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James G. Gardiner : the premier as a pragmatic politician 1926-1929
(1967-01-01)For three decades the name of James G. Gardiner was identified with prairie politics. The image of "Jimmy" Gardiner as a practical politician has become a part of political legend in Saskatchewan. This study of a brief ... -
James G. Gardiner, land policy, and dominion-provincial relations
(1990)This thesis examines the principles which guided James G. Gardiner's approach to dominion-provincial relations specifically those which underlay the Canadian politician's land policies. Gardiner's political career lasted ... -
Jay Gatsby as bold sensualist : using self-reliance and Walden to critique the jazz age in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
(2003-10-31)For years F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has garnered attention from critics as having a relationship to American transcendentalist thought. While most acknowledge Jay Gatsby’s corruption and materialism, they ... -
Jean Chrétien: policy etrepreneur : a case study of the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta
(2012-03-13)The Group of Eight (G8) is one of the most prestigious forums to which Canada belongs. It represents an avenue through which the Canadian government can exercise its opinion on a number of economic and political issues. ... -
JESUS' ENCOUNTERS AND THE HELPING RELATIONSHIP
(1977-08)The purpose of this study was to contribute to the limited body of research on the interactions between Jesus and individuals. The research was based upon 26 encounters between Jesus and individuals that are recorded in ... -
Job satisfaction in rural and remote nursing : comparison of registered nurses in nurse practitioner vs. non-nurse practitioner roles
(2008)In Canada, the nursing shortage and high turnover rate of nurses are expected to worsen over the next ten years, making the recruitment and retention of nurses a priority for health care. Previous research has indicated ... -
John G. Diefenbaker : the political apprenticeship of a Saskatchewan politician, 1925-1940
(1995)John G. Diefenbaker is most often described by historians and biographers as a successful and popular politician. His uninterrupted presence in the House of Commons, and pursuit of the top political post within his party, ... -
John Milton's Republican Poetics and the Politics of Paradise Lost
(2023-03-07)Abstract England in the 1640s was torn by civil war between Parliamentarians in pursuit of a free commonwealth and Royalists loyal to the Stuart monarchy of Charles I. Throughout the decade, John Milton turned from poetry ... -
John Neilson : his political activities in Lower Canada, 1818-1834
(1937)Before the introduction of responsible government and party rule in Canada, individual members of the legislative body could assume an importance which today is reserved almost exclusively to the leaders of the parties. ... -
Joint analysis of longitudinal and time to event data using accelerated failure time models: A Bayesian approach
(2020-01-09)Joint modeling is a collection of statistical methods to properly handle a longitudinal response while investigating its effects on time to the occurrence of an event. Joint modeling also allows an investigation of the ... -
Joint modeling of binary longitudinal measurement and time-to-event: An application to depression and time-to-dementia
(2020-05-20)In recent years, the methodological development of joint models of longitudinal and time-to-event data has become one of the most popular areas of studies in clinical research and its application has increased substantially ... -
Joint modeling of longitudinal measurements and survival data with competing risks: application to HIV/AIDS study
(2017-06-07)Joint modeling of longitudinal measurements and survival data is a popular modeling technique in biomedical research (Wulfsohn and Tsiatis, 1997). Most of the studies in joint modeling consider only one failure type for ... -
Joint Models for Recurrent Event data Combining with a Longitudinal Internal Covariate
(2023-09-01)In many clinical trials, both longitudinal measurements and time-to-event data are frequently observed and collected within the same study. However, they are typically analyzed separately, which can lead to biased results ... -
Joke Book
(2016-09-26)Joke Book is a creative thesis, a collection of comic personal essays, somewhat in the spirit of Montaigne, in which I trace the impact of several pivotal jokes on my life. Among other digressions, I give a mathematical ... -
JOLTS : checkpointing and coordination in grid systems
(2004-08-16)The need for increased computational power is growing faster than our ability to produce faster computers. Already researchers are proposing systems that require peta-flop capable super computers, a far cry from what is ... -
Journey toward knowing : a narrative inquiry into one teacher's experience with at-risk students
(2008)The purpose of this inquiry was to retell and represent the life that I have lived as I explore how I adapted my professional practice for students in an alternative program. This naturalistic inquiry is positioned as a ... -
The journeyman musician, the phoenix, and the spiritual musician : experiences of combining music with salaried employment
(2005-03-14)A basic interpretative research design (Merriam, 2002) was used to investigate the research question, “What is the experience of being involved with music while also employed in a professional occupation?” This study ... -
JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION, FORMAL AMENDMENT OR THE BALLOT BOX: RECOGNIZING CIVIC DEMOCRACY IN THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA
(2021-08-31)As a result of the mid-election interference that occurred during the Toronto Civic Election in 2018, commentators have raised various ways of interpreting the Constitution of Canada, through unwritten constitutional ...