Lakehead University Knowledge Commons: Recent submissions
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Impact of a community based exercise programme for people with Parkinson disease
(2006)Objective: To develop and evaluate the impact of an 8-week community based exercise programme delivered by a community fitness facilitator upon performance and self-report measures in participants with Parkinson ... -
Investigating the relationship between social capital and health
(2006)The social determinants of health and health related behaviours have been studied extensively. Social capital is a construct first used in economic and sociological research, which is currently being used to investigate ... -
Dynamic model and control of vehicles
(2006)In this thesis the author develops a 14 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) full-car model. The model draws from and improves upon features and setups of certain existing vehicle dynamics models. The proposed model provides a means ... -
Reader response as a focal practice in foreign language acquisition
(2006)This study describes the implementation of the reader response as a focal practice approach (Sumara, 1995) in a third year, Spanish as a foreign language class in a university setting, the nature of engagement and response ... -
Implementation of the Heart Healthy Kids Toolkit by elementary school teachers in Thunder Bay and the factors that affect its use in the classroom
(2006)The Heart Healthy Kids Toolkit (HHKT) is a health and physical education resource that elementary school teachers may use to help teach their students about the importance of being physically active, eating healthy, and ... -
Polymorphic regions of the estrogen receptor, androgen receptor and serotonin transporter genes and their association with mood variability in young women
(2006)The present study examined whether genetic polymorphisms on the estrogen receptor, androgen receptor, and serotonin transporter genes affect mood reactivity or mood variability in women. A total of 279 women from the ... -
Theoretical study of the folding kinetics of the ultra-fast folding Trp-cage protein
(2006)Native-centric coarse-gained models, termed Ca Go models, have been widely used for computational simulation of small protein to study their folding kinetics and thermodynamics. The limitations of these models come from ... -
Involvement of oral contraceptive side effects and genes in body dissatisfaction and eating dysfunction
(2006)Previous research has indicated that body dissatisfaction and eating dysfunction fluctuate with hormone levels (Lester, Keel & Lipson, 2003). However, the im pact of oral contraceptives (OCs) on these phenomena has not ... -
Adaptive backstepping based online loss minimization control of an induction motor drive / by San Woo Nam.
(2006)The efficiency of an induction motor (IM) can be improved by the optimum selection of a flux level in the motor. Among the numerous loss minimization algorithms (LMA), a loss-model-based approach offers a fast response ... -
Integrating the cognitive-specificity and dual vulnerability hypotheses : implications for vegetative and cognitive/affective differences in seasonal, nonseasonal, and sub-syndromal seasonal depression / Jennine S. Rawana.
(2006)This study compared seasonal affective disorder (SAD), nonseasonal depression, sub-syndromal SAD, and control groups on dysfunctional eating cognitions and behaviours, physical activity levels, cognitive content specificity ... -
Mood reactivity and oral contraceptive use : do oral contraceptives act as mood stabilizers
(2006)Previous research has suggested that oral contraceptives (OCs) may provide a stabilizing effect on mood. The present study attempted to examine the differences between OC users, nonusers, and men on measures o f mood and ... -
Effects of ultra violet and visible light on bacterial survival / by Natasha Vermeulen.
(2006)The optical dose in mJ/cm[superscript]2 for causing mortality of Escherichia coli, using wavelengths between 230-375 nm in the UV and 400-532 nm in the mid-visible spectral regions, has been determined in this study. ... -
Impact of low frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation on glucose regulation in individuals with type 2 diabetes
(2006)The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of low-frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on glucose regulation in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Eight individuals with type 2 diabetes between 41 ... -
Ontological approach for searching multi datasource web services
(2006)This thesis addresses the issue of Web Service search. This thesis focuses on solving the problem of searching for Web Services which are associated with relatively similar datasources. It attempts to overcome the search ... -
Iron status and cognitive performance in adolescent females
(2006)Study group from high schools in the Thunder Bay Region (Northwestern Ontario). -
Effects of a 10 week yoga intervention on balance, mobility, spasticity and quality of life in people with multiple sclerosis
(2006)Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that results in many symptoms including balance deficits, mobility limitations, spasticity and reduced quality of life (Joy & Johnston, 2001). However, ... -
Walk, stop, search : the effect of simulated motion on visual attention
(2006)Responses in covert orienting of visual attention tasks (COVAT) produce a biphasic pattern of results. When the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is less than 300 ms, reaction times (RTs) to cued targets are faster than ... -
Teachers' beliefs about classroom management
(2006)Study group : 4 teachers at the primary-junior level in 2 elementary schools in Northwestern Ontario. -
Stand age structures of single and mixed-species of fire-origin boreal stands in central Canada
(2006)Keywords : biodiversity, bimodal, boreal forest, cover type, developmental stage, old-growth, reverse-J, stand age structure, time since fire, wildlife habital, [disturbances, spruce budworm, wind, harvesting, logging]. -
Kind of prohibition : alcohol administration in pre-computer Ontario, Canada 1927-1975
(2006)This thesis describes in detail the development of a vast bureaucracy of surveillance by provincial authorities around alcohol control, and concerns itself with the categories employed in a vast social sorting operation ...
