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Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Kingston is undeniably a prison town. As the venue for Canada’s first prison and current home to nearly twenty percent of the nation’s federally incarcerated people in seven penitentiaries around the city, prisons undoubtedly ... -
Parenting in Adversity and Individual Perceptions of (In)Access to Health and Social Support Services: A Sensemaker® Study
Having access to services for health and social support has been shown to greatly affect the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and society globally. However, great disparities in accessing services exist ... -
Molecular Regulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Exercised and Fasted Human Skeletal Muscle: an Examination of Emerging Regulatory Protein
The transcriptional co-activator PGC-1alpha is widely accepted as the “master regulator” of mitochondrial biogenesis – an increase in mitochondrial content – and much research has been devoted to understanding PGC-1alpha's ... -
Do Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours During Adolescence Predict the Development of Type 2 Diabetes During Early Adulthood?
Background: Little is known about whether adolescent physical activity and sedentary behaviour levels predict health in adulthood. The first objective of this thesis was to determine whether participation in moderate-to-vigorous ... -
Reliability of Vasodilation in Response to Passive Leg Movement in Young, Healthy Women
Passive leg movement (PLM) elicits rapid vasodilation and an increase in blood flow, that is dependent on the function of the endothelial cells that line the small arteries in the leg. The increased flow therefore provides ... -
An Exploration and Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach to the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults
Most Canadian adults do not meet current behaviour recommendations for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep. Historically, movement behaviours were presented in isolation from one another, using complex and ... -
Building a Foundation for Equity-focused Intersectoral Practice (EquIP): An exploratory intervention in intersectoral action on housing inadequacy in Owen Sound, Ontario
Equitable access to the social determinants of health, including adequate housing, is essential to the attainment of health equity goals. Concerted intersectoral action involving public health, social services, relevant ... -
Perceiving and Experiencing Subgroups in Sport: A Conceptual and Qualitative Approach
Sport research intimates that the presence of subgroups within a superordinate team can vary from being facilitative to debilitative at both the individual and team levels (e.g., Martin et al., 2015). Interestingly, ... -
Psychedelics, Safety and Clinical Trial Design
(2020-05-20)Objectives: To investigate the safety of psychedelics for humans, to identify the limitations of the current evidence and to indicate how gaps and limitations may be addressed in future clinical trial design. Methodology: ... -
Scoping Review Protocol: Mapping Psilocybin Animal Research
(2020-05-20)Research Question: What are the neurological and behavioural effects of psilocybin administered in animal studies? Objectives: To determine the effects of psilocybin in animal studies across behavioural task clusters ... -
Scoping Review Protocol: Mapping Psilocybin Therapy Research
(2020-05-20)Objective: By understanding the patients selected, the interventions used, and the outcomes noted for psilocybin-assisted therapies, we may better understand the program variables and best practices of these emerging ... -
Conceptualization of Community Wellness in Three First Nations Communities
Introduction: It is well known, and well documented that Indigenous conceptualizations of wellness differ from Western conceptualizations. Using Western parameters and formulations to appraise Indigenous health and wellness ... -
Investigating Efficiency and Stability of Gait Using a Two Triaxial IMU Sensor System
This work aimed to develop a simple, two-sensor system to measure gait efficiency and stability. The system was tested by measuring the compromised gait pattern of 15 healthy adults (aged 18-30). The gait pattern was altered ... -
A Blueprint for Student-Athlete Success: Understanding the Conditions Implemented by University Coaches
Student-athletes represent a unique group of individuals that must balance their academic goals with their athletic pursuits in a high performance sport context. Coaches play a significant role in helping athletes achieve ... -
Vertical Jump Landing Fatigue: the Kinetic, Kinematic, and Muscular Adaptations
Understanding how fatigue affects task performance is crucial for understanding injury risk. Historically, the tests used to measure fatigue and the effects of that fatigue were not always similar to the tasks that generated ... -
Assessing the impact and delivery of the Transformational Coaching Workshop in Para sport
Few evidence-informed coach development programs are available for coaches of athletes with a disability (CAWAD; Cheon et al., 2015). Additionally, there is a general need to use behaviour change theories in designing and ... -
Athlete perceptions of "playing up" in youth soccer
A common practice in sport is to “play up” youth athletes with exceptional sport-specific skills against older players with similar skill sets. Playing up is believed to facilitate expertise by exposing athletes to high ... -
Why Sport? An Examination of Youth Sport Program Consumption Behaviours in Canadian Ice Hockey Parents
Participation in youth sport programming has been shown to influence many outcomes associated with positive development in children and young adult populations. Despite this, the waning accessibility of youth sport programs ... -
The Kneel for Social Justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
In 2016 Colin Kaepernick captured the attention of America when he did not stand for the playing of the national anthem before a National Football League preseason game to protest racist police violence. Shortly thereafter, ... -
Greater post‐contraction hyperaemia below vs. above heart level: the role of active vasodilatation vs. passive mechanical distension of arterioles
(2020)We tested the hypotheses that increased post‐contraction hyperaemia in higher (H; below heart) vs. lower (L; above heart) transmural pressure conditions is due to (1) greater active vasodilatation or (2) greater transmural ...
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