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A woman’s place is in the kitchen… unless she’s getting paid. A study of the social and structural dynamics impeding gender equity in the culinary industry
DownloadSpring 2021
Kelly Marie Emma Hobbs Bruzzese
While the graduation rate of individuals identifying as female continues to rise dramatically in the culinary world, the top restaurants and hotels are still predominately run by men. Due to this imbalance, this study explores the role of hierarchal and organizations structures in the curation of...
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Spring 2017
This study is a qualitative secondary analysis of open-ended survey comments from a national survey of Canadian psychologists (n = 399) that extends the research of Jacobson, Hanson, and Zhou (2015). A case study research design is employed utilizing Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) analytic...
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Fall 2018
The adoption of powered myoelectric prostheses and their ability to improve quality of life for persons with amputations is hindered by the difficulty of controlling multiple degrees of freedom with a limited number of input signals. Different myoelectric control strategies have been developed to...
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Developing, Implementing and Evaluating a Mental Health Training Program for Police Officers
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Interactions between police and individuals suffering from mental illness are very frequent. Police forces are regularly first responders to those with mental illness. Unfortunately, on occasion interactions are violent and sometimes fatal. Despite this, training police how to best interact with...
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Does overload exercise training alter autonomic nervous system activity and hemodynamic regulation in aerobically fit men?
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In general, chronic endurance training has positive effects on physiological function. However, the performance of training in excess of what an individual is able to recover from can lead to performance, physiological and psychobiological maladaptation. The purposes of this investigation were to...
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Fall 2016
This study explored the following question: How do female educational leaders experience educational leadership? The research focused on the practices of three female educational leaders and explored their perspectives over a period of single school year. I gathered data using one-on-one...
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Spring 2010
Client sexual advances may be a common occurrence in therapy, yet there is little information available with strategies for managing them. In hope of initiating a dialogue, five female therapists’ experiences were examined for possible insights. Informal semi-structured interviews provided data...
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Instrumenting and Validating a Vibrotactile Device to Assess and Rehabilitate Dynamic Seated Balance
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Tools that effectively assess and train dynamic seated balance are critical for enhancing functional independence and reducing risk of secondary health complications in the elderly and individuals with neuromuscular impairments. On the one hand, current assessment tools quantify changes in the...
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Master & student: an investigation of the methods of negotiating teacher-student relationships in the martial arts
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This thesis is an ethnographic comparison of two martial arts training systems, with the goal of discovering what methods martial arts teachers employ to define and negotiate relationships with their students. Informed by the approaches employed by previous martial arts scholars, this study uses...
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Spring 2014
This thesis focuses on the power allocation during the channel training process for three cooperative relay networks: a one-way single-relay network, a one-way multi-relay network and a two-way single-relay network. For these three networks, under the amplify-and-forward (AF) scheme, we...