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1996-04-01

Young, T. Kue

"I report on the occurrence and metabolic correlates of obesity among the Inuit (Eskimos) of the central Canadian Arctic using data from the Keewatin Health Assessment Study conducted during 1990 and 1991 in eight Inuit communities in the Northwest Territories (n = 434, adults aged 18 years and...

2013-03-25

Wong, Arnold Y., Parent, Eric C., Kawchuk, Gregory N., Prasad, Narasimha

Instrumented spinal stiffness measurements have shown high testeretest reliability. However, factors that may affect reliability have yet to be investigated. The objective of this study was to compare the: 1) within- and between-day reliability of a mechanical indentation device (MID) in...

2017-01-01

Samek, T

Academic freedom is the first directive encoded in the Canadian Library Association’s Code of Ethics, but when we look across our Canadian campuses, we see that while some librarians have academic freedom, most do not. The librarian’s practice, however, is limited if she or he is not able to...

1995-01-01

Reif, Linda C., Marshall, Mary A.

The authors seek to highlight the office of the ombudsman, which represents a potentially powerful form of alternative dispute resolution. They first examine the \"classic\" ombudsman. This ombudsman is basically a neutral party who decides which side is justified in a dispute. They examine how...

2011-01-01

Samek, Toni, Worman, Anthony

This paper offers a preliminary reflection on the degree to which the concept of 'digital labour' appears in current library and information studies (LIS) education language, including in course titles, course descriptions, and course content. A basis for this paper was established from...

1987-01-01

Capjack, C. E., Birnboim, A., Rankin, Robert, Marchand, Richard

The effect of diffraction on the self‐modulation of an intense laser beam in an initially uniform hydrogen plasma is investigated. A formalism is used in which the diffraction term in the paraxial wave equation can be arbitrarily reduced by the use of a weight factor ι. In the limit where ι...

2013-01-01

Flynn, M.R., Rosales, R.R., Kasimov, A. R., Seibold, B.

Fundamental diagrams of vehicular traffic flow are generally multi-valued in the congested flow regime. We show that such set-valued fundamental diagrams can be constructed systematically from simple second order macroscopic traffic models, such as the classical Payne-Whitham model or the...

2024-11-08

Campbell, Sandra M.

The DALAM Thematic Network held its Biennial In-Person Business Meeting during the Polar Libraries Colloquy Meeting at the Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway on June 10, 2024. Most of the session was a large-group discussion of questions related to decolonization of metadata, that had highlighted in a...

2023-04-06

Askey, Dale

By 2040, libraries will transit from viewing print books as the standard form for preservation to using digital editions as the copy of record. Libraries will pulp most of their print collections and retain mostly small special collections. Climate change and the resulting political and social...

2024-04-04

Harvey, Craig A.

This contribution presents a small fragment of carved white marble found at the site of Humayma (Nabataean Hawara/ Roman Hauarra), in what is now southern Jordan. Uncovered during excavation of the site’s Abbasid family’s qasr in 1993, this fragment is the frst and thus far only known example of...