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Influence of an Exercise-Specific Face Mask on Physiological, Respiratory, and Perceptual Responses to Graded Exercise in Aerobically Fit Individuals
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Introduction: Research indicates that there are no health risks associated with face mask use during exercise in healthy individuals. However, the impact of a face mask on physiological, perceptual, and performance responses to exercise of all intensities remains equivocal. Evidence suggests mask...
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Fall 2021
BACKGROUND: Concurrent excitation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems occurs at high-altitude (chronic hypoxia), via the carotid chemoreflex. We have demonstrated this autonomic conflict manifests as cardiac arrhythmias during voluntary apnea. We sought to determine the duration of...
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It Might Be ‘Us’ Not ‘Them’: An Autoethnographic Reflexion of Ableist Practices in Adapted Physical Activity
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Adapted physical activity (APA) is an area of scholarship and professional practice situated across the medical, social, and most recently, resistance and radical models of disability. As APA scholars begin to shift towards more critical and social justice lenses of disability and movement...
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Journeying Through Sport with Self-Compassion: Athlete Narratives of Navigating Pressure and Struggle
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In high-level sport, there is often an overemphasis on performance which can lead to a decline in athletes’ physical health, mental well-being, and quality of life (Douglas & Carless, 2009; Smith, 2010). Development of adaptive coping resources, such as self-compassion, may help mitigate threats...
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Magic and Madness: An Autoethnographic Creative Nonfiction Arts-based Research Project Exploring the Makings of Mad Home Within and Outside of Dance Spaces
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The following thesis is an artistic exploration interested in discovering how Mad Home (Eales, 2018) can be crafted within dance spaces. In doing so, I discovered how my experiences with madness have infiltrated, inhabited, and influenced my experiences within normative dance spaces and beyond....
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Making Mad Home and Other Love Stories: Mad Performative Autoethnography, Collaborative Research-Creation, and Mad-Accessible Trauma-Informed Practice
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This is a love story about Mad research-creation, and about what we can learn when we draw together Mad theory with Mad performance and Mad-accessible, anti-oppressive, trauma- informed practice. This research-creation project gives weight to social and political conceptualizations of, as well as...
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Spring 2020
This dissertation highlights the value for researchers to visibilize settler colonialism as an important social structure and context in sport management by exploring the implication of two international Indigenous sport events, both hosted in Canada during the country’s celebration of its 150th...
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Fall 2018
The overall purpose of this dissertation research was to gain a better understanding of the meaningful engagement of youth at risk in recreation and leisure contexts. To address this purpose, three studies were conducted. The first study completed explores how youth-led leisure opportunities can...
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Fall 2019
Defining and characterizing leisure remains a central issue in the field of leisure and recreation studies; yet there are different views of what constitutes leisure, and researchers have yet to come to an agreement. This issue is more complicated for researchers from non-Western countries like...
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Measuring Structural and Functional Characteristics of the Medial Longitudinal Arch: Building a Classification System
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Historically, foot type has been classified on a single, linear continuum ranging from flat, to normal, to high, with minimal distinction made between differences in the medial longitudinal arch (MLA) orientation in different postures or tasks. Structural arch data has been recorded in various...