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Human Capital Management: An Examination of Canadian Financial Service Firms and Their Current Practices
The onset of the knowledge era has affected all industries. Without exception, the Canadian financial services industry has transformed itself due to the knowledge-intensive structure it possesses. In the fight for the brightest senior executives, portfolio managers and fund administrators, human resource professionals must pay attention to the investments they...
Tags: McMaster University, Knowledge, Mutual Fund, Human Capital Management, Human Capital, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Benefits, Management
White papers 2002-01-16
Governing Global Finance: Financial Derivatives, Liberal States and Transformative Capacity
This paper explores relationships between derivatives markets and the capacity of nation-states to govern. It focuses on particular concept, 'transformative capacity' and asks whether nation-states can use such capacity to maintain some control over the effects of global markets like those for derivatives. The concept speaks to how well states...
Tags: Financial services, McMaster University, derivatives, financial, strategy
White papers 2001-10-03
Protecting the Copyright of Digital Audio and Video Content
The combination of faster internet connections and cheaper digital storage opportunities poses a great challenge to copyright holders of digital media. This paper examines three techniques for protecting digital data from unauthorized copying, with focus on the goal, the execution, and the effectiveness of the scheme. Encryption has of course...
Tags: Digital music, McMaster University, SDMI, DVD-Video, digital audio, SD card, storage, digital media, technique, video, Internet
White papers 2001-03-26

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Provectus Pharmaceuticals Appoints Kelly M. McMasters, MD, PhD, to Board of Directors
Dr. McMasters to Head Scientific Advisory Board KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC BB: PVCT), a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company has announced that Kelly M. McMasters MD, PhD, a preeminent authority on melanoma, has agreed to serve as a member of the corporate Board of...
Articles 2008-06-03
GC/MS; a practical user's guide, 2d. ed
GC/MS; a practical user's guide, 2d. ed. (CD-ROM included) McMaster, Marvin C. Wiley-Interscience 2008 180 pages $75.00 Hardcover QD79 McMaster (chemistry, U. of Missouri-St. Louis) has prepared a textbook for an extension course he...
Articles 2008-06-01
Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder. Antony, Martin M. and Karen Rowa. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers 2008 93 pages $24.95 Paperback RC552 Social anxiety disorder SAD is characterized by excessive anxiety in situations where a person might...
Articles 2008-06-01
Biostatistics; the bare essentials, 3d ed
Biostatistics; the bare essentials, 3d ed. (CD-ROM included) Norman, Geoffrey R. and David L. Streiner. B.C. Decker 2008 393 pages $49.00 Paperback QH323 Norman (clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada) and Streiner (psychiatry,...
Articles 2008-06-01
Cleanfield Selected as a Finalist of the Ontario Centre of Excellence "Mind to Market" Award
Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. ("Cleanfield") (TSX VENTURE: AIR) is pleased to announce that its fully-owned subsidiary, Cleanfield Energy Corp., was chosen as a finalist for the Ontario Centre of Excellence OCE "Mind to Market" Award in collaboration with McMaster University's Department of Mechanical Engineering. The criteria for the award was...
Articles 2008-05-22
McMaster University Library Partners With Kirtas Technologies, Ristech and Lulu.com to Unleash Thousands of Rare Books to the World
HAMILTON, Ontario, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine owning a copy of Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogo di Galileo Galilei (Galileo's Dialogue), challenging the traditional thinking that the universe revolves around the earth. At the time, the book and its concepts were so controversial, that Galileo was convicted of heresy in...
Articles 2008-05-21
Beta Blockers Raise Stroke, Death Risk After Surgery
Patients who received the blood pressure-lowering drugs known as beta blockers after having non-cardiac surgery were at higher risk of dying or having a stroke, a new Canadian study found. However, the patients receiving the medications were less likely to have a heart attack, according to the report in the...
Articles 2008-05-13
New guideline for the treatment of dementia: is there really anything new?
Despite a highly variable course, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias have a devastating impact on patients and their families. Throughout the inevitable progression of these diseases, family physicians can help patients and their caregivers by offering emotional support and providing resources for coping with difficult behaviors. Pharmacologic therapy is another...
Articles 2008-04-15
Natural Resources Canada: Two Canadian Universities Among Finalists in International Hydrogen Design Competition.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Apr 3, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Project teams from the University of Waterloo and McMaster University in Hamilton are among the five finalists in the international Hydrogen Student Design Contest being held in the United States. Natural Resources Canada NRCan provided $5,000 in...
Articles 2008-04-03
anatomically difficult primary total hip replacement: MEDIUM- TO LONG-TERM RESULTS USING A CEMENTLESS MODULAR STEM, The
This prospective study presents the ten-year (5 to 16) clinical and radiological results of 55 primary total hip replacements THR using a cementless modular femoral component (S-ROM). All patients had a significant anatomical abnormality which rendered the primary THR difficult. The mean Harris hip score was 36 (12 to...
Articles 2008-04-01
Validation for the reduced Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index function scale
ABSTRACT Purpose. To assess the criterion validity, repeatability, and the missing value protocol of the reduced Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index WOMAC function scale ('reduced scale'). Methods. Three separate studies were performed: a cross-over study to compare the full- and reduced-scale scores in 66 UK patients...
Articles 2008-04-01
Quality of life after infection in total joint replacement
ABSTRACT Purpose. To compare the health-related quality of life and functional outcomes of patients with and without periprosthetic infection after total joint replacement TJR. Methods. 62 uncomplicated TJRs and 34 TJRs complicated with deep infection were compared using a visual analogue scale for satisfaction, the Western Ontario and...
Articles 2008-04-01
ACE Inhibitor as Effective as More Expensive Blood Pressure Drug
Treatment with an ACE inhibitor drug was as effective in reducing deaths, heart attacks and stroke in a high-risk group of patients as a newer and more expensive angiotensin-receptor blocker ARB drug, a large international study has found. The study of more than 17,000 people with coronary artery disease or...
Articles 2008-03-31
Postpartum depression more common among immigrant new born mothers
Postpartum depression symptoms are more common in newcomer women than in Canadian-born women, a research team at McMaster University reports in the Feb. 08 issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. "Our results confirm that newcomer women have a three to almost five-times increased risk" of PPD. The...
Articles 2008-03-20
Six distinguished Canadians to receive honorary degrees at Trent University's 2008 convocation ceremonies; Internationally renowned fiddlers Natalie McMaster and Donnell Leahy among list of those to be honoured at spring convocation ceremonies.
M2 PRESSWIRE-13 March 2008-TRENT UNIVERSITY: Six distinguished Canadians to receive honorary degrees at Trent University's 2008 convocation ceremonies; Internationally renowned fiddlers Natalie McMaster and Donnell Leahy among list of those to be honoured at spring convocation ceremoniesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13032008 ...
Articles 2008-03-13
Calling all clues …
Add flip-open cell phones to the list of crime-scene items that might harbor a suspect's DNA. After seeing media coverage of a crime in which a suspect had bled on a cell phone that he later dropped, Meghan J. McFadden, a molecular biologist at McMaster University in Hamilton,...
Articles 2008-03-08
Biotage AB and McMaster University Sign Two Year Extension To Molecular Imaging Development Agreement
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Regulatory News: McMaster University has successfully completed the first year research agreement, with a key journal publication and several technical presentations. "We used the Biotage Initiator[TM] Microwave synthesis system, chromatography cartridges to prepare a range of Carborane Cage structures labeled with rhenium and technetium (Tc99c),...
Articles 2008-03-04
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