This thesis explores the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) Education Inspection Framework and its link to the Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) within England’s primary education system. The Ofsted framework enables ...

Tai Chi has often been applied in research among older adults to affect postural stability and proprioception in the lower limbs; however, little is known about the effects Tai Chi may have in these domains among healthy ...

Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), occur due to an impact on the head and are the most common type of brain injury for goaltenders in the sport of ice hockey. The two main techniques used to mitigate ...

A major hindrance to more application of engineered-wood products in the Canadian building construction market is the lack of technical documentations and guidelines for the design of timber beam-to-column connections, ...

This thesis explores the different Lepidopteran species that were found around the community of Verde Sumaco, Ecuador, in December of 2018. The objective of this thesis was to determine if there is a difference in ...

In order to eliminate the bulky and costly offshore substation, a new offshore wind farm configuration has recently been proposed: series-connected configuration. Among the seriesconnected configurations, the pulse width ...

Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) are an essential pollinating species as they are important in building healthy and resilient ecosystems. Honeybees, now found all over the globe, were introduced to North America from Europe ...

Biomass is a renewable organic material that is the living and recently dead organic material synthesized by plants and other organisms (Battles 2015). Quantifying forests and determining their value is an increasingly ...

The work in this thesis makes connections between statistical mechanics and genotype frequencies in population sizes, and how mutation of the bacteria E. coli helps to increase its resistance to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin. ...

Health professionals are recognizing and experiencing the impacts of climate change in their work and understand the need to communicate this information to the people and populations they serve. Improved climate change ...