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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Aboriginal Sexual Offending In Canada: A Review Of The Evidence, John H. Hylton
Aboriginal Sexual Offending In Canada: A Review Of The Evidence, John H. Hylton
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Hollow Water First Nation’S Community Holistic Healing Process, Ed Buller
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Hollow Water First Nation’S Community Holistic Healing Process, Ed Buller
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
2004-1 Should The Canadian Federation Be Rebalanced?, Robin Boadway
2004-1 Should The Canadian Federation Be Rebalanced?, Robin Boadway
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-3 For Sale: Barriers To Riches, Benjamin R. Bridgman, Igor D. Livshits, James C. Macgee
2004-3 For Sale: Barriers To Riches, Benjamin R. Bridgman, Igor D. Livshits, James C. Macgee
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-2 Transformation Of The South Korean State: Structural Changes Of The State After The 1997 Financial Crisis, Bum-Soo Chon, Erick Duchesne, Sunkyuk Kim
2004-2 Transformation Of The South Korean State: Structural Changes Of The State After The 1997 Financial Crisis, Bum-Soo Chon, Erick Duchesne, Sunkyuk Kim
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-4 How Does Free Trade Become Institutionalized? An Expected Utility Model Of The Chrétien Era, Michael Lusztig, Patrick James
2004-4 How Does Free Trade Become Institutionalized? An Expected Utility Model Of The Chrétien Era, Michael Lusztig, Patrick James
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-5 Woodford And Wicksell On Interest And Prices: The Place Of The Pure Credit Economy In The Theory Of Monetary Policy, David Laidler
2004-5 Woodford And Wicksell On Interest And Prices: The Place Of The Pure Credit Economy In The Theory Of Monetary Policy, David Laidler
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-6 Risks, Institutions And Common Pool Governance: The Case Of Water Management In The Murray-Darling Basin, B Timothy Heinmiller
2004-6 Risks, Institutions And Common Pool Governance: The Case Of Water Management In The Murray-Darling Basin, B Timothy Heinmiller
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-8 Central Banks As Lenders Of Last Resort - Trendy Or Passé?, David Laidler
2004-8 Central Banks As Lenders Of Last Resort - Trendy Or Passé?, David Laidler
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-9 The Foreign Property Rule: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, David Burgess, Joel Fried
2004-9 The Foreign Property Rule: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, David Burgess, Joel Fried
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-7 The Re-Regulation Of Irrigated Agriculture, B Timothy Heinmiller
2004-7 The Re-Regulation Of Irrigated Agriculture, B Timothy Heinmiller
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Experimental Test Of Possible Psychological Benefits Of Past-Life Regression, Kellye Woods, Imants Barušs
Experimental Test Of Possible Psychological Benefits Of Past-Life Regression, Kellye Woods, Imants Barušs
Psychology
The purpose of this study was to determine whether past-life regression can lead to increased psychological well-being and changes in fundamental beliefs about consciousness and reality among those who are psychologically healthy. Twenty-four undergraduate students each participated in a single guided imagery session in which they were given either a past-life or open suggestion. Participants who were given the past-life suggestion had better scores on some measures of psychological well-being than those given the open suggestion, although post-hoc tests did not reveal any differences in psychological well-being or beliefs between those who actually experienced past-life imagery and those who did …
2004-4 Human Capital Specificity: Direct And Indirect Evidence From Canadian And Us Panels And Displaced Worker Surveys, Maxim Poletaev, Chris Robinson
2004-4 Human Capital Specificity: Direct And Indirect Evidence From Canadian And Us Panels And Displaced Worker Surveys, Maxim Poletaev, Chris Robinson
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-1 Technological Change In The Production Of Human Capital: Implications For Human Capital Stocks, Wages And Skill Differentials, Audra J. Bowlus, Chris Robinson
2004-1 Technological Change In The Production Of Human Capital: Implications For Human Capital Stocks, Wages And Skill Differentials, Audra J. Bowlus, Chris Robinson
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2004-1 Leakage And Comparative Advantage Implications Of Agricultural Participation In Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. Mccarl, Uwe A. Schneider, Chi-Chung Chen
2004-1 Leakage And Comparative Advantage Implications Of Agricultural Participation In Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. Mccarl, Uwe A. Schneider, Chi-Chung Chen
Department of Economics Research Reports
No abstract provided.
2004-2 U.S. Agricultural And Forest Carbon Sequestration Over Time: An Economic Exploration, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. Mccarl
2004-2 U.S. Agricultural And Forest Carbon Sequestration Over Time: An Economic Exploration, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. Mccarl
Department of Economics Research Reports
No abstract provided.
