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Tracking Poverty in Winnipeg’s Inner City, 1996–2006.
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009)
Housing in the East Interlake: A Regional Perspective
(2009-01-01)
In the fall of 2008, the Institute of Urban Studies was approached by Community
Futures East Interlake to complete a report concerning housing issues in the East
Interlake region. The purpose of the report was to examine ...
Dejean's conjecture holds for n ≥ 27
(EDP Sciences, 2009)
We show that Dejean’s conjecture holds for n ≥ 27. This brings the final resolution of the conjecture by the approach of Moulin Ollagnier within range of the computationally feasible.
Distribution of hydrated minerals in the north polar region of Mars
(Journal of Geophysical Research, 2009-01-28)
The previous discovery of extensive deposits of hydrated minerals in Olympia Planum in the north polar region of Mars by the Mars Express OMEGA instrument raises important questions about the origin and subsequent ...
Cities within Cities II
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009-08-27)
Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009)
This paper reflects on how the relationship between embodiment and agency might be illuminated through developments in psychoanalytic theory on racialization and racism. A recent interdisciplinary study by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
Rethinking Environmental Management: Revisiting Bryant and Wilson ten years later
(Environments: a journal of interdisciplinary studies/revue d’études interdisciplinaires, 2009)
Cities within Cities
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2009-08-11)
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.
Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck, ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 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 ...
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 ...
Enhancing and Linking Ethnocultural Organizations and Communities in Rural Manitoba: A Focus on Brandon and Steinbach
(2009)
Developing strong, resourceful ethnocultural organizations that can meet newcomers and members’ needs impacts the successful settlement and retention of immigrants in communities. Ethnocultural organizations must be ...
Subalternity and Language: Overcoming the Fragmentation of Common Sense
(Historical Materialism (Brill), 2009)
The topics of language and subaltern social groups appear throughout Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. Although Gramsci often associates the problem of political fragmentation among subaltern groups with issues concerning ...
Least Periods of Factors of Infinite Words
(EDP Sciences, 2009)
We show that any positive integer is the least period of a factor of the Thue-Morse word. We also characterize the set of least periods of factors of a Sturmian word. In particular, the corresponding set for the Fibonacci ...
Portage la Prairie Social Planning Initiative: Phase One Report
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2009-08-01)
The Institute of Urban Studies (IUS), in partnership with the Portage Community Network (PCN), undertook a public engagement process to produce a social planning framework for the city of Portage la Prairie. This report ...
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 ...
Could localized warm areas inside cold caves reduce mortality of hibernating bats affected by white-nose syndrome?
(2009-03-05)
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a mysterious condition affecting populations of hibernating bats in the northeastern US. Little is known about its physiological effects on bats and no intervention has so far been proposed to ...
On Collaboration and Knowledge [Editorial]
(Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2009)
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, ...