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CARIF: A computational program for item information functions and item characteristic curves
Condemned to rootlessness: the loyalist origins of Canada's identity crisis
Few observers have sought to explain why French Canadians, Metis and even AngloâAmericans developed a sense of indigenous ethnicity while EnglishâCanadians failed to do the same. Fewer still have sought to connect this to the national âidentity crisisâ often mentioned in the discourse of Englishâspeaking Canada. This article asserts that English Canada's perception of a âCanadianâ identity crisis is really an EnglishâCanadian one which has its roots in English Canada's Loyalist ethnic core. In contrast to most nations, English Canada never developed an indigenous ethnic core. Instead, its ânonâethnicâ identity, from its Loyalist beginnings, remained split. On one side was a repressed American folk culture, which outsiders used to recognize the EnglishâCanadians. On the other was an exalted set of British myths, symbols and narratives, to which EnglishâCanadians attached themselves. The pattern of EnglishâCanadian cultural history is therefore unsurprising: it involves a tension between American and British influence, with seemingly no exit. Thus the âCanadiansâ, deprived of a distinct founding people, were, from the beginning, âcondemned to rootlessnessâ
Ground-penetrating radar observations for estimating the vertical displacement of rotational landslides
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the applicability of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) for monitoring the displacement of slow-moving
landslides. GPR data are used to estimate the vertical movement of rotational
slides in combination with other surveying techniques. The study area is
located along the Normandy coast (northeast France) where several rotational
landslides are continuously affected by a seasonal kinematic regime (low
displacement rates of 0.01 to 0.10 m yr<sup>â1</sup>) and periodically by major
acceleration events (high displacement rates of 1.0 to 7.0 m per event)
Variations in Monoamine Contents in Discrete Brain Regions and Their Concomitance with Plasma Corticosteroids During the Day
Tolérance glycémique des bolus intraveineux de méthylprednisolone en milieu ophtalmologique
Pregnancies following the interval double-transfer technique in an in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer program
The three-dimensional âinsect eyeâ laparoscopic imaging system-a prospective randomized study
Experimental Evidence for the Existence of an Extrarhinencephalic Control of the Activity of the Cobalt Rhinencephalic Epileptogenic Focus.
Organisational Values as 'Attractors of Chaos': An Emerging Cultural Change to Manage Organisational Complexity
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