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Health and Healing in 1800s Canada
(2014-01-20)Health and Healing in 1800s Canada is a compilation of lessons that will introduce students to the medical history of Canada between 1800-‐1850. Through the lens of six concepts of historical thinking, students will study ... -
Health and Medicine as “the Rallying Points of Unity:” Physicians, Activism and International Efforts in the Early Cold War
(2015-07-23)This thesis is an exploration of different manifestations of the struggle to determine the place of health and medicine in the international diplomatic and institutional landscape during early years of the Cold War. Relying ... -
Health Education In The Practice of Development: Afghanistan, Child Participation and the Child-to-Child Approach
(2009-07-08)For over thirty years Afghanistan has been challenged by war, political and civil instability, mass displacement, human rights abuses, drought, and famine. It is not surprising that health and quality of life of vulnerable ... -
The Health Experience of Low-Income Church-Going Black Women: The Importance of Spirituality
(2007-11-16)Health research and services are dominated by a biomedical model which understands health as the absence of disease in the physical body. The dominance of this approach has resulted in the absence, silence and refutation ... -
HEALTH MONITORING OF MACHINERY FLUIDS USING EXCITATION-EMISSION MATRIX SPECTROSCOPY AND CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY
(2014-04-25)The quality of machinery liquids plays a critical role in ensuring safe and cost-effective operation of engines. Especially in the aviation industry, there is a great need for real-time and online monitoring of the purity, ... -
Health of Canadians: the Federal Role
(Ottawa: The Standing Committee, 2002)The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology examined the state of the health care system in Canada from 2001 - 2002. The committee looked at: the fundamental principles on which Canada's publicly ... -
Health Related Quality of Life in Children with Osteoporosis: Utility of the DOCC scale and the PODCI
(2008-11-20)Purpose Clinical care providers today are more aware and have a better understanding of how osteoporosis affects a child’s quality of life and their ability to function. Fractures result in pain and suffering for children ... -
HEALTH, APPEARANCE AND FITNESS PRACTICES: HOW CLASS AND GENDER ARE REPRESENTED IN FOUR YOUNG WOMEN’S UNDERSTANDINGS OF THEIR FITNESS PRACTICES
(2011-09-14)This thesis presents results from a qualitative study of how young women make sense of their fitness practices. Fitness practices related to diet and exercise are culturally linked to both appearance and health and tend ... -
HEALTH, FITNESS, NEOLIBERALISM AND NICHE MARKETS: DOES PLANET FITNESS DELIVER?
(2014-02-06)In today’s neoliberal climate, a burgeoning health consciousness pervades American society. Health and fitness discourses are increasingly framed through neoliberal ideologies, contributing to the rise of “healthism”. This ... -
Healthcare and the Common Good: Restructuring the Economy of Medical Knowledge through Communitarian Political Theory
(2016-09-30)The pharmaceutical industry wields disproportionate power and control within the medical economy of knowledge where the desire for profit considerably outweighs health for its own sake. Utilizing the theoretical tools of ... -
Healthist ideologies : the case of Lululemon Athletica
(2008-08-14)Over the last three decades, ideas about health have been influenced by neoliberal politics. Robert Crawford coined the term healthism to refer to this dominant ideology that places much responsibility on the individual ... -
Healthy Immigrants? Healthy Workers? High-Skilled Immigrants Working in Low-Skilled Jobs in Ottawa, Canada
(2016-04-27)Immigrants play very important roles in maintaining demographic balance, cultural diversity and the economic prosperity of Canada, but new immigrants face challenges such as unemployment, underemployment, job insecurity, ... -
Hearing Danto Out: A Critique of the "End of Art" Thesis Through Music
(2014-09-30)Arthur Danto’s “end of art” thesis contends that art followed a progressive historical narrative from about 1300 until 1964 AD, when Danto realized that Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes demonstrates that an artwork can look like ... -
Heart Rate Balancing for Multiplayer Exergames
(2012-09-27)Exergames combine physical activity and entertainment in an effort to increase people’s motivation to exercise. Multiplayer exergames attempt to include the motivating aspects of group activity by allowing two or more ... -
HEAT MANAGEMENT IN THE PUMPING INFRASTRUCTURE AREA OF AN ESTERHAZY MINE
Heat management in mines is a growing issue as mines expand physically in size and depth and as the infrastructure grows that is required to maintain them. Heat management is a concern as it relates to the health and ... -
Heat Transfer in an Airfoil Shaped Strut
(2016-08-31)The heat transfer from a hot primary flow stream passing over the outside of an airfoil shaped strut to a cool secondary flow stream passing through the inside of that strut was studied experimentally and numerically. The ... -
Heat Transfer Modelling and Thermal Imaging Experiments in Laser Transmission Welding of Thermoplastics
(2008-10-09)This thesis presents a comprehensive study on the thermal modelling aspects of laser transmission welding of thermoplastics (LTW), a technology for joining of plastic parts. In the LTW technique, a laser beam passes through ... -
Heated Biofilm Growth in a Planar Fracture for Reduction of Hydraulic Aperture
(2011-08-10)The objective of this study was to examine the effect of heat on the growth of a biofilm in a parallel glass plate fracture table. Groundwater was collected from a limestone aquifer and amended with a nutrient mixture ...