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- Contributor(s)
- Michael S. Quinn; Geoffrey L. Holroyd
- Date issued
- 1992
- Description
- The mating status of house wrens was defined by social behavior and not strictly sexual relations. The incidence of polygyny was estimated by comparing the number of polygynous matings to the total number of nest attempts.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Michael S. Quinn; Geoffrey L. Holroyd
- Date issued
- 1989
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Becker, Katrin
- Date issued
- 2006; 2006
- Description
- Article and presentation slides
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Podcast and transcript together supporting the publication appearing in the Imaging SoTL journal.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes; Business and Communication Studies; Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jennifer Hooper
- Date issued
- 2020-03; 2020-03
- Description
- Background & Purpose:The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) is a computer adaptive licensure examination that nursing students are eligible to write upon completion of their undergraduate nursing degree. Success on this exam is a requirement for Registered Nurse practice. Historically, the Canadian licensure examination was a paper-based exam. However, in 2015 the NCLEX-RN was adopted. Initially Canadian pass rates declined and nursing schools have been seeking strategies to better prepare students for this exam. Practice with computer based testing (CBT) may be one approach. However, CBT has not been widely used and many nursing programs continue with...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Erika E. Smith; Renate Kahlke; Terry Judd
- Date issued
- 2020-04; 2020-04
- Description
- In 2001, Prensky characterised a new generation of learners entering higher education as digital natives – naturally digitally literate and inherently proficient users of technology. While many educational technology researchers have long argued for the need to move beyond the digital native assumptions proposed by Prensky and other futurists, a critical review of the literature reveals that this concept remains influential in academia broadly and within professional education specifically. In light of this, we propose an alternative approach to technology integration in professional education settings that aims to avoid unhelpful digital native stereotypes by instead developing digital...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- 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)
- Christina Volstad; Jean Hughes; Sonya L. Jakubec; Sonya Flessati; Lois Jackson; Ruth Martin-Misener
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Mental health is central to overall wellbeing and, for students attending university, mental health is critical for learning and academic success. A wealth of research has focused on young people who experience psychosocial declines during academic and developmental transitions, but little is known about how young people flourish in this transition. The first to explore the experiences of flourishing among first-year Canadian university students making the transition directly from high school, this study sought to develop an understanding of: 1) the factors that promote flourishing amidst this academic and developmental transition, and 2) how first-year students define and experience...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jill A. Parnell; Kim Wagner-Jones; Robyn F. Madden; Kelly Anne Erdman
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Background: Endurance runners frequently experience exercise-induced gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, negatively impacting their performance. Food choices pre-exercise have a significant impact on the gut’s tolerance to running, yet little information is available as to which foods runners restrict prior to exercise. Methods: A questionnaire designed to assess dietary restrictions pre-racing and gastrointestinal symptoms was administered to 388 runners. Fisher’s exact tests determined differences in gender, age, performance level, and distance with follow-up multivariable logistic regression modeling. Results: Runners regularly avoided meat (32%), milk products (31%), fish/seafood (28%),...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Israel S. Dunmade; Ester Akinlabi; Michael Daramola
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- West African region has abundant second generation biomass resources consisting of agricultural residues, forest resources; municipal solid wastes; and animal wastes that could be harnessed to produce liquid biofuels. A number of countries in the region have developed energy policies to foster bioenergy production. Despite the national intent expressed in various countries’ bioenergy policies, development of bioenergy facilities and liquid biofuels production from cellulosic sources in the region are essentially at the research and development stage. This study, through comprehensive reviews of various bioenergy policies, news reports, related journal articles and development reports,...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Sasa Cigoja; Michael J. Asmussen; Colin R. Firminger; Jared R. Fletcher; W. Brent Edwards; Benno M. Nigg
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Background: Individual compliances of the foot-shoe interface have been suggested to store and release elastic strain energy via ligamentous and tendinous structures or by increased midsole bending stiffness (MBS), compression stiffness, and resilience of running shoes. It is unknown, however, how these compliances interact with each other when the MBS of a running shoe is increased. The purpose of this study was to investigate how structures of the foot-shoe interface are influenced during running by changes to the MBS of sport shoes. Methods: A randomised crossover trial was performed, where 13 male, recreational runners ran on an instrumented treadmill at 3.5 m center dot s(-1) while...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jared R. Fletcher; Brian R. MacIntosh
- Date issued
- 2018; 2018
- Description
- During prolonged running, the magnitude of Achilles tendon (AT) length change may increase, resulting in increased tendon strain energy return with each step. AT elongation might also affect the magnitude of triceps surae (TS) muscle shortening and shortening velocity, requiring greater activation and increased muscle energy cost. Therefore, we aimed to quantify the tendon strain energy return and muscle energy cost necessary to allow energy storage to occur prior to and following prolonged running. 14 trained male (n = 10) and female (n = 4) distance runners (24 +/- 4 years, 1.72 +/- 0.09 m, 61 +/- 10 kg, (V) over barO(2)max 64.6 +/- 5.8 ml.kg(-1).min(-1)) ran 90 minutes (RUN) at...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jared R. Fletcher
