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Item Embargo 11-296 K temperature variation of spin Hamiltonian parameters describing the 9.3 GHz EPR spectrum of Gd3+ impurity ions in the Y(OH)3 and Eu(OH)3 host lattices(1983) Boteler, J. M., 1950-; Buckmaster, Harvey A.Item Embargo 9A street LRT: a proposal for light rail transit in Hillhurst-Sunnyside(1983) Kostyniuk, James; McKellar, JamesItem Embargo A Behavioral study of the efficacy of Penfluridol(1976) Kaufman, Patricia Alison; Frost, Barry P.Item Embargo A Body of Longing: The Erotic and Decolonial Power of the Biotext(2023-07-19) Fernando, Tarini Nandita; Whitehead, Joshua; Dobson, Kit; Banerjee, PallaviA Body of Longing: The Erotic and Decolonial Power of the Biotext is a creative thesis that explores the radical potential of the biotext as a genre that defies formal and generic restrictions, especially the expectations of autobiography. Using postcolonial, affective, and literary deconstructionist theories, I explore questions such as, how does the biotext challenge formal and generic categorization? What decolonial and feminist potentials lie in the rejection of literary categories by Black, Indigenous, and writers of colour in a settler-colonial state? I investigate these questions through close analyses of experimental biotextual writings in contemporary Canadian and Indigenous English-language literatures, such as Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill, Jordan Abel’s NISHGA, and, of course, my own biotextual poetry. Through my analyses, I find that the biotext, through its lack of strict generic and formal expectations, inherently encourages experimentation and the blurring of literary categories. This rejection of categorization is what allows BIPOC authors to resist readability by the Canadian state, which seeks to fetishize and restrict their stories within the colonial borders of the nation-state. In investigating the work of authors like Wah, I also theorize that one reason diasporic Asian-Canadian writers have been so foundational to the history of the biotext is that they are particularly well-positioned to use formal and generic experimentation to challenge constructions of home and identity. I also argue that visual experimentation is a key tool that heightens the decolonial breaking of generic and formal boundaries that I attempt in my poetry. Drawing strongly from Audre Lorde’s theory of the power of the erotic, my poetry collection takes up the genre of biotext and articulates my own vision for erotic, decolonial, Sri Lankan, feminist futures. Inspired by Abel’s oeuvre, M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, and Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal Indigiqueer, my poetry makes intentional use of visual experimentation to challenge both the reader and state’s consumption of the text. Ultimately, I wish to contribute to the traditions created by writers like Wah and Abel, who boldly defy the colonial restrictions of genre and form, and push the biotext to ever-changing dimensions.Item Embargo A Braille terminal(1978) Roe, Bruce W.; Soule, Stephen P.Item Embargo A Brief survey of some constitutive equations with particular reference to viscoelastic materials(1971) Rees, Ruth M.; Westbrook, David R.Item Embargo A Building for the Faculty of Environmental Design(1978) Colless, Donald John; Taylor, Dale M.Item Embargo A Canadian at the Court of Queen Victoria: the High Commissionership, 1880-1895(1967) Robinson, John M.; Shields, Robert A. M.Item Embargo A Case history and analysis of Stoney Indian-government interaction with regard to the Big Horn Dam: the effects of citizen participation - a lesson in government perfidy and Indian frustration(1975) Getty, Wayne Edwin Allen; Carniol, BenA basic tenet of responsible government is citizen participation. However, participation only has significance when people feel that it will give them some control over the forces that affect their lives. In Canada, the significant disparity in wealth and power between those who "have" and those who "have not" has resulted in a situation of alienation and powerlessness for many Canadians. Community organization is directed towards redressing this wrong by enabling groups to regain some measure of power over their lives. This case history relates how a group of Indians organized to assert their right s as a minority group in a democratic system. They tried to achieve a just solution to their problem, but instead, they encountered an insensitive government whose actions served only to increase the Indians' frustrations. Two events of the case history are analyzed , using the framework of the social action model of Community organization to help understand the role of the organizer, the processes of forming strategy, and the use of tactics in achieving established goals. The Government of Alberta and the Calgary Power Company started work on the Big Horn Dam project in the Fall of 1968. The Big Horn Indians (a branch of the Stoney Tribe living on the Kootenay Plains 100 miles west of Rocky Mountain House in Central Alberta) were the only people living in the immediate area to be affected by the dam. They opposed this construction and, subsequently, they organized to stop the project. After meeting with the Provincial Government, and having their requests totally rejected, the Big Horn inhabitants decided to end their opposition to the construction of the dam and, instead, to negotiate for land as compensation for losses suffered as a result of the construction. Again their requests were rejected by the province. The Stoneys then embarked upon a research project to prove a treaty entitlement to land in the district to be flooded. Upon completion of the research in April 1972, the Stoneys met with the Provincial Government in an effort to obtain compensation and assistance to help the Big Horn residents adjust to the new environment being created by the project. They were rebuffed with a promise that the government would deal with the problems sometime in the future. New