UNews - Internet access /unews/industry-term/internet-access en Immersed in the culture /unews/article/immersed-culture <div class="field field-name-field-op-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="rnews:creator schema:creator"><div class="view view-openpublish-related-content view-id-openpublish_related_content view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-b54b6073ad7caaee2d5ca570e3749a86"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="views-label views-label-title">by</span> <span class="field-content"><a href="/unews/profile/trevor-kenney">Trevor Kenney</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">June 27, 2011</span> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>A group of U of L Rotaract club members were recently in Guatemala to present <a href="http://www.rootsandwingsintl.org/" rel="nofollow">Roots and Wings International</a> (RWI) with $1,000, which the not-for-profit organization used to provide Internet access to the 1,200-resident village of Pasac in Nahuala, Solol&aacute;. The charity recently constructed the first tech center in the area, where 30 computers serve 600 students and members of the community.</p> <p>While in Pasac, the group stayed with local families, and truly learned what life is like in rural Guatemala.<br> <br> "Most of our time was spent with the local people, either hiking, working in their homes with them or playing soccer with the kids," says Samantha Gilbert.<br> "The hospitality and generosity we experienced touched all of our hearts, and it is because of this experience that our club has decided to support Roots and Wings in the future with annual contributions to their scholarship fund. We all were able to see with our own eyes just how valuable this group is, and how, through their scholarship programs, computer literacy classes, and after school tutoring, they are making positive changes in the lives of the kids, families, and post-secondary students of the region."</p> <p><em><strong>This story first appeared in the Legend. To view the Legend in a flipbook format, follow this <a href="http://issuu.com/ulethbridge/docs/leg061011-all" rel="nofollow">link</a>.</strong></em></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-group-format group_related_topics field-group-div group-related-topics block-title-body speed-fast effect-none"><h2><span>Related Topics</span></h2><div class="field field-name-opencalais-city-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">City:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/city/pasac" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Pasac</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-industryterm-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">IndustryTerm:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/industry-term/internet-access" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Internet access</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/samantha-gilbert" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Samantha Gilbert</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="Immersed in the culture" class="rdf-meta"></span> Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:06:18 +0000 trevor.kenney 5452 at /unews StatsCan Research Data Centre a valuable resource /unews/article/statscan-research-data-centre-valuable-resource <div class="field field-name-field-op-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="rnews:creator schema:creator"><div class="view view-openpublish-related-content view-id-openpublish_related_content view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-689d4fab0772dc92a2e831af86b0ab41"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="views-label views-label-title">by</span> <span class="field-content"><a href="/unews/profile/trevor-kenney">Trevor Kenney</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">June 23, 2011</span> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>It's a tiny, plain research space, with four small workstations and no Internet access. It requires, among other things, an RCMP security clearance to access the information located within it, and has steel reinforcement built into the walls &ndash; so forget about cell phone use. Card key access is tightly controlled and someone is on-site to monitor attendance and carefully screen all notes and results that leave.</p> <p>So, with all this fuss to access, why is Abdie Kazemipur (<a href="http://www.uleth.ca/fas/soc/" rel="nofollow">sociology</a>) so happy? He and other approved researchers now have access to the entire Statistics Canada (<a href="http://www.statcan.gc.ca/" rel="nofollow">StatsCan</a>) database system &ndash; a new initiative that will help 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge researchers gain significant ground as they work on projects that require raw data sets normally not available to the general public.<br> <div class="image-caption-container" style="width:400px;"><img src="/unews/sites/default/files/main/articles/statscan.jpg" title="Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, (l) and graduate student Martin Russenberger (r) are the people to contact if your research project requires extensive Statistics Canada data." alt="&quot; /"><div class="image-caption">Dr. Abdie Kazemipur, (l) and graduate student Martin Russenberger (r) are the people to contact if your research project requires extensive Statistics Canada data.</div></div><br> The U of L recently flipped the 'on' switch to launch a StatsCan Research Data Centre (RDC) Branch, one of just two dozen all-access points in Canada &ndash; mostly in larger institutions &ndash; for people who are working with data provided by StatsCan for approved projects.</p> <p>U of L administration (VP-Academic, VP-Administration, and VP-Research) and the dean of <a href="http://www.uleth.ca/fas" rel="nofollow">Arts and Science</a> supported the $70,000 project. It also received significant input and assistance from the library, campus facilities and IT departments as the space was created.</p> <p>Kazemipur, the academic director of the U of L Research Data Centre and a sociology researcher who uses StatsCan data in his work on immigration, says the chance to access rich individual and household data in Lethbridge saves both time and money, offering an opportunity to significantly increase research productivity.</p> <p>"I would previously have to go to Calgary, and spend intense days analyzing the data," he says. "There were many limitations on my time, and on what I was able to do during the time I had."</p> <p>Kazemipur says the new centre should expand research opportunities for many faculty members in social sciences, health sciences and management who, like him, want to go deeper into their research and beyond the data available for public use.