- Date issued
- 2017; 2017
- Description
- The economy of running has traditionally been quantified from the mass-specific oxygen uptake; however, because fuel substrate usage varies with exercise intensity, it is more accurate to express running economy in units of metabolic energy. Fundamentally, the understanding of the major factors that influence the energy cost of running (E-run) can be obtained with this approach. E-run is determined by the energy needed for skeletal muscle contraction. Here, we approach the study of E-run from that perspective. The amount of energy needed for skeletal muscle contraction is dependent on the force, duration, shortening, shortening velocity, and length of the muscle. These factors therefore...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jared R. Fletcher
- Date issued
- 2013; 2013
- Description
- The energy cost of running (Erun), a key determinant of distance running performance, is influenced by several factors. Although it is important to express Erun as energy cost, no study has used this approach to compare similarly trained men and women. Furthermore, the relationship between Achilles tendon (AT) stiffness and Erun has not been compared between men and women. Therefore, our purpose was to determine if sex‐specific differences in Erun and/or AT stiffness existed. Erun (kcal kg−1 km−1) was determined by indirect calorimetry at 75%, 85%, and 95% of the speed at lactate threshold (sLT) on 11 man (mean ± SEM, 35 ± 1 years, 177 ± 1 cm, 78 ± 1 kg, V˙O2max = 56 ± 1 mL kg−1 min−1)...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Brian R. MacIntosh; Shane P. Esau; R. John Holash; Jared R. Fletcher
- Date issued
- 2011; 2011
- Description
- There are many circumstances where it is desirable to obtain the contractile response of skeletal muscle under physiological circumstances: normal circulation, intact whole muscle, at body temperature. This includes the study of contractile responses like posttetanic potentiation, staircase and fatigue. Furthermore, the consequences of disease, disuse, injury, training and drug treatment can be of interest. This video demonstrates appropriate procedures to set up and use this valuable muscle preparation. To set up this preparation, the animal must be anesthetized, and the medial gastrocnemius muscle is surgically isolated, with the origin intact. Care must be taken to maintain the blood...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Israel S. Dunmade
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Lifecycle assessment is a robust tool for comprehensive environmental impact assessment of products and processes. It provides users opportunities to identify the hotspots along the lifecycle of a system and thereby enable them to implement improvement opportunities as deemed appropriate. Production of agri-based industrial raw materials could be energy and water intensive. Such endeavour could take a heavy toll on the environment in terms of resource consumption and environmental pollution. The goal of this study was to develop an easy to use and less data intensive conceptual LCA methodology for selecting optimal pathway along a value-chain under two decision scenarios: the optimal...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Christina Tortorelli; Peter Choate; Marissa Clayton; Naya El Jamal; Sukhman Kaur; Katherine Schantz
- Date issued
- 2021; 2021
- Description
- Simulation learning plays an important role in social work education, allowing students to explore how theory and practice parameters can be integrated into actual situations they are likely to experience in the field. The arrival of COVID-19 and the sudden cessation of in-field practicum opportunities raised challenges for students to gain needed practice experience. Simulation offers an opportunity to enhance learning in place of some direct experience when that is not available. This paper reports on a simulation development practicum, where students, not able to be in an agency, sought out ways to achieve learning through the development and implementation of simulation learning. This...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Sasa Cigoja; Jared R. Fletcher; Michael Esposito; Darren J. Stefanyshyn; Benno M. Nigg
- Date issued
- 2021-01-01; 2021-01-01
- Description
- In recent years, increasing the midsole bending stifness (MBS) of running shoes by embedding carbon fbre plates in the midsole resulted in many world records set during long-distance running competitions. Although several theories were introduced to unravel the mechanisms behind these performance benefts, no defnitive explanation was provided so far. This study aimed to investigate how the function of the gastrocnemius medialis (GM) muscle and Achilles tendon is altered when running in shoes with increased MBS. Here, we provide the frst direct evidence that the amount and velocity of GM muscle fascicle shortening is reduced when running with increased MBS. Compared to control, running in...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Sasa Cigoja; Jared R. Fletcher; Benno M. Nigg
- Date issued
- 2021-01-10; 2021-01-10
- Description
- Objective: To investigate if changing the midsole bending stiffness of athletic footwear can affect the onset of lower limb joint work redistribu-tion during a prolonged run.Methods: Fifteen trained male runners (10-km time of
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Rachel Pizante
- Date issued
- 2020-01-19; 2020-01-19
- Description
- Wildlife cameras allow conservation scientists to monitor wildlife. However, there are performance limitations associated with wildlife cameras that must be understood prior to their use. This study compared two wildlife camera models, the Spypoint Solar Trail and the Reconyx Hyperfire 2, on behalf of Calgary Captured, a collaborative project between the Miistakis Institute and the City of Calgary to determine wildlife occupancy in Calgary’s Natural Area Parks. The camera models were set up in pairs at 10 sites. There was no significant difference in detections of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) or coyotes (Canis latrans) by either model, but the Reconyx cameras successfully...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Undergraduate Student Research