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Title Economic Inequality in Adult Mortality in Canada: Analyses of the Longitudinal Administrative Databank

Excerpt This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada and the USA Chapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the […]

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Title Social Conservatives and the Boundary of Politics in Canada and the United States

Excerpt This dissertation investigates social conservative activism in the American Republican Party and in four parties of the Canadian right: the Progressive Conservative Party, Reform Party, Canadian Alliance Party, and Conservative Party of Canada. While issues like gay and lesbian rights and abortion became politically contentious in both countries during the late 1960s, American social conservatives […]

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Author Farney, James

Advisor Forbes, Hugh Donald

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title The Molecular Composition of Soil Organic Matter (SOM) and Potential Responses to Global Warming and Elevated CO2

Excerpt Soil organic matter (SOM) contains about twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. With global changes, the potential shifts in SOM quantity and quality are a major concern. Due to its heterogeneity, SOM remains largely unknown in terms of its molecular composition and responses to climatic events. Traditional bulk soil analysis cannot depict the […]

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Author Feng, Xiaojuan

Advisor Simpson, Myrna J.

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SDGs Climate ActionLife on Land

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Departments Geography

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Keywords environment, forest, global warming

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Title Communities and Leaders at Work in the New Economy: A Comparative Analysis of Agents of Transformation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Hamilton, Ontario

Excerpt Without change, stagnation is inevitable. Never has this truth been more obvious than during the current epoch of industrial decline in North America. This research provides two economic narratives that exemplify the struggles of industrial communities as they strive to regenerate. The research involves a comparative analysis of the transformation of two steel cities, Pittsburgh, […]

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Author Fennessy, Barbara Ann

Advisor Livingstone, David W.

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Keywords industr, infrastructure

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Title Race, Ethnicity, Immigration And Jobs: Labour Market Access Among Ghanaian And Somali Youth In The Greater Toronto Area

Excerpt This thesis uses focus group interviews and survey questionnaires to examine perceptions of Ghanaian and Somali youth, residing in Toronto, about barriers to their labour market access. The emphasis is on perceptions that deal with labour market discrimination based on race, ethnicity and recency of immigration. The results show that perceptions of discrimination based on […]

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Author Gariba, Shaibu Ahmed

Advisor Livingstone, David W.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityNo Poverty

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Keywords employment, equality, poverty

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Title Categories and Evaluation Bias in Valuation of Technological Innovation

Excerpt This dissertation examines the perceptual bias of investors and securities analysts (the “audience” in the stock market) in their valuation of public firms’ innovative activities. I suggest that such bias occurs because the audience views a firm’s innovation through the prism of the firm’s categorization in product markets – its industry category – which may […]

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Author Geng, Xuesong

Advisor Silverman, Brian S.

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Title Microsimulating Residential Mobility and Location Choice Processes within an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modelling System

Excerpt This research investigates motivational and procedural aspects of households’ long-term decisions of residential locations. The main goal of the research is to develop microbehavioural models of location processes in order to implement this critical land use component within a microsimulation-based model of Integrated Land Use, Transportation and Environment (ILUTE). The research takes a disaggregate and […]

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Author Habib, Muhammad Ahsanul

Advisor Miller, Eric

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Title The Mudang: Gendered Discourses on Shamanism in Colonial Korea

Excerpt This dissertation examines the discursive production of mudang, also known as shamans, during the late Chosŏn Dynasty (eighteenth to nineteenth-centuries) and during the Japanese colonial period in Korea (1910-1945). The many discursive sites on mudang articulated various types of difference, often based on gender and urban/rural divides. This dissertation explores four bodies of work: eighteenth […]

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Author Hwang, Merose

Advisor Schmid, Andre ||Poole, Janet ||Song, Jesook

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SDGs Gender EqualitySustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments East Asian Studies

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Title Interacting Disturbances in the Boreal Forest and the Importance of Spatial Legacies at Multiple Scales

Excerpt Forest disturbances and the spatial patterns they create affect ecosystem processes through their influence on forest vegetation from individual trees to landscapes. In the boreal and mixed-wood forests of eastern Canada the main agents of disturbance are logging, fire, and defoliation by the spruce budworm (SBW, Choristoneura fumiferana). These disturbances are similar in that they […]

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Author James, Patrick Michael Arthur

Advisor Fortin, Marie-Josee

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Forestry

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Title Understanding School Stories: A Narrative Inquiry into the Cross-generational Schooling Experiences of Six Current and Former Chinese Students

Excerpt This thesis research is a narrative inquiry into the cross-generational schooling experiences of six former and current students during a period of momentous social, economic, cultural and political change in China’s modern history, 1949 to the present. It focuses on students’ experience in curricular situations and how they construct and reconstruct curricular meanings. Through this […]

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Author Jia, Chao

Advisor Conle, Carola

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SDGs Quality Education

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