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  • Sad Cows and Empty Pockets: How Reviews, Recommendations, and Word-of-Mouth Can Affect Your Life 

    Hartford, Kevin (2013-02-23)
    For financial endeavours that affect their immediate financial and physical well-being – finding a doctor, hiring a lawyer - people turn to trustworthy sources like family and friends for advice. For more frivolous matters ...
  • Sea level rise impacts in coastal zones: Soft measures to cope with it 

    Blanca Cisneros Linares, Paola (2013-02-17)
    Sea level rise impacts are projected to cause multiple negative consequences in coastal zones such as coastal erosion, flooding, flood-related health problems, property damage and social-economic impacts. Thus, it is ...
  • Seafood Ecolabels: For Whom and to What Purpose? 

    Lay, Kaitlan (2013-02-17)
    Ecolabelling is regarded as an important tool used as a means of promoting sustainable fisheries around the world, as they provide consumers with the opportunity to exercise a choice between different seafood products and ...
  • Social Tagging as a Knowledge Organization and Resource Discovery Tool 

    Allam, Hesham (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)
    The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the social tagging phenomenon, including how it evolved and the debate surrounding its benefits and limitations. Further, social tagging's potential as a new tool for ...
  • South African Public Libraries After Apartheid 

    Illsley, Robin (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2006)
    One of the challenges a postcolonial society has to face is reconciliation, the righting of wrongs and forgiveness. In South Africa, this includes the integration of all ethnic groups into every part of society. Public ...
  • The Spirit of Radio 

    Burke, David (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)
    As a source of information, local radio transcends the conveyance of explicit knowledge about a community and provides a tacit knowledge of the character of a community and a person's place within it. The speed and pattern ...
  • Stillborn: Regulated midwifery in Nova Scotia 

    Taylor, Brett (2013-02-17)
    The purpose of this paper is to investigate why midwifery policy has failed in Nova Scotia while it has succeeded elsewhere. The primary focus will be to analyse the Nova Scotia policy and its implementation through Paul ...
  • Submit or Resist: Google, is There a Third Way? 

    Hicks, Deborah (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2006)
    This article explores the impact that Google is having on the library profession. Google is enticing users away from their local libraries with its siren song of easy use and ?good enough? results, and librarians are ...
  • Subsidies and their Implications on Fisheries Management in St. Lucia 

    Lay, Kaitlan (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
    Worldwide, fisheries subsidies contribute to fleet overcapacity, to overfishing, and to the decimation of the marine environment. Despite the fact that small-scale fisheries catch roughly the same amount of edible fish ...
  • Taking The Game Out Of Gamification 

    Chorney, Alan Ivan (2013-02-23)
    Gamification purports to take elements from video games such as points, badges, levels, etc. and use them to motivate people to perform tasks outside of traditional video games. This paper challenges these claims by arguing ...
  • Talking Through the Keys 

    Allan, Kenneth (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)
    New technologies such as e-mail and instant messaging predispose themselves to a less formal style of writing than traditional letter-writing; however, thoughtful communication is still possible through these mediums.
  • Thrills, Chills, and Controversy: The Success of R. L. Stine's Goosebumps 

    Tanner, Nicole (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)
    This paper investigates the popularity of and controversy surrounding R. L. Stine‘s Goosebumps series. The books were very popular with children in the 1990s, yet the fact that they are series novels and they belong to the ...
  • "Two Roads to Middle Earth": Comparing Visualization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Cinematic Trilogy 

    Martin, Jennifer (Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)
    When comparing a much-loved novel to a cinematic adaptation, many people will say, “the book was better.” Even so, some of the same people remember scenes from the movie more vividly. Why? Building on Martin Barker’s (2006) ...
  • A Voice for the Community: Public Participation in Wind Energy Development 

    Wright, Zena M (2013-02-23)
    Wind energy is expanding globally and locally in Atlantic Canada. It is a promising emission-free energy alternative in a context of increasing climate change concerns. Public surveys have reported high levels of public ...
  • “What do you mean I can’t just use Google?” Information Literacy in an Academic Setting 

    Thorne, Laura (2013-02-17)
    Information literacy has become one of the most crucial skills for the twenty-first century, yet many Canadians, including university students, are not information literate. Universities in Canada aim to prepare students ...