</p> <p>Local access should also be an enticement to other researchers to come to the U of L to work or conduct research, in particular the 22 research affiliates of the <a href="http://www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/" rel="nofollow">Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy</a>, which is expected to be one of the more frequent users of the facility.</p> <p>"Researchers in the Prentice Institute &ndash; more than 20 faculty, post-docs and students &ndash; are delighted to have access to micro-level data in our new Research Data Centre," says<br> Dr. Susan McDaniel, the institute's director. "Our mission is to examine population change in shifting economic environments. One of the best ways to do this is to follow individuals over time rather than compare different sets of people at two points in time."</p> <p>McDaniel says that the RDC enables researchers in one of her SSHRC-funded projects to follow Canadians at seven points of time as they move from mid-life into their older years.</p> <p>"It is really, as famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky was fond of saying, skating to where the puck will be. I am certain that having the RDC here will help us recruit new faculty and junior research chairs to work in the Prentice Institute."</p> <p>The process to gain access to the data is not as challenging is it might first sound, Kazemipur says. Projects must go through several steps, including an<br> online application to the <a href="http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca" rel="nofollow">Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council </a>(SSHRC), which triggers a request to StatsCan for access to the appropriate dataset &ndash; and that's where the security checks come in.</p> <p>Once approved, a researcher gains access to the data centre with a swipe card, and can sign in and out as needed to complete their work.</p> <p>Anyone wishing to use the centre, or who has a project they feel could benefit from access to the StatsCan data, can contact Kazemipur for more information on the process.</p> <p>Contact him at 403-329-5132 or e-mail <a href="mailto:abdie.kazemipur@uleth.ca" rel="nofollow">abdie.kazemipur@uleth.ca</a>. Or, you can contact site supervisor Martin Russenberger, a part-time StatsCan employee and current Geography/Economics graduate student at the U of L (<a href="mailto:rdc@uleth.ca" rel="nofollow">rdc@uleth.ca</a>).<br> <em><strong><br> This story first appeared in the Legend. To view the Legend in a flipbook format, follow this <a href="http://issuu.com/ulethbridge/docs/leg061011-all" rel="nofollow">link</a>.</strong></em></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-group-format group_related_topics field-group-div group-related-topics block-title-body speed-fast effect-none"><h2><span>Related Topics</span></h2><div class="field field-name-opencalais-city-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">City:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/city/calgary" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Calgary</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-company-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Company:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/company/statscan" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">StatsCan</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-facility-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Facility:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/facility/prentice-institute" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Prentice Institute</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-industryterm-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">IndustryTerm:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/industry-term/internet-access" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Internet access</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/industry-term/online-application" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">online application</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/industry-term/steel-reinforcement" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">steel reinforcement</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-organization-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/organization/prentice-institute" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Prentice Institute</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/organization/statscan-research-data-centre" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">StatsCan Research Data Centre</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/organization/research-data-centre" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Research Data Centre</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/organization/social-sciences-and-humanities-research-council" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/organization/university-lethbridge" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/organization/prentice-institute-global-population-and-economy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/abdie-kazemipur" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Abdie Kazemipur</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/susan-mcdaniel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Susan McDaniel</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/wayne-gretzky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Wayne Gretzky</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/martin-russenberger" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Martin Russenberger</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-phonenumber-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">PhoneNumber:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/phone-number/403-329-5132" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">403-329-5132</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-position-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Position:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/position/sociology-researcher" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Sociology researcher</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/position/researcher" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">researcher</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/position/site-supervisor" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">site