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Geo-Environmental Engineering Considerations in the Investigation of an Embankment Founded on Varved Clays: New Liskeard, Ontario
This thesis explores the geotechnical and environmental engineering considerations in an embankment failure as they relate to highway projects founded on soft varved clays. The main objective of this thesis is to shed light ... -
Coastal Ocean Dynamics and Primary Productivity Near Traditional Indigenous Clam Gardens in Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
Along the Pacific coasts of British Columbia and Alaska, it has recently been recognized that Indigenous communities traditionally built and maintained clam gardens in the intertidal zone by clearing rocks, aerating ... -
Long-term Native Temperate Grassland Responses to Warming, Precipitation and Defoliation in Central Alberta
Canada’s northern temperate grasslands are a large and valuable natural resource that provides widespread social, economic and environmental benefits to Canadians. Understanding how grassland vegetation is affected by ... -
Healthcare Organizations' Twitter Communication: An Integrative Review
This integrative literature review examines how healthcare organizations communicate in Twitter and how they can communicate on Twitter. Twitter provides healthcare organizations with new ways to engage with the public and ... -
Climate Change: Current and Future Impacts on Erosive Rainfall in Calgary, Alberta
Rainfall data collected every five minutes between 1988 and 2017 at the Huntington Hills rainfall gauge in Calgary Alberta and downscaled CanRCM4 climate change data for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 IPCC scenarios are used to ... -
The new archivists: Social media, memory and history
(ACS Canadian Journal for Social Research Special Issue on Technology, Memory and History, 2018)In a time of growing populism around the world and here in Canada, many are wondering: if we forget our world history, are we doomed to repeat it? This provocative question may be increasingly relevant. In a recent Leger ... -
Say crash, not accident
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Uncovering Challenges: A Case Study Identifying the Barriers of Introducing a Proposed Computer-Based Substance Use Intervention Program Into Elementary Classrooms
The purpose of this case study was to explore the problems that teachers anticipate facing when facilitating a new online computer-based substance use intervention program to grade six and seven elementary school students. ... -
Transformative Climate Change Actions among Youth from Alberta, Canada
Young people’s futures are largely affected by society’s capacity and willingness to take action on climate change, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to a different climate reality. Young people are necessary ... -
Applied Interdisciplinarity exhibit
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Engagement in online learning: It’s not all about faculty!
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)In this chapter, we, the authors Bishop, Etmanski and Page, argue for the need to disrupt the traditional notion of faculty solely as expert. We redefine the online faculty role to be that of a facilitator who creates the ... -
Engagement in online learning: It’s not all about faculty!
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)In this chapter, we, the authors Bishop, Etmanski and Page, argue for the need to disrupt the traditional notion of faculty solely as expert. We redefine the online faculty role to be that of a facilitator who creates the ... -
Why Canadians give to charity: An extended theory of planned behaviour model
(International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to test an expanded model of charitable giving and the intention to donate based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The novelty of this research resides in disaggregating the overall ... -
Teaching in Iran: Culture and consequences
(Intercultural Education, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to examine cultural effects on interactions within a Canadian MBA program delivered in Iran. The analysis helps illuminate some of the important cultural differences between the countries and ... -
Cultural intelligence and mindfulness: Teaching MBAs in Iran
(Journal of International Education in Business, 2018)Purpose: A dynamic global economy has increased the need for cross-cultural flexibility and cultural intelligence. While a large literature has examined various means to increase cultural intelligence (CQ) in student and ... -
Exploring consumer's needs and motivations in online social lending for development
(Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 2013)This study is the first in exploring the needs and motivations of those who participate in the social phenomenon of Online Social Lending for Development (OSL4D). OSL4D represents a new form of charity support behavior ... -
Scholars' temporal participation on, temporary disengagement from, and return to Twitter
(First Monday, 2018)Even though the extant literature investigates how and why academics use social media, much less is known about academics’ temporal patterns of social media use. This mixed methods study provides a first-of-its-kind ...
