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Are Immigrants More Likely to Retire Later Than Canadian-Born Workers
(2012-12-14)
The work participation rate is one of the most important factors that affects the Canadian economy and early retirement can have an important negative impact on this rate. This paper focuses on differences in the preferences ...
POST-SPINAL CORD INJURY BELOW-LESION NEUROPATHIC PAIN: MECHANISMS AND NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES
(2012-01-03)
Neuropathic pain is a significant and frequent outcome of spinal cord injury (SCI),
and is often refractory to treatment. A better understanding of the pathological processes
following injury that contribute to the ...
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE ORGANIZATIONS: AN INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING CHOICES OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(2012-07-17)
In today’s economy the importance of knowledge in organizations is well underscored. The management of an organization’s knowledge has become one of the most important strategic vehicles to an organization's sustainable ...
Disorienting Responsibility
(2012-09-11)
Experiences of disorientation can be common and powerful parts of moral agents' lives yet they have not been characterized by mainstream Western philosophers, and their effects have not been adequately ...
Finding Expert Users in Community Question Answering Services Using Topic Models
(2012-04-03)
Community Question Answering (CQA) websites provide a rapidly growing source of information in many areas. In most CQA implementations there is little effort in directing new questions to the right group of experts. This ...
MARKOV REGIME-SWITCHING MODELS
(2012-07-26)
A regime-switching model is a time-series model in which parameters change values
according to the regime at present time. While regime-switching models have been very
popular in applied work, there is a lack of literature ...
Strategies to Improve Quantitative Proteomics: Implications of Dimethyl Labelling and Novel Peptide Detection
(2012-03-30)
In quantitative proteomics, many of the LC-MS based approaches employ stable isotopic labelling to provide relative quantitation of the proteome in different cell states. In a typical approach, peptides are first detected ...
Prescribing Practices Amid the OxyContin Crisis: Examining the Effect of Print Media Coverage on Opioid Prescribing Among Nova Scotia Providers
(2012-06-29)
This research examined the effect of increasing attention on OxyContin in the news media on prescribing practices of the drug in Nova Scotia. Using data collected as part of a study looking at representations of OxyContin ...
Turning Water Into Wine: The Celebration of Water Through the Aesthetic of the Sustainable Landscape
(2012-08-10)
This thesis examines the relationship between water and the winemaking industry through an integrated architectural approach to the landscape. The emphasis is on the refinement of water use for vineyard irrigation and ...
NFC-Enabled Smartphone Application for Drug Interaction and Drug Allergy Detection
(2012-09-11)
An estimated 70,000 preventable medication errors occur in Canada annually, causing up to 23,750 deaths. Medication errors increase when the number of medications being administered increases. Therefore, people with ...