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Landscape of Hope: The influence of place and social capital on collaborative action in sustainable management
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Collaboration offers promise for sustainable development, particularly in cases where direct involvement of affected stakeholders is essential. The actor network theory (ANT) process of translation explains how diverse interests could unite to solve environmental problems. This unique...
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Latin American Canadian Immigrants' Leisure Travel Motivations and Settlement into Canadian Society
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Immigration is a major contributor to Canada’s ethnocultural diversity and continues to shape the socio-demographic landscape of Canada. The Latin American community is one such group contributing to these socio-demographic changes and is, notably, one of the fastest growing ethnic communities in...
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Spring 2014
Coach learning is a key component for developing quality coaches. While researchers have identified many ways that coaches learn, there is little agreement as to how coaches learn best. As a way of examining these discrepancies found in the research, this study’s aim was to explore how Canadian...
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Longitudinal and cross-sectional associations between physical activity, screen time, and fitness in a sample of young children from Edmonton, Canada
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Background: High fitness is associated with several positive health outcomes; however, fitness of Canadian children has declined over the past two decades. Correlates of fitness in children under 10 years of age are relatively unexplored, and few studies involving young children have looked at...
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Magazine Images Depicting the Ideal Fit Male Body: An Outlet for Influencing Body Perceptions and Exercise Related Cognitions
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This study examined the effects of viewing health/fitness and sports magazine images on body perceptions and exercise related cognitions in males. The moderating effects of age were also examined. A series of 3 (image-only, magazine cover, control) by 3 (youngest, middle, oldest) ANOVA analyses...
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Media, Mountain Culture and the Identity Politics of Risk Recreation: A Media Discourse Analysis of Snowmobiling Avalanche Deaths in Western Canada
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Avalanche accidents involving backcountry snowmobilers are on the rise in Canada (CAC, 2012a). The 2008-09 and 2009-10 winter seasons were marked by two devastating accidents near Sparwood and Revelstoke, British Columbia, that resulted in multiple fatalities and garnered widespread media...
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Fall 2012
Major League Baseball (MLB) has taken a series of actions over the past five years to penetrate the Chinese market. Watching the success of the National Basketball Association (NBA), MLB can easily identify opportunities in the Chinese market of 1.3 billion people. However, in comparison with...
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Movement behaviours, body mass index, and demographics of toddlers and preschoolers attending Alberta child care centres
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The overall objective of this thesis was to quantify levels of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep (movement behaviours), and determine how they are related to body mass index (BMI) in toddlers and preschoolers, while considering the impact of demographic variables. A sample of...
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Fall 2014
“To experience an experience is to do research into an experience” (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000, p. 50). I intended to study my own lived experiences of understanding the diverse meanings of disability and ability as they were lived by exploring their temporality (i.e., the timeframes—past,...
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Fall 2015
Introduction: The sympathetic nervous system is the primary regulator of the "fight or flight" response, with muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) increasing in response to various stressors, including low oxygen (hypoxia; HX). MSNA is an important regulator of cardiovascular function,...