New Versions Of Pagerank Employing Alternative Web Document Models, M. Thelwall, L. Vaughan
New Versions Of Pagerank Employing Alternative Web Document Models, M. Thelwall, L. Vaughan
FIMS Publications
Introduces several new versions of PageRank (the link based Web page ranking algorithm), based on an information science perspective on the concept of the Web document. Although the Web page is the typical indivisible unit of information in search engine results and most Web information retrieval algorithms, other research has suggested that aggregating pages based on directories and domains gives promising alternatives, particularly when Web links are the object of study. The new algorithms introduced based on these alternatives were used to rank four sets of Web pages. The ranking results were compared with human subjects' rankings. The results of …
Attentional Biases In Eating Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Stroop Performance., Keith S Dobson, David J A Dozois
Attentional Biases In Eating Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Stroop Performance., Keith S Dobson, David J A Dozois
Psychology Publications
The Stroop task has been adapted from cognitive psychology to be able to examine attentional biases in various forms of psychopathology, including the eating disorders. This paper reviews the research on the Stroop task in the eating disorders research area in both descriptive and meta-analytic fashions. Twenty-eight empirical studies are identified, which predominantly examine food and body/weight stimuli in bulimic, anorexic, or dieting/food-restricted samples. It is concluded that there is evidence of an attentional bias in bulimia for a range of stimuli but that the effect seems to be limited to body/weight stimuli in anorexia. The evidence to date is …
Search Engine Coverage Bias: Evidence And Possible Causes, L. Vaughan, M. Thelwall
Search Engine Coverage Bias: Evidence And Possible Causes, L. Vaughan, M. Thelwall
FIMS Publications
Commercial search engines are now playing an increasingly important role in Web information dissemination and access. Of particular interest to business and national governments is whether the big engines have coverage biased towards the US or other countries. In our study we tested for national biases in three major search engines and found significant differences in their coverage of commercial Web sites. The US sites were much better covered than the others in the study: sites from China, Taiwan and Singapore. We then examined the possible technical causes of the differences and found that the language of a site does …
What Are The Chances? Evaluating Risk/Benefit Information In Consumer Health Materials, Jacquelyn Burkell
What Are The Chances? Evaluating Risk/Benefit Information In Consumer Health Materials, Jacquelyn Burkell
FIMS Publications
Much consumer health information addresses issues of disease risk or treatment risks and benefits, addressing questions such as ‘‘How effective is this treatment?’’ or ‘‘What is the likelihood that this test will give a false positive result?’’ Insofar as it addresses outcome likelihood, this information is essentially quantitative in nature, which is of critical importance, because quantitative information tends to be difficult to understand and therefore inaccessible to consumers. Information professionals typically examine reading level to determine the accessibility of consumer health information, but this measure does not adequately reflect the difficulty of quantitative information, including materials addressing issues of …
Health Information Seals Of Approval: What Do They Signify?, Jacquelyn Burkell
Health Information Seals Of Approval: What Do They Signify?, Jacquelyn Burkell
FIMS Publications
Much of the health information available to consumers on the Internet is incomplete, out of date, and even inaccurate. Seals of approval or trustmarks have been suggested as a strategy to assist consumers to identify high quality information. Little is known, however, about how consumers interpret such seals. This study addresses this issue by examining assumptions about the quality criteria that are reflected by a seal of approval. This question is of particular importance because a wide variety of quality criteria have been suggested for online health information, including core aspects of quality such as accuracy, currency, and completeness, proxy …
Feasibility Of The New Public Management In Mexico, Yolanda Camacho-Zapata
Feasibility Of The New Public Management In Mexico, Yolanda Camacho-Zapata
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines New Public Management in the Mexican context and the reasons why the implementation of foreign public sector management practices may present difficulties in Mexico. The core themes of the approach are analyzed and applied to the country in order to determine their feasibility. The findings reveal that most of the techniques proposed by New Public Management would not be successful in Mexico because they are incompatible with the cultural values and practices in the country.
How Are We To Govern Ourselves?: The Engagement Of Citizens In The Local Government Policy Process, Ron Coristine
How Are We To Govern Ourselves?: The Engagement Of Citizens In The Local Government Policy Process, Ron Coristine
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines the effectiveness of citizen engagement as a complementary process to the representative nature of local democracy based on case studies of two policy issues that used different methods of citizen participation in Kincardine, Ontario. Interviews with the mayor and seven of eight councillors in the municipality were conducted. The findings reveal that the traditional method of top-down consultation processes is inferior to deliberative approaches and interactive forms of engagement can achieve more satisfactory outcomes.
