Information Science is an interdisciplinary field that interacts with other disciplines through its intellectual borders. While there is much research into the interdisciplinary nature of Information Science, little research exists that identifies the nature, extent, and quality of these extra-disciplinary…

Background:Transitions in clinical care are often associated with changes in services and with care goals (Davidson, Dracup, Phillips, Padilla and Daly, 2007; Naylor, 2000). Although the transition from curative care to palliative care is recognized as a critical moment in…

The mechanics of soil erosion around buried structures is a challenging soil-structure interaction problem. It involves progressive particle movement and interaction with an existing subsurface structure. Using standard finite element method (FEM) and continuum mechanics to simulate the soil erosion…

Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…

This dissertation explores the socio-cultural implications of content and context in Vygotsky's theory of the private speech of young children (Vygotsky, 1986). While private speech has long been thought to hold a snapshot of the child in cognitive transition, the…

"There is growing international interest in space exploration. Going back to the moon where we will build a sustainable long-term human presence with new spacecraft, robotics and life-sustaining technologies, will prepare humans for future exploration of other planets in our…

Modeling soil-structure interaction problems involving granular material and large deformation is a challenging task particularly for geotechnical engineering. Using standard finite element methods has been found to be inefficient to model soil-structure interaction at the soil particle scale. Soil-structure interactions…

The purpose of this multiple case study was to describe and understand Chinese graduate students’ emotional experiences, and to explore the possible relationships between their emotional experiences and their epistemic change in their first semester in a Canadian research-intensive university.…

A reduction in the consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of predation resulting from harvesting of top predators has been hypothesized to result in failure of harvested species to recover from low abundance, even if harvesting is reduced or ceases. I examined…

The Accurate Mass and Time (AMT) tag approach to high-throughput proteomics uses reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) coupled to high accuracy mass spectrometry to measure both the masses and chromatographic retention-times of tryptic peptides in complex mixtures. These measurements are matched…