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A reflective analysis of public policy development and implementation, a career civil servant's strategy to facilitate surviving major organizational change and rapid policy development
(2000-10-01)
The purpose of the study was to identify and relate a useable theoretical context for the development and implementation of public policy with specific reference to public education policy development and implementation. ...
The role of culture in perceptions of psychological disorder and its treatment
(2001-01-03)
Clinical psychology is changing dramatically due to an increased focus on culture. Cultural differences, which arise in part from differences in ethnic background, influence perceptions of psychological distress and its ...
The effects of affirmative action on perceptions of women entering male dominated academic programs
(2001-04-01)
With the enactment of affirmative action policies and the increase of women in traditionally male dominated areas of work and study, it is important to investigate how people perceive women selected under affirmative action ...
Endocrine and winter performance responses to supplemental light and evening feeding in heifers
(2000-07-01)
The manipulation of photoperiod is useful to improve dairy cattle milk production and may be useful to improve beef cattle production efficiency. Studies were conducted to investigate the threshold intensity of supplemental ...
Alfalfa response to grazing, cultivar evaluation and visual modelling
(2000-05-01)
Interest in grazing alfalfa ('Medicago sativa' L.) is increasing among beef and dairy producers of the Northern Great Plains. Concerns over cultivar persistence and bloat have deterred more widespread acceptance of alfalfa ...
The emerging epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus in First Nation children and youth, issues related to diagnosis, etiology, complications and treatment
(2000-12-01)
Type 2 diabetes affects over 100 million people worldwide. The prevalence is increasing and there are projections that over 250 million individuals will be affected by the year 2020. Classically considered a disease of ...
Choice making and difference making in the perception of control, responsibility, and blame
(2000-09-01)
To assess the effects of choice-making and difference-making in relation to a negative event, 291 university students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (a) Free-Choice/Outcome-Difference, (b) Free-Choice/ ...
Ammonia effects on CHO cell growth, metabolism, erythropoietin production and glycosylation
(2001-05-01)
The effects of ammonium on cell growth, metabolism, protein production and glycosylation were investigated for Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with the human erythropoietin (EPO) gene and grown in serum-free ...
Mineralogy, lithostratigraphy and geochemistry of North Ingebright Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
(2000-12-01)
North Ingebright Lake, containing Canada's thickest known Holocene terrestrial salt sequence, is a small (1.25 km2), hypersaline playa basin located in the Great Sand Hills area of southwestern Saskatchewan. Because of ...
A comparison of the microbiological and functional properties of regular and omega-3 chicken eggs
(2000-09-01)
In recent years, there has been increasing consumer concern over the relationship of the lipid composition of egg yolk with the development of coronary heart disease. Under the demand of optimization of lipid composition ...