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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Atlantic Canada"”.
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Comparison of Adult Day Services in Atlantic Canada, Maine, and Vermont
Comparisons of aging services in Canada and the United States reveal similarities and differences in the structure and function of the two systems. In both countries, adult day services (ADS) is an integral component in the array of services available to older adults. In this study, I compared …
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Tidal Materialities: Place through Time and Making An Exploration of Coastal Wrack as a Regenerative Architectural Material in Atlantic Canada
… for architectural thinking and making in Atlantic Canada. Situated within growing concerns about climate change, material extraction, and the environmental impacts of construction, the research asks how coastal wrack might be understood not as waste, but as a material with spatial, …
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A Community-Scale Perspective on the Diversification of Tetrapod Ecology and Botanical Turnover based on the Pennsylvanian of the Maritimes Basin, Atlantic Canada
… Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada as a case study. For this dissertation, I use body mass and diet as the variables through which I study tetrapod functional diversity. In the course of this investigation, I ask three foundational questions about community structure …
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Reducing Provincial Drug Plan Costs Through Regional Pooled-Purchasing Agreements
Canada’s provincial health ministries are facing rising provincial drug plan costs that can be attributed to rising medication costs and increasing drug plan claims. Provinces currently employ a collection of policy tools that have not proven to be effective in reducing the cost of these essential …
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The Useable Past: History and Collective Identity in Nova Scotia, 1835-1920
… stories about the emergence of modernity in Atlantic Canada that, in turn, underpinned explicit arguments about who counted and who did not as modern Nova Scotians. The connection between historiographical evolution and colonial identity creation was so close that one could argue that in …
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Child poverty in Canada : some contributing factors and issues
… important factors related to child poverty in Canada. Poverty and inequality are examined from three theoretical perspectives: functionalist, conflict and feminist, in order to see which theory is better supported by the empirical evidence. Family type, residing in different provinces, age and …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
… applied to regional bodies of literature across Canada: nostalgic sustainability (Atlantic Canada), conservation (Central Canada), sustainable dwelling (the Prairies), and the journey of reinhabitation (the West Coast). Each of these themes draw upon at least one of the three key terms that recur …
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Reconciling Temporalities: A Substantive Explanation of the Origins of Difficulty in the Nurse Patient Encounter
… on a family medicine unit in a hospital in Atlantic Canada; (b) 12 formal interviews with former unit patients; (c) 10 formal interviews with unit nursing staff, and numerous informal interviews with nursing staff during participant observation. Reconciling temporalities was the core …
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REVOLUTIONARY NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE LOYALIST EXPERIENCE: "SURELY WE HAVE DESERVED A BETTER FATE"
… many Loyalists in permanent exile, mostly in Atlantic Canada. More important to the new nation were the hundreds of Loyalists who remained silent during the war and were allowed to live in comparative peace. These men formed a conservative force in the politics of the new state, and some …
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Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks
… coastlines of the United Kingdom and those of Atlantic Canada are separated by three and a half thousand kilometres of ocean. Yet for centuries, fishers, sailors, explorers, migrants, emigrants, merchants, messengers, messages, packets, ships, submarine cables, aeroplanes, satellite signals and …