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Examining the relationship between attendance and reading literacy attainment among urban elementary students : An exploratory study
(2015-09-28)Using a quantitative approach, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between attendance and reading literacy attainment of Grade 4 students in an urban school division in Saskatchewan. The specific ... -
Examining the Relationship Between Leadership, Facilitation, and Short Term Sustainability of a Dementia Specific Training Program in Rural Long-Term Care Homes
(2019-05-08)In rural long-term care (LTC) homes staff have limited access to dementia specialty services and education to support them in caring for residents with dementia with responsive behaviours. A sustainable, in house, ... -
Examining the relationship between team building and physical activity adherence in rural youth
(2008-05-07)The primary purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the relationship between a team building (TB) intervention and the adherence behaviours of youth participating in a physical activity club. A preliminary study ... -
Examining the relationship of risk, treatment readiness, and therapeutic change to recidivism in a sample of treated sex offenders
(2014-01-03)The present study examined the interrelationship of risk for recidivism, treatment readiness and responsivity, treatment-related change, treatment attrition, and recidivism among sexual offenders. It provided a cross ... -
Examining the Relationships between Aggression, Bullying, and Cyberbullying among University Students in Saskatchewan
(2017-11-20)While cyberbullying research has grown exponentially in the past decade, little attention has been paid to cyberbullying among postsecondary students and to informing research through the use of theory. In addition, ... -
Examining the relationships between forensic practice knowledge, correctional orientation and engagement in core correctional practices among corrections officers
(2015-11-23)Via their frequency of contact alone, Corrections Officers (COs) have maximal opportunity to role model pro-social behaviour and further rehabilitative outcomes for offenders. Yet previous research indicates that one of ... -
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF FEELING OF RIGHTNESS WITH ANCHORING AND NUMBER OF MODELS
(2019-05-03)Feeling of Rightness (FOR) is a metacognitive experience accompanying people’s intuitive answers that predicts subsequent answer changes (Thompson, Prowse Turner, & Pennycook, 2011). Previous research suggested cues that ... -
Examining the Roles of Thalamocortical and Frontoparietal Circuitry for Working Memory in the Rat
(2019-12-04)Working memory (WM) is the cognitive capacity for short-term maintenance and manipulation of stimuli and goals for the purpose of guiding behaviour. Research in primates has indicated that WM relies on a large network ... -
Examining the Stigma and Stereotypes Related to Involuntarily Childless Women Using the Stereotype Content Model and Weiner’s Attribution Affect Action Model
(2019-08-07)The degree to which involuntarily childless women are stigmatized, stereotyped, and socially sanctioned by the Canadian general public is not well understood. Using a series of online questionnaires which targeted variables ... -
Excellent workers but wrong colour of skin : Canada's reluctance to admit Caribbean people as domestic workers and farm labourers
(2014-04-16)In 1955 and 1966 Canada opened its doors to a limited number of Caribbean domestic workers and seasonal agricultural workers. Canadian government officials remarked that the programmes were part of Ottawa’s aid package ... -
Excess molar enthalpies of binary and ternary systems involving hydrocarbons and ethers
(2010-12)In modern separation design, an important part of many phase-equilibrium calculations is the mathematical representation of pure-component and mixture enthalpies. Mixture enthalpy data are important not only for determination ... -
Excess Noise in Amorphous Selenium Used in X-ray Detectors
(2009)Amorphous selenium based digital radiography has attracted much attention because of selenium's high X-ray absorption and excellent charge transport properties, and the ability to be created thick (typically 100 to 1000 ... -
Excess noise in n-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon
(1997-01-01)Recently, there has been much uncertainty and controversy concerning various aspects of the behaviour of the excess noise in n-type a-Si:H known as 1/f or flicker noise. Conductance fluctuations have been measured in ... -
EXCESS NOISE STUDIES ON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES
(1991-05)An experimental apparatus for carrying out electrical noise measurements on various semiconductor devices over a broad temperature range was constructed. Commercially available avalanche photodiodes (APDs) could be ... -
Excitation sources for structural health monitoring of bridges
(2010-04)Vibration-based damage detection (VBDD) methods are structural health monitoring techniques that utilize changes to the dynamic characteristics of a structure (i.e. its natural frequencies, mode shapes, and damping properties) ... -
Exciting the Low Permittivity Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using Tall Microstrip Line Feeding Structure and Applications
(2015-10-20)The development of wireless communications increases the challenges on antenna performance to improve the capability of the whole system. New fabrication technologies are emerging that not only can improve the performance ... -
Executive compensation following mergers and acquisitions : the impact of institutional ownership
(2013-10-02)This thesis investigates the monitoring effect from institutional ownership on bidder Chief Executive Officer (hereafter CEO) compensation in mergers and acquisitions (hereafter M&A) as well as the shift in compensation ... -
Executive government organization in Saskatchewan and the Government Organization Act 1986-87-88
(1996-01-01)In the 1986-87-88 session of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly, the government of Grant Devine introduced Bill 5 an Act respecting the Organization of the Executive Government of Saskatchewan. The Devine government ... -
Exercise Training Improves Cerebrovascular Oxidative Stress Regulation and Insulin Stimulated Vasodilation in Juvenile and Mature Pigs
(2021-09-15)Background: Selective insulin resistance in the cerebrovasculature, characterized by augmented vasoconstriction in response to insulin, may relate to enhanced sensitivity to endothelin-1 (ET1) or increased oxidative stress, ...