Susan Johnson

Generation of "backbone" free, low transgene copy plants by launching T-DNA from the _Agrobacterium_ chromosome (2009)

Heiko Oltmanns, Bronwyn Frame, Lan-Ying Lee, Susan Johnson, Bo Li, Kan Wang, ...

In both applied and basic research, _Agrobacterium_-mediated transformation is commonly used to introduce genes into plants. We investigated the effect of three _Agrobacterium tumefaciens_ strains...

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Hawaii International Conference on SJlstem Sciences- 1996 An Experimental Study of Spreadsheet Presentation and Error Detection (2008)

Dennis F. Galletta, Susan Johnson, Jimmie Joseph

Several well-founded concerns exist about the integrity and validity of electronic spreadsheets. One hundred thirteen MBA students sought eight errors planted in a single-page spreadsheet to discover...

Diet and Lifestyle Factors Associated with Premenstrual Symptoms in a Racially Diverse Community Sample: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (2007)

Gold, Ellen B., Bair, Yali, Block, Gladys, Greendale, Gail A., Harlow, Siobán D., Johnson, Susan, ...

Aims: We sought to determine if the frequency of reported physical or emotional premenstrual symptoms (PMSx) was associated with (1) dietary intake of phytoestrogens, fiber, fat, or calcium, (2)...

Fragmentation and Embeddedness: An Alternative Approach to the Analysis of Rural Financial Markets (2005)

Johnson, Susan

Political economy approaches to analyzing the efficiency of rural financial markets have focused on the role of power and social relations. Neo-classical institutional economics, on the other hand,...

Gender Relations, Empowerment and Microcredit: Moving on from a Lost Decade (2005)

Johnson, Susan

Assessments of the impact of microcredit targeted towards women have tended to focus on evaluating whether women have become "more empowered", rather than on the dynamics of gender relations in which...

Bypassing luminal barriers, delivery to a gut addressin by parenteral targeting elicits local IgA responses (2004)

McKenzie, Brent S., Corbett, Alexandra J., Johnson, Susan, Brady, Jamie L., Pleasance, Jill, Kramer, David, ...

Induction of mucosal immunity, particularly to subunit vaccines, has been problematic. The primary hurdle to successful mucosal vaccination is the effective delivery of vaccine antigen to the mucosal...

Bypassing luminal barriers, delivery to a gut addressin by parenteral targeting elicits local IgA responses (2004)

McKenzie, Brent S., Corbett, Alexandra J., Johnson, Susan, Brady, Jamie L., Pleasance, Jill, Kramer, David R., ...

Induction of mucosal immunity, particularly to subunit vaccines, has been problematic. The primary hurdle to successful mucosal vaccination is the effective delivery of vaccine antigen to the mucosal...

Bypassing luminal barriers, delivery to a gut addressin by parenteral targeting elicits local IgA responses (2004)

McKenzie, Brent S., Corbett, Alexandra J., Johnson, Susan, Brady, Jamie L., Pleasance, Jill, Kramer, David, ...

Induction of mucosal immunity, particularly to subunit vaccines, has been problematic. The primary hurdle to successful mucosal vaccination is the effective delivery of vaccine antigen to the mucosal...

2001 Hugh Muir Oath--Johnson, Susan (2001)

Johnson, Susan

An oath, pledging to uphold specific values, drafted by first-year law students.

Models of gardening in education. (2001)

Johnson, Susan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Reading, 2001.

REPORT Whose gaze will infants follow? The elicitation of gaze following in 12-month-olds (1998)

Infants As Young, Susan Johnson, Virginia Slaughter, Susan Carey

Eighty-three 12-month-old infants faced a noisy, active, object for one minute, after which the object turned 45 degrees to the left or the right. Five conditions explored what object features...

Lysis of Autologous Melanoma Cells by Tumor*Infiltrating Lymphocytes: Association With Clinical Response (1991)

Aebersold, Paul, Hyatt, Cornelia, Johnson, Susan, Hines, Ken, Korcak, Laura, Sanders, Melinda, ...

