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Title “All in the Same Boat”: An Analysis of a Support Group for Children of Parents with Mental Illnesses

Excerpt The effectiveness of psychoeducation and peer support programs for children of mentally ill parents is frequently measured by demonstrating children’s ability to meet program goals according to pre-defined categories determined by adults. Little is known about how children respond to these goals, whether they share them, and how, or if, their needs are met. I […]

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Advisor McKeever, Patricia ||Boydell, Katherine

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Title An Economic Evaluation of Teratology Information Services

Excerpt BACKGROUND: Teratology Information Services (TIS) educate the public and health professionals via telephone regarding the safety of drugs and other exposures during pregnancy and lactation. Currently TIS consultations are free, but funding is eroding. A cost-benefit analysis may inform resource allocation. It was hypothesized that an individual TIS consultation regarding anti-depressant use during pregnancy provides […]

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Author Hancock, Rebecca L.

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Title The Global Person: A Political Liberal Approach to International Justice Theory Giving Moral Primacy to the Individual

Excerpt John Rawls’s The Law of Peoples has been criticized for focusing on the interests of peoples rather than individuals and for compromising individuals’ fundamental human rights in order to tolerate nonliberal ideas of justice. This dissertation develops a new political liberal approach to international justice theory that responds to these concerns. This approach gives explicit […]

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Author Jenkins, Margaret

Advisor Bertoldi, Nancy

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Title The Development and Usability Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Osteoporosis Disease Management

Excerpt Osteoporosis is a major public health concern, affecting over 200 million people worldwide. There is valid evidence outlining how osteoporosis can be diagnosed and managed, but gaps exist between evidence and practice. Graham’s “Knowledge to Action” (KTA) process for knowledge translation and the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for complex interventions were used to address […]

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Author Kastner, Monika

Advisor Straus, Sharon

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Title Organized for a Fair Deal: African American Railroad Workers in the Deep South, 1900-1940

Excerpt This study concerns the organized activity of African American railroad workers in Deep South states such as Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. The study opens with a broad discussion of wage labour as an aspect of the political economy of the Mississippi Delta and the Piney Woods of Mississippi. By establishing wage labour as a vital […]

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Author Kelly, Joseph

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments History

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Keywords employment, labour, urban, wage

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Title Functional Magnetic Resonance – and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Investigations of Pure Adult Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

Excerpt Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics, affecting approximately 1% of the population. The precise neuropathology of GTS has not yet been delineated, but current models implicate subcortical and cortical areas – the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuit. The majority of studies in the literature have […]

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Author Kideckel, David

Advisor Sandor, Paul

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Title The Geography of Knowledge Formation: Spatial and Sectoral Aspects of Technological Change in the Canadian Economy as Indicated by Patent Citation Analysis, 1983-2007

Excerpt Knowledge, learning, and innovation are vital elements in facilitating economic development and growth. Technological change, which is a synonym for generating knowledge, the diffusion thereof, and subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and processes, i.e. innovations, has a strong effect on the collective wealth of regions and nations. Knowledge spillovers, […]

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Author Kogler, Dieter Franz

Advisor Gertler, Meric S. ||DiFrancesco, Richard J.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Title Homecare of Long-term Care? The Balance of Care in Urban and Rural Northwestern Ontario

Excerpt While some individuals can successfully age at home, others with similar levels of need may require facility based long-term care (LTC). The question addressed in this thesis is: “What factors determine whether or not older persons age at home?” I argue that in addition to the characteristics and care needs of individuals (the demand side); […]

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Author Kuluski, Kerry

Advisor Williams, A. Paul

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Title Adolescent Male Dancers’ Embodied Realities

Excerpt This dissertation looks at adolescent male dance students who challenge the dominant perceptions of masculinity by participating in dance, an art form which has been subjected to feminine and homosexual stereotypes. With a multi-methodological approach—qualitative, arts-informed, autobiography, interviews, videotape, and performance—this research investigates and explores the largely unknown realities regarding adolescent male dance students; why […]

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Author Li, Zihao

Advisor Cameron, Linda ||Lee, Bartel ||Warner, Mary Jane ||Brown, Ann Kipling ||Booth, David

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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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Keywords equality, gender

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Title “On the Pawprints of Terror”: The Human Rights Regime and the Production of Truth and Subjectivity in Post-authoritarian Chile

Excerpt In 1990, Chile made a successful transition from the authoritarian dictatorship that had ruled the country since 1973 to a democratically elected government. The authoritarian regime was characterized by massive and systemic practices of human rights abuses, and it left an official toll of 5,000 deaths, about 2000 of which constitute “detained and disappeared people”, […]

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Author Macias, Teresa

Advisor Razack, Sherene

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Keywords justice, rights

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