supervisor</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/position/academic-director" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">academic director</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/position/director" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Director</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/position/hockey-player" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">hockey player</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/position/dean" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">dean</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/position/famous-hockey-player" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">famous hockey player</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-technology-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Technology:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/technology/cellular-telephone" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">cellular telephone</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="StatsCan Research Data Centre a valuable resource" class="rdf-meta"></span> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:35:32 +0000 trevor.kenney 3927 at /unews Utilizing online learning to manage health /unews/article/utilizing-online-learning-manage-health <div class="field field-name-field-op-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="rnews:creator schema:creator"><div class="view view-openpublish-related-content view-id-openpublish_related_content view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-bda8bc508ed3f5789397c004c55a0357"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="views-label views-label-title">by</span> <span class="field-content"><a href="/unews/profile/trevor-kenney">Trevor Kenney</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">March 11, 2010</span> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>When it comes to chronic diseases like diabetes, the key to warding off complications lies in the daily management of the illness &ndash; that's why education is so important.</p> <p>But a face-to-face meeting with a nurse educator isn't the only way to learn self-management techniques. A research study by <a href="http://www.uleth.ca/management" rel="nofollow">Faculty of Management</a> professor Dr. Helen Kelley and her research collaborators, Dr. Mike Chiasson (<a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">Lancaster 免费福利资源在线看片</a>) and Dr. Angela Downey (<a href="http://www.uvic.ca" rel="nofollow">免费福利资源在线看片 of Victoria</a>), is revealing that e-health technologies &ndash; when used strategically &ndash; can boost health outcomes in the ever-growing population of people with Type II diabetes.</p> <p>"As incidents increase, there's definitely a cost to our health-care system. Given concerns with the cost of healthcare, how do we provide the education that's needed so people develop good self-care management practices?" she asks.</p> <p>Kelley and her colleagues led a 12-month, longitudinal study involving three groups of newly diagnosed diabetes patients from the former Chinook Health Region, who were given different combinations of learning tools. The first group of patients had face-to-face meetings with clinicians, as well as Internet access for independent searches for information. The second group was given electronic versions of educational material developed for the Chinook Health Region, e-messaging for communicating with clinicians and an electronic blood glucose journal, but no face-to-face coaching. Like the second group, the third had access to educational materials, e-messaging for communicating with clinicians and the journal, but also a list of educational websites, bulletin boards for posing questions to clinicians and chat rooms for speaking with other newly diagnosed diabetics and clinicians.</p> <p>The study, which wrapped up in December, monitored a special biomedical indicator in the patients' blood (hemoglobin A1c) in order to determine whether the use of the various electronic features for education was having positive health outcomes. Early analysis shows that the third group made the biggest health gains.</p> <p>"Early results from our study suggest that if you're mindful of the type of technology you develop, you can get very positive results &ndash; as good as face-to-face outcomes and perhaps even better," Kelley says.</p> <p>However, the key is using technology strategically.</p> <p>"You can't just slap materials on a website and say, 'Here you go &ndash; go ahead and manage your disease.' 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href="/unews/industry-term/internet-access" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Internet access</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/industry-term/e-health-technologies" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">e-health technologies</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/industry-term/e-messaging" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">e-messaging</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/industry-term/healthcare" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">healthcare</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/industry-term/learning-tools" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">learning tools</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-medicalconditio-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">MedicalCondition:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a 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odd"><a href="/unews/person/helen-kelley" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Helen Kelley</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/angela-downey" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Angela Downey</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-position-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Position:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/position/professor" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">professor</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/position/nurse" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">nurse</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-technology-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Technology:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/technology/e-health-technologies" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">e-health technologies</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="Utilizing online learning to manage health" class="rdf-meta"></span> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:51:52 +0000 trevor.kenney 4625 at /unews