Tumor–infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) can be grown in vitro in medium containing interleukin–2 (IL–2). In clinical trials at the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute, patients with...

Automatic Certification or Mandatory Representation Votes? How the choice of union recogntion procedure affects union certification success.

Susan Johnson

Cross-section time-series analysis of nine Canadian jurisdictions over nineteen years is used to identify the effect of mandatory votes/card check on certification success. The results indicate that...

'Legal' versus 'Economic' factors in the growth and decline of unions: A stock-flow analysis of Canada and the US

Susan Johnson

In the first part of this paper a union membership stock-flow growth accounting identity provides detailed descriptions of the impact of 'legal' and 'economic' factors on union density in Canada and...

Automatic Certification or Mandatory Representation Votes? How the choice of union recognition procedure affects union certification success.

Susan Johnson

Union recognition procedures are about to be reformed in the U.K. Current legislative reform proposes automatic certification. Business prefers mandatory representation votes. Will the choice of...

Card Check or Mandatory Representation Vote? How the Type of Union Recognition Procedure Affects Union Certification Success

Susan Johnson

Cross-section time-series analysis of nine Canadian jurisdictions over nineteen years is used to identify the effect of mandatory votes/card check on certification success. The results indicate that...

More Evidence on the Effect of Higher Unemployment on the Canadian Size Distribution of Income

Susan Johnson

This paper provides evidence that cyclical unemployment is associated with increased income inequality in Canada. The empirical results reinforce the recent findings of Erksoy (1981-1987). Erksoy...

Canadian Union Density 1980 to 1998 and Prospects for the Future: An Empirical Investigation

Susan Johnson

An examination of the factors that determine Canadian union density reveals long-run decline in union membership growth. A stock-flow accounting analysis decomposes union membership growth into net...

Increasing Male Earnings Inequality in Canada and the United States, 1981­1997: The Role of Hours Changes versus Wage Changes

Susan Johnson, Peter Kuhn

This paper looks at changes in hourly wages and hours worked per week of prime-age males in different skill groups (measured by earnings quintile) in the United States and Canada from 1981 to 1997....

Assessing the impact of microcredit: a Zambian case study

James Copestake, Sonia Bhalotra, Susan Johnson

Expectations are high, but evidence of the impact of microcredit remains in short supply. This article estimates the impact of an urban credit programme in Zambia on business performance and on a...

Use and Abuse of Hospital Emergency Departments

Bain, Stanley, Johnson, Susan

A sample survey of 3622 patients attending the emergency department at Toronto's North York General Hospital was conducted during July 1970. The objectives were to study the increasing use of this...

Fragmentation and Embeddedness: An Alternative Approach to the Analysis of Rural Financial Markets

Susan Johnson

Political economy approaches to analysing the efficiency of rural financial markets have focused on the role of power and social relations. Neo-classical institutional economics, on the other hand,...

The Dynamics of Competition in Karatina's Financial Markets: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance in Kenya

Johnson, Susan

This paper is based on work conducted by Imp-Act - a three-year action-research programme aiming to improve the quality of microfinance services and their impact on poverty. Learning from the...

Microfinance north and south: contrasting current debates

Susan Johnson

This paper sets out to examine the apparent consensus around microfinance as a tool to address poverty and social exclusion in North and South. The current emphasis on scale and sustainability in...

The impact of microfinance institutions in local financial markets: a case study from Kenya

Susan Johnson

This paper looks beyond the direct impact of microcredit provision on users to examine whether microfinance institutions (MFIs) have had wider impacts within the local financial markets in which they...

The Impact of Anti-Temporary Replacement Legislation on Work Stoppages: Empirical Evidence from Canada

Paul Duffy, Susan Johnson

Legislation that prevents the hiring of temporary replacement workers during a work stoppage is controversial. "Anti-temporary replacement worker" legislation (ATR) or "anti-scab" legislation is...

The Dynamics of Competition in Karatina's Financial Markets: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance in Kenya

Johnson, Susan

This paper is based on work conducted by Imp-Act - a three-year action-research programme aiming to improve the quality of microfinance services and their impact on poverty. Learning from the...