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A Comparative Study on the Effects of Eccentric Flywheel Overload and Traditional Resistance Training on the Physiological/Functional Performance in Healthy Older Adults
(2020-04-01)Introduction: Older adults experience certain deleterious effects associated with aging among which include; declines in muscle strength, muscle mass, motor unit activation, muscle power and functional performance. Two ... -
A Comparison of Biomechanical Variables, Neuromuscular Control and Strength during Controlled and Unexpected Falls on the Outstretched Hands in Young and Older Women
(2017-01-17)Purpose: This thesis evaluated the age differences in biomechanics and muscle activity during controlled and unexpected descents simulating a fall on the outstretched hands (FOOSH) in women. Laboratory simulation using two ... -
A comparison of WRF simulated composite reflectivity and precipitation to observations in the Central US
(2020-01-06)Precipitation from Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) in the central US are not only a large contributor to water resources, but a hazard to society due to hail, wind gusts, tornadoes, lightning, and flash floods. These ... -
A Comprehensive Assessment of the Taxation Issues Related to Indigenous Settlement Trusts
(2018-09-11)In this thesis I examine the taxation issues related to Indigenous Settlement Trusts (“Settlement Trusts”). I argue that Settlement Trusts should be taxed differently than other personal trusts under the Income Tax Act ... -
A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR THE FLUSHING OF CONSTITUENTS OF INTEREST FROM COAL WASTE ROCK IN THE ELK VALLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA
(2020-01-20)Coal mining in the mountainous regions of the Elk Valley, British Columbia has resulted in the formation of rock drains. Rock drains are ex-pit landforms composed of waste rock, resulting from the placement of mine waste ... -
A Constraint Logic Programming Approach to Predicting the Three-Dimensional Yeast Genome
(2016-09-21)In order for all of a cell's genetic information to fit inside its nucleus, the chromosomes must undergo extensive folding and organization. Just like in origami where the same piece of paper folded in different ways allows ... -
A Coordination Model and Framework for Developing Distributed Mobile Applications
(2017-01-05)How to coordinate multiple devices to work together as a single application is one of the most important challenges for building a distributed mobile application. Mobile devices play important roles in daily life and ... -
A Cost-effective Multispectral Sensor System for Leaf-Level Physiological Traits
(2020-05-14)With the concern of the global population to reach 9 billion by 2050, ensuring global food security is a prime challenge for the research community. One potential way to tackle this challenge is sustainable intensification; ... -
A CREDIBILITY, RELEVANCE AND LEGITIMACY FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF POTENTIAL END-USERS
(2022-01-04)As threats to natural resources multiply, the need for effective science-policy interfaces (SPIs) that account for the incorporation of ecological and social issues into decision-making is increasing. A feasible solution ... -
A Critical Analysis of School Community Councils in Saskatchewan
(2019-11-05)In 2006, School Community Councils came into existence in Saskatchewan. The purpose of School Community Councils (SCCs) is to “develop shared responsibility for the learning success and well-being of all children and ... -
A Critical Policy Analysis of Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canada
(2019-08-08)Despite calls to re-orient school systems toward sustainability, there has been uneven progress toward mainstreaming of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) into Kindergarten-Grade 12 (K-12) schooling. This ... -
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Métis Teachers' Counter-Stories
(2018-02-23)In Canada, Métis are a distinct Indigenous population and nation that have been racialized as mixed-race historically. Using critical race theory (CRT) and mixed-race studies (MRS), this study examined the counter-stories ... -
A DANGEROUS WORLD: STEPHEN HARPER’S POST-MAIDAN UKRAINE POLICY
(2018-02-20)The thesis puts forward a neoclassical realist theory of the Harper government’s response to the Ukrainian crisis, which draws upon a number of theories, including Power Transition theory, to examine the determinative role ... -
A Derivation of the Wishart and Singular Wishart Distributions
(2016-08-23)Multivariate statistical analysis is the area of statistics that is concerned with observations made on many variables. Determining how variables are related is a main objective in multivariate analysis. The covariance ... -
A DESCRIPTION OF THE BACTERIA AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH DIGITAL DERMATITIS IN SASKATCHEWAN DAIRY CATTLE
(2019-04-05)Digital dermatitis (DD), a polybacterial skin infection of the bovine foot, is among the most common causes of lameness on Canadian dairy farms. The current prevention and treatment methods require constant attention and ... -
A Design Exploration of Affective Gaming
(2022-01-25)Physiological sensing has been a prominent fixture in games user research (GUR) since the late 1990s, when researchers began to explore its potential to enhance and understand experience within digital game play. Since ... -
A Design Framework for Efficient Distributed Analytics on Structured Big Data
(2021-08-10)Distributed analytics architectures are often comprised of two elements: a compute engine and a storage system. Conventional distributed storage systems usually store data in the form of files or key-value pairs. This ... -
A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
(2018-10-19)This thesis reviews the ways in which female masculinity is defined, organized and ignored in dominant discourse. The objective is to demonstrate that female masculinity can be deemed a valuable category well beyond the ... -
A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER SOLUTION FOR MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY TEST DATA
(2019-04-16)Psychology tests are widely used in mental health diagnoses, education assessments, and recruitment assessments. There are several major problems in using the traditional way to manage psychology test data. First, there ... -
A Drug Repurposing Screen Identifies Fludarabine Phosphate as a Potential Therapeutic Agent for N-MYC Overexpressing Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancers
(2022-02-25)The abstract of this item is unavailable due to an embargo.