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2010-1 Renegotiation-Proof Mechanism Design, Zvika Neeman, Gregory Pavlov Jan 2010

2010-1 Renegotiation-Proof Mechanism Design, Zvika Neeman, Gregory Pavlov

Department of Economics Research Reports

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2010-3 Optimal Mechanism For Selling Two Goods, Gregory Pavlov Jan 2010

2010-3 Optimal Mechanism For Selling Two Goods, Gregory Pavlov

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

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The Nato Club And Afghanistan: Northern, Rich, And White Nations Defend The Imperial Palace, Erika Simpson Jan 2010

The Nato Club And Afghanistan: Northern, Rich, And White Nations Defend The Imperial Palace, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

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Bill 150: The Green Energy Act: An Analysis Of Green Energy Politics In Ontario, Peter Markvoort Jan 2010

Bill 150: The Green Energy Act: An Analysis Of Green Energy Politics In Ontario, Peter Markvoort

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the Green Energy Act (GEA) and the economic circumstances that enabled the bill to become law in Ontario. An analysis of electrical power research, planning, and recommendations over the past forty years was conducted. The findings reveal that a variety of changes led to the approval of the GEA, including an environmentally conscious value shift and the economic recession, and the coincidence of these factors allowed forty years of government funded energy research to culminate in a publicly supported piece of legislation.

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Embedded Information Literacy: An Arts And Humanities Model, Marni R. Harrington, Christy Sich, Fran Gray Jan 2010

Embedded Information Literacy: An Arts And Humanities Model, Marni R. Harrington, Christy Sich, Fran Gray

Western Libraries Presentations

This material was presented at Spring Perspectives 2010. The presentation highlights the collaboration between the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and The D.B. Weldon Library to embed information literacy skills directly into a Classical Studies course.

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Introduction, Jerry White, Julie Peters, Peter Dinsdale, Dan Beavon Jan 2010

Introduction, Jerry White, Julie Peters, Peter Dinsdale, Dan Beavon

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

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Introduction, Jerry White, Julie Peters, Peter Dinsdale, Dan Beavon Jan 2010

Introduction, Jerry White, Julie Peters, Peter Dinsdale, Dan Beavon

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

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A New Model For Semantic Photograph Description Combining Basic Levels And User-Assigned Descriptors, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Diane M. Neal Jan 2010

A New Model For Semantic Photograph Description Combining Basic Levels And User-Assigned Descriptors, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Diane M. Neal

FIMS Publications

Few studies have been conducted to identify users’ desired semantic levels of image access when describing, searching, and retrieving photographs online. The basic level, or the level of abstraction most commonly used to describe an item, is a cognitive theory currently under consideration in image retrieval research. This study investigates potential basic levels of description for online photographs by testing the Hierarchy for Online Photograph Representation (HOPR) model, which is based on a need for a model that addresses users’ basic levels of photograph description and retrieval. We developed the HOPR model using the following three elements as guides: the …

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Persistence And Change In Social Media, Bernie Hogan, Anabel Quan-Haase Jan 2010

Persistence And Change In Social Media, Bernie Hogan, Anabel Quan-Haase

FIMS Publications

In ―Star Trek‖, Scotty suggests that Transwarp beaming is ―like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse‖ (Abrams, 2009). The study of social media faces similar challenges because new tools are developed at a rapid pace and existing tools are constantly being updated with new features, policies, and applications. Users tend to migrate, in often unpredictable ways, to new tools as well as to adopt multiple tools simultaneously, without showing consistent media preferences and habits (Quan-Haase, 2008). As a result, for scholars it sometimes feels as if the social media landscape …

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Informing Traces: The Social Practices Of Collaborative Informing In The Midwifery Clinic, Pamela J. Mckenzie Jan 2010

Informing Traces: The Social Practices Of Collaborative Informing In The Midwifery Clinic, Pamela J. Mckenzie

FIMS Publications

The concept of “traces” is useful for understanding the collaborative practices of informing. Readers of documents leave traces of their use, and institutional talk embeds traces of collaborative work, including work done and elsewhere and at other times. This chapter employs a multifaceted qualitative strategy of analytic bracketing to analyze traces in midwives’ and clients’ discussions of clinical results. Results are used to identify and evaluate trends in relation to the current case or to universal norms. Conflicting forms of evidence may need to be negotiated. Barriers may arise when results or sources are inadequate or unavailable. Midwives and women …

