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Race, Englishness and the media: depictions of urban rioting in England, 1980-81
(2014)
"Race, Englishness and the Media is an examination of racialised depictions of the urban riots which broke out in England's major cities in the early 1980s. The analysis focuses on two major English newspapers, the Times ...
Boosting performance of transactional memory through transactional read tracking and set associative locks
(2013)
Multi-core processors have become so prevalent in server, desktop, and even embedded systems that they are considered the norm for modem computing systems. The trend is likely toward many-core processors with many more ...
Breast cancer in rural communities
(2010)
This paper provides a review of the existing research on women’s experience of breast
cancer in rural communities. It includes a total of 46 studies that used quantitative and qualitative
research methods. In the review ...
Community care providers' perception of dementia in Aboriginal seniors: a qualitative study
(2013)
Little research has explored dementia within Aboriginal communities in northwestern
Ontario; as a result, we know little about the experiences of health service providers in caring for
these populations. This research ...
Predicting moral behaviour in sport: individual and interactive relationships involving motivational climate, gender, and perfectionism
(2016)
A large proportion of Canadian youth aged 15 to 19 – approximately 60 percent – participate in organized sport (Canadian Fitness & Lifestyle Research Institute, 2015). Given this significant number, popular media portrayals ...
Nursing Practice Council : literature review, implementation, and evaluation plan
(2010)
The purpose of this paper is to outline an implementation and evaluation plan for the establishment of a Nursing Practice Council (NPC) for the public health and registered nurses in a
small rural health unit in southern ...
Stakeholder perspectives on climate change and adaptation in expedition cruise tourism in Nunavut
(2011)
Climate change and tourism change are global phenomena (Keskitalo, 2008;
Page, 2003). As climate change becomes more pronounced and the tourism industry
continues to be susceptible to changes in climate (Coombes, Jones, ...
Ordered supramolecular oligothiophene structures on passivated silicon surfaces
(2014)
The adsorption of brominated tetrathienoanthracene molecules (TBTTA) onto the Si(111) 3-Ag surface has been studied. The molecules were absorbed at room temperature and annealed up to 400C. One monolayer of Ag was used to ...
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on nanostructured catalysts
(2018)
There is great interest in the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) to useful chemicals and fuels toward addressing the increasingly serious impacts of global climate change. The electrochemical reduction of CO2 has garnered ...