This study explored the information needs of rehabilitation therapists (occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech-language pathologists) working with patients with stroke, to characterize their clinical questions, that is, their formalized information needs. This study also investigated how rehabilitation therapists decide whether…

In 2000, the United Nations (UN) hosted a world summit to set their major goals and objectives. This summit produced the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight goals that addressed key social problems in the world. The…

We consider optimal design for changepoint problems with particular attention paid to situations where the only possible change is in the mean. Optimal design for changepoint problems has only been addressed in an unpublished doctoral thesis, and in only one…

This dissertation describes my work as an educational consultant working with four school principals during a two and a half year period. My original intention was to develop a protocol to help principals in their work. As the study progressed,…

This thesis studies the linear and nonlinear dynamics of pipes conveying fluid. It consists of four peer-reviewed journal papers, three published and one submitted for publication. The aim is to investigate aspects of the dynamical behaviour of extensible and inextensible…

In this research I examined the implementation of the problem-based learning (PBL) approach, an innovation implemented as a part of the science education reform that Quebec, Canada, underwent in the last ten years. Throughout my research, I explore various approaches…

This study examined the prevalence of information epidemics in the physics literature. The primary interest was to find out whether outliers observed on time series charts of literatures are due to information epidemics, whether these epidemics are widespread occurrences in…

This doctoral dissertation is a microhistory of a textbook controversy in 1920 New Brunswick, Canada. During a time of post war sensitivity to nationalism and patriotism, public feeling was aroused as the result of a complaint about Myers' General History,…

This thesis expands current understanding of the process through which new management concepts diffuse in organizational fields. The thesis examines how environmental management concepts have diffused in civil aviation, an industry which has evolved from a praised icon of globalization…

AbstractThis research sought to translate three standardized assessment measures of phonological processing known to be related to text reading, into experimental tasks that measure music processing. The primary aim of this thesis was to ascertain the relationship between these musically-adapted…