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2016-12-08
This file is a Spanish transcription of Programa Nosotros Episode entitled Salud or Health created for Professor Ann de Leon's course Spanish 405 at the University of Alberta in the fall of 2016 as part of the community service learning portion. The television episode aired on April 29, 1990.
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2021-08-16
Ashley Dugarte, Scott James Perry, Dr. Benjamin Tucker
Word-final rhotics are realized differently across the various dialects of Spanish. This research contributes to our knowledge of this variation by investigating the production of the voiced alveolar tap in Castilian Spanish in word final position by analysing infinitive verbs. The present...
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The role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence text linguistics and translation studies
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This article presents and illustrates a formal model of linguistic analysis in order to explain a phenomenon that is fundamental to translators in their practice: the construction of coherence. First, the role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence is explained with the application of the...
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Contributions and challenges of cross-national comparative research in migration, ethnicity and health: insights from a preliminary study of maternal health in Germany, Canada and the UK
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Friedrich, J., Reime, B., O'Brien, B., Gerrish, K., Bharj, K., Higginbottom, G.M.A., Foster, C., Chowbey, P., Mumtaz, Z., Salway, S.
Background: Public health researchers are increasingly encouraged to establish international collaborations and to undertake cross-national comparative studies. To-date relatively few such studies have addressed migration, ethnicity and health, but their number is growing. While it is clear that...
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Assessment of Variation in the Alberta Context Tool: The Contribution of Unit Level Contextual Factors and Specialty in Canadian Pediatric Acute Care Settings
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Stevens, B., Squires, J.E., Hutchinson, A., Midodzi, W.K., Cummings, G.G., Kang, S.H., Scott, S., Estabrooks, C.A.
Background: There are few validated measures of organizational context and none that we located are parsimonious and address modifiable characteristics of context. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) was developed to meet this need. The instrument assesses 8 dimensions of context, which comprise 10...
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German translation of the Alberta context tool and two measures of research use: Methods, challenges and lessons learned.
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Behrens, J., Mahler, C, Berger, S., Squires, J. E., Hoben, M., Bär, M., Estabrooks, C. A.
Background Understanding the relationship between organizational context and research utilization is key to reducing the research-practice gap in health care. This is particularly true in the residential long term care (LTC) setting where relatively little work has examined the influence of...
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When is a preposition a linking element?ilingual children's acquisition of French compound nouns
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French is traditionally considered a non-compounding language because Speakers prefer to use lexical forms such äs NPN instead of N-N compounds. However, the preposition in these French NPNs shares similarities with meaningless linking elements in compounds in other languages. It is therefore...
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2021-12-12
SSHRC PEG awarded 2023: The project will provide training to 4-6 instructors employed with the Connect Society, who in turn will, scaffold 10-15 students' learning of decontextualized literate language features in two languages: American Sign Language, print English literacy skills, and spoken...
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Linguistic validation of the Alberta Context Tool and two measures of research use, for German residential long term care.
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Kruse, A., Behrens, J., Mahler, C., Bär, M., Hoben, M., Berger, S., Squires, J., Estabrooks, C. A.
Background To study the association between organizational context and research utilization in German residential long term care (LTC), we translated three Canadian assessment instruments: the Alberta Context Tool (ACT), Estabrooks’ Kinds of Research Utilization (RU) items and the Conceptual...