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Contributor(s): Janice L. Kinch; Sonya L. Jakubec
Date issued: 2004
Description: This feminist phenomenological study explores the meaning of older women’s experiences as they negotiate health care. Several interviews with diverse groups of older women (immigrant, First Nations, and Japanese-Canadian women and those involved in community and social clubs) reveal that negotiating to have their health needs met was a challenging process requiring mutual support.Their health-care experiences were influenced by issues surrounding access to services, power, and poverty. For many participants, the conversational interview format served to inspire consciousness-raising, activism, and reflection.The findings suggest that such reflection may help other women to understand the ...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Mohamed El Hussein; Sandra Hirst; Vince Salyers; Joseph Osuji
Date issued: 2014
Description: There are many challenges and criticisms attached to the conduct of research, none the least of which is a notion that much of the research undertaken in professional disciplines such as nursing may not have clinical and/or practical relevance. While there are a plethora of qualitative research methods that individuals must consider when designing research studies, one method stands out - Grounded Theory (GT). Grounded theory was developed in the early 1960’s by Glaser and Strauss. With its theoretical orientation based in sociology, GT strives to understand and explain human behavior through inductive reasoning processes (Elliott & Lazenbatt, 2005). Because of its emphasis on the...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Cari Merkley
Date issued: 2012
Description: Objective – To evaluate the efficacy of an e-health literacy educational intervention aimed at older adults. Design – Pre and post intervention questionnaires administered in an experimental study. Setting – Two public library branches in Maryland. Subjects – 218 adults between 60 and 89 years of age. Methods – A convenience sample of older adults was recruited to participate in a four week training program structured around the National Institutes of Health toolkit Helping Older Adults Search for Health Information Online. During the program, classes met at the participating libraries twice a week. Sessions were two hours in length, and employed hands on exercises led by Master of...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Cari Merkley
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Review of the book The Culture of Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries.
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Richard Gale
Date issued: 2012
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Katja Hoehn; Elaine Marieb
Date issued: 2016
Description: Creating a textbook involves ensuring that the content, text, and visual diagrams explain concepts well and as accurately as possible. This includes breaking the text into “bite-sized” palatable chunks that give the students the opportunity to pause, reflect on, and apply what they have learned from each section. The visuals are often just as important as the text; realistic, vibrantly-coloured three-dimensional art is integral for student learning in this subject as it helps to teach the concepts through visualization in addition to theory. The figures must teach well not only on the page, but also when projected on a classroom screen or when viewed on a mobile device. Having a...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman
Date issued: 2015
Description: A Review of: Scarletto, E. A., Burhanna, K. J., & Richardson, E. (2013). Wide awake at 4 AM: A study of late night user behavior, perceptions and performance at an academic library. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 39(5), 371-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2013.02.006 Abstract Objective – To assess late night library usage, including a demographic profile of students benefitting from late night hours, with an analysis of the services and resources they used, and whether the use of late hours is connected to student success. Design – A mixed-methods approach including quantitative demographic information alongside qualitative user feedback collected using a web-based survey....
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Sebastião Iberes Lopes Melo; Saray Giovana dos Santos; Tatiane Piucco; Jairo Santarém Teixeira
Date issued: 2013
Description: Judo techniques use the assumption of maximum efficiency with minimum energy expenditure, which means to try to use the strength of the opponent against himself, causing an imbalance that, associated with a technique, helps execute a throw. This study is aimed to evaluate the mechanical efficiency of the seoi nage technique applied to judokas (uke) of different heights in relation to the thrower (tori). The knee and trunk angular variation of tori was compared with the total throw time, the time to perform each phase of the technique, and the behavior and vertical variation of the trajectory of tori’s center of mass (ΔCM). Ten throws using the seoi nage technique on three uke of shorter,...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Steven Engler
Date issued: 2009
Description: This article works with theory of ritual in order to begin addressing a series of questions raised by Brazilian spirit possession rituals (in Kardecism and Umbanda). Four contributions to theory of ritual highlight relevant conceptual issues: Humphrey and Laidlaw on non-intentionality; Bloch on deference; Houseman and Severi on social relations; and Kapferer on virtuality. Strawson’s philosophical distinction between objective and reactive attitudes toward intentionality is used to make a case (i) that certain formal aspects of ritual (indexicals) serve to (ii) mark culturally variable attitudes to agency within rituals, which are related to, but fundamentally distinct from, non-ritual...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Astrid V. Stronen; Erin L. Navid; Michael S. Quinn; Paul C. Paquet; Heather M. Bryan; Christopher T. Darimont
Date issued: 2014
Description: Emerging evidence suggests that ecological heterogeneity across space can influence the genetic structure of populations, including that of long-distance dispersers such as large carnivores. On the central coast of British Columbia, Canada, wolf (Canis lupus L., 1758) dietary niche and parasite prevalence data indicate strong ecological divergence between marine-oriented wolves inhabiting islands and individuals on the coastal mainland that interact primarily with terrestrial prey. Local holders of traditional ecological knowledge, who distinguish between mainland and island wolf forms, also informed our hypothesis that genetic differentiation might occur between wolves from these...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Cari Merkley
Date issued: 2010
Description: Objective – To better understand music information seeking behaviour in a real life situation and to create a taxonomy relating to this behaviour to facilitate better comparison of music information retrieval studies in the future. Design – Content analysis of natural language queries. Setting – Google Answers, a fee based online service. Subjects – 1,705 queries and their related answers and comments posted in the music category of the Google Answers website before April 27, 2005. Methods – A total of 2,208 queries were retrieved from the music category on the Google Answers service. Google Answers was a fee based service in which users posted questions and indicated what they were...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Lorraine Carter; Vince Salyers; Sue Myers; Carol Hipfner; Caroline Hoffart; Christa Maclean; Theresa Matus; Vivian Forssman; Penelope Barrett
