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Spatial Distribution of Iranian Population in Canada: A Portrait Using the 2001 Census Data

Gharakhlou, Mehdi; Langlois, André - In: Iranian Economic Review 11 (2006) 3, pp. 159-177

. A rapidly increasing number of migrants today are Iranians. Major destinations of Iranian migrants are Canada, Australia …, the United States, and most European countries. This study will focus on the migration of Iranian to Canada. Iranian (also … referred to as Persians) is one of many cultural groups in Canada. The purpose of this article is to understand the number and …

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Tsunami Hazard and Risk in Canada

Clague, John; Munro, Adam; Murty, Tad - In: Natural Hazards 28 (2003) 2, pp. 435-463

Tsunamis have occurred in Canada due to earthquakes, landslides, and a large chemical explosion. The Pacific coast is … destructive historical tsunamis, however, have been in Atlantic Canada – one in 1917 in Halifax Harbour, which was triggered by a … edge of the Grand Banks. The tsunami risk along Canada's Arctic coast and along the shores of the Great Lakes is low in …

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Dividend payout and executive compensation: theory and Canadian evidence

Bhattacharyya, Nalinaksha; Mawani, Amin; Morrill, … - In: Managerial Finance 34 (2008), pp. 585-601

Purpose -This paper seeks to present and test a model of the association between dividend payout and executive compensation. Design/methodology/approach - The authors develop a model based on Bhattacharyya whereby managerial quality is unobservable to shareholders, and therefore first-best...

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In government we trust: rise and fall of Canadian business income trust conversions

Kryzanowski, Lawrence; Lu, Ying - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009), pp. 784-802

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the market impact of announcements that publicly traded limited liability firms would convert to business income trusts, and to test the robustness of the tax motive as the primary determinant of any conversion announcement effects by estimating...

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Second Thoughts on Public Systems

Gratzer, David - Networks Financial Institute, Scott College of Business - 2006

. Dr. Gratzer reviews evidence from Canada and Europe, concluding that these systems are plagued by low standards and …

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Self-management support in primary care: Enactments, disruptions, and conversational consequences

Thille, Patricia; Ward, Natalie; Russell, Grant - In: Social Science & Medicine 108 (2014) C, pp. 97-105

A common refrain in chronic disease management is that patients and clinicians need to enact new roles: patients as their own caregivers; clinicians as professional supporters of patient self-management activities. These roles are central to self-management support (SMS), an approach that...

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The effect of physical activity on adult obesity: Evidence from the Canadian NPHS panel

Sarma, Sisira; Zaric, Gregory S.; Campbell, M. Karen; … - In: Economics & Human Biology 14 (2014) C, pp. 1-21

the cohort of adults aged 18–50 years in 1994/95 from Canada's National Population Health Survey and followed them over 16 …

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Determining and broadening the definition of impact from implementing a rational priority setting approach in a healthcare organization

Cornelissen, Evelyn; Mitton, Craig; Davidson, Alan; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 114 (2014) C, pp. 1-9

Techniques to manage scarce healthcare resources continue to evolve in response to changing, growing and competing demands. Yet there is no standard definition in the priority setting literature of what might constitute the desired impact or success of resource management activities.

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Impacts of collaboration and network indicators on patent quality: The case of Canadian nanotechnology innovation

Beaudry, Catherine; Schiffauerova, Andrea - In: European Management Journal 29 (2011) 5, pp. 362-376

This article studies the impact of collaboration and co-inventorship network characteristics of Canadian nanotechnology inventors on the quality of their inventions. We investigate the impact of four types of variables on patent quality, using the number of claims as a proxy for quality: (a) the...

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Regional Market-Based Climate Policy in North America: Efficient, Effective, Fair?

Rudolph, Sven; Kawakatsu, Takeshi; Lerch, Achim - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

appears to be deadlocked. The same is true for Canada, which has aligned its climate policy to the US. However, regional …

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