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Spring 2020
Renal acclimatization is an important aspect of high-altitude adaption coordinating diuresis, acid-base status, natriuresis, renal hemodynamics and kidney filtration. Renal blood flow, glomerular filtration rate, active renin, plasma aldosterone concentration, NT pro-brain natriuretic peptide...
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How Women Varsity Athletes High in Self-Compassion Experience Unexpected Stressors Surrounding Competition
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Athletes appraise unexpected stressors as more threatening than expected stressors (Dugdale et al., 2002) and women varsity athletes have reported experiencing a high proportion of unexpected competition-related stressors (Holt et al., 2007). Self-compassion appears to promote adaptive appraisals...
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Exploring the ‘Intangible Player Characteristics’ that Junior Hockey Scouts Consider when Evaluating Draft-Eligible Prospects
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The overarching purpose of this study was to systematically explore and identify the ‘intangible player characteristics’ (beyond physical, technical, and tactical abilities) that scouts consider when determining the draft-suitability of eligible ‘minor hockey’ players in a Canadian major junior...
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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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Seed Stories: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Urban Recreation Practitioners in Garden, Recreation, and Community Places
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This paper-based dissertation draws upon wonders grafted from a prior narrative inquiry into my experiences as a recreation researcher-practitioner in multiple community gardens. Drawing upon my grafted wonders of how do recreation practitioners learn to live in relationally ethical ways...
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Relationships of Social Physique Anxiety and Behavioural Regulations to the Intention-Behaviour Gap Model
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Given the increasing rate of inactive individuals, it is crucial that there is research focused on understanding the factors that may be related to lower exercise behaviour. A number of constructs are known to have a relationship with participation in exercise behaviour, including social physique...
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Fall 2022
Contraction-mediated inhibition of sympathetic vasoconstriction (sympatholysis) is enhanced in female compared with male rats. Acute pharmacological blockade of nitric oxide (NO) production abolished the sex difference in sympatholysis, indicating that NO-mediated sympatholysis is elevated in...
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Fall 2021
Pedagogical textbooks are oftentimes the first introduction undergraduate students and future Adapted Physical Activity (APA) and Adapted Physical Education (APE) professionals have to the discipline. These texts can set the epistemological and axiological framing through which all subsequent...
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Gait and Cognition: Exploring Cognition and Dual-task Costs in a Group of Community Dwelling Alzheimer’s Disease Patients over 6 Months
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder resulting in cognitive decline affecting many activities of daily living including gait. Many tools exist to monitor AD progression, including cognitive examinations, and functional tests of mobility. The purpose of the present study is...
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Fall 2021
Risk-aversion is prevalent in North America, and the literature (Brussoni et al., 2012) has suggested that Adventure Playgrounds may be an appropriate intervention to re-introduce risky play into children’s lives. However, even within spaces that allow for more risk-taking during play, children’s...