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Title Inter-professional Clinical Practice Guideline for Vocational Evaluation following Traumatic Brain Injury

Excerpt Due to physical, cognitive and emotional impairments, many individuals are unemployed or under-employed following a traumatic brain injury. The research evidence links the rigour of a vocational evaluation to future employment outcomes. Despite this link, no specific guidelines exist for vocational evaluations. Using the research evidence and a diverse panel of clinical and academic experts, […]

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Author Stergiou-Kita, Mary Melpomeni

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Title Surviving the Sasachacuy Tiempu [Difficult Times]: The Resilience of Quechua Women in the Aftermath of the Peruvian Armed Conflict

Excerpt Resilience and post trauma responses often coexist, however, for the past decades, the trauma paradigm has served as the dominant explanatory framework for human suffering in post-conflict environments, while the resilience of individuals and communities affected by mass violence has not been given equal prominence. Consequently, mental health interventions in post-conflict zones often fail to […]

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityGood Health and Well-Being

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Structural Change and Income Differences

Excerpt Economic growth and development is intimately related to the decline of agriculture’s share of output and employment. This process of structural change has important implications for income and productivity differences between regions within a country or between countries themselves. Agriculture typically has low productivity relative to other sectors and this is particularly true in poor […]

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthZero Hunger

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Departments Economics

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Keywords agriculture, economic growth, employment, labour

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Title Spray Combustion Characteristics and Emissions of a Wood derived Fast Pyrolysis Liquid-ethanol Blend in a Pilot Stabilized Swirl Burner

Excerpt Biomass fast pyrolysis liquid (bio-oil) is a cellulose based alternative fuel with the potential to displace fossil fuels in stationary heat and power applications. To better understand the combustion behavior and emissions of bio-oil, a 10 kW spray burner was designed and constructed. The effect of swirl, atomization quality, ignition source (pilot) energy, air/fuel preheat […]

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Author Tzanetakis, Tommy

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SDGs Affordable and Clean Energy

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Title The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign

Excerpt My dissertation research is interdisciplinary in nature, at the nexus of three areas of scholarly work and actual practices: union renewal and non-unionized workers-rights organizing in Canada and the US; feminist, anti-racist Marxian approaches to class relations as being racialized, gendered and bureaucratic; and, the institutional ethnographic method of inquiry into social reality. My empirical […]

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Author Wilmot, Sheila

Advisor Mojab, Shahrzad

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Quality Education

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Keywords educat, gender, labour, rights, wage, worker

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Title Facing the Glass Wall: The Effects of Perceived Characteristics of Career Boundaries on Immigrant Professional Identity Salience and Career Outcomes

Excerpt The present study examines the effects of characteristics of perceived career boundaries (permeability, stability, legitimacy) on immigrant professionals’ subjective career outcomes in a longitudinal design. Based on social identity theory framework, I propose a model that examines how immigrant professionals’ perceptions of career boundaries influence two important areas for establishing a satisfying career and successful […]

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Author Yanar, Basak

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Departments Management

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Title Essays in Industrial Organization: Market Performance

Excerpt This thesis consists of three papers. Industries that motivated this analysis range are exclusive clubs (Chapter 1) and pharmaceuticals (Chapters 2 and 3). A common thread is the study of the strategic behavior of monopoly or monopoly-like firms and the implications of such behavior. Chapter 1 studies an “invitation only” strategy for a durable goods […]

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Author Ye, Mingxiao

Advisor Mathewson, Frank

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureResponsible Consumption and Production

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Departments Economics

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Title Transition Metal Catalysis: Activation of CO2, C–H, and C–O Bonds En Route to Carboxylic Acids, Biaryls, and N-containing Heterocycles

Excerpt Transition metal catalysis is a powerful tool for the construction of biologically active and pharmaceutically relevant architectures. With the challenge of continually depleting resources that this generation of scientists faces, it is becoming increasingly important to develop sustainable technologies for organic synthesis that utilize abundant and renewable feedstocks while minimizing byproduct formation and shortening the […]

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Author Yeung, Charles See Ho

Advisor Dong, Vy Maria

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Title Oral Health for Long-term Care Populations: From Pneumonia Pathogenesis to Front-line Oral Care Provision

Excerpt Oral health has dramatically improved in most industrialized countries over the latter half of the 20th century. However, profound oral health disparities still exist especially for those most at risk of developing oral diseases and associated systemic consequences such as populations residing in long-term care facilities. Despite the growing body of literature that supports the […]

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Author Yoon, Minn-Nyoung

Advisor Steele, Catriona

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Departments Speech-Language Pathology

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Title Stances on the Land: Political Perspectives on Land Use Governance in Vermont

Excerpt Vermont, like many rural places in the developed world, has been the destination of many urban migrants seeking lifestyle amenities unavailable in the city. This migration has been blamed for intractable conflicts over land use governance, with newcomers pitted against long-time residents on such issues as wilderness designation, agricultural impacts and motorized recreation. How accurate, […]

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Author Young, Thomas Hugh Niven

Advisor Prudham, W. Scott

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SDGs Life on LandPeace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsSustainable Cities and Communities

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