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Spring 2010
Nigeria has a huge natural gas reserve, but to date this resource has been largely under-developed. This state of affair has impacted negatively on Nigeria’s economic potential. In contrast, Alberta has benefitted immensely from its natural gas resource because it has effectively developed same....
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Tiered Behaviour Architecture for Virtual Characters using Cyclic Scheduling and Behaviour Capture
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A story-based video game contains many characters. A few are controlled by the player and the majority are virtual characters, controlled by artificial intelligence. In recent years, video game artificial intelligence has developed slower than other aspects of video games, such as graphics,...
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Sport-Related Concussion and the Relationship of Psychological Functioning on Prolonged Recoveries
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The purpose of this study is to explore potential risk factors of psychological functioning that contribute to the recovery of sport-related concussions (SRC) in professional and collegiate athletes. The current study used prospective reporting from athletes prior to and within 48 hours of...
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The effectiveness of Return to Duty Intervention: Evaluating an interdisciplinary approach to supporting Canadian Armed Forces members who have physical and non-physical disorders
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The rate of musculoskeletal and mental health disorders is high in the Canadian Armed Forces, and can preclude service members from being employable and deployable. The aim of this thesis was to analyze the effectiveness of the Return to Duty intervention at decreasing morbidity and assisting...
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Spring 2015
Personality has been documented in diverse taxa and growing attention is being directed towards the ecological implications of consistent variation in individual behaviour. These implications include the rise in habituation behaviour by wildlife living in human-disturbed areas, which has resulted...
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Fall 2015
Gilmet, Teryn Evelyn Renee McFarlane
Broiler breeders require feed restriction to maintain high production rates of hatching eggs. However, feed restriction, conventionally managed during the rearing period through skip-a-day feeding, creates welfare concerns as broiler breeders exhibit behaviours indicative of hunger and...
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Mental Health Co-morbidity in Children and Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Children and adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) present with a range of physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive challenges which can result in poor long-term outcomes. Mental health issues affect over 90% of individuals with FASD and is the most common and pressing...
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Spring 2010
The traditional approach to the study of consumer behaviour is to regard them as isolated islands of preferences, needs, motives, and goals; however, this approach neglects the impact of ‘others’ on consumers’ judgments and preferences. For this reason, the theme of this thesis is the ‘connected...
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Adult Education to Help Reduce Child Sexual Abuse: Developing Novel Classroom and Online Approaches Designed to Change Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours
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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is common and individuals who experience CSA have higher rates of psychopathology and higher risk of medical, psychological, behavioural, and sexual disorders than those who have not been sexually abused. Adults who interact with children are in ideal positions to reduce...
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Fall 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sport related concussion (SRC) on quality of life and psychological distress ratings in collegiate athletes. Participants included 230 male and female athletes participating in hockey, football, rugby, soccer, volleyball, and basketball,...