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- 1Gow, Gordon (Supervisor)
- 1Grogan, Carolyn P.
- 1Huiting, Huang
- 1Jamil, Md Raihan
- 1Keller, Angela Maria
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Spring 2012
This thesis contributes toward the design of a novel pricing scheme that could be employed to compensate Canadian poultry producers according to their performance in specific quality traits. Based on biological data obtained from a set of growth experiments with chicken and data on chicken...
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Mobile Phones and Health Communication for Young Adults: An Exploratory Case Study about Incorporating Text messaging in Pregnancy Care Support in Edmonton
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Research shows that reproductive health initiatives for youth, using SMS (texting), are successful worldwide. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore and describe how introducing SMS in an agency supporting people facing unplanned pregnancies in Edmonton could enhance...
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Technology Adoption by Ontario Dairy Producers: Productivity-enhancing versus Cost-minimizing Technologies
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Under supply management, Canadian dairy producers maximize profits subject to their quota holdings. This constraint on supply effectively leads producers to solve a cost-minimization problem, which may have an effect on their use of technology. I hypothesize that Ontario dairy producers have...