Applied Health Sciences (Faculty of)
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Predictors of Palliative Home Care Costs in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-21)Background: The demand for palliative care in Canada is expected to grow in coming years due to a confluence of factors that include population aging, a more gradual dying process, emphasis on the early provision of ... -
Merlynne: Motivating Peer-to-Peer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a Serious Game
(ACM, 2021-09)Human-Computer Interaction researchers have explored how online communities can be leveraged for peer support, but general disinterest and a lack of engagement have emerged as substantial barriers to their use in practice. ... -
Nature vs. Stress: Investigating the Use of Biophilia in Non-Violent Exploration Games to Reduce Stress
(ACM, 2021)Games hold the potential to help many address health-related issues such as chronic stress. We investigated the use of biophilia, an affective response to nature grounded in the psychology literature, as indirect physiological ... -
Neural control of the healthy pectoralis major from low-to-moderate isometric contractions
(American Physiological Society, 2021-07-01)The pectoralis major critically enables arm movement in several directions. However, its neural control remains unknown. High-density electromyography (HD-sEMG) was acquired from the pectoralis major in two sets of experiments ... -
Cultural influences on Chinese parents’ selection of sports activities for their children
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-05)In spite of amble of research on parental influence on children’s sports participation, our understanding in this area is limited due to the fact that most of the research to date has been conducted in Western cultures. ... -
Examining how changes in school-level intramurals impact physical activity among Ontario youth over time: A natural experiment evaluation from the COMPASS study
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-21)Introduction: Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) has many health benefits for youth. However, the majority of Canadian youth are falling short of the recommended 60 minutes of MVPA per day. Since youth spend a ... -
Local Traditional/Country Food Processing and Food Sovereignty: Investigating the Political Challenges for an Indigenous Self-government to Self-Determine and Develop its Local Food System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-07)Background: Climate change in tandem with previous colonial policies have severely impacted local traditional food systems, resulting in a disruption to traditional knowledge sharing, a greater reliance on market foods and ... -
Characterizing site-specific body composition of older adults and their associations with strength, functional capacity, and metabolic health
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-03)Background: Ageing is associated with skeletal muscle atrophy and increased intramuscular adipose tissue. Emerging evidence indicates that specific muscle groups may be largely responsible for the ageing-related degradation ... -
Characterization of a novel truncated isoform of murine AGPAT4 arising from predicted splice variants
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The acylglycerophosphate acyltransferase (AGPAT)/lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT) family of enzymes is responsible for the conversion of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) to phosphatidic acid (PA), a precursor of ... -
Investigating the effects of exercise on attentional correlates in those with a history of concussion
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The current understanding of changes that occur neurophysiologically and neurocognitively in the brain following concussion are considerably debated among researchers. Even more largely debated are the long-lasting changes ... -
The Association Between Functional Social Support and Memory: A Prospective Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)Identifying modifiable psychosocial factors that influence age-related outcomes is important for healthy aging. Functional social support (FSS), or the perceived availability of support from others, appears to delay memory ... -
Autophagy Regulates the NOTCH Signaling Pathway During Skeletal Muscle Cell Differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)Research has indicated a crucial role for autophagy during skeletal muscle differentiation. More so, the inhibition of autophagy using 3MA (3-methyladenine), CQ (chloroquine), and shRNA against Atg7 has been shown to impair ... -
Investigating the Importance of RAB7 in C2C12 Myoblast Differentiation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)Prior research has shown that autophagy and mitophagy are intimately linked to skeletal muscle differentiation and myogenesis. Recent studies show that the RAB7 cycle is crucial in multiple stages of autophagy and mitophagy; ... -
Family Functioning and Health-Related Quality of Life in Parents of Children with Mental Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-31)Background: When a child suffers from mental illness, their family, and particularly, their parents are adversely affected. Existing research suggests that parents of children with mental illness have significantly lower ... -
Psychometric Properties and Informant Agreement of the WHODAS 2.0 in Youth with Mental Disorder and their Parents
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)Background: Mental disorders affect one in five youth and the impact of these disorders extend across the life course. Functional impairment moderates many of the negative effects of mental disorders; however, its assessment ... -
Mapping the way to healthier cities: A qualitative case study of food environment mapping tools
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-19)Background: Evidence-based decision-making (EBDM) stems from evidence-based medicine (EBM) and involves integrating up to date, valid, and best available research into the decision-making process. Where EBM relies on ... -
Trends in youth cannabis use across cannabis legalization: Data from the COMPASS prospective cohort study
(Elsevier, 2021-06)Canada legalized recreational cannabis use for adults on October 17, 2018 with decision-makers emphasising the need to reduce cannabis use among youth. We sought to characterise trends of youth cannabis use before and after ... -
Using Long Term Risk Factors from the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS) dataset to predict suicide admission and suicide severity among acute psychiatric inpatients in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between multidimensional long term suicide risk factors (LTRF) and short-term suicide related outcomes known as early warning signs (EWS) among a cross-section ... -
Understanding the effect of objective function weightings on posture prediction: application to predicting lifting postures in un-fatigued and fatigued states
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Physical prototyping is often required when developing new equipment and workspaces so that human-systems integration can be considered. Digital human modelling facilitates more efficient, upstream assessment of human ... -
Accessing Indigenous Foods in Urban Northwestern Ontario: Women’s Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Resistance to Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Indigenous populations living in urban northern Ontario have been repeatedly ignored in research regarding Indigenous Peoples food insecurity and food systems, despite the large proportion of Indigenous Peoples living in ...
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