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Title Supporting Recent Immigrants in their Effort to Access Information on Health and Health-related Services: The Case Of 211 Toronto

Excerpt The objectives of this thesis are to: 1) obtain a snapshot of callers of 211 Toronto, a free information and referral service, understanding how representative they are of Toronto’s general population; 2) understand how 211 Toronto callers seeking health-related information use the information they obtain when contacting the service and their overall level of satisfaction, […]

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Title Challenges and Opportunities for Implementing Sustainable Energy Strategies in Coastal Communities of Baja California Sur, Mexico

Excerpt This dissertation explores the potential of renewable energy and efficiency strategies to solve the energy challenges faced by the people living in the biosphere reserve of El Vizcaíno, which is located in the North Pacific region of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. This research setting provides a practical analytical milieu to understand better […]

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate Action

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Departments Geography

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Title Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Papionin Monkeys

Excerpt Climate change has been invoked to explain patterns of speciation, extinction and biogeographic change over time, however it can be a difficult hypothesis to test empirically. One area of particular interest is climate change in the African Neogene, linked with the origin of hominins. A perfect model clade to test these hypotheses is the papionin […]

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Author Folinsbee, Kaila

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SDGs Climate ActionLife on Land

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Departments Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Keywords climate, forest

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Title The Public Life of Older People: Neighbourhoods and Networks

Excerpt Preserving and improving the health and well-being of older people is a significant public health issue of the 21st century. The increased attention to the promotion of health in old age has given rise to an extensive body of literature on the subject of “healthy aging” – a discourse dedicated to understanding the multidimensional factors […]

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Author Gardner, Paula

Advisor Gastaldo, Denise

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Departments Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Title Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe: A Study of Non-governmental Organizations in the European Union’s External Trade Policymaking Process

Excerpt This thesis investigates whether more open trade policymaking processes that include non-governmental entities, by virtue of the divergence of interests represented, lead to a stronger, more legitimate and qualitatively enhanced international trade system. The European Union stands out among major trading powers for its significant and dramatic response to new demands for access and participation. […]

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructurePeace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsQuality Education

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Keywords equitable, justice, trade

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Title An Integrated Multi-model Approach for Predicting the Impact of Household Travel on Urban Air Quality and Simulating Population Exposure

Excerpt The population and economic growth experienced by Canadian metropolitan areas in the past twenty years, has been associated with increased levels of car ownership and vehicle kilometres travelled leading to a deterioration of air quality and public health and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The need to modify urban growth patterns has motivated planning […]

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Author Hatzopoulou, Marianne

Advisor Miller, Eric

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SDGs Climate ActionDecent Work and Economic GrowthGood Health and Well-Being

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Keywords economic growth, environment, greenhouse gas, health, urban

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Title Essays on the Political Economy of the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods

Excerpt This thesis explores the political economy aspects of the provision of local public goods by higher levels of government. Chapter 1 focuses on local public goods as instruments for special interest politics at the supra-local level, with an emphasis on public infrastructure. To capture the implications of long-run relationships between political parties and their loyal […]

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Author Joanis, Marcelin

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Title Infrared Sensitive Solution-processed Quantum Dot Photovoltaics in a Nanoporous Architecture

Excerpt If solar energy is to be a significant component of our energy supply, technologies are required which produce high efficiency solar cells using inexpensive materials and versatile manufacturing processes. Solution-processed materials have been used to create low cost, easily fabricated devices, but have suffered from low power conversion efficiencies. A lack of infrared energy capture […]

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Author Klem, Ethan

Advisor Sargent, Edward H.

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Title Testing the Maternal Response Hypothesis in Cases of Suspected or Substantiated Child Sexual Abuse: Secondary Data Analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Nelect, 1998

Excerpt This dissertation’s analyses examined the association of caregiver, child, abuse and investigation characteristics with maternal response and emotional harm among families for whom child sexual abuse (CSA) was suspected or substantiated. Method This study was based on secondary analysis of data collected in the Canadian Incidence Study of Report Child Abuse and Neglect 1998. The […]

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Author Knott, Theresa

Advisor Fuller-Thomson, Esme

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Title The Quality of Surgical Care for Radical Cystectomy in Ontario from 1992 to 2004

Excerpt This thesis is composed of three studies pertaining to the quality of care for radical cystectomy in Ontario between 1992 and 2004. In the first paper, the associations between provider volume and both operative and overall mortality were assessed. In the second paper, potential factors that could explain the association between volume and outcome were […]

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Author Kulkarni, Girish Satish

Advisor Laupacis, Andreas ||Fleshner, Neil

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