130,476 research outputs found
An overview of the Canadian and Australian industrial relations systems
No full text25, 2 leaves ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-25). ; "February, 1987." The author wishes to acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the Labour Studies Programme, McMaster University and the Canadian Construction Association, as well as the comments of Roy J. Adams on an earlier draft of this paper.</p
Continental divide: the direction and fate of North American unions
No full text73 leaves ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73). ; "An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, June 6, 1987.";"September, 1988." Forthcoming in Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (JAI Press). </p
McMaster Patient Management Problems
No full textPatient Management Problems is a paper and pencil self-assessment procedure administered by the American College of Surgeons. The participant is presented with a number of problems, each of which describes a patient with an illness or injury. For each problem, the participant must assume the role of surgeon on duty and make decisions as to what he would do next in order to formulate a diagnosis. Each decision is scored in a prescribed manner. Upon completion of the problem, the participant's score reflects his knowledge and clinical competence. Dr. C. B. Mueller (Health Sciences, McMaster University) has defined a requirement to investigate the feasibility of evaluating a surgeon's ability to discriminate between critical and noncritical information available from a patient. This investigation will employ an evaluation process similar to the one used in Patient Management Problems but will be computerized and will be scored in terms of completeness and efficiency. This computerized evaluation tool will be referred to as McMaster Patient Management Problems (MPMP). This project paper will describe the activities surrounding the development of McMaster Patient Management Problems.ThesisMaster of Science (MS
The building trades: Canadian labour congress dispute
No full text8, [6] leaves ; Includes bibliographical references (leaf [9]) ; "September, 1982". The author wishes to thank Eugene Giannattasio and Natalie Harvey for their research assistance
Statutory expedited grievance arbitration: the case of Ontario
No full text36 leaves ; ; The author wishes to acknowledge the research assistance of Laurie Swackhammer and the comments provided by Roy Adams, Gary Cll.aison and seminar participants at Cornell University on an earlier draft of this paper.</p
Performance of the McMaster rheumatoid arthritis measurement questionnaire in Brazilian patients
No full textMCMASTER UNIV,DEPT CLIN EPIDEMIOL & BIOSTAT,HAMILTON L8S 4L8,ONTARIO,CANADAWeb of Scienc
An exploratory investigation of digital literacy training programs led by public libraries and other local community organizations
No full text43 p. ; Includes bibliographical references (pp. 30-31) ; "October 2020"; Acknowledgments: "This paper was kindly supported by a Partnership Development Grant (PDG) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Partner organizations on the PDG comprised Hamilton Public Library (HPL), the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC), the Canadian Federation of Libraries Association (CFLA), and McMaster University’s Office of Community Engagement. Thanks goes to the following Research Assistants whose help during the data collection and analysis process greatly facilitated the production of this work: Hannah Barrie, David Gerstle, Jodie Lobana and Mona Nasery. Thanks also goes to those who agreed to serve as research participants."This working paper describes an exploratory research investigation of the factors affecting the success of digital literacy skills training offered by local community organizations, such as public libraries. The study investigates how public libraries and other community-based organizations can best deliver the digital literacy initiatives they provide to the communities they serve. Case studies of two public libraries and five community organizations in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (Canada) were carried out. Data collection comprised: a) one-on-one interviews with administrators, instructors, and people who received training; b) the analysis of training documents; c) observations of training sessions; and d) a survey administered to clients who participated in these training sessions. Qualitative data analysis techniques identified a variety of factors that shape digital literacy training success. These factors include: i) organizing and training staff; ii) acquiring sustainable funding; iii) reaching marginalized populations; iv) offering training at convenient times to end-users; v) marketing the training; vi) sharing and adopting best practices; and, vii) collecting and analyzing performance measurement data. How these factors inter-relate, and how these factors differ between different types of end-users and different types of local community organizations were explored. From these findings, recommendations for practice on how to run successful digital literacy training programs are provided. Ultimately, the factors identified in this study will guide the development of several survey instruments that will be administered to public libraries (both administrators and clients) across Canada in order to gain not only a national picture of digital literacy initiatives offered by public libraries and other community organizations, but also to better understand how organizational and end-user considerations surrounding these initiatives impact digital literacy training successThis paper was kindly supported by a Partnership Development Grant (PDG) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Partner organizations on the PDG comprised Hamilton Public Library (HPL), the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC), the Canadian Federation of Libraries Association (CFLA), and McMaster University’s Office of Community Engagement. Thanks goes to the following Research Assistants whose help during the data collection and analysis process greatly facilitated the production of this work: Hannah Barrie, David Gerstle, Jodie Lobana and Mona Nasery. Thanks also goes to those who agreed to serve as research participants
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A hierarchy of impairments: the absence of body size in disability accommodations with universities.
No full textThis Chapter is a response to the lack of acknowledgement of body size as a disability within Universities. As someone with dwarfism, my identity as a disabled person is often contested, affecting me in receiving appropriate disability accommodations, including a size suitable gown for graduation ceremonies to size suitable facilities within different university buildings. As both a disabled student and currently an academic, the lack of proper accommodations has affected both my studies and my career. In one instance, I was forced to resign from my role as a Research fellow at one UK University due to them refusing to provide reasonable adjustments. Even when University facilities have been lowered, they are there to accommodate for wheelchair users. This does not necessarily benefit people with dwarfism as wheelchair users are considered to be taller and have an average arm length. This chapter argues that body size as a disability has been largely ignored creating a hierarchy of impairment when it comes to providing disability access within universities. Using some of my own experiences as examples, this Chapter demonstrates how disability access largely revolves around wheelchair users, ignoring the needs of people with dwarfism. For example, with the standard university lecture theatre there is now a removable set of seating to accommodate for wheelchair users, but no seating that is actually size suitable for people with dwarfism. This Chapter calls for more inclusion of body size when providing disability accommodations within universities and argues that disability accommodations do not begin and end with accommodation for wheelchair users. This is not to suggest that accommodations for wheelchair users should be frowned upon, but that universities need to diversify and expand to include a larger range of impairments in their accommodations. It will highlight what universities should provide for students with a body size that exceeds the norm, from disability facilities that accommodate for different body sizes to appropriate graduation attire
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