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Who we are at Work: Millennial Women, Everyday Inequalities and Insecure Work
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-09-01)Based on research with millennial women in Canada, this article examines the process of workplace identity, or (un)conscious strategies of identity management that young women employ at work. First, despite increasing ... -
Whodunit: Classifying Code as Human Authored or GPT-4 generated- A case study on CodeChef problems
(Mining Software Repositories, 2024-04-15)Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, built on large language models like GPT-4, are revolutionizing how programming tasks are performed, raising questions about whether code is authored ... -
Whole blood long-chain n-3 fatty acids as a measure of fish oil compliance in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a pilot study
(Elsevier, 2022-01)Long-chain n-3 fatty acids (n-3 LCPUFA) may prevent chemotherapy-induced hyperlipidemia in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). However, compliance could be a problem and intake-biomarker correlations may be ... -
Why do people (not) take breaks? An investigation of individuals’ reasons for taking and for not taking breaks at work
(Springer, 2023)Although breaks can help employees stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day, employees sometimes refrain from taking a break despite wanting to do so. Unfortunately, few studies have ... -
Why do you ask? The effects of perceived motives on the effort that managers allocate toward delivering feedback
(Springer, 2021)Although people are generally motivated to perform well at work, there is often ambiguity regarding whether they are meeting their organization’s standards. As such, people often seek feedback from others. To date, ... -
Why libraries aren’t dead: open access and the evolving liaison role
(The Editorial Board of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2011)This is the second in a series of commentaries from members of the Open Access Interest Group of Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothèques (CHLA / ABSC). Devon Greyson’s inaugural contribution ... -
Wikipedia as an arena for public scholarship
(Centre for Career Action, 2020-10-14)Wikipedia provides scholars with an avenue for meaningfully contributing to the widely used public knowledge platform despite contribution guidelines that restrict the use of original research. This slide-based learning ... -
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons: Thinking Beyond the Warm Fuzzie
(Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2017)Wikipedia edit-a-thons represent a unique and fruitful avenue for galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) to engage with new and existing segments of their user communities. Encompassing information and technical ... -
Wire bonding on glass substrates via vapour deposition of Ag-Ti film
(Elsevier, 2019-08)Circuits on glass technology have recently developed in applications such as interposers, fibre optics, and displays. We report an automatable method towards interconnecting to glass circuits via wire bonding with maintained ... -
Wisdom is a social-ecological rather than person-centric phenomenon
(Elsevier, 2020-04)Typical approaches to study practical wisdom are person-centric, use flawed methods, and produce insights of little relevance to the construct’s definition. We propose that understanding the processes underlying practical ... -
Witches in Swamps, Sirens at Sea, Leviathans of the Deep: Feminist Figures that Haunt our Social Media World
(University of Waterloo, 2024)This article considers the resurgence of the monstrous feminine in digital culture, focusing on the memetic manifestation of witches, sirens, and leviathans. We trace the histories of these figures in the digital present, ... -
Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
(Athabasca University Press, 2016)Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly ... -
Witnessing-condition Heterogeneity and Witnesses’ Versus Investigators’ Confidence in the Accuracy of Witnesses’ Identification Decisions
(APA, 2000-06)Undergraduate participants were tested in 144 pairs, with one member of each pair randomly assigned to a “witness” role and the other to an “:investigator” role. Each witness viewed a target person on video under good or ... -
Women’s Words and the Words of Women in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1700–2022, Supplementary Data & Notes
(The Life of Words, 2023-05-01)This Supplementary Data document collects notes on data and methodology, as well as supplementary aggregated data, underlying the analyses presented in David-Antoine Williams, ‘Women’s Words and the Words of Women in the ... -
Workload, Risks, and Goal Framing as Antecedents of Shortcut Behaviors
(Springer, 2017-08-01)Purpose: Shortcut behaviors are methods of completing a task that require less time than typical or standard procedures. These behaviors carry the benefit of increasing efficiency, yet can also carry risks (e.g., of an ... -
World hunger and the global economy: strong linkages, weak action
(School of International and Public Affairs: Columbia University, 2014-03)This paper probes some of the global economic forces that have contributed to the ongoing precarious global food security situation, especially in the years since the 2007 to 2008 food crisis. Since the crisis hit at a ... -
WorldCat Local in a Health Sciences Environment: One Library's Experience
(2010-06-07)In 2009, Memorial University Libraries embarked on a pilot project with WorldCat Local (WCL), an available discovery layer. As of May 2010, WCL remains in internal testing and will likely be released it in beta form in ... -
Worldwide retention of nutrient silicon by river damming: From sparse data set to global estimate
(American Geophysical Union, 2014-08-13)Damming of rivers represents a major anthropogenic perturbation of the hydrological cycle, with the potential to profoundly modify the availability of nutrient silicon (Si) in streams, lakes, and coastal areas. A global ... -
Worst Case Latency Analysis for Hoplite FPGA-based NoC
(2017-10-30)Overlay NoCs, such as Hoplite, are cheap to implement on an FPGA but provide no bounds on worst-case routing latency of packets traversing the NoC due to deflection routing. In this paper, we show how to adapt Hoplite to ... -
Wrist and Finger Gesture Recognition with Single-element A-mode Ultrasound signal: A Comparison with Single-channel Surface Electromyogram
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-10-01)With the ability to detect volumetric changes of contracting muscles, ultrasound (US) was a potential technique in the field of human-machine interface (HMI). Compared to the US imaging (B-mode US), the signal from a static ...