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(Re)Imagining inclusion in ways that foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth
(Re)Imagining inclusion in ways that foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth
Download2021-12-13
For the greater part of the twentieth century, thanks in part to disability rights movements around the world, disabled children and youth have increasingly been afforded access to community spaces, such as schools and classrooms; and activities, such as inclusive recreation programs, alongside...
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Towards establishing effective commercial driver training standards: analysis of industry opinions from Alberta
Download2019-11-12
Gargoum, S. A., Kim, A. M., Zhang, H., Qiu, T. Z.
Commercial driver licensing programs ensure that drivers have the appropriate skills to perform their duties in a safe and efficient manner. Establishing such standards with good compliance requires understanding industry professionals’ opinions on aspects of current training. In this paper...
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Using GIS to interpret automated speed enforcement guidelines and guide deployment decisions in mobile photo enforcement programs
Download2019-11-07
Li, Y., Kim, A. M., El-Basyouny, K., Li, R.
Automated speed enforcement (ASE) guidelines are designed to guide enforcement agencies in operating ASE programs that are effective in improving traffic safety. Given that appropriate deployment decisions are essential to a program’s effectiveness, a number of deployment priorities are generally...
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Advocacy coalition impacts on healthy public policy-oriented learning in Alberta, Canada (2009–2016): A difference-in-differences analysis
Download2019-01-01
Nykiforuk, C. I., McGetrick, J. A., Raine, K. D., Wild, T. C.
Since 2009, the Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention (APCCP) has pursued policy, systems, and environmental change strategies engaging policy elites to promote healthy public policy for chronic disease prevention in Alberta, Canada. Employing Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF)...
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2019-06-06
Reyes Ayala, Brenda, Hitchcock, Ella, Sun, James
Paper and presentation delivered at the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2019) in Champaign, Illinois. Web archives are becoming increasingly important to our digital infrastructure, as is judging the quality of these...
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Rethinking business-as-usual: Mackenzie River freight transport in the context of climate change impacts in northern Canada
Download2019-11-07
The Mackenzie River is a major transportation route serving many remote northern Canadian communities and mining sites. The river is only navigable during the summer and early fall, when clear of ice. However, the river’s water conditions have changed significantly in recent years, and are...
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Modeling multimodal freight transportation scenarios in Northern Canada under climate change impacts
Download2019-11-06
In Canada’s Northwest Territories, goods are delivered to remote communities and natural resource extraction sites by inland barge, trucks, and for some goods, air. Combinations of all-weather and winter roads are used in the winter months, while river barge transport and all-weather roads are...
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Reconstructing an Emergency Evacuation by Ground and Air the wildfire in Fort McMurray, alberta, Canada
Download2019-11-12
Woo, M., Hui, K. T. Y., Ren, K., Gan, K. E., Kim, A.
The May 2016 wildfire of Northern Alberta – the costliest wildfire disaster in Canadian history to date – led to an area-wide evacuation by road and air. Traffic count and flight data were used to assess the characteristics of the evacuation, including estimating people movements by vehicle and...
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Advancing strategies for agenda setting by health policy coalitions: a network analysis of the Canadian chronic disease prevention survey
Download2018-06-11
McGetrick, J. A., Raine, K. D., Wild, T. C., Nykiforuk, C. I.
Health in all policies can address chronic disease morbidity and mortality by increasing population-level physical activity and healthy eating, and reducing tobacco and alcohol use. Both governmental and non-governmental policy influencers are instrumental for health policy that modifies...
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2018-01-01
Davis, Matthew, Ahiduzzaman, Md., Kumar, Amit
This paper interprets the energy flow from available primary fuel to end use in all of the provinces and territories in Canada for the year 2012 using Sankey diagrams. These flow charts illustrate energy production, imports, exports, and local consumption by economic sector, and quantify the...