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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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2022-02-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This project seeks to test how language use influences customer perceptions of AI agents’ humanness and investigate when consumers prefer interacting with AI agents that are more or less human-like.This project will develop a framework to explain how, when, and why...
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09/24/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Videogames offer tremendous potential for more meaningful interactions with music and sound, but in most cases, the role that sound and music plays is subservient to the story or game world, rather than being a point of exploration in and of itself. What if composers...
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Canadian Consumer Preference and Willingness to Pay for Beef Raised under Different Antimicrobial Use Practices
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In recent years, there have been rising public concerns regarding production practices related to antimicrobial use (AMU) in food-animal production (FAP). Many FAP practices have requirements that consumers are not fully aware of. The raised without antibiotics (RWA) requires that no antibiotic...
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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...
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Spring 2019
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...
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Fall 2024
Structure dictates every property and behavior of a material. Concepts of structure used within the field of materials science and engineering (MSE) are diverse, ranging from quantum level phenomena, to the practical development of macroscale components. The sheer volume of variables, scales, and...
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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...
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Insights into the impact and use of research results in a residential long-term care facility: A case study
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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...
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2008
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.