This research is concerned with Gaelic sports participation in Victoria BC. Through interviews with members of the local Gaelic sports club, the Van Isle Rovers, this research examines the motivations for playing these ...

Objectives Very few studies looking at slow gait speed as early marker of cognitive decline investigated the competing risk of death. The current study examines associations between slow gait speed and transitions between ...

The evolution of galaxy populations is dependent upon the environment in which they are located, from low mass galaxy groups to rich galaxy clusters. However, what remains unclear is which physical process(es) dominate ...

Within elementary classrooms educators still struggle to determine the best way to differentiate instruction and provide student-centered approaches to learning. Gamification and game-based learning are ways in which ...

This paper offers a unique model for collaborative digital scholarly edition environments that features functions and possibilities associated with game-related play, challenge, achievement, and narrativity. These proposed ...

Communities in the vicinity of the Mico River, located in Chontales, Nicaragua, suffer from periodic dry season water shortages. The Mico River is impacted by artisanal and industrial mining, cattle ranching, effluent from ...

This thesis is devoted to the study and application of gas-liquid segmented flow microfluidic reactors. In the most common configuration, these devices facilitate mixing and reaction of liquid-phase constituents by the ...

The overall purpose of creating a community library with the Ditidaht First Nation is to increase opportunities for children to develop their oral language skills. In Chapter 1 I reflect on why oral language proficiency ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to enact and poetically story the nonlinear emergence of an a/r/tographic practice called gathering—a situated art practice of storying, doing, and making as researching and thinking—in ...