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Presents an award for the most outstanding student paper at the annual conference of the Plains Anthropological Society in Edmonton, Alberta. Solicitation of entries for the competition; Criteria for the student paper competition; Contact information.

The author discusses the papers presented at the ninth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM) which was held at the University of Alberta at Edmonton, Alberta on June 19-22, 2011. The author says that the papers highlights the presentations by pioneering researchers D. B. Tuckerman and R. F. W. Pease on invented microchannels. He adds that the papers also focuses on interfacial transport, mixing inside colliding droplets, and wettability.

The article presents selected papers from the CIPS Edmonton 1987 Conference that was held in Edmonton, Alberta on November 16-19, 1987. The theme of the event was Intelligence Integration. The Program Committee's aim is to emphasize the integration of intelligence into computer applications, the application of intelligence to the integration of software components and the development of intelligent tools that would aid the process of system integration. A second unique feature of the event is its balanced treatment of invited and submitted paper presentations. The submitted papers were selected to complement the invited papers by providing technical information as well as indicating future research directions.

This paper looks at the increasing number school sports academies in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. An examination of the information available via literature and public school websites shows that the number of school sports academies grew from two schools in 2005 to 30 schools in 2018. There are 12 sport specializations offered across the 30 schools, with ice hockey available at 22 of the schools. This growth in the number of school sports academies can be traced back to the Province of Alberta's Alternative Programs policy, which allows school districts to develop local courses that cater to the needs of their students, and the principle of opening the boundaries between school boards and schools throughout the province. The opening of the boundaries has allowed students and their parents to choose where they want to attend school anywhere in Alberta (student mobility), including the option of a school that offers a school sports academy program as an alternative to the regular physical education program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy (SEP) held in Edmonton, Alberta in 2009 which was organized by Bernard Linsky and F. Jeffrey Pelletier. According to the article, the Society consists mainly of American and Canadian academics in computer science, philosophy, and linguistics. It cites papers presented at the 2009 SEP meeting including "Disjunctive Effects," by Roberta Ballarin and "Visibility Logic," by Adam Morton.

