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Title A Little Room of Hope: Feminist Participatory Action Research with “Homeless” Women

Excerpt In April 2005, a group of women gathered for a human rights workshop at a Toronto drop-in centre for women experiencing homelessness, poverty, and isolation. One year later, the group sent a representative to address the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This dissertation describes and analyzes the feminist participatory action research-intervention […]

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SDGs Gender EqualityNo PovertyPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords poverty, rights, women

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Title Equality of Cultural Identity

Excerpt I address claims of offence of feelings, religious freedom and language rights, which are all ‎justified by the intrinsic interest individuals attach to their culture. I call them ‘claims from ‎cultural identity’. I develop a conception of substantive equality, understood as distributive ‎justice and underpinned by dignity, for regulating claims from cultural identity in the […]

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Author Pinto, Meital

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SDGs Gender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Keywords equality, justice, rights

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Title Mindfulness-based Wellness Education: A Longitudinal Evaluation with Students in Initial Teacher Education

Excerpt Mindfulness-based wellness education (MBWE) is an 8-week program teaching formal mindfulness practices as a foundation for cultivating an awareness of one’s health or ill-health in the physical, social, emotional, ecological, vocational, mental and spiritual domains of human existence. It is designed as a health promotion intervention for individuals who are at risk of developing stress […]

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Author Poulin, Patricia Anik

Advisor Schneider, Margaret

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Keywords well being

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Title Maintaining Habitat Connectivity for Conservation

Excerpt Conserving biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes requires protecting networks of ecological reserves and managing the intervening matrix to maintain the potential for species to move among them. This dissertation provides original insights towards (1) identifying areas for protection in reserves that are critical to maintain biodiversity and (2) assessing the potential for species’ movements among habitat […]

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Author Rayfield, Bronwyn

Advisor Fortin, Marie-Josee

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SDGs Life Below Water

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Departments Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Keywords biodiversity, conserv*, resilien*

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Title Underemployment and Health-related Quality of Life

Excerpt Considering the increasing levels of unemployment and underemployment, and the limited evidence concerning the impact of underemployment on health, my study examines the relations between subjective, objective, and time-related underemployment and employees’ health-related quality of life, as manifested through self-rated health, activity limitations and work-related stress. The study compares an expanded model of work-health relations […]

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Author Raykov, Milosh M.

Advisor Livingstone, David W.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGood Health and Well-Being

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Keywords employment, health

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Title Priority Setting for Expensive Biopharmaceuticals: An Analysis of Six Drug Case Studies

Excerpt Priority setting for expensive biopharmaceuticals is one of the most important challenges for publicly funded health systems. One of the drivers of rising healthcare expenditures is pharmaceuticals (i.e., drugs). Moreover, people are living longer and their expectation of, and demand for, health care, drugs, and services are continually increasing. The overall aim of this research […]

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Author Rosenberg-Yunger, Zahava R. S.

Advisor Martin, Douglas K.

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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Keywords health, industr

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Title Temporal Changes in Reproduction, Competition, and Predation after Establishment of Introduced Populations of the greater European Pine Shoot Beetle, Tomicus Piniperda (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

Excerpt The establishment of exotic species in novel environments is a major environmental concern, however, few long-term studies have examined the effects of these species on their host environment and community, especially in forest ecosystems. The arrival and subsequent spread of the greater European pine shoot beetle, Tomicus piniperda (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), into southern Ontario […]

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Author Rudzik, Nicholas James

Advisor Smith, Sandy

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SDGs Climate ActionLife on Land

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Departments Forestry

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Keywords environment, forest

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Title Strategic Forest Management Planning Under Uncertainty Due to Fire

Excerpt Forest managers throughout Canada must contend with natural disturbance processes that vary over both time and space when developing and implementing forest management plans designed to provide a range of economic, ecological, and social values. In this thesis, I develop a stochastic simulation model with an embedded linear programming (LP) model and use it to […]

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Author Savage, David William

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SDGs Life on LandSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Family Matters: An Examination of the Association between Family Structure and Youth Injury

Excerpt Injury is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among Canadian youth. In order to develop successful prevention strategies for this major public health problem, it is necessary to determine injury risk factors. Despite reasons to believe that family structure (parents’ marital and living arrangements) may be associated with youth injury, this link has been […]

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Author Scott, Helen M.

Advisor Chipman, Mary ||té, Pierre Cô

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Title Learning as Socially Organized Practices: Chinese Immigrants Fitting into the Engineering Market in Canada

Excerpt My research studies immigrants’ learning experiences as socially organized practices. Informed by the sociocultural approach of learning and institutional ethnography, I treat learning as a material and relational phenomenon. I start by examining how fourteen Chinese immigrants learn to fit into the engineering market in Canada. I then trace the social discourses and relations that […]

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Author Shan, Hongxia

Advisor Ng, Roxana

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthQuality Education

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Keywords inclusive, labour

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