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Technology Assessment and Resource Allocation for Predictive Genetic Testing: A Study of the Perspectives of Canadian Health Care Providers
Download2009-01-01
Adair, Alethea, Hyde-Lay, Robyn, Einsiedel, Edna, Caulfield, Timothy
With a growing number of genetic tests becoming available to the health and consumer markets, genetic health care providers in Canada are faced with the challenge of developing robust decision rules or guidelines to allocate a finite number of public resources. The objective of this study was to...
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Spring 2010
Concerns have been expressed about assessment results that report girls outscoring boys on standardized achievement testing in reading and writing and boys outscoring girls in mathematics and science. This study explored how Western Canadian rural farm boys understand and practice multiple...
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2011-01-01
Rowe, David A., Tudor-Locke, Catrine, Hatano, Yoshiro, Schmidt, Michael D., Gardner, Andrew W., Croteau, Karen A., Ewald, Ben, Craig, Cora L., Rogers, Laura Q., Lutes, Lesley D., Bell, Rhonda C., Aoyagi, Yukitoshi, Ramirez-Marrero, Farah A., Tully, Mark A., Matsudo, Sandra M., Blair, Steven N., De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
Older adults and special populations (living with disability and/or chronic illness that may limit mobility and/or physical endurance) can benefit from practicing a more physically active lifestyle, typically by increasing ambulatory activity. Step counting devices (accelerometers and pedometers)...
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2012-01-27
Bjerregaard, Peter, Chatwood, Susan, Denning, Bryany, Joseph, Lawrence, Young, T. Kue
Objectives: The objective was to analyze the variation of secondary sex ratios across the Arctic and to estimate the time trend. The rationale for this was claims in news media that, in the Arctic, sex ratios have become reduced due to exposure to anthropogenic contaminants in the environment....
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Lower urinary tract symptoms and falls risk among older women receiving home support: A prospective cohort study.
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Voaklander, D., Moore, K. N., Hunter, K. F., Hsu, Z. Y.
Background Although lower urinary tract symptoms have been associated with falls, few studies have been undertaken to understand this relationship in vulnerable community dwelling older adults. The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship over time of falls risk and lower urinary...
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Fall 2016
Although significant research examining childhood sexual assault already exists, the overwhelming majority has focused on females, guided by the male perpetrator–female victim paradigm. This focus on women and girls has led people to believe that the sexual abuse of young males is rare. This is...
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2018
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This is an image of the maxilla of a male Mooneye Specimen. This specimen is observed in Survey of Vertebrates, Zoology 224. This image was created as part of the University of Alberta OER image database project in Biological Sciences. Identifier 2052I.
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2018
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This is an image of a male Mooneye Specimen. This specimen is observed in Survey of Vertebrates, Zoology 224. This image was created as part of the University of Alberta OER image database project in Biological Sciences. Identifier 2052I.
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2018
University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences
This is an image of a male Mooneye Specimen. This specimen is observed in Survey of Vertebrates, Zoology 224. This image was created as part of the University of Alberta OER image database project in Biological Sciences. Identifier 2052I.