Case-crossover designs have been widely applied to epidemiological and medical investigations of associations between short-term exposures and risk of acute adverse health events. Much effort has been made in literature on understanding source of confounding and reducing systematic bias by reference-select strategies. In this paper, we explored the nature of bias in the ambi-directional and time-stratified case-crossover designs via simulation using actual air pollution data from urban Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We further proposed a calibration approach for eliminating systematic bias in estimates (coefficient estimate, 95% confident interval, and p-value). Bias check for coefficient estimation, size check and power check for significance test were done via simulation experiments to show advantages of the calibrated case-crossover studies over the ones without calibration. An application was done to investigate associations between air pollutants and acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations in urban Edmonton. In conclusion, systematic bias in a case-crossover design is often unavoidable, leading to an obvious bias in the estimated effect and an unreliable p value in the significance test. The proposed calibration technique provides an efficient approach to eliminating systematic bias in a case-crossover study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how Edmonton Police Service has built on the foundation of community-based policing and problem solving in an effort to achieve greater levels of efficiency and effectiveness. These proposed operational strategies are closely aligned with the conceptual framework of proactive policing. Here, proactive policing, in its original formulation, ‘refers to the strategic deployment of resources in order to target criminally active individuals’ (Stockdale et al., 1999, p. 5). The paper also examines the implications proactive policing has for police management and how Edmonton has responded to an organizational environment that requires management of demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: This paper outlines the transformation of youth mental health services in Edmonton, Alberta, a large city in Western Canada. We describe the processes and challenges involved in restructuring how services and care are delivered to youth (11‐25 years old) with mental health needs based on the objectives of the pan‐Canadian ACCESS Open Minds network. Methods: We provide a narrative review of how youth mental health services have developed since our engagement with the ACCESS Open Minds initiative, based on its five central objectives of early identification, rapid access, appropriate care, continuity of care, and youth and family engagement. Results: Building on an initial community mapping exercise, a service network has been developed; teams that were previously age‐oriented have been integrated together to seamlessly cover the age 11 to 25 range; early identification has thus far focused on high‐school populations; and an actual drop‐in space facilitates rapid access and linkages to appropriate care within the 30‐day benchmark. Conclusions: Initial aspects of the transformation have relied on restructuring and partnerships that have generated early successes. However, further transformation over the longer term will depend on data demonstrating how this has impacted clinical outcomes and service utilization. Ultimately, sustainability in a large urban centre will likely involve scaling up to a network of similar services to cover the entire population of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the demand for hockey game trips among metropolitan and nonmetropolitan residents of Alberta, Canada. Using data on both revealed and stated preference game-trip behavior from a telephone survey conducted throughout Alberta, we estimate the effect of ticket prices, team quality, arena amenities, and capacity on the latent demand for National Hockey League hockey games. We find that lower ticket prices, higher team quality, and additional capacity encourage attendance. In the status quo scenario, consumer surplus per game is $50 for those who had attended hockey games and about 50% less for those who had not attended games. Exploiting the stated preference data, we develop a number of other consumer surplus estimates. We also include travel costs in the estimation of the demand function and estimate the full value of the game trip considering both ticket prices and travel costs. Sold-out arenas in Calgary and Edmonton generate annual consumption benefits of $40 and $35 million when only ticket prices are used to calculate consumer surplus (i.e., excluding travel costs). Considering the full-price consumer surplus for the Calgary Flames of $103 per game trip, the annual consumption benefits may be as high as $82 million. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the years of the study (1999–2004) presented in this paper, the City of Edmonton, Canada’s Drainage and Maintenance Department has experienced an annual increase of about 12% in the installation of water and sewer services for residential facilities. According to the current estimating procedure, a discrepancy of up to 60% exists between the estimated and actual costs of these projects. A detailed analysis of all activities involved in the installation of the water and sewer services has been carried out and is presented in this paper. The proposed methodology, which is based upon the analysis of past data obtained from the City of Edmonton’s drainage division for the period of 1999–2004, is also presented. The methodology has been incorporated into a computer module, which integrates the concept of artificial neural network (ANN) with the current estimating system used by the City of Edmonton. The following research includes a description of the algorithm used in ANN, as well as an assessment of past data obtained from the city record for over 800 jobs (cases) performed over the period of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pipe spool fabrication is an important stage in industrial construction project delivery. It is a complex production system characterized by product uniqueness and high product mix, which pose challenges to the analysis and improvement of this system. This research applies lean production principles and flow production to shop fabrication, and uses a simulation-based approach as a tool to facilitate its implementation. The work described in the paper is based on a real case study undertaken with an Edmonton-based industrial construction contractor. The traditional batch-and-queue fabrication system and the new cell-based work flow fabrication systems were compared and analyzed. Simulation models were built to experiment with the old and new production systems and quantitatively test the effects of lean principles on the performance of the systems. The developed simulation-based approach proves a practical and more powerful tool than the value stream map for modeling and for quantitatively evaluating the performance of a complex and dynamic spool fabrication shop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of University of Alberta. The library is situated at I-01 Rutherford Library, Edmonton, Alberta. Primary users of the library have free access to the collection. While consortial partners and external users have access via interlibrary loan. Free on-site access is available to any user. The library's collection focuses on the areas of humanities and social sciences. There are a number of unique archival collections preserved at the University of Alberta, housed at the University of Alberta Archives and at the Canadian institute of Ukrainian Studies. The strengths of the collection in humanities include literature (primary and secondary works), philology, language teaching and learning, applied linguistics, cultural studies, popular media, and folklore.

