Year: 2013, 2013
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Abstract: <p>This research project focused on the positive behaviour changes in First Nations youth as a result of participation in a community-based recreation program. The study was a secondary analysis based on a qualitative data set. Both adults and youth were interviewed in one-on-one and focus group settings in 12 First Nations communities across Ontario. The data was analyzed using a grounded… more Year: 2013, 2013
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Abstract: <p>The literature to date that investigates the development of social perspective taking in children primarily focuses on preschool aged children. These studies provide evidence that implicates language as being crucial for social perspective taking in young children but less is known about the importance of language to social perspective taking during middle childhood and early adolescence… more Year: 2011, 2011
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Abstract: <p>Bloodstain pattern analysis is fundamental to crime scene investigations by providing\ninsight into the estimation of the area of origin of a blood source. The selection of bloodstains from an impact pattern is the foundation from which the estimation of the area of origin is derived. The purpose of this research was to develop a theoretical model for stain selection and establish a more… more Year: 2011, 2011
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Abstract: <p>This thesis comprises two parts:Part I describes a method to improve the accuracy with which the polarization
state of light can be characterized by the rotating quarter-wave plate technique.
Through detailed analysis, verified by experiment, we determine the positions of the
optic axes of the retarder and linear polarizer, and the wave plate retardance, to
better than 1° for typical… more Year: 1983, 1983
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