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Procrustean Motherhood: The Good Mother During Depression (1930s), War (1940s), And Prosperity (1950s), Romayne Smith Fullerton, M J. Patterson Jan 2010

Procrustean Motherhood: The Good Mother During Depression (1930s), War (1940s), And Prosperity (1950s), Romayne Smith Fullerton, M J. Patterson

FIMS Publications

Women have long considered home making, parenting, and fashion magazines, addressed directly to them, to be a trusted source for advice and for models of behavior. This trust is problematic given that sample magazine articles from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s show cultural portrayals of motherhood that appear more proscriptive than descriptive. They changed little, although real women’s roles in both the domestic and public realms were undergoing significant shifts. During these decades of Great Depression, World War II, and unprecedented post-war prosperity, women went to school and entered the workplace in growing numbers, changed their reproductive choices, and shifted …

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Residential Segregation In The Industrializing City: A Closer Look, Jason A. Gilliland, Sherry H. Olsen Jan 2010

Residential Segregation In The Industrializing City: A Closer Look, Jason A. Gilliland, Sherry H. Olsen

Geography & Environment Publications

This article maps and measures several dimensions of residential segregation in Montreal in 1881, thereby adding to our understanding of the social structure of the industrial city. Taking advantage of an unusual historical database—a historical geographic information system (H-GIS)—we locate 17,000 individual households with precision, and evaluate the "dissimilarity" of neighborhoods along several social dimensions and at various levels of spatial aggregation. The empirical findings suggest that Montreal was highly segregated along lines of ethnic identity as well as socioeconomic status; segregation values increased inversely with size of the spatial unit, but precision of unit boundaries have negligible effect. Coupling …

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Linking Health Inequality And Environmental Justice: Articulating A Precautionary Framework For Research And Action, Sarah Wakefield, Jamie Baxter Jan 2010

Linking Health Inequality And Environmental Justice: Articulating A Precautionary Framework For Research And Action, Sarah Wakefield, Jamie Baxter

Geography & Environment Publications

This article draws together three issues—the environment, health, and (in)justice—with the overall purpose of articulating an agenda for policy and research that works towards improved justice and sustainability in the environmental health arena. Considerable research in the United States and elsewhere has shown that both environmental exposures and poor health are more prevalent in populations that are marginalized by race and social class (typically measured as income). The logical next step has been to attempt to establish concrete cause-effect links between health effects and environmental exposures in order to mobilize government action to reduce these disparities. However, we caution against …

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Library School Curricula In The Us Should Address Liaison Responsibilities For Students Interested In Academic Librarianship, Nazi Torabi Jan 2010

Library School Curricula In The Us Should Address Liaison Responsibilities For Students Interested In Academic Librarianship, Nazi Torabi

Western Libraries Publications

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Primitive Accumulation, The Social Common, And The Contractual Lockdown Of Recording Artists At The Threshold Of Digitalization, Matt Stahl Jan 2010

Primitive Accumulation, The Social Common, And The Contractual Lockdown Of Recording Artists At The Threshold Of Digitalization, Matt Stahl

FIMS Publications

This article examines the apparent paradox of the persistence of long-term employment contracts for cultural industry ‘talent’ in the context of broader trends toward short-term, flexible employment. While aspirants are numberless, bankable talent is in short supply. Long-term talent contracts appear to embody a durable, perhaps inherent, axiom in employment: labour shortage favours employees. The article approaches this axiom through the lens of recent reconsiderations of the concept of ‘primitive accumulation’. In the case of employment, this concept highlights employers’ impetus to transcend legal and customary barriers to and limits on their capacity to capture and compel labour. The article …

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Are Bibliographic Management Software Search Interfaces Reliable?: A Comparison Between Search Results Obtained Using Database Interfaces And The Endnote Online Search Function, Megan Fitzgibbons, Deborah Meert Jan 2010

Are Bibliographic Management Software Search Interfaces Reliable?: A Comparison Between Search Results Obtained Using Database Interfaces And The Endnote Online Search Function, Megan Fitzgibbons, Deborah Meert

Western Libraries Publications

The use of bibliographic management software and its internal search interfaces is now pervasive among researchers. This study compares the results between searches conducted in academic databases' search interfaces versus the EndNote search interface. The results show mixed search reliability, depending on the database and type of search performed.

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