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This paper argues that an analysis of the capitalized burdens and benefits of the local public sector offers a simple, straightforward and objective computational methodology to fiscal incidence at the local level. This capitalization approach represents a major departure from the highly discretionary and imprecise computational environment of the "reasonable assumptions" and Aaron and McGuire approaches. It is initially discussed both from conceptual and operational points of view and then implemented using alternate procedures. Major limitations of the approach are then noted. A comparative perspective on fiscal incidence results based on the capitalization approach and of earlier studies on this subject is provided in the concluding section of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract. In our earlier studies of the supermarket industry in Edmonton, Alberta, we tested for predation in a spatial setting and found evidence which supported the predation hypothesis. In this paper we use data on the locations, entry, exit and market area populations of supermarkets in Edmonton to test whether the entry deterrence and timing-of-expansion implications of the reputation hypothesis are confirmed. We find that our time series data are consistent with entry's being deterred and with delayed opening of new supermarkets by the dominant established firm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a paper which is concerned with the relationship between skill level and left/right orientation toward worker-management relations. The paper begins with a description of a backcloth of contradictory hypotheses on this relationship in the literature. Then the relationship is explored for samples of craft and non-craft workers drawn from two different plants in Edmonton, Alberta. Relationships between skill level and left/right orientation showed different directions for workers from the different plants. Alternative interpretations of the results are discussed. Results showed that the relationship of skill level and left/right orientations did not seem to generalize across companies. The picture of workers' consciousness that emerges from this study of craft and non-craft workers is an extremely murky one and if results are consistent with any of the available theoretical perspectives on worker beliefs, it is the notion that workers, regardless of skill level, do not subscribe to highly consistent sets of beliefs of either a left or right orientation.

The American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a striking black-and-white shorebird that occurs seasonally in southern Canada from British Columbia to western Ontario. Its northern limit in Alberta is near the latitude of Edmonton, and its typical preferred habitat is lakes similar to Beaverhills Lake, a Ramsar wetland 60 km east of Edmonton. In 2009, after 45 y of field studies of shorebirds and their avian predators at Beaverhills Lake, I switched study locations to Cooking Lake. From 2009 to 2023, I walked a seasonal bird survey along a 3–5-km section of Cooking Lake shores. The spring arrival of Avocets coincided with the first open water, and they stayed at the lake until late October, 3–4 wk after the latest date recorded in provincial handbooks. Avocet reproduction at Cooking Lake was presumed to be limited by the scarcity of island nesting habitat. Non-nesting aggregations were estimated at a maximum of 6000 birds. Foraging and roosting flocks were monitored for interactions with raptors, but in 60 y of walking the shores of both Alberta lakes, I have never seen an avian raptor seize an Avocet, nor did I find any plucked remains of Avocets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the "Anthropology in the 21st Century: Beyond the Ivory Tower," annual conference which was held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. The use of ancient DNA to determine the degree of relatedness between two ancient populations in Siberia, Russia was discoursed. The event also included lectures on race, racism, and related issues.

