Research and scholarly works: Recent submissions
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Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment Strategies for Selumetinib to Neurofibromatosis Type I Inoperable Plexiform Neurofibromas Patients Aged 3 to 18
(2022)Assessing the cost effectiveness for drugs targeting ultra-rare diseases is complex given the limited clinical evidence for many drugs, yet is growing in importance as the number of these drugs being commercialized is ... -
Prevalence of multimorbidity in adults with cancer, and associated health service utilization in Ontario, Canada: a population-based retrospective cohort study
(Springer Nature, 2021)Background: The majority of people with cancer have at least one other chronic health condition. With each additional chronic disease, the complexity of their care increases, as does the potential for negative outcomes ... -
Tailoring Information Literacy Instruction and Library Services for Continuing Education
(CILIP, Community Services Group, Information Literacy Group, 2011)As higher education diversifies worldwide, academic librarians must adapt their information literacy initiatives to meet the needs of new populations. This paper explores the implementation of information literacy instruction ... -
Canadian academic libraries and the mobile web
(Emerald, 2011)Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to assess how Canadian academic libraries have responded to the rapidly evolving mobile environment and to identify gaps in the services provided, while suggesting areas for future ... -
Apps for academic success: Developing digital literacy and awareness to increase usage
(IOS, 2017)As a consequence of the high adoption levels of mobile technology, users are increasingly accessing academic library-subscribed content via vendor-supplied mobile applications (apps) or responsive websites. However, users ... -
Leveraging apps for research and learning: A survey of Canadian academic libraries
(Emerald, 2015)Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to assess the response of Canadian academic libraries to the rapid proliferation of mobile application (apps), many of which are useful for research, teaching, and learning. ... -
A survey of online library tutorials: Guiding instructional video creation to use in flipped classrooms
(American Library Association, 2015)There has been a steady increase in library literature on “flipping the classroom.” This teaching strategy requires students to review course material outside the classroom beforehand, thereby allowing more time during ... -
Tablets as Powerful Tools for University Research
(American Library Association, 2012)The increasing popularity of tablet computers in recent years is beginning to transform the way that library users, and in particular postsecondary students and faculty, find and engage with digital content. In response ... -
Individual Knowledge Measurement: Organizational Knowledge Measured at the Individual Level
(Emerald Publishing, 2021)Fundamental classifications of knowledge may be measurable as factors of production and can reveal evidence of specialization between adjacent stages of production even in the presence of shared substantive knowledge. The ... -
The hormonal sensitivity hypothesis : a review and new findings
(Elsevier, 2017)Previous women’s health practitioners and researchers have postulated that some women are particularly sensitive to hormonal changes occurring during reproductive events. We hypothesize that some women are particularly ... -
Emotional memory in oral contraceptive users : Negative stimuli are more forgettable
(Sage, 2019)Recent research suggests oral contraceptive use is associated with altered memory for emotional story information, blunted stress hormone responses to emotional stimuli, and altered structure or function of the amygdala ... -
Psychometric Properties of a DSM-5-Based Screening Tool for Women's Perceptions of Premenstrual Symptoms
(Sage, 2021)A premenstrual screening tool is needed when time constraints and attrition limit the feasibility of daily ratings. The present study examines the utility of a novel, 33-item, retrospective, dimensional, DSM-5-based, ... -
Developing and Assessing a Graduate Student Reference Service
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to formally assess the training program received by information studies graduate students and the reference services they provided at a research-intensive university. Design/metho ... -
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 ...