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Risk of bias versus quality assessment of randomised controlled trials: cross sectional study.
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Dryden, D. M., Krebs Seida, J., Ospina, M., Hooton, N., Hartling, L., Klassen, T. P., Liang, Y.
Objectives To evaluate the risk of bias tool, introduced by the Cochrane Collaboration for assessing the internal validity of randomised trials, for inter-rater agreement, concurrent validity compared with the Jadad scale and Schulz approach to allocation concealment, and the relation between...
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Walking adaptation, training and assessment in young children and individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury
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This thesis includes four projects that examine motor learning and assess novel approaches for the training and evaluation of walking. In Project 1 we study motor adaptation in children aged 8-36 months using a split-belt treadmill. Split-belt walking, in which one leg moves faster than the...
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Reclamation of wetland habitat in the Alberta oil sands: generating assessment targets using boreal marsh vegetation communities
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Thousands of hectares of wetlands are being destroyed by oil sands mining in Alberta, and the industry must undertake wetland reclamation to compensate for these losses. Wetland vegetation has developed at some previously mined sites, however reclamation is thus far exploratory, and limited in...
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ProAnalyser: a multimedia modeling and authoring framework for discerning student learning processes
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Online multimedia education systems traditionally tend to consist almost exclusively of multiple choice or numeric response style questions. However, many curricula such as math, physics, and chemistry typically involve students completing large, complex, multi-step problems where the process...
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2011
Slaughter, S., Bostrom, A.M., Cummings, G.G., Morgan, D.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Squires, J.E.
Background: Defining what constitutes a resident care unit in nursing home research is both a conceptual and practical challenge. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence in support of a definition of care unit in nursing homes by demonstrating: (1) its feasibility for use in data collection,...
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2011
As more and more scholarship is digital, we need to develop a culture of conversation around the evaluation of digital academic work. We have to be able to evaluate new types of research, like analytic tools and hypermedia fiction, that are difficult to review. The essay surveys common types of...
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Fall 2011
Pre-pregnancy dietary intake and physical activity may be important in fetal development. The objective of this study was to examine the use of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and the Baecke physical activity questionnaire (Baecke) in a retrospective assessment of pre-pregnancy dietary...