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Impact of an employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India
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In this dissertation, I examine the impact of the world's largest employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India. The program, popularly known as National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was introduced in India in 2005. I utilize two...
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The Influence of Psychological Comorbidity on Return-to-Work Following a Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Program
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Background: Posttraumatic Stress Injury (PTSI) encompasses a range of trauma, mood, anxiety, and somatoform disorders. PTSI have been shown to have adverse effects on both physical and psychological health. Workers with PTSI demonstrate decreased work performance, functional capability, and...
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Fall 2022
As we find ways to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015) and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice (2019), there are stories about intergenerational trauma that remain silenced. One such story is about Indigenous women who have...
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Fall 2022
Maintaining the health of feedlot beef cattle is essential because diseases are directly associated with economic losses and animal welfare. Lameness is an important health issue in feedlot cattle. However, the molecular mechanisms behind cattle lameness have not been well studied. Moreover,...
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Genetic and molecular analysis of clubroot resistance in canola introgressed from rutabaga cvs. Polycross and Brookfield
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Clubroot disease caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae is a serious threat to canola (Brassica napus) production. The evolution of new pathotypes has rendered available resistances ineffective and has necessitated the introgression of new resistance into canola and furthering our understanding of...
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Fall 2022
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, causing nearly 17.9 million deaths per year. Early detection and treatment are critical for improving this situation. Today's wearable medical devices are becoming popular because of their price and ease of use. Many manufacturers...
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Impact of Mobile Photo Enforcement (MPE): An Analysis of the Duration Between Collisions at Enforced Sites
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Road collisions are one of the leading causes of death globally (1), with pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists accounting for more than 50% of road traffic fatalities. Many countries work hard to provide safer roads for all users, especially vulnerable ones, not least because the cost to most...
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Creation of a Dynamic Risk Ranking Methodology for Multiple Storm Events and its Application to the City of Edmonton
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Globally, municipalities have been experiencing flooding events caused by riverine, coastal, or urban flooding and have applied both many and varied mitigation measures. In most flood mitigation cases, financial investment for mitigation improvements was approved post flooding. This reactive...
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Fall 2022
Machine learning has been used to solve single-agent search problems. One of its applications is to guide search algorithms by learning heuristics. However, it is difficult to provide guarantees on the quality of learning from a neural network, since the resulting heuristics can be inadmissible,...
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Fall 2022
The Japanese language involves several quotative particles (similar to that in He said that … in English). Among these particles, two particles to and tte the most frequent ones. Previous studies have described that formality of conversation distinguishes these two particles (to is used in...