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Title Enantioselective Rhodium-catalyzed Hydroacylation of Alkenes and Ketones & Silver-catalyzed Hydroamination of Cyclopropenes

Excerpt Due to the scarcity of energy resources that we are facing today, there is an increasing need for new methodology developments that are green and sustainable while minimizing unnecessary substrate pre-functionalization, by-product formation and waste generation. In this context, asymmetric rhodium-catalyzed hydroacylation is an atom-economical method for the preparation of chiral ketone derivatives from aldehyde […]

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Author Phan, Diem

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SDGs Affordable and Clean Energy

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Title Thinking Beyond Formal Institutions: Why Local Governments in China Tolerate Underground Protestant Churches

Excerpt That authoritarian regimes adopt various strategies of societal control to secure their resilience has been widely explored in comparative politics. The scholarship has emphasized regimes’ reliance upon tactics as diverse as cooptation, economic and social policy reforms, and multiparty elections. Yet, existing comparative studies have predominantly focused on formal institutions, largely ignoring authoritarian states’ resort […]

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Author Reny, Marie-Eve

Advisor Bertrand, Jacques

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title (Un)Mapping The Contested Geographies Of Urban Knowledge Production During the 2010 World Cup In South Africa

Excerpt In 2010, South Africa became the first country on the continent of Africa to host a World Cup. This thesis analyzes aspects of the planning process for this mega-event. My analysis focuses on three interrelated phenomena: public order policing and re-branding through the control of public space; policy transfer and the attempt to clone the […]

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Author Roberts, David Jay

Advisor Mahtani, Minelle

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Geography

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Keywords cities*, urban

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Title Exceptional Security Practices, Human Rights Abuses, and the Politics of Legal Legitimation in the American “Global War on Terror”

Excerpt Given the contradictory reality of a well-developed human rights and humanitarian regime alongside extensive human rights abuses committed in the “Global War on Terror,” the dissertation asks how and why law has shaped contemporary security policy. Focusing on the American case over time, I examine this problem empirically by tracing the changing impact of both […]

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Author Sanders, Rebecca

Advisor Welch, David A.

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Title Exurban Development: Mapping, Locating Factors, and Ecological Impact Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing

Excerpt Anthropogenic disturbance in a landscape can take various forms, including residential development, which has substantial impact on the world’s ecosystems. Exurban development, characterized by low density residential development outside urban areas, was and continues to be one of the fastest growing forms of residential development in North America. It has disproportionately large ecological impacts relative […]

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Author Shrestha, Namrata

Advisor Conway, Tenley

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Title Teacher Candidate Diversification Through Equity-based Admission Policy

Excerpt This research responds to the problem of minority teacher under-representation within North America’s increasingly diverse urban school systems. It weaves together what is known about educational equity, teacher education admission policy, and policy implementation to explore the research question, “How did equity-based admission policy shape candidate diversification in an urban Canadian teacher education program?” The […]

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Author Stead, Virginia Phillips Morse

Advisor Bascia, Nina

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SDGs Quality Education

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Title Pedagogical Orientations towards the Integration of Language and Content: English Language Learners’ Opportunities to Learn in Mathematics Classrooms

Excerpt Achieving equitable opportunities to learn has been recognized as an important issue in multilingual content classrooms. However, partially because mathematics is conceptualized as a language-free subject, there is limited research examining linguistic minority students’ opportunities to learn in mathematics classrooms. The purpose of this research is to identify linguistic minority students’ opportunities to learn in […]

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Author Takeuchi, Miwa

Advisor Esmonde, Indigo

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SDGs Quality EducationSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Aeta Women Indigenous Healers in the Philippines: Lessons and Implications

Excerpt This study investigates two central research problems. These are: What are the healing practices of Aeta women? What are the implications of the healing practices of Aeta women in the academic discourse? This inquiry is important for the following reasons: (a) it focuses a reconsidered gaze and empirical lens on the healing practices of Aeta […]

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Author Torres, Rose Ann

Advisor Olson, Paul

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SDGs Gender EqualityGood Health and Well-BeingPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Title Assessment for Early Cardiovascular Risk in Pediatric Rheumatic Disease

Excerpt Objectives: 1) Evaluate the risk of atherosclerosis in rheumatic disease compared to healthy controls; 2) Assess the lipid profile of children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at presentation before treatment with corticosteroids; 3) Compare the lipid profiles of children with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA), and SLE; 4) Evaluate the extent of […]

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Author Tyrrell, Pascal Norman

Advisor Silverman, Earl

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Title At the Bottom: Migrant Workers in the South Korean Long-term Care Market

Excerpt This thesis explores Korean-Chinese migrant workers’ local experiences of the global phenomenon of international migration of care labour, focusing on how the care labour of migrant workers is being constructed through the intertwined social and political processes in South Korea’s shifting long-term care sector for the elderly. The thesis uses a qualitative case study method […]

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Author Um, Seong Gee

Advisor Lightman, Ernie

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords employment, labour, rights, worker

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