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2014-01-01

M. Haftani, A. Nouri, M. Moosavi, B. Bohloli, M.R. Maleki Javan

Size DependencyIn this study, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of limestone rocks was estimated by indentation testing on small rock fragments. Here, the effects of rock fragment dimensions (particularly area and thickness) on indentation indices were studied. The investigation shows size...

Fall 2014

Christensen, Samantha M

This thesis explores the social, political, and spatial extensions of food and eating in nineteenth-century young women’s coming-of-age texts in America. It focuses on novels and short-stories from women authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Susan Coolidge, Eleanor H. Porter, and Sarah Jewett in...

2014-11-26

Campbell, Sandy

This traditional wall-hanging, which represents the sun was part of a display of works by Semenova Polina Ivanova at the Museum in Yakutsk, Russia. This was one of several wall hangings, all made of reindeer hide, on display

2014-01-02

Lacroix, Denis, Rao, Sathya

Récit composé par Alex Michelet (1885-1979) à l'aube de sa vie, « La grande épinettière » raconte l'histoire d'une jeune institutrice d'ascendance française, Jeanne, qui se trouve affectée dans un petit village de l'Ouest canadien au tournant des années 1915-1920. En apparence anodin, ce récit...

Fall 2014

Buddel, Neil A

Though postsecondary participation has increased overall, the rate of participation has risen more sharply for middle-class students compared with working-class students (Knighton & Mirza, 2002). Especially pronounced is Krahn’s (2009) finding that children from families where at least one...

Spring 2014

Jorgenson, Shelane Rae

Over the last few decades, the concept of global citizenship has emerged in policies and vision statements of higher educational institutions without clarity of what it means or how to educate for it. In North America the discourse of global citizenship study abroad has become increasingly...

Fall 2014

Sprague, Cathryn E

Many accounts of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) describe them as cohesive social movements that adequately address the social and environmental externalities of food and agricultural production. Yet others question whether initiatives that focus on localized consumer driven change can provide...

Spring 2014

Kilborn, Michelle L.

It is clear to many researchers that physical education needs significant reform (Bain, 1995; Devis-Devis & Sparkes, 1999; Fernandez-Balboa, 1997; Kirk, 2010; Lawson, 2009; Tinning, 2010). While these calls for curriculum change are warranted, how we problematize the issue of curriculum needs...

2014-12-05

Oil Sands Research and Information Network

As part of its mandate to enhance access to oil sands information the Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) digitized the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program (AOSERP) series of research reports. Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development provided permission...

2014-12-05

Oil Sands Research and Information Network

As part of its mandate to enhance access to oil sands information the Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) digitized a number of research and policy reports prepared by various government organizations. Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Alberta Agriculture...