Dr. John Hewson's appointment to Memorial University's Henrietta Harvey Chair in May 1997 marked 37 years of distinguished service as scholar, teacher and administrator.
Dr. Hewson, an APLA member since the early days of our...
John Haugeland passed away suddenly in 2010 leaving behind an unfinished book manuscript on Heidegger. He was an analytic philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; however, he had an “extensive...
John Benton (M.A. B.Ed. B.A.) is an active scholar and educator. He has published academic articles and books in the philosophy of language, method, and co-authored a book on economics. Benton engages in international outreach...
Book Review. Eric Severson reviews Peter Gratton and John Panteleimon Manoussakis, eds. Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
[Book Review] Eric Severson reviews John Panteleimon Manoussakis, ed. After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
The proposed Energy East pipeline project has raised concerns about potential oil spills in Saint John, New Brunswick, due to increased tanker traffic. While environmental conditions such as strong tide and current could pose...
English nouns have been described as having the ability to “switch easily between common-noun and proper-name uses.” Such changes or transformations are sometimes misanalysed by researchers and are often hard for ELL and L2 ESL...
John Rawls’ theory of justice provided a revolutionary conception of the justice system and the morals behind it. As a solution to the deadlock of utilitarian and intuitionist theories of justice, it presented a superior...
Kenneth R. Melchin is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Director of the Lonergan Centre at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He has authored numerous publications including Spiritualizing Politics without...
On the occasion of his retirement, the Atlantic Provinces LinguisticAssociation lakes the opportunity to dedicate this issue ofLINGUISTICA ATLANTICA to James Black - Professor, former Chair of the Linguistics Department and...
Cities in China gather data to support strategic and operational management, including databases on buildings, land use, human occupancy, underground services, and travel surveys. However, these data are seldom used to analyze...
Culturally responsive teaching (CRT), social-emotional learning (SEL), and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) are powerful, evidence-based approaches to teaching and supporting students. Special educators and...
In this paper, the authors create, justify, and document a system dynamics model of the oil and gas production within the Permian Basin of Texas. Then the researchers show how to fit the model to historical time series data (big...
Firms are awash in big data and analytical technology as part of the process of deriving values in the current turbulent environment. The literature has reached a consensus that investments in technology only may not reap...
Alexandra Gillis is a teacher and educational researcher living in the city of Vancouver, on the territorial lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, amidst mountains and ocean of Canada’s west coast. She has...
Fetishism is the attribution of value to an object. To understand fetishism, therefore, requires a grasp of the value which is attributed to an object. More dynamically, it points to the need to comprehend the mechanisms—the...
Nigeria is regarded as the giant of Africa because of its huge oil resource wealth. For years the country has been restoring peace in troubled countries. It also has the support of world leaders because of its strong advocacy...
Credit card use is ubiquitous. The credit cardholders’ behaviour of accumulating reward points and its effect is studied. The credit card users are categorised into government employees, private sector employees and the...
The internationalization of higher education is as old as the university itself. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in transnational higher education, a specific form of internationalization that considers...