summer storms trigger soil N₂O efflux episodes in forested catchments
(American Geophysical Union, 2016-01-14)Climate change and climate-driven feedbacks on catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry have the potential to alter the aquatic versus atmospheric fate of nitrogen (N) in forests. This study investigated the hypothesis that ... -
Supermarket Redlining and Food Deserts: Characterizing Food Insecurity and Urban Decline
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-10-10)In recent decades, the act of supermarkets abandoning and disinvesting in inner city locations has resulted in increasing food insecurity and urban decline for residents. These so-called ‘food deserts’, occurring in ... -
Supporting Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016)Presentation on Supporting Successful Tenancies: Promising Practices for the Hard to House -
Supporting Teachers in Times of Change: The Job Demands- Resources Model and Teacher Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(RedFame, 2020-10)Burnout in teachers has been broadly investigated, but no studies have investigated burnout in teachers during a pandemic. The current study is based on a survey of 1278 Canadian teachers and examined whether the Job ... -
Surface albedo and spectral variability of Ceres
(The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016-01-29)Previous observations suggested that Ceres has active, but possibly sporadic, water outgassing as well as possibly varying spectral characteristics over a timescale of months. We used all available data of Ceres collected ... -
A survey of the role of environmental advisory groups in local eco decision-making
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Surveys and Other Methods in Action Research
(2022-02-02)This session presented by Dr. Jerry Buckland focused on providing insight into how to conduct action-oriented research (ARM) and surveys. It looked at how ARM is an approach to research that seeks to inform effective action. ... -
A Survivor’s Narrative of Institutional Harms Experienced in Manitoba Developmental Centre and Prisons in Canada
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2023-08-17)This thesis is a case study that looks at the life story of a Black man, Dwight, who had been institutionalized at the Manitoba Developmental Centre (MDC) at the age of eleven in 1967 for three years. Dwight alleges that ... -
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, ... -
Sustainable Churchill Interim Report
(2005-06-01)This Interim Report reports on a series of public consultations with residents in the community of Churchill as a part of the Sustainable Churchill initiative, which is a partnership between the Town of Churchill and the ... -
Sustainable cities : supplements 1-8 to the Institute of Urban Studies newsletter
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Sustainable development and the rural-urban fringe : a review of the literature
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1993-01-01)Sustainable development is a concept which has captured the imagination of scholars, practitioners, and politicians at all geographical scales. While Dykeman (1990a, p. 3) suggests that the sustainable development concept ... -
Sustainable Financing for the Social Economy, Phases 1 and 2
(2008-01-01)This 2 phase project intends to assist organizations involved in financing social enterprises to develop and deliver financial products and services that meet the various long- and short-term financing needs of this client group. -
Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health: It’s time to get it right
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Sustainable subdivision planning and design : analysis, literature review and annotated bibliography
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Sustainable uses of urban open space : a guide to the literature
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1993-01-01)The first paper is a review of the secondary literature that has been published on various subject areas related to the field of urban green space planning. In accordance with the mandate of this series-to give an overview ...
