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An Apparatus of (In)Difference: Governing Indigenous Food (In)Security through Healthism in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Engaging with the fields of critical Indigenous theory, Indigenous STS (Science, Technology, and Society), and governmentality, An Apparatus of (In)Difference interrogates how Indigenous food insecurity policy reiterates food insecurity as a matter of poor health choices. I delineate how a...
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Fall 2016
My thesis is concerned with how law enforcement officers make sense of and use the new visibility created by body worn video (BWV) and in-vehicle video (IVV) in the context of their work. The data comes from a case study of a small policing organization in the Canadian prairies. Data was...
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Big Data in the Global Realm: An Assessment of International Relations' Ability to Study 21st Century Developments
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This thesis examines Big Data as the latest and perhaps most potent iteration of a number of transformative technologies that have had and continue to have an impact of global politics and international power hierarchies. The thesis seeks to examine if the discipline of IR, with its current...
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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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Fall 2013
This thesis examines the role that digital technology plays in the advancement of political and social goals. Though a fairly recent phenomenon, digital activism has become a highly contested topic as regards its effectiveness. This thesis looks at two case studies in the use of digital tools for...
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Spring 2015
The thesis consists of two papers exploring the area of digital game construction in pre-service teacher education. The first paper details the analysis of 166 pre-service teachers’ experiences constructing a digital game in the Scratch development environment (MIT, 2009). Pre-service teachers...
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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 2014
Education has been significantly affected by the emergence of new technologies. Appropriate implementation of technology in education can facilitate teaching and learning, increase student engagement and participation, and elevate student achievement. A major practice of technology integration in...