actions and legislation by the Provincial Government continued to erode the Big Horn people's economic base until, finally, they were no longer able to earn a living from the land and became dependent upon welfare payments. A further effect was the gradual breakdown of social and cultural patterns within the reserve. The Federal Government recognized the Big Horn inhabitants' claim for land under treaty rights and asked the province to supply the needed land under the provisions of the 1930 Natural Resources Act. The Government of Alberta refused to comply and is presently referring the case to the court for settlement. As a result of the Provincial Government's inaction and insensitivity towards the problems, the Big Horn people have experienced a continuing build-up of frustration over their inability to make the government concerned enough to act constructively. Unless governments are prepared to act justly towards native citizens' claims and aspirations, native people will be forced to use power tactics in an effort to make the governments respond in a more realistic and meaningful way to their problems.Item Open Access A Case of One: An Autobiographical Design Approach to Explore a Personal Informatics Preparation Stage Procedure(2024-09-20) Zhang, Xinchi; Schroeder, Meadow; Ringland, Kathryn; Zhao, Richard; Wang, MeaThis thesis exploration was started as a personal design endeavor to have a system that can support realistic task arrangement during my graduate school. This exploration landed to the often-overlooked area — the preparation stage in the Stage-Based Model (SBM) — in the personal informatics (PI) field. Personal informatics supports people to gain self-understanding through reflection on their relevant personal data. The preparation stage, which can involve many decision-making processes such as understanding the motivation of collecting personal information, deciding the information to collect, and choosing the appropriate tools, is where prior PI research focused significantly less on. This thesis aims to narrow this gap by introducing a procedure and an accompanying artifact, Qubio. I took an autobiographical design approach. Autobiographical design offers many advantages such as close use to allow rapid iteration whenever needed (fast tinkering). Then, combining with reflection, diligent documentation (46+ hrs recordings, 262 reflection entries), and long-term usage (47 months), I established a personal reflective procedure to determine what data I might track. The procedure includes 1) externalization of obligations and interests, 2) mapping (for goal choices), and 3) task arrangement, which is supported by the token-based artifact, Qubio. This exploration bridges the preparation stage of the Stage-Based Model in PI and the Integrated Model of Goal-Focused Coaching (Integrated Model) in psychology. I conclude this thesis by discussing research opportunities in connection to the Integrated Model for the preparation stage in PI and suggesting collaboration between PI and personal information visualization to support visualization agency in PI practices. I further suggest revisiting established PI models to potentially integrate the field’s expanded understanding of PI related activities. Finally, I reflect on how an autobiographical design approach produced a personalized procedure and artifact.Item Embargo A Case study in the preparation of teaching materials for Indian children(1983) Gibson, Susan Elaine, 1953-; Moore-Eyman, Evelyn R.Item Embargo A case study of environmental impact assessment in the coal industry in British Columbia(1980) Zaretsky, Dellas A.; Thompson, Dixon A. R.Item Embargo A case study of the historical and contemporary events and forces leading to the establishment of a fourth category of private schools in Alberta(1980) Wolfe, Norbert Joseph; Proudfoot, Alexander J.Item Embargo A Case study on the Canadian policy and Calgary community response to the Southeast Asian refugees, 1979 - 1980(1981) Knott, Yvette Yvonne Lucille; Baker, Derek G.Item Embargo A child's world: the design of a day care centre for the University of Calgary(1981) Palmer, Marilyn G.; McMordie, Michael J.The objective of the Ma ster's Degree Project is to demonstrate proficiency in design through the schematic design of a Day Care Centre for sixty children for the University of Calgary. The design of the Centre is based on a Facility Programme (Appendix I), developed in part from the Recommendations for Child Care Centres by Gary T. Moore, et al, of the University of Wisconsin and in part from the spec1f1c requirements of the University of Calgary Day Care Centre administration. The design is developed to the schematic level and is described graphically by a site plan, a floor plan, two sections, four elevations, an exterior perspective, three interior perspectives and a typical wall section. The text accompanying the drawings describes the intent of the design under the headings of function, form and context. Concepts such as 'Age-Related Places', 'Home Clusters', 'Play Precincts', 'Open Circulation', and 'Modified Open Plan' have contributed to the functional organization of the building. The form is generated primarily by a hexagonal geometry, an intimate indoor-outdoor connection and concepts related to zoning and image. The proposal also responds to contextual issues such as topography, existing vegetation, orientation, adjacent land use, services and access.Item Embargo A Chinese cultural centre for Calgary(1985) Chow, Richard D. (Richard Douglas), 1952-; Love, JamesItem Embargo A Classification scheme for waterfowl breeding habitat in the Peace-Athabasca delta(1980) Hughes, Francine M. R.; Cordes, Lawrence D.Item Embargo A Climatological investigation of air pollutants in Calgary's urban heat island(1974) Lunn, Gerald R.; Nkemdirim, Lawrence C.Item Embargo A cognitive approach to lithic analysis(1977) Reardon, Gerard V.; Kelley, N. Jane H.Item Embargo A Combustion tube for investigation of in-situ oil recovery(1976) Harding, Thomas G.; Moore, R. Gordon