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Title Knowledge Mobilization at the World Bank: A Bibliometric Analysis of World Bank Publications on Public-private Partnerships in Education

Excerpt This study examines the ways that knowledge on public-private partnerships in education (PPPE) spreads due to the knowledge mobilization (efforts to incorporate research into policy and practice in education) work of World Bank Education Sector. Specifically, this study looks at the role of the World Bank in research mediation between research producing contexts and research […]

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Title Exploring Predictors of Performance on a Curriculum-based Measure of Written Expression

Excerpt The role of gender, handwriting automaticity, reading proficiency, and verbal working memory in grade 4 and 5 students‟ (N = 42; 23 boys) performance on a curriculum-based measure of narrative writing was examined. Three outcomes were measured: total words written, correct minus incorrect word sequences (accurate production of spelling and grammar in-text), and composition quality. […]

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Author Aitken, Madison Lee

Advisor Martinussen, Rhonda

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SDGs Gender Equality

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Title Science-based Health Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Excerpt Policy making bodies are increasingly highlighting the important role innovation can play in African development─not only to spur economic growth but also to deliver locally relevant, affordable products and services to African populations. The health sector is one area where innovation is most needed; however, we know very little about the capacity of African countries […]

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Author Al-Bader, Sara

Advisor Singer, Peter A.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGood Health and Well-BeingPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Responsible Consumption and Production

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Keywords consum*, economic growth, health, innovation, institution

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Title Contested Environmental Illness in the Negev/al-Naqab: A Narrative Analysis of lLcal Knowledge and Organizational Struggle

Excerpt In 2003, the Israeli government announced plans to transfer a large army base from the centre of the country to the Negev (al-Naqab in Arabic), 8 kilometers downwind from the Ramat Hovav industrial zone and national hazardous waste treatment site. Since its creation in 1975, Ramat Hovav has been a major centre for bio-chemical production, […]

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Author Alleson, Richard

Advisor Birn, Anne-Emanuelle

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate ActionGood Health and Well-Being

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Industry, Innovation and InfrastructurePeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Keywords environment, health, industr, institution, justice, pollut*, production, waste, wind

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Title Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire

Excerpt This dissertation is an exploration of the role of Euro-North American Philosophy of Education discourse in the genealogy of race struggle. I examine how the reliable narration of Philosophy of Education functions as a project of racial rule premised on moral/temporal/spatial notions of (White) civility and respectability. Tracing the history of race war from the […]

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Author Anderson, Helen Marie

Advisor Ford, Maureen

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SDGs Clean Water and SanitationGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords equitable, gender, governance, rights

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Title Impact of Diabetes on Drug Disposition Mechanisms in Pregnancy

Excerpt Over 220 million people worldwide are diagnosed with diabetes and rising prevalence is reported in nearly all surveyed populations. Accordingly, the percentage of pregnancies affected by pre-existing type 1 or 2 diabetes or by diabetes that develops during pregnancy, called gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), is also on the rise. Today, approximately 8% of all pregnancies […]

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Author Anger, Gregory John

Advisor Piquette-Miller, Micheline

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Title A Comparison of Two Methods of Adjusted Attributable Fraction Estimation as Applied to the Four Major Smoking Related Causes of Death, in Canada, in 2005

Excerpt The main objective of the thesis was to compare two methods of calculating adjusted attributable fractions and deaths as applied to smoking exposure and four health outcomes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cerebrovascular disease, for Canadians 30 years or older in the year 2005. An additional objective was to calculate […]

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Author Baliunas, Dalia Ona

Advisor Rehm, Jürgen

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Title It’s Not A Parade, It’s A March!: Subjectivities, Spectatorship, and Contested Spaces of the Toronto Dyke March

Excerpt In this thesis I address the following questions: (1) How do dykes take up space in public in contemporary cities? (2) How does the ‘marching dyke’ emerge as a subject and what kind of subject is it? (3) How, in turn, do marching dykes affect space? In order to examine these questions I focus on […]

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Author Burgess, Allison H. F.

Advisor Dehli, Kari

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Title People at the Rim: A Study of Tai Ethnicity and Nationalism in a Thai Border Village

Excerpt Based on ethnographic research in Ruam Chai, a large and remote village in northern Thailand, this dissertation seeks to examine the emergence of ethnic identity and nationalistic consciousness of the Tai people within the context of Thai nation-building, state development, and the history of the area in the 20th century. The Tai—generally known as the […]

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Author Cadchumsang, Jaggapan

Advisor Levin, Michael D.

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Title Mapping Futures, Making Selves: Subjectivity, Schooling and Rural Youth

Excerpt This dissertation explores how rural young people imagine their futures in neo-liberal times. The analysis is based upon three months of ethnographic research with grade 7/8 students in ‘Fieldsville,’ a predominantly white and working-class rural community in Southeastern Ontario. I examine students’ participation in a widely-used career-education program called The Real Game, in which they […]

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Author Cairns, Kate

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SDGs Gender EqualitySustainable Cities and Communities

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