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Spring 2017
Background: Health literacy is a robust determinant of an individual’s health status which in turn influences population health and the healthcare system. Based on Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) limited health literacy (LHL) is a source of health disparity if healthcare providers are not able to...
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Spring 2011
While evidence-based practice and knowledge translation (or transfer) has garnered much attention, research has not focused on health information as provisional and emergent, and on knowledge translation (KT) as a process of social construction. The challenge of evolving information is magnified...
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2024-01-01
Salma, Jordana, Layton, Mahenaz, Au, Alesia, Thennakoonwela, Pram, Temuri, Huda
This report describes a project conducted by the University of Alberta's Faculty of Nursing in partnership with the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) at Edmonton Rahma Mosque, which sought to address health disparities by providing culturally tailored health education sessions in Urdu and...
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Spring 2017
Neurocysticercosis, the major global cause of acquired epilepsy, is a parasitic disease caused by Taenia solium larvae. Patients may have seizures whether larvae in brain are alive or degenerated (calcified). We assessed whether parasitic lesions produce changes in structural brain scans that are...
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Optimizing Health Literacy and Community Engagement in Relation to Active Living with Edmonton’s Newcomer Young People and their Families
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Dassanayake, J., Yohani, S., Mogale, R.S., Higginbottom, G., Richter, S., Vallianatos, H.
Canada is a multicultural country where immigration plays an important role in population growth and the country’s economy. Despite this, some newcomers such as those who hold refugee status, experience greater ill-health than the general population. Moreover, many immigrants and refugees (both...
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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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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...