Trade Unions in Canada: 1812-1902, by Eugene Forsey, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1982, 600 p., ISBN 0-8020-6388-8.

20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 16-18, 1982

Utilization of Hospital Services by Recent Immigrants in Toronto, Canada

Recent immigrant communities face hardships that may create special health needs and barriers. This study explored the risk of hospitalization in high recent-immigration areas in Toronto compared to other Toronto neighbourhoods. The study used 1996 hospitalization and census data. Regression was used to examine the effects of recent immigration on hospitalization. Average household income was a...

Organization, Vol. 3. Toronto, Canada. Papers:

The purpose of this study is to evaluate two metadata schemas, AACR2+ and the International Children’s Digital Library’s metadata schema, in light of children’s information seeking behavior for book selection. While previous studies focus on the development of child-friendly interfaces, few of these studies discuss a metadata schema for children’s libraries. Given that effective information ret...

University of Toronto Department of Economics

This paper considers the problem of testing an expert who makes probabilistic forecasts about the outcomes of a stochastic process. I show that, under general conditions on the tester’s prior, a likelihood test can distinguish informed from uninformed experts with high prior probability. The test rejects informed experts on data-generating processes where the tester quickly learns the true prob...

University of Toronto Department of Economics

We consider a price discrimination problem in which a seller has a single object for sale to a potential buyer. At the time of contracting, the buyer’s private type is his incomplete private information about his value, and the seller can disclose additional private information to the buyer. We study the question of whether discriminatory information disclosure can be profitable to the seller u...