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Governance in Local Partnerships to Address Homelessness
(2003-02-04)
Organizations working to address the needs of the homeless are under tremendous
pressure to serve an increasing number of people with diverse needs. They are also
struggling with limited resources and find themselves ...
Learning from community forestry experience: Challenges and lessons from British Columbia
(The Forestry Chronicle, 2009)
A multiple case study approach is used to investigate community forest implementation challenges in British Columbia, Canada. Stakeholder interviews, document review and visits to the case sites (Denman Island, Malcolm ...
Spectroscopic Imaging in Art Conservation: A New Tool for Materials Investigations
(The MIT Press, 2003-08-01)
Untitled
(University of Winnipeg, 2008-09)
Self-Complementary Hypergraphs
(University of Ottawa, 2009)
In this thesis, we survey the current research into self-complementary hypergraphs,
and present several new results.
We characterize the cycle type of the permutations on n elements with order equal
to a power of 2 which ...
IMTB Database Survey Final Report
(2001-02-15)
This survey was undertaken to assess the computer capacity and current data collecting practices of Service Provider Organisations offering LINC, ISAP, HOST and RAP services in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
The data collected ...
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 ...
Work Mistreatment and Hospital Administrative Staff: Policy Implications for Healthier Workplaces
(2008-08)
Research on work life quality in hospitals has focused on how nurses and physicians perceive or react to work conditions. We extend this focus to another major professional group – healthcare administrators – to learn more ...
Appetizing loss: Anorexia as an experiment in living
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-21)
This paper turns upside-down the commonly held assumption that anorexia nervosa is inherently destructive or counter-productive. The author delves beneath the façade of anorexia’s main symptom, self-starvation, to explore ...
For each a > 2 there is an Infinite Binary Word with Critical Exponent a
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2008-08-31)
The critical exponent of an infinite word w is the supremum of all rational numbers α such that w contains an α-power. We resolve an open question of Krieger and Shallit by showing that for each α>2 there is an infinite ...
Income
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
Downtown Winnipeg Pedestrian Intercept Study
(2005-01-01)
This report presents the results of a survey of pedestrians in downtown Winnipeg
undertaken by the Winnipeg Downtown Biz in March / April 2005. The purpose of the
survey was to develop a demographic and socio-economic ...
Report on the proceedings of the Housing Forum 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba November 19 and 20, 2001
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2002)
On November 19 and 20, approximately 120 people from various backgrounds came together to discuss important issues related to the inner city housing stock. The government, third and private sectors were all represented at ...
Factors affecting inner-city boys' reading: Are male teachers the answer?
(Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2005)
Eighteen inner-city first and second grade boys participated in a pilot study on
the effect of sex of reading teacher on boys' attitudes toward and performance
in reading. Each boy participated with either male or female ...
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 ...
Exploring Housing-Induced Poverty among Middle-Income Canadian Households
(2007-11-01)
This report began by exploring the concept of working poverty. It was determined at the
outset that while much work had been done on the traditional working poor – that is those
low earning “working households” – little ...
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 ...
Work in Mennonite Theological Perspective
(Canadian Society of Church History, 2004)
The Representation of Home in Canadian Children’s Literature/La représentation du chez-soi dans la littérature de jeunesse canadienne
(Canadian Children’s Literature, 2001)
Les auteurs du présent article soutiennent que l'étude du «chez-soi» dans les romans pour la jeunesse permet d'accéder aux valeurs socioculturelles fondamentales que ceux-ci véhiculent. L'analyse porte tout particulièrement ...