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Fall 2009

Lacanilao, Ryan D.

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...

2005

Li, S., Dai, M., He, X., Zhang, Y., Ruan, J., Burt, D., Yu, J., Wang, J., Yang, H., Hu, Y., Liu, B., Wong, G., Ye, C., Chen, J., Cong, L., Fang, L.

Working in parallel with the efforts to sequence the chicken (Gallus gallus) genome, the Beijing Genomics Institute led an international team of scientists from China, USA, UK, Sweden, The Netherlands and Germany to map extensive DNA sequence variation throughout the chicken genome by sampling...

Spring 2019

Moir, Mackenzie

The pre and post diagnostic phases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) care are inherently uncertain for patients and caregivers. The emotional character of ALS related communications requires that providers have a high degree of skill and tact. Understanding patient and caregiver preferences...

2007

Sawhney, Summit, Greiner, Russ, Querengesser, Lori, Shrivastava, Savita, Vogel, Hans J., Arndt, David, Macinnis, Glen D., Natalie, Zhang, Gavin E., Ying, Duggan, Tang, Peter, Amegbey, Godwin, Jewell, Kevin, Wagner, James, Clements, Tzur, Dan, Bamforth, Fiona, Young, Nelson, Miniaci, Jessica, Nikolai, Lisa, Eisner, Roman, Coutouly, Marie-Aude, Clive, Derrick, Li, Liang, Marrie, Tom, Block, David, Hau, David D., Cheng, Dean, Melisa, Gebremedhin, Stothard, Paul, Forsythe, Ian, Weljie, Alim M., Dowlatabadi, Reza, Wishart, David S., Sykes, Brian D., Fung, Chris, Knox, Craig, Jeroncic, Kevin, Mulu, Guo, Lewis, Mike, Guo, An Chi

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is currently the most complete and comprehensive curated collection of human metabolite and human metabolism data in the world. It contains records for more than 2180 endogenous metabolites with information gathered from thousands of books, journal articles...

2012

Cranley, L., Morgan, D.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Birdsell, J.

Background: Engaging end-users of research in the process of disseminating findings may increase the relevance of findings and their impact for users. We report findings from a case study that explored how involvement with the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) study influenced management...

2008

Samek, Toni

This discussion paper touches on aspects of the philosophy of librarianship,moral and ethical aspects of librarianship, human rights, social action, socialjustice, citizen participation in social change, and professional ethics of librarianship.

2007

Lerner, Craig S., Yahya, Moin A.

Introduction: According to a recent issue of Business Week, many hotshots of American industry are fleeing publicly traded corporations for \"the money, freedom and glamour of private equity.\"' Among the reasons cited for their departure is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which not only...

2008

Cheng, Dean, Stothard, Paul, Damaraju, Sambasivarao, Wishart, David S., Knox, Craig, Young, Nelson

A particular challenge in biomedical text mining is to find ways of handling ‘comprehensive’ or ‘associative’ queries such as ‘Find all genes associated with breast cancer’. Given that many queries in genomics, proteomics or metabolomics involve these kind of comprehensive searches we believe...

2008

Stothard, P., Damaraju, S., Wishart, D.S., Young, N., Cheng, D., Knox, C.

A particular challenge in biomedical text mining is to find ways of handling ‘comprehensive’ or ‘associative’ queries such as ‘Find all genes associated with breast cancer’. Given that many queries in genomics, proteomics or metabolomics involve these kind of comprehensive searches we believe...

1998-01-01

Landon, Stuart, Smith, Constance E.

While the theoretical literature on firm reputation is well developed, there exist few empirical studies that quantify the importance of reputation effects. This paper and reputation using data from the market for Bordeaux wine. A model is proposed in which price is a function of current quality...