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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 ...
The Winnipeg Spirit Survey: Use and Perceptions among Riders and Downtown Pedestrians
(2006-01-01)
A survey of 715 Spirit and non-spirit bus users to determine the characteristics of riders and their perceptions of the service.
The Language of Oracular Inquiry in Roman Egypt
(Phoenix / Classical Association of Canada, 2006)
The language of oracular inquiries in Roman Egypt changed from Demotic to Greek because of the insistence of the Roman authorities, not, as historians have previously supposed, because of a preference for Greek on the part ...
Inner-City Voices, Community-Based Solutions
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
Steinbach Public Transportation Study
(2006-01-01)
This document constitutes the final report for the Steinbach Transportation Project Steering
Committee (STPSC). This report includes a demographic profile of Steinbach; a literature review
dealing with many of the relevant ...
'Global English': Linguistic Imperialism or Practical Lingua Franca?
(Studies in Language and Capitalism, 2006)
Despite its obvious political significance, political theory has not played a prominent role in the debates around the spread of 'global English'. Given the explosion of literature within political science and political ...
Inner-City Refugee Women: Stories of Hope and Survival, Lessons for Public Policy
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
Housing
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
Greyhound Bus-Terminal: Analysis of Options for the Winnipeg Downtown Terminal: Final Report
(2006-01-01)
This report examines the Greyhound Bus terminal and its proximal relationship to the
University of Winnipeg and the remainder of downtown. The purpose of the report is to
focus on key issues such as zoning, urban design, ...
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 ...
Income
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2006)
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 ...
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 ...
Exploring Conservation Authority Operations in Sudbury, Northern Ontario: Constraints and opportunities
(Environments: a journal of interdisciplinary studies/revue d’études interdisciplinaires, 2006)
This research explores how the Nickel District Conservation Authority (NDCA), in Sudbury, northern Ontario was affected by provincial restructuring through a survey of budget
data and programs from the period of existing ...
Binary Words Containing Infinitely Many Overlaps
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2006-09-22)
We characterize the squares occurring in infinite overlap-free binary words and construct various α power-free binary words containing infinitely many overlaps.
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 ...
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 ...