The literature reports the need for nurses to develop and implement health policy. The extent to which community health nurses are involved in the development and implementation of health promotion policy is addressed by ...

The Harvaqtuurmiut have used the caribou skin qajaq since time immemorial, its sleek bow and elegant design splitting the waves of inland waterways in an effort to harvest caribou, fish and birds. By refining and developing ...

This dissertation begins with the recognition that the Euro-Canadian colonization of Aboriginal peoples is the ground upon which we, the colonizer-colonialist and the Native colonized, have built our discourse. This ...

In the area of high-performance computing, there is an ongoing technological convergence toward the use of distributed computing on networked workstation clusters. The emergence of high-performance workstations offering ...

Alcohol Related Birth Defects (ARND) including Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/E) are topics attracting much attention. Prevalence of alcohol abuse among some Aboriginal communities combined with the ...

This dissertation investigates the environment, activities and outcomes of three economic development programs delivered by the Government of Canada to communities of rural, northern Manitoba having substantial Aboriginal ...

The meaning of an architectural work is borne out of the whole, from a vision that integrates the parts. It is in no way the sum of the elements. However, because of our limited capacity to retain and process multiple ...

The thesis shows how the acquisition of upright posture has conditioned the structure and evolution of organizational behavior, or modeling, at the levels of both species and individual development. In the course of this ...

Pregnant women 35 years or older at delivery represent the largest users of prenatal genetic services in Canada: in 1990, 78% of referrals for prenatal testing were because of advanced maternal age (AMA), yet this represented ...