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Association between Social Marketing Interventions and Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices towards Consumption of Vitamin-A Fortified Oil in Rural Tanzania: A Quantitative and Spatial Analysis.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-10)Background. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a public health problem affecting many pregnant women and young children in Africa and South-East Asia. In children, VAD is associated with an increased risk of measles, malaria ... -
The Effect of Spironolactone on Cerebral Blood Flow and Cognition
(University of Waterloo, 2018-03-23)Hypertension and arterial stiffness are associated with structural and functional changes in cerebral circulation and cognitive function, but based on existing evidence the effects are potentially reversible by spironolactone ... -
Acute effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease
(Elsevier, 2018-04-03)Deficits in executive functions are highly prevalent in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although chronic physical exercise has been shown to improve executive functions in PD, evidence of acute exercise effects is limited. This ... -
The Long-Term Effects of Behavioural Interventions on Age-Associated Alterations in Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Memory Interference
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-27)The process of normal aging results in changes in several cognitive abilities, including the ability to reduce interference between similar pieces of information upon recall. Aging has also been associated with changes in ... -
Predicting the potential health and economic impact of a sugary drink tax in Canada: a modelling study
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-23)BACKGROUND Consistent with global trends, high body mass index (BMI) and high blood glucose have risen at rapid rates among Canadians. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is a well-established and important ... -
Exploring the Utility of Inter-Segmental Coordination to Assess Movement Competency During Lifting Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-22)Pre-employment screens are used within the hiring process to determine the hiring or placement of employees in the workplace. It is important that such screens adequately replicate or generalize to the work of interest. ... -
Protection against high fat diet induced obesity in mdx mice: is sarcolipin involved?
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-15)Sarcolipin (SLN) is a 31 amino acid proteolipid and one of the regulators of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) pumps. Previous research has shown that sarcolipin levels in muscles from wild type (WT) mice ... -
The effects of a simulated occupational kneeling exposure on squat mechanics and knee joint load during gait
(Taylor and Francis, 2017-12-01)Occupational kneeling is associated with an increased risk for tibiofemoral knee osteoarthritis. Forces on the knee in the kneeling posture, as well as the greater incidence of meniscus tears among workers, likely contribute ... -
Group vs Individual: Impact of TOUCH and TILT Cross-Device Interactions on Mixed-Focus Collaboration
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-04-28)Cross-device environments (XDEs) have been devel-oped to support a multitude of collaborative activities. Yet, little is known about how different cross-device in-teraction techniques impact group collaboration; in-cluding ... -
Adolescent Maternal Nutrition and Health in Uganda: Voices from the Community
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)INTRODUCTION: Over one quarter of adolescent girls in rural Uganda and more than one fifth of them in the Busoga region of Eastern Uganda experience pregnancy and childbirth. These young mothers have disproportionately ... -
The effect of concussion history on relevancy-based gating of visual and tactile stimuli
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)At the cortical level, incoming sensory inputs are subject to interruption as they are transmitted to modality-specific cortical areas, in order to prevent excessive processing of task-irrelevant sensory information and ... -
Exploring factors that contribute to between-subject variability of reaction time
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)For well over a century reaction time has provided researchers with a method to quantify information processing speed. Defined as the interval of time between the presentation of a stimulus to the onset of a response, ... -
Exploring Participants’ Expectations and Experiences of Short-Term Language Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)This study examines the concept of language learning as part of educational tourism with a particular emphasis on the participants enrolled in short-term English programs in Toronto. The purpose of this phenomenological ... -
Assessing the Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Exposure to Drought in Early Life Before and After Prenatal Supplementation and the Seasonality Effects on Birth Outcomes in Rural Malawi
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)BACKGROUND Prenatal supplementation can positively influence birth outcomes by addressing and improving the nutritional status of infants in resource-poor settings. Nevertheless, evidence from historical disasters such ... -
Elephant-based Volunteer Tourism: An exploration of participant experiences and reflections on captive elephant welfare in Thailand
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Due to the diverse forms of interaction between humans and animals, particularly in tourism settings, it is no surprise that there has been growing scholarship evaluating its intersection (Cohen, 2009; Fennell, 2012 a,b,c, ... -
Characterizing the Role of Phospholamban in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-16)Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and the murine model, mdx, are recessive X-linked myopathies characterized by aberrant Ca2+-handling resulting in muscle atrophy and weakness. Phospholamban (PLN) is a protein inhibitor ... -
Dried Blood Spot Fatty Acid Quantitation: Developing Methods for Determining Unknown Volumes, Identifying Contaminants and Assessing Fatty Acid Stability During Storage
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)Omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 LCPUFA) blood levels are a potential risk factor for coronary heart disease, particularly sudden cardiac death. Venipuncture sampling for fatty acid profiling is invasive, ... -
Thigh-calf contact parameters for six high knee flexion postures: Onset, maximum angle, total force, contact area, and center of force.
(Elsevier, 2018-01-23)In high knee flexion, contact between the posterior thigh and calf is expected to decrease forces on tibiofemoral contact surfaces, therefore, thigh-calf contact needs to be thoroughly characterized to model its effect. ... -
"We are not a machine": Personal support workers' (ante)narratives of labour, leisure, and hope amidst politics of genderacialised care in long-term care homes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)Systemic processes rooted in and reinforcing neoliberalism and capitalist production work to racialise, gender, and class bodies engaged in caring. Engaging in caring through labouring bodies, racialised women working in ... -
Work-related psychosocial stress and allostatic load within firefighters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-10)The aim of this study was to investigate the nature and type of psychosocial stress experienced by firefighters through investigating the cumulative effects of work-related factors on their health by reviewing current ...
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