The Landing Trail was a Hudson's Bay Company supply route used between metropolitan Edmonton and frontier Athabasca during the late nineteenth century. This article begins with the rediscovery of the trail in 1950s Alberta and analyzes its diverse archival life in the two communities. In three sections, it moves through a fifty-year period of attempts to commemorate, represent, and archive the history of the trail as it existed in the 1890s. As groups in Edmonton and Athabasca sought to reinvest the trail with meaning, they also represented dynamics of power between the two places, each articulating a different version of Alberta's historical geography. I show that the commemorative and archival practices that unfolded between the 1950s and the present used history to reflect and interpret contemporary geographical relationships between Edmonton and Athabasca. I conclude that these stories of the trail and the archives they produced constitute spatial histories, because their meanings were informed by representational spaces in the present. A theory for using spatial history is elaborated throughout the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although many business schools offer study tours as a component of their internationalization strategy, few faculty members are publishing their experiences. This paper presents a study tour model for undergraduate business students developed by Grant MacEwan University's School of Business. The MacEwan study tour model considers purpose, process, program, participants and place. In addition to describing the MacEwan School of Business study tour model, this paper includes a comparison of five institutions' undergraduate business study tours, high-lights best practices from the literature and makes recommendations based on our experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prior scholarship on stewardship as a principle of administration largely portrays stewardship as too idealistic and dependent upon situational factors to be institutionalized in large-scale organizations. Through a case study of the Edmonton Public Schools, this study explores the extent to which stewardship can be institutionalized as a central organizing principle, thereby ensuring performance and checking corruption in ways that are consistent with the primacy of intrinsic motivation. The study deepens our understanding of the challenges that managers face in reconciling stewardship with a bureaucratic context, documents practices that have been used to deal with these challenges, and more broadly discusses how it might be possible for islands of stewardship to emerge in a world governed by assumptions of human opportunism. To this end the paper develops a model of the choice that organization members face in deciding to elect a principal-agent or a stewardship posture within large-scale organizations. This model draws on assumptions of human ambivalence in choosing between self-serving and altruistic modes of conduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the course of the twentieth century, the Fort Edmonton Park living history museum helped to coordinate the city's hinterland origins as a military and trading post with its metropolitan ambitions. In the process, it has served as a symbol of community progress and spirit as well as a tourist attraction. In 2009, Park management proposed a series of touristic enhancements including holographic characters, interactive games, sound effects, new rides, and Wild West-style theatrics. Immediate public debate arose in response to the spectre of theme park marketing, a body of discourse building on a century of negotiations over form, content, and control of Fort Edmonton's commemoration. A study of discourse from several main periods reveals a recurring set of conceptual clashes and interactions between values of, first, historical authenticity and local legitimacy in representation and, second, the practical challenges of operating a sustainable and competitive leisure attraction. After focusing on the construction of the Park from the 1970s through the 1990s, this paper concludes with an overview of current issues of representation in public history in the city at the turn of a new century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on how the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is being integrated into the teaching excellence culture at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), a premier Canadian polytechnic institution in Alberta, Canada. The Institute's particular culture is discussed along with the emergence of SoTL within NAIT in the context of recent changes in Canadian Higher Education. A number of initiatives to foster SoTL undertaken in the one year of official CASTL affiliate membership are described. In addition, efforts to foster a culture of SoTL at NAIT are discussed in relation to faculty assessment tools and faculty development efforts. The paper closes with an examination of the challenges and opportunities facing the future of SoTL at NAIT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Constructed by colonial agents to resolve administrative problems unanticipated by the entrance of Metis individuals without band affiliation into treaty, the ‘straggler’ category was a reflection of the fluid nature of Aboriginal identities during a period of harsh economic and environmental realities on the Plains in the mid to late nineteenth century. This paper argues that Metis women and their families used the ‘straggler’ category in ways unexpected by colonial agents in Treaty Six – they continued to participate in the fur trade economy, refused to settle on reserves, and thus explicitly challenged boundaries of racial classification. This Native agency in turn forced the government to rethink and reformulate status categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the computing scenario at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta before the arrival of Librascope General Precision digital computer (LGP-30) at the University and the impact LGP-30 had on the computing practices of the University. The LGP-30 greatly affected computing practices of the university. The physics department of the university used an electronic computer on campus in May 1957 and established a link with the Ferut computer at the University of Toronto. The LGP-30 was installed in the basement of the University's Arts Building. It was operated on an open-shop basis under the supervision of the Committee on Electronic Computing. The computer was 26 inches deep, 33 inches high and 44 inches long.

