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The article presents a list of various papers on policy studies subjects that were presented at the 1977 annual meetings of the Midwest, New England, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, and Western Political Science Association. Philip Abbott of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan presented "Philosophy of Political Theory and Public Policy: The Abortion Question in the Classroom." John Shiry of University at Alberta, presented "Policy Type and the Political Process in a Canadian Province: A Test of the Lowi Model."

The article focuses on the program for the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America. The meeting will be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada, from June 20-24, 1971. The chairmen of the program will be Harold C. Bold and Louis Druehl. All sessions of the program at which contributed papers, lectures and the symposium are presented are scheduled as joint sessions of the Phycological Society of America, the Phycological Section of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Phycological Section of the Botanical Society of America.

Presents news briefs concerning biologists and biological research. Presentation of the 1987 Award for Excellence in Weed Science in Western Canada to William H. Vanden Born of the University of Alberta's Department of Plant Science; Award of the 1988 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement to Bert Bolin, a professor of meteorology at the University of Stockholm; Presentation of the Outstanding Young Investigator Award by the American Federation of Clinical Research to Richard Klausner of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland, and to William Chin of the Harvard University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; Alumni award from Rutgers University which was presented to F. Herbert Bormann of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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While improving the “hard” resources of the physical infrastructure is important to facilitating cross-border trade, studies of global supply chain logistics performance suggest that expanding the focus to include “soft” infrastructure resources will be critical for future gains. Border management is increasingly important to North American trade facilitation, yet little is known about what constitutes the soft infrastructure of border crossings or how to design and manage this infrastructure for improved performance. Hence, this study uses an exploratory research design to examine the nature and dimensions of the soft infrastructure of border crossings. The research relies on a grounded-theory analysis of primary data collected in an exploratory case study of two border crossings between Alberta, Canada, and Montana, US. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Surface and upper-air analyses from the ECMWF Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) dataset are used to construct a climatology of 177 Alberta clippers over 15 boreal cold seasons (October–March) from 1986/87 to 2000/01. The Alberta clipper (hereafter simply clipper) occurs most frequently during December and January and substantially less frequently during October and March. These cyclones generally move southeastward from the lee of the Canadian Rockies toward or just north of Lake Superior before progressing eastward into southeastern Canada or the northeastern United States, with less than 10% of the cases in the climatology tracking south of the Great Lakes. Characteristics of the structure and evolution of clippers during a 36-h period leading up to departure of the cyclone from the lee of the Canadian Rockies and a 60-h period after departure as the cyclone traverses central and eastern North America are examined through composite analyses. Over the course of the predeparture period, a cyclone over the Gulf of Alaska approaches the west coast of North America, and through its interaction with the mountainous terrain of western North America spawns a surface lee trough, characterized by a thermal ridge at 850 hPa, to the east of the Canadian Rockies. This thermal ridge dampens considerably as the composite clipper moves into central North America away from the immediate lee of the Canadian Rockies. The composite clipper system evolves from a lee cyclone with its nonclassical thermal structure to a more classically structured midlatitude cyclone as it moves through central and eastern North America largely as a result of rotation of the low-level thermal gradient and the increasing westward tilt with height of the composite clipper over the last 36 h of the postdeparture period. The thermal gradient rotation is dynamically linked to convergence of the along-isentrope component of the Q vector and thus to the ascent that sustains the clipper and creates some of its characteristic sensible weather elements. Such dynamical forcing is a direct consequence of the persistent westward displacement of the 500-hPa vorticity maximum with respect to the composite clipper sea level pressure minimum that characterizes the postdeparture period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of regionalism has long been an important element of scholarly work in both Canada and the United States. The study of regionalism and political culture in the United States is meaningful because the very expression of social, economic, and political differences along geographic lines is considered to be part and parcel of American political life. The province of Alberta and the state of Idaho lie within the Mountain West region of North America and hence, should share a number of cultural, social, and political similarities that bind them together. Spurred on by the already substantial trade links between Alberta and Idaho — in the year 2000, Alberta's exports to Idaho were over $252 million, and Idaho's exports to Alberta were over $143 million — Alberta Premier Ralph Klein agreed to reinvigorate relations in such areas as agriculture, forestry, transportation, trade, technology, education, tourism, and the environment. Despite these intergovernmental efforts, the fact remains that the people of Alberta and Idaho — including their governmental leaders — know little about the other's history or political culture. The province of Alberta and the state of Idaho, while vastly different in many ways, possess commonalties that might surprise many in both locations. Both have a small proportion of minorities, with Alberta's aboriginal and Asian populations and Idaho's Hispanic population steadily increasing in size and activity in the public arena. Both Alberta and Idaho are marked by the unique presence of Mormons that was fostered by emigration out of Utah in the 1800s.

