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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): 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): 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): Kenneth Reilly
Date issued: 2017
Description: In the fall and winter of 1908, the Canadian Government developed the British Honduras Scheme, a plan to transport all South Asian immigrants from British Columbia to British Honduras. To justify this relocation, the Canadian Government argued that British Honduras needed cheap labour to maintain sugar plantations, railroads and that these immigrants could not survive in Canada because they faced unemployment, starvation, and they were not suited for harsh winters. This attempt was well received by many white Canadians of British descent. Many agreed that this transportation would benefit the South Asian community and white Canadians. Analyzing this scheme in the context of the way...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Undergraduate Student Research

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): Heather Kanuka; Erika E. Smith
Date issued: 2019
Description: The purpose of this research was to gain a broader understanding of what department heads and doctoral students believe to be the value of credentialed teaching certificates. Using a survey methodology with participants (N= 450), the study focused on the extent to which a credentialed teaching certificate provides a competitive advantage when seeking employment, as well as the content (pedagogical knowledge) that is perceived to be important for such programmes. Using a cross-sectional survey design, results highlight significant differences between doctoral students and department heads regarding the content and value of a credentialed teaching certificate in higher education.
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Teaching and Learning

Contributor(s): Brian Jackson
Date issued: 2015
Description: University rankings play an increasingly large role in shaping the goals of academicinstitutions and departments, while removing universities themselves from the evaluation process. This study compares the library-related results of two university ranking publications with scores on the LibQUAL+™ survey to identify if library service quality—as measured within the LibQUAL+™ dimensions affect of service, information control, and library as place—is related to the standings. The results suggest that some indicators used to rank universities favor libraries with more highly rated physical facilities, while largely ignoring the impact that other services have on library quality
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Tatiane Piucco; Ricardo Dantas de Lucas; Jonathan Ache Dias; Saray Giovana dos Santos
Date issued: 2015
Description: Objectives: This study intended to assess the test-retest reliability of an incremental test performed on a slide board (SB) and compare it with a cycling protocol to determine aerobic indexes in skaters. Design: Descriptive validity study. Method: Ten recreational inline skaters (eight male and two female) were tested. Participants performed two incremental tests on SB and a cycling incremental test. The intensity of SB test was determined by cadence, starting at 30 push-offs/min and increasing by three push-offs/min each minute, until volitional exhaustion. Maximal and submaximal (related to the heart rate deflection point; HRDP) values of oxygen uptake (VO 2 ), pulmonary ventilation ...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Erika E. Smith
Date issued: 2016
Description: This study investigates undergraduate perceptions of the social media technologies (SMTs) they use in their learning. This mixed methods inquiry employed 30 semi-structured interviews and an online survey (N = 679) to explore why and how undergraduates from across disciplines view SMTs to be a meaningful part of their university learning. Findings shed new insights into student perspectives on and uses of social media, and the variety of ways in which undergraduates intentionally choose (or, choose not) to incorporate social media into their university learning in meaningful ways. Student perceptions formed an overarching theme of social media as a double-edged sword that both informs and...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Teaching and Learning

Contributor(s): Elizabeth M. Banister; Sonya L. Jakubec; Judith A. Stein
Date issued: 2003
Description: This ethnographic study explored the health-related concerns, within dating relationships, of 40 female adolescents aged 15 and 16.The results reveal a complex interaction of male/female relational dynamics and socialization processes in these relationships.To avoid behaviours risky to their health, participants had to negotiate power relationships with partners and peers; yet, paradoxically, any increase in their power could increase the threat of violent confrontation, loss of power,and further health compromises.The girls’ desire to have a dating partner outweighed their desire to avoid health threats such as substance abuse and violence.This dynamic can be understood in terms of...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Steven Engler
Date issued: 2011
Description: This paper interrogates a particular globalizing academic move: the appropriation of Afro-Brazilian religion by the academic study of religion in North America as a paradigmatic form of cultural mixture. Specifically, I ask what difference would it make if Umbanda were the key example of Brazilian cultural hybridity, rather than Candomblé serving as a more universal example of religious syncretism. I elaborate the concept of hybridity of refraction, according to which the ritual and doctrinal spectrum of Umbandas refracts the spectrum of social tensions in Brazilian society. Referring to recent theories of globalization, I argue that Umbanda’s internal variation manifests a variety of...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

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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?

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

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

“The deportation of the Hindus from British Columbia will be a blessing to all concerned.”: Intersections of class and race in the British Honduras Scheme.

Conceptualizing and communicating SoTL : a framework for the field

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

Perceptions of the content and employability value of credentialed teaching certificates

University Rankings: How Well Do They Measure Library Service Quality?

A novel incremental slide board test for speed skaters: reliability analysis and comparisons with a cycling test

"A Real Double-Edged Sword:" Undergraduate Perceptions of Social Media in their Learning

“Like, what am I supposed to do?” Adolescent Girls’ Health Concerns in their Dating Relationships

A umbanda e a glocalização

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