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An Interpretive Description of Nigerian Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives, Experiences and Practices of Self-Management Support for Persons with Type 2 Diabetes
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Background: Studies show that most people living with diabetes in Nigeria have inadequate knowledge of their condition, poor self-management, and poor glycemic control. Many of these studies focused on patients who were often blamed by healthcare providers (HCPs) for their situation. There is a...
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Examining the Culture of HPE in a Canadian High School Setting Through Practitioner Research
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The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of the culture of Health and Physical Education (HPE) in a Canadian high school setting, and analyze how teachers' experiences have been impacted by role conflict, advocacy fatigue, and burnout. A review of the literature revealed that...
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Exploring Professional Psychology Graduate Students’ Training in Culturally Competent Assessment
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Culture is recognized as a necessary consideration for psychologists to attend to when conducting assessments, the importance of which professional ethical guidelines make clear as well. What is not yet clear from the existing research is if clinical psychology training programs in Canada reflect...
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Fall 2021
Currently, 79.5 million people worldwide have been forced to cross international borders because of political instability and civil war in their country of origin (International Organization for Migration, 2020; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2020). Globally, 51% of refugees are...
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Fishing via Meaning Infrastructure: Entrepreneurial Search and Possibility Development in the Emergent AI & ML Field
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This monograph broadens the scope of cultural entrepreneurship by exploring the link between entrepreneurial search activities and the level of institutionalization of fields. Cultural entrepreneurship involves manipulating cultural repertoires to gather support from relevant audiences, but this...
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Language, Culture and Context: Perspectives of Canadian Service Providers on Immigrant Women's Understandings and Experiences of Violence within Intimacy
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Immigrant women from ethnocultural communities often have differing definitions and experiences of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Domestic Violence (DV), and these processes are heavily influenced by language, culture and political contexts. However, the dominant conceptions of partner or...
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Life on the Stargazing Hill: Belgrade Astronomical Observatory at the Intersection of Gender, Science and Culture in Post-Socialist Serbia
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This thesis is a result of ethnographic research conducted at the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in 2015-2018 period, among Serbian astronomers and astrophysicists. The thesis is threefold: it focuses on the intersection of knowledge production, post-socialism and gender issues in today’s...
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Psychological antecedents and outcomes of leisure time physical activity for mainland Chinese international students in Canada
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The purpose of this research was to examine the physical activity of mainland Chinese international students in Canada. Particularly, the relationships between physical activity, social cognitive variables (i.e., self-efficacy, social support, intention, access), mental health (i.e., stress,...
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Refuge and Life Overseas: Influences of Gender, Culture, and Migration on Parenting Practices of African Refugees in Canada
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Parenting is a socially and culturally constructed role and experience. Parenting practices vary across and within communities yet most of what we know about parenting in the literature stems from Western worldviews on what ideal parenting and child-rearing looks like in practice. Taking a...
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Fall 2018
Black musicians in string-bands in the American South during the period 1920–1950 were remarkably resilient to social, political, and cultural forces while also actively creating cultural products. The breadth of their musical activities and networks of interconnectivity expands our knowledge and...