U–Pb geochronology, palynology, and lithostratigraphy were employed on the Late Cretaceous rocks in southern Alberta and Montana to solve litho- and chronostratigraphic correlation problems. In the outcrop area around Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, southern Alberta, the Milk River Formation has a Santonian to possibly very earliest Campanian age and was deposited between ~84.5 Ma and 83.5 Ma. In southern Montana, the Eagle Formation was deposited from ~83.5 Ma to 81.2 Ma, and contains different lithologies and depositional environments as opposed to southern Alberta. In north-central Montana, the Telegraph Creek Formation and Virgelle and Deadhorse Coulee members are equivalent in depositional environments and time to those of the Milk River Formation in southern Alberta. The upper Eagle member, however, has no time- or facies-equivalent rocks around Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, but is time equivalent to the Alderson Member of the Lea Park Formation in southeastern Alberta. A hiatus of ~2.5 Ma is present between the top of the Milk River Formation in the outcrop area and the basal beds of the Pakowki Formation. The Pakowki transgression occurred at around 81.0 Ma based on a U–Pb zircon age of 80.7 ± 0.2 Ma from bentonite beds just above the bottom of the Pakowki Formation in southern Alberta. This age agrees with previous ages of 80.7 ± 0.6 Ma for the Ardmore Bentonite Beds and ~81.0 Ma for the Claggett transgression in southern Montana.Afin de résoudre des problèmes de corrélations lithostratigraphiques et chronostratigraphiques, on s'est servi de géochronologie U–Pb, de palynologie et de lithostratigraphie sur des roches du Crétacé tardif du sud de l'Alberta et du Montana. Dans la région des affleurements autour du parc provincial de Writing-On-Stone, au sud de l'Alberta, la Formation de Milk River date possiblement du Santonien au Campanien très précoce et aurait été déposée il y a environ 84,5 à 83,5 Ma. Dans le sud du Montana, la Formation Eagle a été déposée il y a environ 83,5 à 81,2 Ma; elle présente des lithologies et des milieux de déposition différents de ceux du sud de l'Alberta. Dans le centre-nord du Montana, la Formation de Telegraph Creek et les membres Virgelle et Deadhorse Coulee ont des milieux et des temps de déposition équivalents à ceux de la Formation de Milk River du sud de l'Alberta. Toutefois, le membre supérieur de Eagle n'a d'équivalent ni dans le temps ni dans les faciès dans les roches autour du parc provincial de Writing-On-Stone, mais il est équivalent dans le temps au membre Alderson de la Formation de Lea Park dans le sud-est de l'Alberta. Il existe un hiatus d'environ 2,5 Ma entre le sommet de la Formation de Milk River dans la région des affleurements et les lits à la base de la Formation de Pakowki. La transgression de Pakowki a eu lieu vers 81,0 Ma selon une détermination d'âge U–Pb de 80,7 ± 0,2 Ma sur un échantillon de zircon provenant de lits de bentonite juste au-dessus de la base de la Formation de Pakowki dans le sud de l'Alberta. Cet âge concorde avec des âges obtenus antérieurement de 80,7 ± 0,6 Ma pour les lits de bentonite Ardmore et d'environ 81,0 Ma pour la transgression de Claggett dans le sud du Montana.[Traduit par la Rédaction] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chasmosaurus irvinensis (sp. nov.) is distinguished from other species of this genus by the possession of a broad snout, absence of a brow horn (the position of which is occupied by a pit or rugosities suggestive of bone resorption), broadly rounded and open jugal notch, subrectangular squamosal, straight posterior parietal bar bearing 10 epoccipitals, eight of which are flattened, strongly curved anterodorsally, and nearly indistinguishably coossified to their neighbours, and small, transversely oriented parietal fenestrae restricted to the posterior portion of the frill. This species, restricted to the upper part of the Dinosaur Park Formation, is significantly younger than the other recognized Canadian Chasmosaurus species, C. belli and C. russelli. Phylogenetic analysis shows that C. irvinensis is most closely related to the other Canadian Chasmosaurus species and more distantly related to Chasmosaurus mariscalensis from Texas.Chasmosaurus irvinensis (sp. nov.) se distingue des autres espèces de ce genre par son large boutoir, l'absence d'une corne sur le front (cette position est occupée par une fossette ou des rugosités qui suggèrent une résorption osseuse), une encoche jugale généralement arrondie et ouverte, un temporal presque rectangulaire, une barre pariétale postérieure droite comportant 10 époccipitaux, dont huit sont aplatis et fortement recourbés, dirigées en position antéro-dorsale et co-ossifiés à leurs voisins de façon presque indistincte, ainsi que de petites fenêtres pariétales à orientation transversale restreintes à la partie arrière de la collerette. Cette espèce, limitée à la portion supérieure de la Formation de Dinosaur Park, est beaucoup plus jeune que les autres espèces canadiennes de Chasmosaurus, C. belli et C. russelli. Une analyse phylogénique montre que C. irvinensis est plus étroitement lié aux autres espèces canadiennes de Chasmosaurus et moins étroitement lié au Chasmosaurus mariscalensis du Texas.[Traduit par la Rédaction] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the role of United States-based farmers in the settlement and development of Saskatchewan and Alberta between 1897 and 1914. Economic factors that motivated immigration to Canadian prairies; Social conditions of farmers in the western Middle West; Effect of the rise in wheat prices on land values.

Surgeons caring for severely injured patients have witnessed tremendous change over the past 2 decades with the rapid evolution of trauma systems. This paper describes the evolution of trauma systems in Canada, using the one in Calgary as a model. Canadian system guidelines were produced by the Trauma Association of Canada in 1993. Participation in Canadian accreditation is accelerating as increasingly more centres across the country undergo external review each year. Reporting of trauma outcomes, including standardized mortality and a variety of performance measures, is becoming the norm. Injury is being treated as a disease with comprehensive control strategies aimed at reducing death and disability rates through prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.