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- 14Physical Education and Recreation
- 13Department of Educational Psychology
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- 3Parkins, John (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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Auditory and Sensorimotor Resting State Networks in Children Preceding and Following Overt Speaking
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Measuring the impact of a task on resting state networks (RSNs) is important for understanding their relative strength and stability. Little is known about RSN stability in adults and less is known about RSN stability in children. The effect of an active task on RSNs was measured on fourteen...
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Fall 2017
For many, translation begins and ends with the book on the shelf; it is often thought to be the end product of a simple process of linguistic transfer between languages, completed by someone who simply has knowledge of both languages. However, this hardly captures the nature of translation and is...
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Body Composition Assessment in Pediatric Obesity: Reliability, Validity, and Clinical Applications
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Adipose tissue and skeletal muscle have unique metabolic roles. Despite body mass index for age and sex (BMI z-score) being historically widely used to evaluate and monitor health status in children with obesity, it does not depict adiposity and muscularity (or their changes) during growth or...
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Breathing Dynamics for Non-speech and Speech Tasks Following Intensive Voice and Speech Treatment in Children with Motor Speech Disorders Secondary to Cerebral Palsy
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Introduction. Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most frequently occurring cause of movement disorders in children. It has a prevalence of 2-2.5 cases per 1000 live births and is a chronic condition, requiring lifelong rehabilitation. The ability to communicate is a primary factor in positive...
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`Canadian-Grown': Student Perspectives About Learning Science in a Culturally Diverse Classroom
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As a result of science being viewed as universal and promoting Eurocentric values, science education has been suggested to be inaccessible for culturally and linguistically diverse students as measured by achievement gaps, poor standardized test results, and racial and ethnic disparities in...
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Spring 2012
The aim of this work was to examine any possible IBD activity-related variations in immunoglobulin A (IgA) anti-tissue transglutaminase (tTG) levels in children with IBD. The prevalence of CD in children with IBD was also examined. In a prospective cohort study, children with IBD were screened...
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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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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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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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Spring 2014
South Asians in Canada are increasingly using the Family Class immigration category to sponsor spouses from their home countries. This qualitative study examined the steps family-sponsored spouses and their sponsors or family members have taken to facilitate their linguistic, economic, social,...