Date issued: 2014
Description: This paper reports the qualitative findings of a mixed methods research study conducted at three Canadian post-secondary institutions. Called the Meaningful E-learning or MEL project, the study was an exploration of the teaching and learning experiences of faculty and students as well as their perceptions of the benefits and challenges of e-learning. Importantly, e-learning was conceptualized as the integration of pedagogy, instructional technology, and the Internet into teaching and learning environments. Based on this definition, participants reflected on e-learning in relation to one or more of the following contexts: face-to-face (f2f) classrooms in which instructional technologies (e...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Francine May; Fiona Black
Date issued: 2010
Description: Objectives – To describe aspects of the 21st century role of the public library as a physical space by observing the actual use of a selection of public libraries. This study seeks to reveal how patrons are using and experiencing these institutions as spaces and how patrons and staff characterize the role of public libraries in communities. Methods – A multiple case study design was used to examine three urban and three small town public libraries within Nova Scotia, Canada. A triangulated set of methods including patron interviews and questionnaires, staff interviews, and seating sweeps was used to develop answers to the research questions. Results – These public libraries are...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Sonya L. Jakubec
Date issued: 2016
Description: The roles of place & belonging on wellbeing are increasingly understood. Seniors are increasingly living in suburbs – though little is known about the strengths, strategies and struggles! The views of seniors were the place for Vivo to begin to understand how to work together. This study asked: What does belonging mean to seniors in Calgary’s NE/Central suburbs? What are the facilitators & barriers? What could belonging look like for seniors in the suburbs?
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Steven Engler
Date issued: 2009
Description: Scholars of religion continue to talk of syncretism where their colleagues have moved on to talk of hybridity. This paper reviews critiques of the latter concept and argues that ‘hybridity’ can be a useful concept, but only if further specified. I follow Peter Wade in distinguishing between hybridity of origin (the combination of pre-existing forms), and hybridity of encounter (the result of diasporic movements). I propose a third type, hybridity of refraction, in order to highlight the manner in which religiousor cultural phenomena refract social tensions within a specific nation or society, resulting in a spectrum of ritual, doctrinal and/or religious forms. The typology is not meant to...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Dwayne Sheehan; Nadine Van Wyk; Emily Johnson; Aimee Blanch
Date issued: 2016
Description: The recreation sector is perfectly suited to specifically address issues surrounding the desire to be physically active. This is because of recreation's connection to the community, the broad spectrum of its consumers and its ability to address the positive health outcomes of an active lifestyle as it relates to the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains of wellbeing. To do so appropriately, a guiding framework is necessary; however, one does not currently exist for the recreation sector. As such, we are creating a multi-layered functional physical literacy (FPL) framework to suit the needs of recreation programmers, instructors and parents, to ensure the delivery of high...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Dale G. Paton; Simone Ciuti; Michael S. Quinn; Mark S. Boyce
Date issued: 2017
Description: Migrations of large ungulates are globally threatened in environments affected by increasing human disturbance, rising large carnivore predation, deteriorating habitat quality, and changing climate. Animals migrating outside of protected areas can be exposed to greater human pressure, and this effect can be stronger when humans are perceived to be a predation risk, such as during hunting seasons. Using four consecutive years of satellite telemetry data (n = 138 migration events), we compared habitat selection, movement, and behavior of a large partially migratory herbivore while migrating through a heterogeneous landscape in spring and fall. We tested the hypothesis that fall hunting...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): D. Scharie Tavcer; Margaret Bowles
Date issued: 2018
Description: The Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (CWES) team continues to make a difference in lives of women and their children fleeing domestic violence. However, they realise they can do more. A challenge within their shelter program is that women with substance-related issues are occasionally not a good fit for the family centered approach currently in place at the CWES shelter. There are many women, with substance-related issues, who are in need of support related to domestic violence, but supports in Calgary are limited, and often in silos. CWES is considering how they can best serve this specific population of women in Calgary.
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Sebastiao Iberes Lopes Melo; Jairo Santarem Teixeira; Saray Giovana dos Santos; Tatiane Piucco
Date issued: 2010
Description: Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the mechanics efficiency of harai goshi applied in judocas of different heights. It was compared: the tori angular variation of knee, hip and trunk; the time to perform each technique phase; the displacement of the vertical trajectory of tori center of mass (ΔCM). Were analyzed 10 harai goshi kinematic throws, the tori with an intermediate height against three uke with lower, equivalent and higher height of him. The images were recorded at 180 Hz, using the Peak Motus System. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, ANOVA and pos-hoc of Tukey (p≤ 0,05). In the angular displacement, uke of higher stature had greater efficiency of...
Resumo: Este estudo objetivou avaliar a eficiência mecânica do harai goshi aplicado em judocas de diferentes estaturas. Comparou-se: a variação angular de joelho, quadril e tronco do tori; o tempo para realizar cada fase da técnica; o deslocamento da trajetória vertical do centro de massa (ΔCM) do tori. Analisou-se cinemáticamente 10 aplicações do harai goshi pelo tori de estatura intermediária contra três uke (um de estatura menor, um equivalente e um maior a dele). Realizou-se aquisições de imagens a 180 Hz, utilizando-se o Sistema Peak Motus. Os dados foram analisados por meio da estatística descritiva, ANOVA e pos-hoc de Tukey (p ≤ 0,05). No deslocamento angular, houve maior...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Sonya L. Jakubec; Catherine J. Carter-Snell; Jenny Ofrim; Judy Skanderup
Date issued: 2013
Description: Women in rural communities do not regularly receive comprehensive health care following sexual assaults, resulting in increased rates of mental illness, substance abuse, re-victimization, and chronic health problems. Additionally, women are at risk for secondary victimization, the stigmatization and re-victimization that results from the responses of others to the assault. Secondary victimization is amplified when victims must be transported out of a rural community for treatment, receive delays in services, when professionals react negatively towards them, or provide incomplete services. A research study sought to find ways of addressing these risks and understanding the educational...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Health, Community and Education

