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Fall 2015

Morielli, Andria R

Background: Standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer includes long-course neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) followed by definitive surgery. NACRT improves outcomes but it is also associated with significant toxicities and declines in physical fitness that may impede treatment...

Fall 2015

deBeaudrap, Hayley L

This study examined female athletes’ perceptions of how they became optimistic. In order to identify optimistic athletes, 83 members of female varsity sport teams at the University of Alberta completed a sport-specific version of the Life Orientation Test (LOT; Dunn, Causgrove Dunn, & Lizmore,...

Spring 2014

McDonald, Pamela C

The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the nuclear localisation patterns of NFAT-c1, -c2, -c3, and -c4 in relation to chronic low-frequency stimulation induced fibre type transitions. A model has been suggested to describe the roles of all 4 NFAT isoforms in activity-dependent...

Fall 2009

Xue, Hanhan

When entering the Chinese market, Western sport organizations are usually confused about the interests, expectations, demands, and behaviors of Chinese stakeholders. It is important for these foreign organizations to understand the way in which Chinese people look at foreigners, foreign products,...

Fall 2014

Barry, Taryn

In recent years due to the evolving interconnectedness around the globe, global citizenship has become a prominent area of research. While investigation of this phenomena has expanded, few studies exist on how global citizenship is fostered vis-à-vis international youth programs. The purpose of...

Spring 2015

Peers, Danielle L

Inspirational representations of athletic disability are ubiquitous in contemporary Western culture, and are often considered uplifting for disabled and non-disabled audiences alike (Berger, 2008; Kama, 2004; Silva & Howe, 2012). Critical disability scholars have argued, by contrast, that such...

Fall 2013

Retamales, Paulina C.

This study explores the history of the Gyro Club playground movement in Edmonton, Alberta, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Investigating who the Gyros were and how they structured play for children offers new insights to the history of Edmonton’s playground movement and social reform in civic...

Spring 2013

Parks, Brenda E.

The purpose of this research was to develop a deeper understanding of women who are pursuing careers as Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG). This study invited eight women to participate in semi-structured interviews. A narrative inquiry was deemed the most appropriate method that...

Fall 2012

Feng, Qinyan

Scholars and sport tourism managers have exhibited a growing interest in heritage sport tourism. The purpose of this study is to examine the motivations of visitors to sport heritage sites, as a way of helping facility managers to optimize relevant strategies and capitalize on these...

Fall 2011

Story, Corinne-Ann

The purpose of this research was to explore how the elite female Canadian singles figure skaters experience the women’s elite singles figure skating events as events in which the majority of participants are young girls and young women with girlish figures (Kestnbaum, 2003). Through a lens of...