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Exploring the Potential for Achieving Self-determined Community Economic Development in Nunavut: An Examination of the Government of Nunavut’s Economic Development Strategies
(2016)
Self-determined political and economic structures can nurture local capacity for
adaptive response to a rapidly changing climate and economy. What level of potential
for creating such structures is contained within ...
Investigation of age-related changes in responsiveness of mirror neuron systems using fMRI
(2016)
Observational learning, or the ability to learn a new skill by watching that same skill being performed by others, is one of the fundamental principles of motor learning. It is believed to be driven by a neural network ...
Concordance Between Objective Psychometric Neuropsychological Test Findings and Subjective Self-report and its Relationship to Functional Impairment in Depression
(2016)
Depression is associated with a number of cognitive deficits that are associated with increased functional impairment. Cognitive functioning can be examined by way of subjective self-report measures and/or objective ...
Amorphous Selenium (a-Se) and its Compounds: Photo-induced Metastability and Application in a Novel Gamma Camera
(2016)
Despite the large number of successful commercial applications of chalcogenide glasses (ChGs)
ranging from memory devices to photonics and medical imaging detectors, the understanding of a
fundamental property – ...
Experimental Investigation and Modelling of Sand Jets Passing through an Immiscible Layer
(2016)
Sand jets passing through two immiscible liquids, water and oil have many applications in the field of civil and environmental engineering such as tailings transport, dredging and discharge of industrial and urban wastewater. ...
The Experiences of People Living with Dementia in Acute Care Environments
(2016)
Increased life expectancy and the population of seniors are growing rapidly which comes
with an expected rise in acute hospital care needed. Nearly one quarter of hospital in-patients
have dementia and caring for this ...
Enabling the Wild Child: Measuring Child Sense of Place and Connectivity to Nature in Relation to a Park Experience
(2016)
Nature-deficit disorder is a condition termed by Richard Louv in 2005 to account
for the disconnect from nature experienced by individuals, families, and communities in
the developed world (particularly in a North American ...
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with a Nonlinear Energy Sink
(2016)
Energy transfer from one system to another system, or vice versa, is happening constantly in many
processes with various forms. Vibration in machines or structures can be considered as a form of
energy transfer from a ...
Application of Biomass-based Fly Ash in the Pressate of a Thermomechanical Pulping Process
(2016)
In the thermomechanical pulping (TMP) process wood chips are pretreated with steam prior to refining, and the resultant effluent (TMP pressate) is currently treated in the wastewater treatment facility of the pulp mill. ...
The consequences of alcohol measure: psychometric evaluation of a new measure of positive and negative consequences of alcohol use
(2016)
Alcohol is a widely used substance among university students. There are several measures that
are used to assess the consequences of alcohol consumption. However, current instruments fail to
capture several behavioural ...