A Grand Experiment In Municipal Governance: Toronto’S Board Of Management, 1996–1997, David Hutcheon
A Grand Experiment In Municipal Governance: Toronto’S Board Of Management, 1996–1997, David Hutcheon
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines why the Toronto Board of Management was created and why it is unique based on the recollections and thoughts of the researcher and other significant players in the changes to governance that were made in the 1990s. The findings reveal that the Board of Management had rapid success in such a short amount of time because politicians and bureaucrats trusted each other, the areas of responsibility were clearly defined, and the governance system was designed to foster creative and thoughtful solutions.
Municipal Structures, Camille Burnett
Municipal Structures, Camille Burnett
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines whether political institutions affect the way municipalities are managed based on case studies of the different municipal structures adopted by 24 cities across North America. The aim is to provide recommendations to the London Chamber of Commerce with respect to municipal management. The findings reveal that municipal governance is dependent upon the structure of the corporation and the way in which the structure affects governance is determined by the roles of the key players.
Health Systems Restructuring In Ontario: Public Participation And Regionalization – The Un-Traveled Road, Sarah Padfield
Health Systems Restructuring In Ontario: Public Participation And Regionalization – The Un-Traveled Road, Sarah Padfield
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines whether the healthcare system in Ontario can integrate the principles of public participation and citizen engagement with the regionalization of health authorities based on an extensive literature review, case studies, and personal interviews. The findings reveal that the goals of public participation and citizen engagement can be reconciled with the goals of cost containment and efficiency by instituting regional health authorities.
Gaze-Centered Updating Of Visual Space In Human Parietal Cortex., W Pieter Medendorp, Herbert C Goltz, Tutis Vilis, J Douglas Crawford
Gaze-Centered Updating Of Visual Space In Human Parietal Cortex., W Pieter Medendorp, Herbert C Goltz, Tutis Vilis, J Douglas Crawford
Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
Single-unit recordings have identified a region in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) of the monkey that represents and updates visual space in a gaze-centered frame. Here, using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we identified an analogous bilateral region in the human PPC that shows contralateral topography for memory-guided eye movements and arm movements. Furthermore, when eye movements reversed the remembered horizontal target location relative to the gaze fixation point, this PPC region exchanged activity across the two cortical lobules. This shows that the human PPC dynamically updates the spatial goals for action in a gaze-centered frame.
The Lateral Occipital Complex Subserves The Perceptual Persistence Of Motion-Defined Groupings., Susanne Ferber, G Keith Humphrey, Tutis Vilis
The Lateral Occipital Complex Subserves The Perceptual Persistence Of Motion-Defined Groupings., Susanne Ferber, G Keith Humphrey, Tutis Vilis
Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
How are the bits and pieces of retinal information assembled and integrated to form the coherent objects that we see? One long-established principle is that elements that move as a group are linked together. For instance a fragmented line-drawing of an object, placed on a background of randomly distributed short lines, can be impossible to see. But if the object moves relative to the background, its shape is instantly recognized. Even after the motion stops, the percept of the object persists briefly before it fades into the background of random lines. Where in the brain does the percept of the …
Uncharted Waters: "Hidden" Jazz Collections At The U.W.O Music Library, Lisa Rae Philpott
Uncharted Waters: "Hidden" Jazz Collections At The U.W.O Music Library, Lisa Rae Philpott
Western Libraries Presentations
Popular music has long been ignored by academic music programs and their associated libraries. If we are now playing 'catch-up' with pop music, then what is the status of jazz music? At Western, surprising collections of jazz music exist, but are hidden. This presentation offers an overview of the Simmons Collection and the CKGW Radio Orchestra collection, and highlights some of the Canadian content contained therein.
Effects Of Ethanol On Anti-Saccade Task Performance., Sarah A Khan, Kristen Ford, Brian Timney, Stefan Everling
Effects Of Ethanol On Anti-Saccade Task Performance., Sarah A Khan, Kristen Ford, Brian Timney, Stefan Everling
Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
It has been shown that saccade-related neurons in the superior colliculus (SC) display an increased level of prestimulus activity and a higher stimulus-related burst in action potentials preceding direction errors in the anti-saccade task compared with correct anti-saccades. From this, it has been hypothesized that errors occur when the incoming visual signal in the SC passes a threshold and triggers a reflexive saccade. This hypothesis predicts that an attenuated visual signal will reduce the number of direction errors. Since ethanol has been shown to have a suppressive effect on cortical visual event-related potentials (ERPs), the purpose of the present study …