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Title Norfloxacin For Hepatopulmonary Syndrome: A Pilot Study of a Rare Disease

Excerpt Norfloxacin For Hepatopulmonary Syndrome: A Pilot Study of a Rare Disease Samir Gupta, Masters of Science, 2008 Graduate Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University of Toronto Introduction: Hepatopulmonary Syndrome is a rare disease characterized by abnormal gas-exchange and a poor prognosis, with no known effective medical therapy. A rat model and preliminary human […]

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Title Knowledge-based Vertical Integration: The Nature of Knowledge and Economic Firm Boundary Location

Excerpt This research extends the knowledge-based view of the firm as it relates to organizational structure. In particular, this research provides evidence that fundamental classifications of knowledge are measurable, in relative terms, as factors of production. It then relates differences in relative quantities of these classifications of knowledge to the presence or absence of inter-firm boundaries. […]

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Author Berg, Herman van den

Advisor Choo, Chun Wei ||Silverman, Brian S.

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Departments Information Studies

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Title Modeling Injection and Ignition in Direct Injection Natural Gas Engines

Excerpt With increasing concerns about the harmful effects of conventional liquid fossil fuel emissions, natural gas has become a very attractive alternative fuel to power prime movers and stationary energy conversion devices. This research studies the injection and ignition numerically for natural gas (mainly methane) as a fuel applied to diesel engine. Natural gas injector and […]

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Author Cheng, Xu Jr.

Advisor Wallace, James S.

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Departments Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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Title Usage and Non-usage Behaviour of eHealth Services Among Chinese Canadians Caring for a Family Member with Dementia

Excerpt Background: Information Communication Technologies (ICT)-mediated support can reduce family caregiver burden and may bridge service gaps caused by time constraints and language or cultural barriers. (Non)-usage behaviour can be explained using Andersen’s Behavioural Model of Health Service Utilization, Venkatesh’s Unified Theory of Use and Acceptance of Technology, Eysenbach’s Law of Attrition, and Wilson’s and Chatman’s […]

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Author Chiu, M. L. Teresa

Advisor Eysenbach, Gunther

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Title Making Visible the Invisible: Dual Language Teaching Practices in Monolingual Instructional Settings

Excerpt This dissertation documents the work of two teacher collaborators who brought a focus on linguistic and cultural diversity into their literacy teaching even while teaching in English medium schools. The research was carried out during eighteen months utilizing collaborative case study methodology in conjunction with two teachers in highly multilingual and multicultural public elementary schools […]

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Author Cohen, Sarah

Advisor Cummins, James

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SDGs Quality Education

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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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Title Do Regional Models Matter? Resource Allocation to Home Care in the Canadian Provinces of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick

Excerpt Proponents of Canadian health reform in the 1990s argued for regional structures, which enables budget silos to be broken down and integrated budgets to be formed. Although regionalization has been justified on the basis of its potential to increase home care resources, political science draws upon the scope of conflict theory, which instead suggests marginalized […]

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Author Conrad, Patricia

Advisor Deber, Raisa Berlin

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Title Jamaica’s Higher Education Committment under the GATS

Excerpt This research seeks to answer two questions: why did Jamaica include its higher education (HE) sector in its General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) ‘Schedule of Commitments’; and, how do the politicians and policy makers view the impact of this decision? For answers, I looked at arguments linking the GATS with national development and […]

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Author Frater, Terence George Anthony

Advisor Mundy, Karen

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Title Spatially Explicit Modeling of Hydrologically Controlled Carbon Cycles in a Boreal Ecosystem

Excerpt Current estimates of terrestrial carbon (C) fluxes overlook explicit hydrological controls. In this research project, a spatially explicit hydro-ecological model, BEPS-TerrainLab V2.0 was further developed to improve our understanding of the non-linearities associated with various hydro-ecological processes. A modeling study was conducted in a humid boreal ecosystem in north central Quebec, Canada. The sizes and […]

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Author Govind, Ajit

Advisor Chen, Jing Ming

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SDGs Clean Water and SanitationClimate Action

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Title Supervisory Hybrid Control of a Wind Energy Conversion and Battery Storage System

Excerpt This thesis presents a supervisory hybrid controller for the automatic operation and control of a wind energy conversion and battery storage system. The supervisory hybrid control scheme is based on a radically different approach of modeling and control design, proposed for the subject wind energy conversion and battery storage system. The wind energy conversion unit […]

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Author Khan, Muhammad Shahid

Advisor Iravani, Mohammad Reza

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Title Household Food Insecurity in Canada: An Examination of Nutrition Implications and Factors Associated with Vulnerability

Excerpt Household food insecurity, defined as “the inability to acquire or consume an adequate diet quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways, or the uncertainty that one will be able to do so”, affected almost one in ten Canadian households in 2004. Responses have been dominated by community-based food initiatives with little attention […]

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Author Kirkpatrick, Sharon

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SDGs Zero Hunger

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