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Department of Health Sciences
Through its graduate program offerings in Public Health and Health Sciences, the Department of Health Sciences provides students with an understanding of the complexities of public health and health sciences -
Faculty of Natural Resources Management
Natural resources management is stewardship of both public and private primarily (mainly) forested landscapes, with the intension of reaching a balance of ecological sustainability, economic viability and societal acceptance ...
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Is Presidential compensation linked to performance of Ontario’s colleges?
(working paper, 2018)This paper examines relationships between Presidential salaries and key performance indicators for Community Colleges in Ontario, Canada. This paper aims to determine the impact College performance has on executive salary ... -
Sowingo : Promoting Innovations in Dental Office Inventory Management
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Unhappy with erroneous and inefficient inventory management affecting his dental practice, Dr. Bhatti, a seasoned dentist, founded Sowingo in 2012 to create a solution tailor-made for busy health practitioners. Since then, ... -
Procurement Auctions and Negotiations: An Empirical Comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08)Real world procurement transactions often involve multiple attributes and multiple vendors. Successful procurement involves vendor selection through appropriate market mechanisms. The advancement of information technologies ... -
Livestock and the functional habitat of vicuñas in Ecuador : a new puzzle
(Wiley, 2018-01)Whether interactions between wildlife and livestock are competitive or facilitative is context dependent. Intermediary factors that explain how context (seasonal or regional characteristics of the ecological community) ... -
Ion-assisted deposition of amorphous PbO layers
(Springer, 2017-07)Lead oxide (PbO) is one of the most promising materials for application in direct conversion medical imaging X-ray detectors. Despite its high potential, conventional polycrystalline PbO layers deposited with the basic ... -
Sugar-Frosted Daphnia: an improved fixation technique for cladocera
(American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1978)Egg loss by preserved Daphnia was reduced from 35% to 10% by use of a chilled, as opposed to warm, solution of sucrose and Formalin. -
The enigma of Daphnia death rates
(American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1978)Birth rates, rates of population change, and mortality rates were computed for Daphnia pulex and Daphnia rosea collected at three separate stations in 2.5-ha meromictic Crawford Lake. Birth and death rates for the same ... -
Creating space for citizenship : the impact of group structure on validating the voices of people with dementia
(Sage, 2016-05)Recently, there has been increasing attention given to finding ways to help people diagnosed with dementia “live well” with their condition. Frequently however, the attention has been placed on the family care partner ... -
The influence of coaching on employee performance: Results from two international quantitative studies.
(Wiley, 2014)Coaching has been identified as a key managerial behavior that organizations must promote to develop employees and achieve higher levels of performance. Despite this agreement and an increasing interest in coaching, there ... -
Is managerial coaching a source of competitive advantage? Promoting employee self-regulation through coaching
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-02)The present business environment of extreme competition and rapid changes has motivated scholars to identify variables that can help companies stand up to and overcome these challenges. Research on self-regulation found ... -
Teaching tools to engage Anishinaabek First Nations women in cervical cancer screening: Report of an educational workshop
(Sage, 2016)Objective: To explore educational strategies for engaging First Nations women in Canada to attend cervical cancer screening. Design: Within a participatory action research framework, semi-structured interviews with ... -
Colonial legacy and the experience of First Nations women in cervical cancer screening: a Canadian multi-community study
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Regular Papanicolaou (Pap) screening has dramatically reduced cervical cancer incidence in Canada since the 1950s. However, Indigenous women’s rates of cervical cancer remain disproportionately high, a factor which is not ... -
Cutting versus herbicides: Tenth-year volume and release cost-effectiveness of sub-boreal conifer plantations
(2006)Few cost-effectiveness studies of vegetation management in conifer plantations are reported in the literature. This study provides follow-up cost-effectiveness analysis from research conducted at the Fallingsnow Ecosystem ... -
Differences in extrinsic tree quality and value of fibre production following alternative vegetation management treatments in Northwestern Ontario
(2011)We examined differences in stem quality, and volume and value of fibre produced by planted white spruce 16 years after vegetation management treatments in northwestern Ontario. Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVSOntario) was ... -
The influence of competition and species mixture on plantation-grown white spruce: Growth and foliar nutrient response after 20 years
(2014)A 20-year-old experimental white spruce plantation was used to identify key stand (neighbourhood competition) and soil (physical and chemical properties) factors influencing spruce growth (Periodic Basal Area Increment) ... -
Forestry education - introduction
(2002)Introduction to a theme issue of The Forestry Chronicle concerning forestry education and programs. -
Using the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) to examine the impact of harvest and fire on carbon dynamics in selected forest types of the Canadian Boreal shield
(2012)The objective of the study was to assess the responsiveness of the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) to management scenarios that included three rotation lengths (50, 100 and 250 years) under ... -
Benefit–cost analysis of vegetation management alternatives: an Ontario case study
(2011)Vegetation management practices are an integral component of forest management. In this paper, we report results of stand-level benefit–cost analyses of 12 vegetation management treatments applied at six study sites in ... -
Three shapes of organizational knowledge
(2013)The author proposes that for management purposes organizational knowledge, as the paramount input to all production processes, be considered in three separate classifications, tacit, codified, and encapsulated. While the ... -
Vertical integration : applying an economic calculus to knowledge
(Inderscience Publishing, 2005-01-19)This paper applies an economic calculus to knowledge to address one of the most strategically important questions firms face – deciding which activities are more economically organised in a unified firm rather than in two ...
