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Pairing Reading Treatment with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Adults with Aphasia
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Background. Damage to language areas of the brain often leads to a language disorder called aphasia, which impairs speech, writing, and understanding. Sixty-eight per cent of people with aphasia (PWA) also present with alexia, a reading impairment. There is an urgent need for efficacious...
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Perceptions of Science and Expertise Among Alternative Ranchers in Alberta, Canada: A Qualitative and Actor-Network Analysis
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Dlusskaya, Kira Konstantinovna
Raising animals has been an important aspect of human food systems for millennia, but with growing climate concerns, the management of animal agriculture, including beef production, needs to adhere to environmental best practices. Determining what these practices are has been the subject of much...
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Recipient response behaviour during Japanese storytelling: a combined quantitative/multimodal approach
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This study explores the role of speaker and listener gaze in the production of recipient responses, often called backchannels or, in Japanese, aizuchi. Using elicited narrative audio/video data, speaker gaze and recipient response behaviours were first analyzed quantitatively. The results showed...
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Spring 2014
I investigated how recent immigrant mothers access and use current vaccine risk communication in their immunization decisions for themselves and their children. To complete this research, I engaged in a community-driven participatory research partnership with the Multi-Cultural Health Brokers...
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Spring 2013
What happens when women, so long the subjects of art rather than the authors, turn the camera on ourselves? This question informed the basis of my dissertation research on women’s experiences of hope and unplanned pregnancy. In a medium-sized Western Canadian city, I engaged in a videographic...
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Spring 2017
BCR-ABL fusion oncogene is the main driver mutation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) that controls initiation, maintenance and progression to more aggressive stages of the disease. Current therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors in CML involve certain limitations, such as drug resistance and...
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Sport Parents’ Perspectives of Children’s Free Play and Sport and their Accompanying Messages
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The purpose of this thesis was to explore the perspectives of sport parents to understand factors, in particular messages that impact parents and their decisions within the context of children’s sport and free play. Guided by interpretive description (ID), data were collected through interviews...