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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Nations Educational Success: Assessing Determinants Using A Social Context Lens, Nicholas Spence, Jerry P. White Jan 2009

First Nations Educational Success: Assessing Determinants Using A Social Context Lens, Nicholas Spence, Jerry P. White

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


A New Approach To Understanding Aboriginal Educational Outcomes: The Role Of Social Capital, Jerry P. White, Nicholas Spence, Paul Maxim Jan 2009

A New Approach To Understanding Aboriginal Educational Outcomes: The Role Of Social Capital, Jerry P. White, Nicholas Spence, Paul Maxim

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Aboriginal Youth, Education, And Labour Market Outcomes, Jeremy Hull Jan 2009

Aboriginal Youth, Education, And Labour Market Outcomes, Jeremy Hull

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Some Estimates Of Private And Social Benefits Of Improving Educational Attainment Among Registered Indian Youth And Young Adults, Stewart Clatworthy Jan 2009

Some Estimates Of Private And Social Benefits Of Improving Educational Attainment Among Registered Indian Youth And Young Adults, Stewart Clatworthy

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Breaking The Gridlock In Aboriginal Education, Jerry Paquette, Gerald Fallon, J. Marshall Mangan Jan 2009

Breaking The Gridlock In Aboriginal Education, Jerry Paquette, Gerald Fallon, J. Marshall Mangan

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


2009-2 The Effects Of Asset Price Changes On Economic Security In Canada, 2005-09, James B. Davies Jan 2009

2009-2 The Effects Of Asset Price Changes On Economic Security In Canada, 2005-09, James B. Davies

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2009-3 How Large Are The Impacts Of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments?, Yan Dong, John Whalley Jan 2009

2009-3 How Large Are The Impacts Of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments?, Yan Dong, John Whalley

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2009-1 The Level And Distribution Of Global Household Wealth, James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony Shorrocks, Edward N. Wolff Jan 2009

2009-1 The Level And Distribution Of Global Household Wealth, James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony Shorrocks, Edward N. Wolff

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2009-4 Level Versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments, Huifang Tian, John Whalley Jan 2009

2009-4 Level Versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments, Huifang Tian, John Whalley

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


Characteristics Of Spontaneous Musical Imagery, Mike Wammes, Imants Barušs Jan 2009

Characteristics Of Spontaneous Musical Imagery, Mike Wammes, Imants Barušs

Psychology

This study follows upon Steven Brown’s 2006 article in The Journal of Consciousness Studies about the “perpetual music track,” a form of constant musical imagery. With Brown’s assistance, a Musical Imagery Questionnaire was developed and administered to 67 participants with the intention of establishing relevant scales for quantifying the presence and extent of spontaneous musical imagery in individuals. In addition to the Musical Imagery Questionnaire, the Six Factor Personality Questionnaire, as well as the Transliminality Scale, which is a measure of openness to psychological material, was used in order to explore the correlations of spontaneous musical imagery to personality constructs. …


Speculations About The Direct Effects Of Intention On Physical Manifestation, Imants Barušs Jan 2009

Speculations About The Direct Effects Of Intention On Physical Manifestation, Imants Barušs

Psychology

A possible mechanism by which mental acts may be synchronized with physical states is postulated. It is argued that a layer of deep consciousness, similar to David Bohm’s implicate order, underlies and gives rise to both subjective, intentional consciousness and objective, physical manifestation. The influence of volition at the level of intentional consciousness can be conceptualized in the context of the Kochen-Specker theorem as the exercise of the unconstrained choice of observables, and, at the level of deep consciousness, as modulation of the activity of the creation and annihilation operators of a quantum field. The discrete nature of observations …


On The Presence Versus Absence Of Determiners In Malagasy, Ileana Paul Jan 2009

On The Presence Versus Absence Of Determiners In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

French Studies Publications

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy And Research-Intensive Graduate Students: Enhancing The Role Of Research Librarians, Marni R. Harrington Jan 2009

Information Literacy And Research-Intensive Graduate Students: Enhancing The Role Of Research Librarians, Marni R. Harrington

Western Libraries Publications

This article investigates how psychology graduate students find information for coursework and research, who teaches them how to find it, and whether differences emerge over the course of their graduate careers. Findings indicate that these graduate students are comfortable using campus libraries, prefer electronic resources, ask supervisors when they need assistance locating information, and have some interest in furthering their information literacy knowledge. Finally, the master’s students use different information management skills than do the PhD students, as evidenced by the use of bibliographic management software. Suggestions for furthering the role of research librarians focus on being more proactive, rather …


An Overall Assessment Of The Ontario Municipalities Benchmarking Initiative (Ombi), Feven Gebremicael Jan 2009

An Overall Assessment Of The Ontario Municipalities Benchmarking Initiative (Ombi), Feven Gebremicael

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the success of the Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Initiative (OMBI) based on the performance measurement data reported in its annual publications of 2006, 2007, and 2008. The findings reveal that, although the program is important for municipalities in principle, the OMBI’s objectives are barely met and issues related to accountability and standard measures, which are at the heart of the initiative, have failed to ensure service excellence and the sharing of good practices.


2009-1 Social Security, Differential Fertility, And The Dynamics Of The Earnings Distribution, Kai Zhao Jan 2009

2009-1 Social Security, Differential Fertility, And The Dynamics Of The Earnings Distribution, Kai Zhao

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Statement On Nato’S Nuclear Weapons Policies, Erika Simpson Jan 2009

Statement On Nato’S Nuclear Weapons Policies, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

No abstract provided.


