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An Investigation of Integrating Program- and System-level Datasets for Examining Relationships Among Variables of a Complex Health System
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The potential for integrated program- and system-level datasets for generating previously inaccessible evaluative insights remains untapped. This study, situated within a yearlong evaluation of a lifestyle intervention program for patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS), provides an illustrative...
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2016-05-05
Hodgetts, William, Khu, Vanessa, Therriault, Nicole
The domains of acoustic accessibility and comfort play an important role in the overall accessibility of public spaces, particularly for the elderly population and those with hearing loss. Previous research has examined the relationship between objective measures of room acoustic properties...
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Assessment of food accessibility, availability and adherence to dietary recommendations among diabetic older adults living in subsidized retirement homes
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The availability and accessibility of healthy foods for type 2 diabetes patients may limit their food choices and adherence to dietary recommendations. The accessibility and availability of food for low-income, diabetic, older adults was evaluated. Information was gathered regarding self-care...
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Fall 2019
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide. It has been proposed that AD pathology is transmissible by a “prion-like” mechanism through extracellular vesicles (EVs) that contain Aβ. In this context, EVs describe both microvesicles and exosomes,...
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Fall 2014
While there has been much literature in the area of system monitoring and diagnosis, most of these techniques have a relatively small scope in terms of the faults and performance issues that they are built to detect. When implementing several monitors simultaneously on a single process, a single...
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Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System in an Urban Slum in Kenya
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This Thesis consists of two papers that explore the use of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems in resource-limited settings. The first paper (Chapter 2) comprises a State-of-the-Art review of the types of inquiry, settings, interventions and principal findings reported from studies of the...
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Spring 2014
Clients with cybersex addiction (CSA) are a growing challenge for mental health practitioners. Therapists must be more skilled and adept at identifying when the core issue is cybersex addiction in spite of client denial and potentially confounding symptoms. The main purpose of this exploratory...
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2012-10-13
Johnson, Jeffrey A., Rees, Sandra E., Storie, Dale A., Lau, Darren, Hu, Jia, Majumdar, Sumit R.
Categories of quality improvement interventions used in Lau D, Hu J, Majumdar SR, Storie DA, Rees SE, Johnson JA. Interventions to Improve Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates Among Community-Dwelling Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of Family Medicine 2012 (Accepted...
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Cellular level/distribution of γ-secretase subunit nicastrin and its modulator p23 in the brain
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The processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β- and γ-secretases produces amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, the principal component of the neuritic plaques found in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. The enzyme γ-secretase is a multimeric protein consisting of presenilins-1/2 (PS1/PS2), nicastrin,...
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Challenges for Resource Allocation, Decision Making and Consideration of Social Values for Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatitis C in Canadian Populations
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Introduction: Health care system decision makers face challenges in allocating resources for screening, diagnosis and therapies for hepatitis C, caused by the highly infectious and blood borne hepatitis C virus (HCV) (WHO, 2014). Approximately 240,000 individuals are infected with HCV in Canada...