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Out of the multiple margins: Older women’s experiences of health care

Using Grounded theory as a method of inquiry : advantages and disadvantages

Evidence summary : public library training program for older adults addresses their computer and health literacy needs

Book Review - The Culture of Digital Scholarship

Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2011-12 Annual Report

Iterations in Education: Improving User Experience and Education Through Co-Authoring a Widely Used Textbook in Anatomy and Physiology

Students and Libraries May Benefit from Late Night Hours [Evidence Summary]

Influence of judoka height when using the seoi nage technique

Ritual Theory and Attitudes to Agency in Brazilian Spirit Possession

Population genetic structure of gray wolves (canis lupus) in a marine archipelago suggests island-mainland differentiation consistent with dietary niche

Evidence Summary: Music Information Seeking Behaviour Poses Unique Challenges for the Design of Information Retrieval Systems

Qualitative Insights from a Canadian Multi-institutional Research Study: In Search of Meaningful E-learning

The life of the space : evidence from Nova Scotia public libraries

“Seniors in the Suburbs”: Understanding belonging & community connection - together!

Umbanda and Hybridity

Functional Physical Literacy for Child and Youth Recreation Programming: A Community Response to the 2015 Canadian Recreation Framework

Hunting exacerbates the response to human disturbance in large herbivores while migrating through a road network

Service delivery models for emergency shelters: An annotated bibliography and an environmental scan of shelter-based services for women who experience family violence and addictions

Eficiência mecânica do harai goshi em judocas com diferentes estaturas

Identification of the strengths, concerns and educational needs of the Rural Sexual Assault Service in rural and Aboriginal communities of Alberta (Canada).

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