This paper reviews the factors and criteria for the design of new and the retrofitting of existing dry detention ponds to enhance removal of total suspended solids (TSS) from stormwater. Detention time is discussed as the most important factor affecting TSS removal. Two-stage facilities and multi-level outlet design are important means of enhancing TSS removal in dry ponds. Two dry ponds within the city of Edmonton were selected to evaluate their TSS removal. The level of expected TSS removal is low owing to the relatively short detention times for both ponds. Methods for retrofitting the dry ponds to enhance TSS removal are discussed.Key words: dry pond, stormwater, TSS removal, detention time, retrofitting.Cet article passe en revue les facteurs et critères de conception de nouveaux étangs de rétention, et de modification de ceux déjà existants, avec pour but d'améliorer la capacité d'enlèvement des substances solides totales en suspension (SST) contenues dans les eaux de ruissellement. Le temps de rétention est examiné en tant que facteur principal affectant l'enlèvement des SST. Les installations à deux étages et la conception de sorties multi-niveaux sont des procédés importants qui améliorent l'enlèvement des SST dans les étangs. Deux étangs de la Ville d'Edmonton ont été sélectionnés et leur capacité de rétention a été évaluée. Le niveau d'enlèvement des SST escompté est bas compte-tenu des temps de rétention relativement courts de ces deux étangs. Les méthodes de modification des étangs visant à améliorer l'enlèvement des SST sont examinées.Mots clés : étang, eaux de ruissellement, enlèvement des SST, temps de rétention, réajustement.[Traduit par la Rédaction] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Use of various deterioration models in the area of infrastructure management has provided decision makers with a vehicle for predicting future deterioration. This paper presents a methodology for predicting the likelihood that a particular infrastructure system is in a deficient state, using logistic regression models, a special case of linear regression. What distinguishes these two models is that the outcome variable in the logistic regression model is binary or dichotomous and assumes a Bernoulli distribution. The methodology is illustrated in a case study involving the evaluation of the local sewer system of Edmonton, Alta. Canada. Variables of age, diameter, material, waste type, and average depth of cover are modeled, using historical data, as factors contributing to deterioration of the sewer network. The outcome of this model does not produce a prediction of condition rating but rather uses historical inspection records to provide decision makers with a means of evaluating sewer sections for the planning of future scheduled inspection, based on the deficiency probability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, based on 1973–74 Growth of Alberta Family Study data, examines the sex preference for children among women in Edmonton. Discriminant functions are used to examine whether the two groups of women—those who prefer to have sons and those who prefer to have daughters—differ in selected characteristics such as age, birth place, residence in youth, education, religion, number and sex of siblings, traditional female roles, and attitude towards sex predetermination.The results show some preference for sons, although generally women prefer to have children of both sexes. The variables birth place, number of female siblings of wife, and education of husband are found to discriminate best among the two groups. In general, the results suggest that sex preference among women is more heavily determined by their country of birth and number of male and female siblings. There is some evidence to suggest that preference for sex of children varies between adolescents and older women. The findings suggest that women generally do not favour the idea of sex predetermination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Background: A new physical activity and sedentary behaviour accreditation standard criterion for childcare settings was introduced by the provincial government in Alberta, Canada. The primary objective of this study was to examine if changes for in-care physical activity and sedentary time (ST) differed between centres in and around Edmonton, Alberta after implementing the new accreditation standards and non-accredited control centres in and around Ottawa, Ontario. Secondary objectives were to examine whether baseline age group (toddler, preschooler) or the childcare environment moderated any group differences in change of the primary outcomes. Furthermore, accreditation and control group differences in change of children's body mass index (BMI) Z-scores or cognitive development as well as educators' perceptions of the primary outcomes were explored.Methods: Participants were 252 toddlers (19-35 months) and preschoolers (36-60 months) in childcare centres from Alberta (n = 11) and Ontario (n = 8) in the supporting Healthy physical AcTive CHildcare setting (HATCH) study. In-care ST, light-intensity physical activity (LPA), and moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) were accelerometer-derived before and 6 months after the implementation of the new standards. At both time points, cognitive development (working memory, expressive vocabulary), heights, and weights were measured, and BMI Z-scores were calculated. Additionally, the childcare environment was observed using the Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation (EPAO) and Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS) tools. Demographic characteristics were parent-reported and weather variables were derived from Environment Canada data. Mixed models were conducted.Results: In adjusted models (n = 241), change in children's in-care ST (B = -0.07, 95%CI: - 1.43,1.29), LPA (B = 0.08, 95%CI: - 0.89,1.05), and log-transformed MVPA (B = 0.01, 95%CI: - 0.09,0.11) were not significantly different between accreditation and control groups. Age group and the childcare environment were not moderators. Significant increases in BMI Z-score (B = 0.19, 95%CI: 0.03,0.35) and high working memory (OR = 3.24, 95%CI: 1.32,7.97) were observed in the accreditation group and significant increases in expressive vocabulary (B = 3.18, 95%CI: 0.05,6.30) were observed in the control group.Conclusions: The new accreditation criterion may not significantly change physical activity or ST in childcare settings and therefore may not explain findings for BMI Z-scores and cognitive development. Additional training and resources may be needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the things to be done after any mathematical competitions are over particularly in the International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns in Edmonton, Alberta. He presents some sample problems from the said competition along with problems from other competitions on topics including isosceles triangle, positive integers and quadratics. He also mentions the Odd Even Merge Sort approach which consists of boxers with odd subscripts and even subscripts.

