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- 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- 1Beaulieu, Christian (Biomedical Engineering)
- 1Chan, K. Ming (Centre for Neuroscience)
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Spring 2010
The increasing popularity of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapies as health care options warrants thorough examination of the efficacy and safety evidence around these therapies. This thesis explores the intersection of TCM and fatigue using two rigorous methodologies: systematic reviews...
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The Development, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of a 12-Week Online Mind-Body Intervention for People with Primary Biliary Cholangitis
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Introduction: Persons with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) experience significantly higher rates of mental distress, impaired health related quality of life (HrQoL), and fatigue than the general population. While mind-body interventions have been shown to improve mental health and HrQoL, and...
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The changing causal foundations of cancer-related symptom clustering during the final month of palliative care: A longitudinal study
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Hanson, J., Hayduk, L., Quan, H., Olson, K., Strasser, F., Cui, Y., Lawlor, P., Cree, M.
Background: Symptoms tend to occur in what have been called symptom clusters. Early symptom cluster research was imprecise regarding the causal foundations of the coordinations between specific symptoms, and was silent on whether the relationships between symptoms remained stable over time. This...
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Sleep deficit, fatigue, and health in family caregivers of persons with dementia awaiting placement
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Sleep, fatigue, and health have been extensively explored in family caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD). However, no published studies have looked at these variables during the time of awaiting placement, an important period of family caregiving. In this study, 41 family caregivers of PWD...
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Repair of Fatigue Cracks in Steel Members Using Adhesively Bonded Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP)
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Bonding fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is emerging as an alternative to the fatigue crack repair techniques because of its several advantages over the conventional fatigue crack repair methods and materials. Its major advantages include its higher stiffness and strength, choice of...
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Spring 2010
Fatigue assessments have been carried out predominantly with quasi-deterministic approaches, such as the use of S–N curves. However, both the loading and the resistance of fatigue prone components are subjected to significant uncertainties. Consequently, a prediction of the remaining fatigue life...
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Spring 2022
Fatigue can have a long-lasting impact on psychosocial, cognitive, and educational outcomes for students who are Deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH). Unfortunately, fatigue itself and the importance of educational supports to minimize its impact on D/HH students is poorly understood by many...
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Peripheral and central contributions to evoked contractions during neuromuscular electrical stimulation
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The present thesis examined two general questions regarding neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES): 1) How can the delivery of NMES be optimised to enhance synaptic motor unit recruitment via reflex pathways (central pathways) and 2) Can motor unit recruitment through central pathways...