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The effects of awareness of the perturbation during motor adaptation on hand localization
(Public Library of Science, 2019)Awareness of task demands is often used during rehabilitation and sports training by providing instructions which appears to accelerate learning and improve performance through explicit motor learning. However, the effects ... -
Waste Reduction Strategies: Understanding the factors affecting efficacy of talent selection in sport and improving talent wastage
(Frontiers, 2019)Coaches are faced with the difficult task of identifying and selecting athletes to their team. Despite its widespread practice in sport, there is still much to learn about improving the identification and selection process. ... -
Diet, Physical Activity, and Emotional Health: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why We Need Integrated Solutions for Total Worker Health
(BMC, 2019)Background Current research advocates lifestyle factors to manage workers’ health issues, such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type II diabetes mellitus, among other things (World Health Organization (WHO) Obesity: ... -
Motor Learning Without Moving: Proprioceptive and Predictive Hand Localization After Passive Visuoproprioceptive Discrepancy Training
(PLOS, 2019)An accurate estimate of limb position is necessary for movement planning, before and after motor learning. Where we localize our unseen hand after a reach depends on felt hand position, or proprioception, but in studies ... -
On-ice measures of external load in relation to match outcome in elite female ice hockey
(MDPI, 2019)The aim of this study is to investigate the differences between select on-ice measures using inertial movement sensors based on match outcome, and to determine changes in player movements across three periods of play. Data ... -
Age- and sex- specific all-cause mortality risk greatest in metabolic syndrome combinations with elevated blood pressure from 7 U.S. cohorts
(PLoS One, 2019)Background The association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and all-cause mortality is well established but it is unclear if there are differences in mortality risk among the 32 possible MetS combinations. Hence, the ... -
Pseudoaneurysm of thoracic aorta presenting as inappropriate sinus tachycardia and chronic cough
(BMC, 2019)Background Pseudoaneurysm of thoracic aorta as a complication of blunt trauma to the chest, can present with a variety of symptoms due to mass compression effect. Here we report the first pseudoaneurysm of thoracic aorta ... -
Voices of Immigrant Mothers of Children with Disabilities: Availability and Use of Social Support
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Youth-Serving Organizations' Inclusivity of LGBTQ Newcomers - A Content Analysis
(2019-08-09)LGBTQ newcomer youth in Canada experience unique challenges due to their intersecting identities which may negatively impact their well-being and development. For those lacking support at home and in school, youth-serving ... -
Examining Mental Health Apps Potential in Providing Equitable Access to Care in the Global North and Global South: A Scoping Review
(2019-08-09)Promising, ongoing research on online mental health interventions or mental health applications (MHAPPs) has presented the global mental health care community with a potential solution to fill in the gaps in access to ... -
Creating Complex Systems: The Implications of the Immigration System Reforms for Refugee Health (2012)
(2019-05-17)In June 2012, the Canadian federal government introduced a new legislature, which drastically reformed the Canadian immigration system. During this time the Conservative government reformed the Interim Federal Health Program ... -
"Can't Nobody Even Spread Their Wings Here": Thinking Disability Alongside Environmental Racism, Collectively Acquired Impairments, and Injustice in Flint, Michigan
(2019-08-14)The unjust production of impairments has historically posed a theoretical and political problem for a Disability Studies committed to normalizing and de-stigmatizing disability. This discursive schism serves to reinforce ... -
"The Carpet Felt Five Inches Thick!" A Socio-Spatial Analysis of the Judge Rotenberg Center
(2019-05-23)Referencing Foucault, Goffman, and the lived experiences and testimony of survivors of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), Canton Massachusetts, read alongside the writing of geographers, architects and sociologists exploring ... -
Sexuality and Visible, Physical Disabilities: A Scoping Review
(2019-07-29)The historical and ongoing desexualization of people with disabilities (PWDs) along with the pervasive ableist narrative in Western societies have led to the equation of disability with asexuality. Although some members ... -
The Ghetto-to-Prison Pipeline: Racialization, 'Reactionary Psychoses', and State-Sanctioned Violence
(2019-07-29)The ghetto-to-prison pipeline echoes Nirmala Erevelles’ conception of ‘institutional arrangements’ whereby marked bodies are removed “from public generative spaces, such as schools, to restrictive spaces of isolation, ... -
Once Upon a Time Was Disability: Disability in Fairy Tales from the Nineteenth Century to Disney
(2019-08-08)Disability has been a part of fairy tales from the beginning. The Western world and literature changed greatly in the nineteenth century, including how disability was used in fairy tales. In the twentieth century, Walt ... -
The Negative Stigma Associated With Learning Disability In Educational Institutions Nigeria
(2019-08-13)There is a lack of understanding related to the way that the stigma of having a learning disability impacts students in Nigeria (Abang, 1988; Fuchs, Mock, Morgan and Young, 2003). The objective of this qualitative, ...
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