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Mennonites, Children and Communion
(University of Winnipeg, 2007-08)
This research thesis on Mennonites, Children and Communion has been authored by one who is deeply rooted in the tradition, faith and life, and practical theology of the North American Mennonite community. The research ...
Class Struggle and Displacement: Slavoj Žižek and Film Theory
(Cultural Politics, 2009)
In the following,largue against cognitivist film scholars, such as David Bordwell and Noel Carroll, for the relevance of Slavoj Žižek in the field of film criticism and theory. I argue that Žižek's work presents a wholly ...
Immigrant and Refugee Serving Organizations in a Canadian City: An Exploratory Study
(Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, 2006)
Government-initiated immigrant and refugee-related programs seem to have encountered problems that are, at least in part, due to a lack of research on the critical functions of immigrant and refugee serving non-governmental ...
Traces [Editorial]
(Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, 2009)
Communism and Labor Unions: The Changing Perspectives of Mennonites in Canada and the United States
(2009)
Mennonite political theology, at least as manifested by church pronouncements on communism and labor unions, has been both more and less progressive than the ideology of the broader North American society. When the United ...
Algunas lecciones sobre el acceso a recursos genéticos en Colombia: Dos estudios de caso. / Some lessons about Access to Genetic Resources in Colombia. Two case studies.
(Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2009)
En Colombia el acceso a los recursos genéticos (ARG) con fines científicos o de aplicación comercial está regulado por la Decisión 391/96 de la Comunidad Andina de
Naciones y sus normas reglamentarias. Durante los primeros ...
An Energy-Based Body Temperature Threshold between Torpor and Normothermia for Small Mammals
(The University of Chicago, 2007-09-05)
Field studies of use of torpor by heterothermic endotherms suffer from the lack of a standardized threshold differentiating torpid body temperatures (T_b) from normothermic T_b's. This threshold can be more readily observed ...
The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent
(Annals of Genealogical Research, 2006)
Jerome B. Holgate, in his American Genealogy (fictitiously dated 1848), derives the Rapalje family from an alleged Gaspard Colet de Rapalje "born in France, at Châtillon, sur Loire, in 1505." We suggest that this personage ...
Print, Text, Community: A Study of Communication in the Zionsbote, a Mennonite Weekly, Between 1884 and 1906
(University of Winnipeg, 2001-03)
This thesis analyzes the Zionsbote, a weekly religious periodical serving Mennonite Brethren in America and Russia, as communication. The parts of the communication transaction (producer, receiver, medium, context, and ...
Sliding Down Inclines with Fixed Descent Time: a Converse to Galileo's Law of Chords
(Canadian Mathematical Society, 2008-12)
Diaspores and related hydroxides' Spectral-compositional properties and implications for Mars
(Journal of Geophysical Research, 2000-03-25)
Differences in spectral reflectance properties (0.3-26 μm) of a suite of metal hydroxides (gibbsite, böhmite, diaspore, goethite, and manganite) have been found to be a function of both structural and compositional differences ...
The Downtown Workers Survey 2008
(2009-01-01)
This report outlines the habits and perceptions of downtown workers. It's aim is to assist current downtown businesses to grow and better market themselves, while also attracting new businesses opportunities to the downtown.
An Action Plan for Seniors Transportation in Manitoba: Strategic Priorities
(2008-01-01)
There is growing recognition in Manitoba that the transportation options available to older
adults are a crucial factor in aging successfully. Throughout the last decade there have
been a range of community efforts to ...
"For any who have the Power": John Milton's the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) and the ideology of oligarchic republicanism in the English Revolution
(University of Winnipeg, 2002-03)
John Milton's political philosophy, and its relation to the events and ideologies of the English Revolution (1640-1660), is the subject of fierce debate among literary scholars and students of political thought. In 1977 ...
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 ...
Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck, ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2009)
Enabling Policy Environments for Co-operative Development: A Comparative Experience
(2008)
This research project will identify effective tax policy models and strategies of policy advancement for the co-operative sector. The project will draw on a comparative analysis of tax models from Spain (Mondragon Co-op) ...
Teaching Canadian Children’s Literature: Learning to Know More
(Canadian Children’s Literature, 2000)
Dans cet article, les auteurs examinent les problèmes reliés à l'enseignement de la littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse au niveau universitaire. Or cette production littéraire est-elle avant tout de la littérature ...
Pyroxene reflectance spectra: Minor absorption bands and effects of elemental substitutions
(Journal of Geophysical Research, 2002-06-13)
Reflectance spectra of a suite of compositionally diverse pyroxenes exhibit variable spectral properties which are associated with various elemental substitutions. Those associated with transition series elements, such as ...
Urban Gardening: Cultivating More Than Just Produce
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2006-01-01)
The two sustainable development goals of high-density development and urban gardening have conflicted with each other in recent decades. When land is available, particularly in the inner-city, a choice must often be made ...