The purpose of this research was to understand the lived experience of a person with a substance addiction that uses or has used alternative therapies for treatment. A single-case study approach was used to understand the ...

This thesis is an ethnographic account of how people in a particular situation of bureaucratic domination developed tactics and adopted discourses to present themselves as active agents capable of mobilizing resources, ...

This thesis project explores social constructions of aging women within Women’s Health magazine. There is limited scholarly literature on representations of aging women within popular health/fitness media, such as magazines. ...

Community resiliency is a theoretical framework and social process that attempts to explain how communities address adversity. Generating information about this concept has largely been accomplished through qualitative ...

In nursing literature, power is conceptualized as an object transferred, distributed, controlled or conquered by empowerment. In this management care paradigm, the service of care provides power to achieve the product of ...

This thesis was designed to explore and describe the beliefs and behaviours of young adults (parents or future parents) in relation to immunization. Data were collected via in-depth interviews with 36 young adults (current ...

A phenomenological-hermeneutic method of study was used to understand the counsellor’s process of working through shadow. After analysis, 16 themes were derived, of which 13 themes depicted the counsellor’s process of ...

Homogalacturonan (HG) is a structural plant cell wall polysaccharide and a key source of dietary fiber. The human genome does not contain a single enzyme known to be involved in pectin digestion, and therefore, in order ...

The complex vasculature seen in the vascular plants provides a scaffolding of structural support and is responsible for the movement of water, minerals, photosynthate and some hormones. The auxin canalization model ...

The Four Worlds Development Project is the result of many people's efforts and wisdom. Some were directly involved, while others inspired us through their work in the fields of education, human and community development, ...