In 1942 the RCMP and Edmonton's municipal constabulary organized a dragnet operation involving the investigation, arraignment, trial, and imprisonment of at least six of ten men charged with same-sex activities in the city. The arrests and trials generated widespread publicity, pronouncements of opprobrium by politicians, and a "moral panic" among the general public. In several cases, the private correspondence of the accused men was seized and used to induce confessions, and then introduced in court as corroborating evidence to secure their convictions. Characterizing same-sex sexuality as "bestiality" and "perversion," members of the judiciary undermined assertions that the defendants could receive a fair trial in Edmonton in that period. The paper concludes with an assessment of the value of legal records for the study of the history of same sex experience and its historical marginalization in this country. The State's repression of sexual minorities as documented in the criminal case files of the Judicial District of Edmonton at the Provincial Archives of Alberta reveals the fragility of human rights and civil liberties prior to the inauguration of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within Canada's Constitution Act of 1982. It is argued that preserving and making accessible archival court and police records is a critical step toward maintaining knowledge and awareness of past abuses, thereby making a tangible contribution toward safeguarding human rights and civil liberties in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper provides a local, quasi-ethnographic, activist-oriented analysis of the City of Edmonton's gentrification of an area just adjacent to the downtown core. Announced in 2005 and according to the teachings of self-proclaimed "go- to guru" Richard Florida, City officials have called this a "revitalization" of the "downtown east." The process and its already apparent effects reveal the strategy as one towards a targeted re-appropriation of land and forced displacement of people in the interest of accumulating first cultural but ultimately financial capital. Through analysis of the City of Edmonton's public meetings, as well as through the analysis of materials provided at those meetings and on City websites, we offer a critique of the City's process, we debunk Florida's "creative class" ideology, and finally, most importantly, we situate the gentrification of Edmonton's downtown within the historical and local context. The particular process of gentrification of this particular Western Canadian city is congruent with the "original" and continual theft of the land from indigenous inhabitants. It also must be considered in light of the cases in which women, mostly aboriginal, have gone missing or been murdered, sometimes from this very neighborhood. Edmonton's "revitalization" process hides its gentrification and hides an utter inattention to historical parallels and to contemporary issues of urgency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the personal and professional profile of the author, but the central theme is his research and work in Ottawa and at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. The author attended Wortley Road Public School, London South Collegiate Institute, and the University of Western Ontario, from where he graduated in mathematics and physics in 1949. The author then went to the University of Toronto from which he received a PhD. in mathematical statistics in 1952. After leaving Toronto, Ontario, the author worked for several years in Ottawa in several departments of the federal government and in private industry. In 1963, he went to the University of Alberta, where an academic computing department was being formed. The author retired in 1992 as a professor emeritus of computing science, and since then have continued to pursue his various professional interests. Upon completing his PhD, he accepted a position with the Operational Research Group of the Defence Research Board in Ottawa where he worked as an applied statistician. When the author arrived in the University of Alberta, he became involved in the usual academic work of teaching and research, and, as was understood when he was appointed, some consulting on statistical computing in the university. His first course was a new one in probability statistics, and numerical analysis for first-year students in mathematics, and for computing science students when the Department of Computing Science was formed on April 1,1964. In about 1965, he began a one-term "service course" in programming for students in the Faculty of Agriculture.

