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Contributor(s): D. Scharie Tavcer; Tanya Trussler; Keri-Ann Loutit
Date issued: 2016
Description: As well as pinpointing gaps in available literature on adult sexual assault in Alberta, this study is focused on identifying the underlying issues that lead to the discrepancies in the number of police-reported sexual assault crimes and the data retrieved from individuals who access victim support services. It is believed that the crime-funnel effect on sexual assault cases, where many cases do not end up continuing through the justice system in Alberta, is a root factor that results in victims choosing not to report the incident; Victims choose not to report the incident knowing that a large percentage of crimes do not proceed to court, do not result in convictions, or the sentences are...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Steven Engler
Date issued: 2011
Description: This paper offers a brief overview of Canadian case law since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982. At the same time that it has more firmly entrenched religious freedom, the Charter has placed explicit limits on the right of religious freedom. Canadian courts have shown themselves willing to intervene in the internal workings of religious institutions. Legal protection has been extended to include not only non-Christian religions but also non-religious beliefs more generally.The cumulative effect of these decisions has been to effectively erode the de facto separation between Church and State that has developed in Canada. The value of increased respect for...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman
Date issued: 2018
Description: A Review of: Chang, Y-W. (2017). Comparative study of characteristics of authors between open access and non-open access journals in library and information science. Library & Information Science Research, 39(1), 8-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2017.01.002 Objective – To examine the occupational characteristics and publication habits of library and information science (LIS) authors regarding traditional journals and open access journals. Design – Content analysis. Setting – English language research articles published in open access (OA) journals and non-open access (non-OA) journals from 2008 to 2013 that are indexed in LIS databases. Subjects – The authorship characteristics for...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): David J. Finch; David Deephouse; Norm O’Reilly; William Foster; Loren Falkenberg; Carola Hillenbrand; Tyler Massie; Mackenzie Strong
Date issued: 2015
Description: Business Schools in Canada — Today business schools educate one in five university students who have the primary goal to develop the business skills and knowledge to support career success. To be able to deliver on this requires business schools' faculty to have the expertise to blend theory and practice.
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Business and Communication Studies

Contributor(s): Rachelle L. Haddock; Michael S. Quinn
Date issued: 2015
Description: Management of recreational access on public forest lands is a complex issue of growing global importance. The provision of public recreation opportunities is part of the suite of ecological goods and services that must be considered by many forest managers. Effective access management is predicated on understanding the attitudes and perceptions of recreation users in order to predict and influence visitor behaviour and gauge the acceptance of new management strategies. Potential access management strategies vary given the nature of recreation activities and include: restricting the amount, type, and spatial distribution of use, visitor education, temporal restrictions and enhancing site...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Genevieve Currie; Joanna Szabo
Date issued: 2020
Description: ABSTRACT Purpose: The experiences of parents caring for the complex care needs of children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders are not well understood. Parents struggle to meet their children’s medical, behavioural, and social needs within and across health, social, and family systems. The purpose of this study was to explore the parents’ experience of caring for medical and social care needs for children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods: Hermeneutic phenomenology was used for the data analysis. Fifteen parents participated in semi-structured interviews. Results: Interpretive analysis revealed four insights: (a) difference in children’s behaviours and disease...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman
Date issued: 2009
Description: Human rights centres and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have crucial information support needs, many of which can be met by the existing and ongoing development of information technology software applications. For communication and Internet use, the psiphon program allows for secure and anonymous information exchange and distribution, including firewall circumvention. For data collection, organization, encryption, and storage, Martus software can be deployed to help protect sensitive information and identities. Based on documented projects and websites, the following research examines these emancipatory tools to determine: the technologies in use, emergent, and under development;...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young
Date issued: 2016
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Brett McCollum
Date issued: 2018
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology; Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Becker, Katrin
Date issued: 2006; 2006
Description: Article and presentation slides
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Kyler R. Rasmussen; Daniel Millar; Jeremy Trenchuk
Date issued: 2018
Description: Research suggests that pornography has the potential to inform sexual and romantic scripts, but no studies have examined the relational content within modern mainstream pornography. In this article, we present a content analysis of 190 sexually explicit online video clips from mainstream pornography streaming websites, coding for the relationship between participants (if any) and whether the video portrayed acts of infidelity. We also contrasted those clips with a comparison sample of 77 YouTube videos. We found that depictions of on-screen committed relationships were relatively rare in pornography (7.9% of videos) compared to YouTube (18.2%), but that infidelity was relatively common ...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Steven Engler
Date issued: 2003
Description: This paper evaluates claims that classical Ayurveda was scientific, in a modern western sense, and that the many religious and magical elements found in the texts were all either stale Vedic remnants or later brahminic impositions. It argues (1) that Ayurveda did not manifest standard criteria of “science” (e.g., materialism, empirical observation, experimentation, falsification, quantification, or a developed conception of proof) and (2) that Vedic aspects of the classical texts are too central to be considered inauthentic or marginal. These points suggest that attempting to apply the modern western categories of “science” and “religion” to ancient South Asian medical texts at best...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Tatiane Piucco; Julia Phillips; Jordan Finnie; Andrew Rados; Ricardo Dantas de Lucas
Date issued: 2019
Description: The aim of this study was to assess the physiological and neuromuscular responses at critical skating intensity on a slide board and to investigate the correlations between critical cadence (CC) and skating performances on ice. 13 well-trained speed skaters (19.8±4.2 years, 69.6±9.06 kg) performed a maximal skating incremental test (IT) on a slide board. CC was determined from 3 to 4 trials to exhaustion lasting from 3.1 ± 0.7 to 13.9 ± 3.1 min, using linear and hyperbolic mathematical fittings. A time to exhaustion test at CC (TTE-CC) was performed. CC values (55.3±5.0 ppm) were significantly higher than cadence at the respiratory compensation point (RCP) (53.5±4.0 ppm). Mean duration of...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Podcast and transcript together supporting the publication appearing in the Imaging SoTL journal.
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes; Business and Communication Studies; Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo
Date issued: 2015
Description: The emerging field of SoTL is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor, embracing a diverse range of research methods. It desires to be hospitable to a range of disciplinary differences in world views. However, the field lacks coherence in its conceptualization and communication. Ongoing debates in the community concern the use of theory, as well as definitional questions of what constitutes SoTL and the nature of its purpose. This article offers a framework for conceptualizing the field, which attempts to broadly delineate the available theories underlying and methodologies appropriate to studying teaching and learning, while intending to be hospitable to a broad range of diverse...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Erika E. Smith
Date issued: 2012
Description: More than a decade after Prensky’s influential articulation of digital natives and immigrants, disagreement exists around these characterizations of students and the impact of such notions within higher education. Perceptions of today’s undergraduate learners as tech-savvy “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001a), who both want and need the latest emerging technologies in all learning situations, continue to dominate the discourse in educational technology research and practice. Popular yet controversial conceptions of digital natives continue to be embedded within the assumptions of several contemporary research studies on student perceptions of emerging technologies, seemingly without regard...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Teaching and Learning

