University of Winnipeg: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Guest Editorial [Cultivating Community-based Food Security: Local Practices, Regional choices and Global perspectives]
(2014)"Indigenous food sovereignty has recently registered its presence in support of food as a metaphor for Indigenous self-determination and reclamation of cultural identify for Indigenous communities from Canada.... The food ... -
Expelling Misconceptions: Astrologers at Rome
(Classical Philology / University of Chicago Press, 2011)"The views ... that the science of astrology swept the Roman world to win the devotion of the Roman people and the Roman emperors, that emperors consequently loved and feared astrology -- have become standard in scholarly ... -
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 ... -
Indigenous Food Systems: A Viable Alternative to Food Security; A Case Study of the Irigwe Indigenous People of Kwall, in Bassa Local Government Area of Nigeria
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2016-08)Despite the central role that Indigenous foods can potentially play in meeting people’s food security needs in Nigeria, it has continually been ignored by Government and policy makers. With 65% of Nigerian’s considered ... -
Prolegomena To An Anglican Discussion of Authority: The Role of History on The Current Crisis
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2016-07)Authority is problematic. It is problematic in theory, and it is problematic in practice. According to the Lutheran theologian Günther Gassmann, "The issue of authority has been a perennial problem in the framework of ... -
Forestry and Kaiñgining in the Philippines: A Selected Bibliography
(1980)An annotated bibliography on forests and forestry in the Philippines. Table of contents: 1. Aforestation - Reforestation; 2. Deforestation; 3. Forest Laws/Agencies; 4. Vegetation Cover of R.P.; 5. Parang - Fallow; 6. ... -
Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2015-09-13)Since 2000 there has been a surge of scholarly and popular publishing supporting the proposition that the name “Shake-Speare” was a pseudonym disguising a nobleman named Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, while the ... -
A bibliography of ethnobotanical usage among cultures of Algonkian type
(The University of Winnipeg Press, 1968-01)The present bibliography of published materials attempts to convey the available data on Native North American cultures of Algonkian type. The search was supported by the Northern Studies Committee of the University of ... -
A checklist of pamphlets by Mathieu de Morgues and his polemical associates in the Newberry Library
(1982-12)Almost one hundred pamphlets were written against Cardinal Richelieu by Mathieu de Morgues and three individuals to whom I refer in this context as his polemical associates. Marie de Medici, Gaston d'Orléans, and Jacques ... -
Urban housing cooperatives: experiments in participation
(1982-08)The problem of housing in urban industrial societies has become a matter of great concern for planners and urban dwellers. The land values, cost of construction, mortgage rates, home ownership and rental costs have been, ... -
Where's Downtown? Varying Geographic Definitions of Winnipeg's Downtown and Inner City, 1947-2004
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-07-27)This series of maps was created to provide a basic overview of how downtown Winnipeg has been defined over time and by different organizations. These definitions of downtown were downloaded from the Manitoba Land Initiative ... -
The Spurious Articles In Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography -- Some New Discoveries and Considerations
(Biography / University of Hawaii Press, 1993)Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, published in six volumes between 1887 and 1889, is one of the most comprehensive biographical dictionaries for the New World ever published. Unfortunately, some contributor was ... -
A Characterization of Wilson-Lerch Primes
(Integers, 2016-07)This note presents criteria in terms of Bernoulli numbers for a prime to be simultaneously a Wilson prime and a Lerch prime. -
Legendre Moments Explorations via Image Reconstruction
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2016-06-29)Legendre Moment has been applied in image reconstruction since early years. In this research, a numerical integration method is proposed to improve the computational accuracy of Legendre moments. To clarify the improved ... -
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 ... -
Using Behaviour to Understand Conservation and Management Strategies for Threatened Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus)
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2014-11)Captive assurance populations can help preserve populations in the face of rapid declines that cannot be mitigated in the wild. Individual behavioural tendencies or personality may affect how easily different individuals ... -
Re-activation of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-K in Neuroinflammatory Disease
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2015-07)A new appreciation of the microbiome is changing the way we perceive human health and disease. The holobiontic nature of humans is even etched into our DNA in the form of viral symbionts. Empirical evidence for the presence ... -
Confronting the Illusion: Developing a Method to Identify Food Mirages and Food Deserts in Winnipeg
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-06)This In-Brief develops a new method to identify both food deserts and food mirages to broaden the understanding of barriers individuals face in accessing food. We find that while food deserts exist in Winnipeg, food mirages ... -
Innovative strategies for the renewal of older neighbourhoods
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1977)