The City of Edmonton's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) department proposed to move to a 'single start station system' (SS system) in which all ambulances would begin and end their shifts at the same location. We developed a discrete event simulation model to estimate the impact of this change and subsequently used this model to explore other changes to Edmonton EMS operations, including the addition of stations, the addition of ambulances, different shifts, and a different redeployment system. We found that a SS system increased average unit availability and the fraction of calls reached within the department's response time standard, particularly during the current shift changeover periods. The paper describes the development and validation of the simulation model and summarizes the results of its application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes the impact of technology on the teaching and learning of Wesley Cooper, a professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. Introduction of acronym MUD for the use of Multi-User Dungeon to Cooper; Distinction between traditional educational practice and distance education experienced by Cooper; Appraisal of integrative approach to education that has been adopted by Cooper; Indication about time spent by Cooper on teaching.

All of the pollutants found in stormwater runoff at airports, including surface and aircraft de-icing/anti-icing glycols, can be treated and removed to low levels in well-designed sub-surface flow (SSF) constructed wetland systems. There are two common forms of constructed wetlands used for pollution control: those where water flows over the surface among wetland plants (free water surface or marsh type wetlands); and SSF types where the wastewater flows below the normally dry surface of a gravel substrate in which the wetland plants grow. SSF wetlands have no open water to attract waterfowl and are particularly suitable for use at airports. Of the glycol used at Edmonton International Airport (EIA), 80 to 90% eventually entered surface runoff. Edmonton International Airport's operator, the Edmonton Regional Airports Authority (Edmonton Airports) evaluated a number of glycol management options, including constructed wetlands. As a result, a very large SSF wetland system was installed to handle glycol-contaminated stormwater. This paper reviews results of a feasibility study carried out to define design parameters and scale up kinetics for this wetland system, the detailed design that resulted, the SSF wetland's construction, and the start-up of the Edmonton facilities in August of 2000. It also compares the Edmonton wetland system with a similar facility at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides summaries of several papers presented on Department of Medicine Research Day at the University of Alberta in May 2001. `Survey of Perioperative Care by Canadian General Internists,' by T.H. Taher et al; `Implications of Antinuclear Antibody Positivity in Healthy Individuals,' by S.O. Myckatyn et al; `Prevalence and Prediction of Metabolic Bone Disease in Chronic Liver Disease,' by J.C. McDermid et al.

Focuses on resident programs being conducted in the department of otolaryngology in two universities in the U.S. Analysis of achievements of senior residents at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Atlanta in 1997-1998; Improvements in the residency program at the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Appointments done in the university for further improvement; Graduates who passed the fellowship exam.

This paper examines the precipitous drop in crime rates in Edmonton reported over the past two years. Previous analysis shows that the major reasons for changes in crime rates include: reduction in the numbers of the at-risk population: deterioration in the social and economic climate: changes in laws; alterations in access to police; and changes in the proactive nature of policing. The results of analysis of data drawn from official files and community surveys from one city indicate that the drop in crime rates are a function of declines in property crime reporting: administrative decisions taken to alter the access to police resources for the public; and a shift towards community policing with an emphasis on problem solving and crime prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a background of the author's study on the Alex Taylor Community School in Edmonton, Alberta. Assistance of Canadian educator Steve Ramsankar in the study; Changing the definition of teaching.

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