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The Prediction of Nociceptive Neural Activity in Passive Tissues following Lumbar Spine Flexion
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26)Low back pain is a costly and debilitating disorder; however, most cases are categorized as being non-specific: low back pain without an identifiable origin or cause. Non-specific low back pain can be broadly considered ... -
Prediction of Oxygen Uptake and its Dynamics by Wearable Sensors During Activities of Daily Living
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)The evaluation of the aerobic response to a new energetic demand provides valuable information regarding the functional capabilities of the aerobic system. Abnormal, or impaired aerobic responses may occur before the ... -
Predictors of Alternate Level of Care within Mental Health Inpatient Units across Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to identify clinical predictors of alternate level of care (ALC) status within inpatient mental health units across Ontario. In addition, the distribution of ALC days among ... -
Predictors of Loneliness and Transitions in Loneliness in Ontario Home Care Clients: Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-11)Background Older adults over the age of 65 receiving home care services are particularly vulnerable to experiencing loneliness and social isolation. Loneliness and social isolation have been associated with adverse health ... -
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 ... -
Premotor and prefrontal contributions to modulating upper limb somatosensory input into non-primary motor areas
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-15)Upper limb motor control requires the use and integration of afferent somatosensory input from peripheral receptors to help plan and prepare movements. Cortical surface electroencephalography can be used to measure the ... -
Prevalence and Determinants of Poor Food Intake of Residents Living in Long-Term Care
(Elsevier, 2017-06-28)Poor food intake is known to lead to malnutrition in long-term care homes (LTCH), yet multilevel determinants of food intake are not fully understood, hampering development of interventions that can maintain the nutritional ... -
Primary care providers' observations on diabetes management for young adults in Ontario: Barriers and enablers to care and patient-provider communication
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-18)Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global epidemic that is only projected to impact more people in the coming years. In Canada, there has been a steady increase of people living with T2DM, including an increase ... -
Privacy and Trust in Healthcare IoT Data Sharing: A Snapshot of the Users’ Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Background: Healthcare services in Canada are slowly shifting from in-hospital care to more patient-centred, home-care services. Collecting and sharing personal data from individuals via Internet of Things (IoT) devices ... -
Privileging Indigenous voices: Narratives of travel experiences of Tibetans
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-11)In 2012, Peters and Higgins-Desbiolles, wrote “What is wholly absent [from the tourism literature] …is any recognition of Indigenous peoples as tourists” (p.78). Chambers and Buzinde (2015) acknowledged that “tourism ... -
The Problem with Too Much Fear: Testing the Interaction between Fear Appeals, Message Framing and Visual Metaphors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)In Canada, recreational activities account for 60% of all drowning related deaths (LSS, 2012). How can we influence people to adopt safe behaviours while engaging in recreational activity around the water? One popular ... -
A procedure for determining parameters of a simplified ligament model
(Elsevier, 2017-11-03)A previous mathematical model of ligament force-generation treated their behavior as a population of collagen fibres arranged in parallel. When damage was ignored in this model, an expression for ligament force in terms ... -
Progressive Disc Herniation: An investigation of the mechanism using histochemical and microscopic techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Abstract Background: The process that involves the migration of the nucleus pulposus from the innermost annular layers and culminates with the final extrusion of the nucleus has been limited to a few studies. This ... -
Prolonged sitting, standing, and the sit-stand paradigm for office workers: An investigation into lumbar spine intervertebral joint load distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)Over the past 20 years, sit-stand workstations have become more and more prevalent in the office work environment. A sit-stand workstation is any workstation that allows the user to perform their office work in either a ... -
Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Canadian Working Population: A Qualitative Review of Not Myself Today
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-01)As concerns about mental health (MH) escalate worldwide, large-scale efforts to decrease the known risks negatively impacting MH are becoming more common. Likewise, the workplace environment is becoming an important setting ... -
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 ... -
Protective Responses during a Sideways Fall: Effects of Secondary Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Falls and hip fractures are a major public health problem among the elderly. In addition to bone strength, sideways falls and direct hip impact are important determinants for hip fracture. However, few falls actually ... -
Psychological Distress and Mental Illness in Emerging Adults with Learning Disabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Background: Individuals with learning disabilities (LDs) have an increased risk for mental illness. The association between LDs and mental illness varies across sex, age, and among those with co-morbidities. While LDs and ... -
Psychometric correlates of multisensory integration as potential predictors of cybersickness in virtual reality
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-16)Humans are constantly presented with rich sensory information through the environment that the central nervous system (CNS) must process to form a coherent perception of the world. While the CNS may be efficient in doing ... -
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 ...