A Short History Of Aboriginal Education In Canada, Jerry P. White, Julie Peters Jan 2009

A Short History Of Aboriginal Education In Canada, Jerry P. White, Julie Peters

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Aboriginal Education: Current Crisis And Future Alternatives, Julie Peters, Jerry P. White Jan 2009

Aboriginal Education: Current Crisis And Future Alternatives, Julie Peters, Jerry P. White

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Enhancing Educational Attainment For First Nations Children, Jerry P. White, Julie Peters, Dan Beavon Jan 2009

Enhancing Educational Attainment For First Nations Children, Jerry P. White, Julie Peters, Dan Beavon

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.


Shared Features Dominate Semantic Richness Effects For Concrete Concepts, Ray Grondin, Stephen J. Lupker, Ken Mcrae Jan 2009

Shared Features Dominate Semantic Richness Effects For Concrete Concepts, Ray Grondin, Stephen J. Lupker, Ken Mcrae

Psychology Publications

When asked to list semantic features for concrete concepts, participants list many features for some concepts and few for others. Concepts with many semantic features are processed faster in lexical and semantic decision tasks [Pexman, P. M., Lupker, S. J., & Hino, Y. (2002). The impact of feedback semantics in visual word recognition: Number-of-features effects in lexical decision and naming tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,9, 542–549; Pexman, P. M., Holyk, G. G., & MonFils, M.-H. (2003). Number-of-features effects and semantic processing. Memory & Cognition,31,842–855]. Using both lexical and concreteness decision tasks, we provided further insight into these number-of-features …


Ruminative Thought Style And Depressed Mood., Jay K Brinker, David J A Dozois Jan 2009

Ruminative Thought Style And Depressed Mood., Jay K Brinker, David J A Dozois

Psychology Publications

Recent research has suggested that the measure most commonly used to assess rumination, the Response Style Questionnaire (RSQ; L. D. Butler & S. Nolen-Hoeksema, 1994), may be heavily biased by depressive symptoms, thereby restricting the scope of research exploring this construct. This article offers a broader conceptualization of rumination, which includes positive, negative, and neutral thoughts as well as past and future-oriented thoughts. The first two studies describe the development and evaluation of the Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire (RTS), a psychometrically sound measure of the general tendency to ruminate. Further, the scale is comprised of a single factor and shows …


Keyword Enhanced Web Structure Mining For Business Intelligence, L. Vaughan, J. You Jan 2009

Keyword Enhanced Web Structure Mining For Business Intelligence, L. Vaughan, J. You

FIMS Publications

The study proposed the method of keyword enhanced Web structure mining which combines the ideas of Web content mining with Web structure mining. The method was used to mine data on business competition among a group of DSLAM companies. Specifically, the keyword DSLAM was incorporated into queries that searched for co-links between pairs of company Websites. The resulting co-link matrix was analyzed using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to map business competition positions. The study shows that the proposed method improves upon the previous method of Web structure mining alone by producing a more accurate map of business competition in the DSLAM …


Exploring The Placelessness Of Reading Among Older Teens In A Canadian Rural Municipality, Paulette Rothbauer Jan 2009

Exploring The Placelessness Of Reading Among Older Teens In A Canadian Rural Municipality, Paulette Rothbauer

FIMS Publications

Situated in a review of rural, cultural, and youth geographies, this article reports on a qualitative study of the role of reading and libraries in the lives of older rural teenagers. The primary method of data collection was the use of in‐depth, flexibly structured interviews with twenty‐seven youth between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years, supplemented with data from unobtrusive observation and environmental scanning in a specific geographic locale. Four themes are discussed: the habitual, quotidian reading of teenagers; the shifting visibility of the public library; the Internet and the World Wide Web as a default reading site; and …


The New U.S. Doctrine Of Preemptive Warfare And Its Implications For Nuclear Deterrence And Disarmament, Erika Simpson Jan 2009

The New U.S. Doctrine Of Preemptive Warfare And Its Implications For Nuclear Deterrence And Disarmament, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

No abstract provided.


The Dawn Of The "Chaotic Account": Horatio Hale’S Australia Notebook And The Development Of Anthropologists’ Field Notes, Tom Belton Jan 2009

The Dawn Of The "Chaotic Account": Horatio Hale’S Australia Notebook And The Development Of Anthropologists’ Field Notes, Tom Belton

Western Libraries Publications

This paper proposes an archival analysis of notebooks, and their relationships to other parts of personal archives (e.g. journals or diaries). The bulk of the paper is an analysis of the historical development of a particular genre of notebooks: anthropological field notes, “chaotic accounts”, as Branislaw Manilnowski called them, based largely on observation. It provides a review of anthropologists’ own recent literature on the subject, and a short case study of a mid nineteenth century notebook of the American explorer/ethnographer Horatio Hale that serves as an example of one seed out of which anthropological field notes grew.


Measuring Quality In Chat Reference Consortia: A Comparative Analysis Of Responses To Users’ Queries, Deborah L. Meert, Lisa M. Given Jan 2009

Measuring Quality In Chat Reference Consortia: A Comparative Analysis Of Responses To Users’ Queries, Deborah L. Meert, Lisa M. Given

Western Libraries Publications

Academic libraries have experienced growing demand for 24/7 access
to resources and services. Despite the challenges and costs of chat
reference service and consortia, many libraries are finding the demand
for these services worth the cost. One key challenge is providing and
measuring quality of service, particularly in a consortia setting. This study
explores the quality of service provided in one academic library participating
in a 24/7 chat reference consortium, by assessing transcripts of
chat sessions using in-house reference quality standards. Findings point
to both similarities and differences between chat interactions of local
librarians versus consortia staff.