Randall Wakelam, Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011).

Patriotic War , 1941 to 1945 *

Old war, new battle, new fighters!

Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have been of critical importance in the control of infectious diseases. However, the extensive use and misuse of antibiotics during recent decades led to the widespread development and distribution of resistance to multiple drugs among bacteria. With the alarming levels of antibiotic resistance and the difficulties associated with discovering novel...

UBC at Slot Filling TAC-KBP 2011

This paper describes our submissions for the Slot Filling task of TAC-KBP 2011. The system takes as baseline the one we developed for the 2010 edition (Intxaurrondo et al., 2010), which is based on distant supervision. We did a straightforward implementation, trained using snippets of the document collection containing both entity and filler from the KB provided by the organizers. Our system do...

ASp, 53-54 | 2011

English teachers are frequently asked to help colleagues prepare presentations for internationalconferences. Sometimes this assistance takes the form of a language course or tutorials focusingon the spoken language. Contact time is short but the participants are highly motivated. Whattype of pronunciation work will provide the greatest payoff in terms of successfully beingunders...

Ergonomics – rok 2011 , ročník 54

The relationship between research and practice in ergonomics and human factors has rarely been addressed in the literature. This presents specific problems for researchers when seeking to relate their work to the research community. Equally, practitioners are often frustrated by the lack of appropriate research to meet their needs. This paper seeks to identify current drivers for ergonomics res...