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Characterization of Aerosol Deposition in Children and Infants Using Idealized Extrathoracic Geometries
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This thesis describes a number of experimental studies performed with the common goal of characterizing pharmaceutical aerosol deposition in children and infants using idealized extrathoracic geometries. First, an in vitro study of the recently proposed Alberta Idealized Child Throat showed that...
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Cheechakos, Sourdoughs and Soiled Doves: Men, Women, and Community in a Klondike Gold Rush Boomtown 1896-1904
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The research upon which this thesis is based explores the concept of ‘doing ethnography in the archives’ as a methodology to inform a case-study approach to studying the historic population of stampeders residing in and around Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. As an example of research...
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Fall 2014
Number-line estimation is an important, useful, everyday skill that has been linked to numerical cognition and mathematical achievement more generally. Despite numerous investigations in the last decade and the importance of number-line estimation as a mathematical concept, gaps remain in our...
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Collaborations in UNESCO Biosphere Regions/Reserves: Interagency collaboration in the Beaver Hills Biosphere versus inter-biosphere collaborations across Canada
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Collaboration, as both the practice of working together and building organizational resilience, is paramount to addressing the complex problems of current conservation efforts. In an attempt to balance the social and ecological worlds, UNESCO Biosphere Regions/Reserves (BRs) outline collaboration...
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Fall 2019
Indigenous communities in Canada (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) face significant social and environmental barriers to healthy eating. Due in large part to these barriers, Indigenous children are disproportionally affected by nutrition-related chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes....
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Constructing Collaboration Across Campus: Pre-professional speech-language pathologists and teachers working together
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This thesis project analyzed the efficacy of a single exposure to interprofessional education (IPE) for education and speech-language pathology (SLP) pre-professionals. The effects of IPE were shown through analysis of participant responses related to personal reflections, professional roles,...
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Fall 2016
This exploratory work investigates the “transformational festival,” a contemporary form of celebratory leisure that revolves around music, the arts, community, and co-creativity. By integrating interpretative phenomenological analysis with methods from arts-based research, critical ethnography,...
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Dealing with a latent danger: parents communicating with their school-age preadolescent children about smoking - a grounded theory study
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Smoking in youth continues to be an important public health issue. Because adolescence is the key period for smoking initiation, prevention efforts need to take place before the adolescent years. Little is known about parental smoking prevention interventions. The purpose of this study,...
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Spring 2017
This Master’s thesis considers Deborah Ellis’s Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli children speak and The Breadwinner series, works that have stirred lively debate about childhood, children’s literature, and censorship. These two works are the product of Ellis’s travels to Afghanistan, Israel...
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Fall 2011
The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically over the last three decades in Canada with substantial consequences for the physical, mental, and economic wellbeing of the population. The overarching objective of this thesis was to examine the various aspects of childhood obesity...