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Perceptual image analysis
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2010)
The problem considered in this paper is one of extracting perceptually relevant information from groups of objects based on their descriptions. Object descriptions are qualitatively represented by feature-value vectors ...
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 ...
Aboriginal Capacity Building Achievements for Sustainable Natural Resource Development
(Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research, University of Winnipeg, 2016)
This knowledge synthesis report provides the first bibliometric profile and systemic review of research on Aboriginal capacity building for natural resource development in Canada.
About the Divide: It's Complicated.
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2014)
The Aveline's Hole 9 Cranium: A Partial Solution to a Long Standing Enigma
(University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 2012)
Aveline's Hole is both one of the best-known sites with early human skeletal material in Britain and one of the most problematic in its history. First discovered and explored at the close of the 18th century, it yielded ...
Sowing Hatred or Producing Prosperity: Agriculture and Believers in Post-World War II Communist Siberia
(Chair in Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2017)
Focus Canada 2011 Teaser
(2013-06-25)
"We are the land, and the land is us": Connecting Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change in the Canadian Prairies.
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-12-11)
Owing to years of Indigenous lobbying, organizing, and scholarship, recent decades have
seen growing engagement with Indigenous peoples and their knowledges in environmental
management, policy-making, and research around ...
Community Distress Towards a National Measure
(Policy Research and Coordination Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2008-01)
This report developed and tested a proposed Canadian Distress Index (CDI) model capable of exploring distress across and within Canadian cities. The proposed index is discussed in terms of its ability to inform policy ...
Making employment work: Connecting multi-barriered Manitobans to good jobs
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), 2012)