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School Grades: Identifying Albert's Best Public Schools [PDF]
The study identifies which Alberta elementary schools are worthy of emulation, as well as those where large improvements are possible, by removing the influence of local socio-economic factors on a school's performance.social policy, education ...
David Johnson
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Imperiling Our Children: An Interview With Fred Stenson About Who By Fire [PDF]
, 2015 This interview with Alberta novelist Fred Stenson focuses on his most recent novel, Who By Fire. The discussion examines the role of environmentalists and the legal system in responding to the oil and gas industry in Alberta, as well as other issues ...
Gordon, Jon
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A Bjorken sum rule for semileptonic $\Omega_b$ decays to ground and excited charmed baryon states
, 1993 We derive a Bjorken sum rule for semileptonic $\Omega_b$ decays to ground and low-lying negative-parity excited charmed baryon states, in the heavy quark limit. We discuss the restriction from this sum rule on form factors and compare it with some models.
A. F. Falk +14 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Consumer Preferences for Biopreservatives in Beef and Pork Packaging and Testing the Importance of Product Origin [PDF]
Recent food science research on packaging at the University of Alberta has focused on the use of biological agents (biopreservatives) to extend meat shelf life. This potential technology involves the introduction of microbial organisms into food packages
Quagrainie, Kwamena K. +2 more
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From Words to Action : Alberta Can Afford a Real Poverty Reduction Strategy [PDF]
, 2013 The Edmonton Social Planning Council, Public Interest Alberta, and the Alberta College of Social Workers present Alberta's 2013 child poverty report card, which shows that despite an improving economy, in 2011 there were 84,000 children in Alberta (29 ...
Bill Moore-Kilgannon, John Kolkman
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.Nanostructured titania:carbon black hybrid films, fabricated via water‐based slot‐die coating, show stable thermoelectric performance under light irradiation but degrade under high humidity. Operando grazing incidence small‐angle X‐ray scattering reveals humidity‐induced morphological changes correlating with reduced Seebeck coefficients.
Linus F. Huber +9 more
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Proof of the Generalized Second Law for Quasistationary Semiclassical Black Holes
, 1993 A simple direct explicit proof of the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics is given for a quasistationary semiclassical black hole.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, report Alberta-Thy-10-93 (revision of paper in response to Phys. Rev.
B. W. Schumacher +23 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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An Asthma Specialist’s Consult Letter: What Do Parents Think About Receiving a Copy?
Journal of Asthma and Allergy, 2020 Israel Amirav,1,* Virginia Vandall-Walker,2,3,* Jananee Rasiah,2,3 Laura Saunders,4 Harsha Belur,4 Brenda Sahlin,4 Mary Roduta Roberts,5 Dorit Redlich-Amirav6 1Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; 2Patient ...
Amirav I +7 more
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