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An Exploration of Musculoskeletal Injuries Occurring in a Canadian Police Agency: Can Fitness Test Results Predict Injury Risk?
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Background Police officers have a greater risk of injury compared to those in most other occupations. A police officer who suffers an injury may not be able to act in their full capacity while they recover resulting in sick time, decreased productivity, limited physical ability, or the...
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Fall 2021
Dispersal is one of the most important life-history events facing an individual, but how and why individuals arrive at the decision to leave home is largely unknown. This decision has immediate and lifelong fitness consequences. Therefore, understanding how individuals make dispersal decisions is...
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2014-01-01
Alex Potapov, Ulrike E. Schlagel, Mark A. Lewis
We use an evolutionary approach to find “most appropriate” dispersal models for ecological applications. From a random walk with locally or nonlocally defined transition probabilities we derive a family of diffusion equations. We assume a monotonic dependence of its diffusion coefficient on...
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Fall 2020
Introduction: The beneficial effects of chronic exercise on hippocampal volume and associated memory functions are well studied, especially in the context of aging and dementia. These effects are thought to be mediated by multiple exercise-induced physiological and molecular factors (e.g.,...