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Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in Rural and Urban British Columbia
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Throughout Canada there has been an increase in both fatal and non-fatal opioid related overdoses, with British Columbia having some of the highest rates. In response to this increase, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia declared a public health emergency to mobilize resources to...
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Parental influences on executive functions in early childhood: Differential effects of harsh and sensitive parenting
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The aim of this study was to clarify the nature of the relations between specific dimensions of parenting (sensitivity and harshness) and cool and hot components of executive functions (EFs) in preschool children. As such, this study examined the additive and interactive effects of parental...
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Pharmacists’ Clinical Reasoning and Evaluation of Medication Appropriateness: Descriptive Analyses in Community Practice
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The prevalence of drug-related problems puts a significant burden on the Canadian healthcare system. The literature that suggests that the majority of these drug-related problems are preventable, and could be identified and managed by pharmacists beforehand. This evidence suggests that...
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Pickles, Beets, and Bread: Examining Traditional Food Knowledge in a Rural Albertan Community
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The globalization and industrialization of the agri-food system over the past fifty years has been linked to declining knowledge and skills in the general population related to growing, preserving and cooking food. In rural communities, loss of this knowledge and associated culture and traditions...
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Policy from below: Foregrounding teacher experiences of hardship in remote rural secondary schools in Kenya
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Teacher shortage for schools in remote rural areas (also called hardship areas) in Kenya, as in other parts of the world, is a recurrent problem. Such shortage is problematic as it exacerbates the educational disadvantage of such areas, already disadvantaged with regard to access to schools,...
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Preference for Autonomy in Consumer Decision Making: On the Antecedents and the Consequences of Consumers' Relinquishment of Decision Control to Surrogates
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This dissertation investigates the psychological processes relevant to consumers’ relinquishment of decision control to surrogates (e.g., physician, financial advisor). While the first essay investigates the antecedents of relinquishing decision control to surrogates, the second essay focuses on...
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Putative ante-mortem indicators of Alzheimer’s dementia: Analysis of fluid biomarker and neuroimaging studies
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Dementia is a clinical state, characterized by symptoms indicative of deterioration of memoryand cognitive functions that interferes with social or occupational functioning. According to2018 statistics, around 50 million people are living with dementia, and this number will increaseto 131.5...
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Fall 2018
Gaussian processes are flexible probabilistic models for regression and classification. However, their success hinges on a well-specified kernel that can capture the structure of data. For complex data, the task of hand crafting a kernel becomes daunting. In this thesis, we propose new methods...
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Fall 2013
Canada possesses a culture of many interconnected voices, but this diversity is not represented in the major commercial enterprises of Canadian theatre. This thesis will question the existence of a national Canadian identity and through the framework of rural Canadian theatre posit an alternative...