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Overlap-Free Words and Generalizations
(University of Winnipeg, 2007)
The study of combinatorics on words dates back at least to the beginning of the
20th century and the work of Axel Thue. Thue was the first to give an example of an infinite word over a three letter alphabet that contains ...
It takes all day to be poor: The State of the Inner City Report 2009
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009-12-09)
Remembering the Air India disaster: Memorial and counter-memorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-04-20)
To Make Good Canadians: Girl Guiding in Indian Residential Schools
(University of Winnipeg, 2002-05)
Between 1910 and 1970, the Guide movement became active and, indeed, prolific in Indian residential, day, and hostel schools, sanatoriums, reserves and Northern communities throughout Canada. In these contexts, Guiding ...
Los cultivos transgénicos en el contexto latinoamericano
(Revista Pensamiento Jurídico, 2007)
La expansión de organismos modificados genéticamente (OMG) plantea retos para la conservación y apropiación del patrimonio biológico, genético y cultural de Latinoamerica. De un lado, las multinacionales buscan incrementar ...
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 ...
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 ...
Screening Modernity: Cinema and Sexuality in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees
(University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 2002)
In Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald writes early twentieth-century Cape Breton and New York through attention to the popular culture of the era, particularly in aspects of the visual, including paintings, photographs, ...
Putting the spirit of giving in context
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009)
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 ...
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 ...
Cornelis De Potter revisited
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2000)
The Mobility Needs and Transportation Issues of the Aging Population in Rural Manitoba
(2006-01-01)
The present investigation represents a preliminary analysis of the mobility issues
encountered by the aging population of rural Manitoba. It has provided an opportunity to
evaluate an issue that, although recognized as ...
Inner-City Refugee Women: Stories of Hope and Survival, Lessons for Public Policy
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
Avoiding Patterns in the Abelian Sense
(Canadian Mathematical Society, 2001-08)
We classify all 3 letter patterns that are avoidable in the abelian sense. A short list of four letter patterns for which abelian avoidance is undecided is given. Using a generalization of Zimin words we deduce some ...
Housing
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)