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Exploring the relationship of parental stress, child behaviour, and child adaptive skills to different types of respite
(2014-07-25)Parents of children with developmental disabilities have been reported to experience higher levels of stress than parents of typically developing children. This stress has been found to lead to adverse effects for both ... -
Exploring the Relationships Between Children's Working Memory and Long-Term Memory
(2015-11-30)Working memory and long-term memory are two types of memory associated with children’s learning and academic performance. A number of memory models have suggested there is a relationship between working memory and long-term ... -
Exploring the Role of Counselling in Young Women’s Healing from Disordered Eating
(2016-06-23)A key element influencing the healing process for women experiencing disordered eating is the incorporation of counselling. However, there is limited qualitative research on the impact of counselling on women’s healing ... -
Exploring the Role of Gender in Student Experiences of Middle School Physical Education
(2017-04-27)The middle years are “the most critical time of life to foster long-term engagement in physical activity, sport and exercise” (Doolittle, 2016, p.29). School-based physical education is one way to help foster this engagement. ... -
Exploring the role of self-compassion in women athletes' emotionally painful experiences of injury in sport
(2015-10-06)Injury is a common and emotionally painful aspect of sport participation for female athletes. Playing through injury is normalized in sport culture; unfortunately, this practice holds short- and long-term health risks. ... -
Exploring the use of the humanities: Towards transformative dialogue on educational issues
(2015-02-20)This dissertation used an original fable to explore how the humanities might be used to inform readers about educational issues and promote dialogue among groups of educational stakeholders. Along with the fable, The Foal ... -
Exploring Ugandan Cultural Model of Work through Interviews with Ugandan Immigrants in Canada
(2017-06-15)The problem of chronic unemployment and low wages among immigrants in Canada is widely discussed in academia and official reports. Culture, as one of the factors proposed to account for the existing employment and wage ... -
Exploring variable-based and case-based approaches to study multiple health behaviours and motivations of Canadian university students
(2015-10-19)Health behaviors tend to occur together. However, the research on what factors define and regulate their coexistence within individuals is still limited. There is also no established methodology to investigate regulation ... -
EXPLORING WATER GOVERNANCE IN NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN: OPPORTUNITIES FOR A WATERSHED COUNCIL
(2012-09-24)Currently the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority (SWA) leads much of the planning and management of the province's water resources with the goal to ensure access to safe drinking water sources and reliable water supplies. ... -
EXPLORING WOMEN ATHLETES’ SELF-COMPASSION, SPORT PERFORMANCE PERCEPTIONS, AND WELL-BEING ACROSS THE COMPETITIVE SEASON: A MIXED METHODS APPROACH
(2019-11-15)Self-compassion is an adaptive self-attitude that can directly help people during difficult and challenging times (Neff, 2003a, 2003b, 2011). Within sport, self-compassion has been noted as a resource for women athletes ... -
EXPLORING WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF SELF AND BODY IN CHRONIC WEIGHT-LOSS DIETING
(2021-01-27)Objective: This research project explored women’s experience of selfhood and embodiment in relation to chronic weight-loss dieting. Method: The project included two phenomenological studies. Study One explored the meanings ... -
Exposing Tension: The Experience Of Friendships While Living With Bulimia Nervosa During Adolescence
(2013-06-07)The purpose of the present study was to explore the lived experience of friendships among women who were living with bulimia during adolescence. Researchers have found that friendships are influential to the complex and ... -
Expression and characterization of ligand binding by the ectodomain of toll-like receptor 9
(2007)Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) activates the innate immune system in response to microbial DNA or mimicking oligodeoxynucleotides. While the discrimination of host and microbial DNA is presumed to reflect TLR9-mediated ... -
EXPRESSION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 10
(2016-03-29)Toll-like receptors (TLRs), named after toll proteins identified in Drosophila melanogaster, are the pattern recognition receptors in the innate immune system that detect microbes. TLRs are mono, membrane-spanning, as well ... -
Expression and function of heat shock factors in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
(2014-04-17)Heat shock proteins (hsp) and heat shock transcription factors (HSF) have important roles in the development of the eye lens. Our lab previously demonstrated that knockdown of hsp70 gene expression using morpholino antisense ... -
Expression and genetics of resistance to Septoria tritici in wheat
(1990)This study of resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum) to the leaf blotch pathogen Septoria tritici (anamorph of Mycosphaerella graminicola) was conducted to provide information on the inheritance and heritability of ... -
Expression and regulation of HSPB5 in the myometrium throughout pregnancy
(2015-10-21)The uterine smooth muscle or myometrium goes through phases of differentiation during pregnancy to become a powerful contractile tissue at term. Small Heat Shock proteins (sHSPs) are a family of ten small molecular weight ... -
Expression and regulation of HSPB5 in the myometrium throughout pregnancy
(2015-10-21)The uterine smooth muscle or myometrium goes through phases of differentiation during pregnancy to become a powerful contractile tissue at term. Small Heat Shock proteins (sHSPs) are a family of ten small molecular weight ... -
Expression and targeting of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in neuroendocrine cells and pituicytes
(2010-12)Magnocellular neurosecretory cells (MNCs) are neuroendocrine cells with somata located in the hypothalamus and nerve terminals in the posterior pituitary. They receive neuronal inputs from the brain and release vasopressin ... -
Expression of anxiety-related genes, including the cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB), in the rat limbic system
(2006-04-24)Anxiety disorders are one of the most prevalent mental disorders in the world. While “normal” anxiety serves as an important protective mechanism, “pathological” anxiety characteristic of an anxiety disorder is both ...