This thesis examines the transmission of intergenerational cultural knowledge on eastern James Bay Cree lands. Geospatial technologies and the representation of Cree knowledge are explored, with emphasis on the geoweb. A geoweb with two parts, old and new, is theorized…

A significant gap exists between evidence-based practice (EBP) and actual occupational therapy (OT) practice in the management of a disabling post-stroke impairment - unilateral spatial neglect (USN). With improved patient outcomes linked to the use of best practices, it is…

The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), a necessary cause of cervical cancer has been found to be high in Inuit populations. This study examined 1) the level of knowledge about HPV infection and its relation to cervical cancer and 2)…

Authentication protocols aim to prevent agent impersonation: A is authenticated to B if B knows who A is. Many formal approaches have been used to verify authentication in distributed systems; however, although authentication is directly related to agent knowledge, it…

Knowledge management (KM) offers a variety of tools to share and preserve knowledge. In particular, communities of practice (CoPs) have emerged as a KM approach that allows people from different disciplines to better share what they know and to build…

For individuals with disabilities the transition from school to adopting adult roles within the community often presents numerous challenges. In a sample of pre-service education teachers, perceptions of school to community transitions of students with disabilities were investigated. Pre-service education…

Esta investigación enfatiza la importancia del conocimiento matemático del profesorado para garantizar una educación matemática continua. Desde esta perspectiva de continuidad se explora el papel del docente de matemáticas en la transición de primaria a secundaria, un contexto especialmente adecuado…

This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric thought not only penetrated into fundamental areas…

This study examined two different strategies of learning with diagrams: drawing diagrams while learning or learning from pre-constructed diagrams. One hundred ninety six junior high school students were randomly placed in a condition either to draw while learning about how…

Through the study of three chapters dealing with a philosophical discussion of God's knowledge (especially of particulars as opposed to universals) from two Ottoman studies on Ghazālī's (Algazel, d. 1111) Tahāfut al-Falāsifah (‘The Incoherence of the Philosophers'), this thesis offers…