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"It was delightful to be so hungry": Food, Class, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature
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This thesis explores the social, political, and spatial extensions of food and eating in nineteenth-century young women’s coming-of-age texts in America. It focuses on novels and short-stories from women authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Susan Coolidge, Eleanor H. Porter, and Sarah Jewett in...
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Fall 2017
Former foster youth often experience an array of serious challenges during their young adult years. Problems such as homelessness, school drop-out, and mental health and drug problems have been attributed to the requirement that foster youth lose their supports from child welfare as they approach...
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An experimental investigation of the impact of fat taxes: Price effects, food stigma, and information effects on economic instruments to improve dietary health
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This thesis investigates how a tax and warning label on less healthy snack food products may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax is a source of consumer information. A survey that included choice experiments was implemented in supermarkets. Participants were asked to choose...
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Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan?
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Pakistan, with a maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 297 deaths /100,000 live births, is one of six countries contributing to half of all maternal deaths worldwide.1 In an effort to decrease these unacceptably high rates the Government of Pakistan created a new cadre of skilled birth attendants,...
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Are community midwives addressing the inequities in access to skilled birth attendance in Punjab, Pakistan? Gender, class and social exclusion
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Jhangri, G., O'Brien, B., Mumtaz, Z., Bhatti, A.
Background: Pakistan is one of the six countries estimated to contribute to over half of all maternal deaths worldwide. To address its high maternal mortality rate, in particular the inequities in access to maternal health care services, the government of Pakistan created a new cadre of...
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2017-05-11
Schlesinger, Ari, Edwards, W. Keith, Grinter, Rebecca E.
Abstract: Understanding users becomes increasingly complicated when we grapple with various overlapping attributes of an individual’s identity. In this paper we introduce intersectionality as a framework for engaging with the complexity of users’—and authors’—identities, and situating these...
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Ozsu, M. Tamer, Szafron, Duane, Leontiev, Yuri
Technical report TR98-02. In this paper we present a model that supports a clean separation between the concepts of interface, implementation, and representation. We present several problems that are difficult to solve in the absence of such separation and describe how the proposed model can be...
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Prevalence, Characteristics, and Unmet Needs of Unbefriended Residents in Alberta Long-Term Care Homes
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Background: Older adults who lack decision-making capacity and a willing or able surrogate to act as their representative are defined as unbefriended. These unbefriended older adults often require a public guardian and reside in long-term care (LTC) homes. Unbefriended LTC residents are at risk...