Contributor(s): Katrin Becker
Date issued: 2015
Description: Videogames are interactive by nature - people proceed in games by doing things, and this experiential quality lies at the very core of game design. Without interaction, it isn’t a game. Videogames are popular precisely because of the experience - games designed for learning can do no less. However, to be feasible for use in formal educational settings, they must do more, and while we are making progress studying games in classrooms, there remain few structured approaches to analysing games that do not include classroom testing. This paper outlines the author’s Four Pillars of Game-Based Learning (4PEG) which can be used to perform a structured analysis of both COTS and serious games to...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman; Erika E. Smith
Date issued: 2020-03
Description: Objective - To review mixed methods research trends in the field of library and information science (LIS). In particular, we examine the extent to which research about or using mixed methods has been occurring in library and information science over the past decade (2008-2018), and how much of that mixed methods research is done in health contexts. Methods - We conducted a methodological review and analysis of mixed methods research (MMR) in LIS for published articles indexed in LISTA and Web of Science. After deduplication and verification for inclusion, we coded 417 articles to identify contributions using or about MMR. Given the connections between evidence based practice in health and...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Sonya L. Jakubec; Don Carruthers Den Hoed; Ashok Krishnamurthy; Heather Ray; Michael S. Quinn
Date issued: 2016
Description: More evidence is becoming known about how natural environments impact both our physical and spiritual well-being. Little is known, however, about the place of parks and nature at end-of-life, or the impact of parks and nature on quality of life during palliative care or bereavement experiences. A 2015 study aimed to develop a better understanding of people's (including those at end-of-life, caregivers and those experiencing grief) beliefs and experiences about the connection of parks and nature at end-of-life. The study combined an initial online survey (n=118) and narrative research process, whereby a subgroup of participants (n=15) were interviewed in an open-ended story-telling...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Jennifer Hooper
Date issued: 2020-03; 2020-03
Description: Background & Purpose:The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) is a computer adaptive licensure examination that nursing students are eligible to write upon completion of their undergraduate nursing degree. Success on this exam is a requirement for Registered Nurse practice. Historically, the Canadian licensure examination was a paper-based exam. However, in 2015 the NCLEX-RN was adopted. Initially Canadian pass rates declined and nursing schools have been seeking strategies to better prepare students for this exam. Practice with computer based testing (CBT) may be one approach. However, CBT has not been widely used and many nursing programs continue with...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

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Sexual Assault in Alberta

Constitutional Secularization: Religious Pluralism and the Canadian Courts

LIS Practitioner-focused Research Trends Toward Open Access Journals, Academic-focused Research Toward Traditional Journals [Evidence Summary]

Book smarts vs street smarts : do business schools value business experience?

Recreational Access Management Planning: Understanding Perceptions Regarding Public Forest Lands in SW Alberta

Social isolation and exclusion: the parents' experience of caring for children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders

Human Rights Software: Information Support Solutions For Social Justice

Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2015-16 Annual Report

Opening up textbooks and students’ reading habits

Encouraging CS Novices to Write

Relationships and Infidelity in Pornography: An Analysis of Pornography Streaming Websites

‘Science’ vs. ‘Religion’ in Classical Ayurveda

Critical skating intensity on a slide board: physiological and neuromuscular responses and correlation with performance on ice

Power, Voice, and Positionality: An Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Team Podcasts Their Experience with a Students-as-Partners Framework

Conceptualizing and communicating SoTL : a framework for the field

The Digital Native Debate in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Literature

4PEG: A Structured Rating System for Games for Learning

Mixed methods research in library and information science: A methodological review

Nature Teaches Us to Grieve: The place of parks and nature at end of life

Undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of computer based testing

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