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Tracking Cardiovascular Responses To Anticipation Of An Exercise Test In Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Preliminary Test
(2012-11-15)
Cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) refers to relatively high heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) increases in the face of a mental stressor. CVR may be a concern for heart patients since it may precede ischemic events and ...
Mobile Self-Efficacy in Canadian Nursing Education Programs
(2012-04-04)
The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what are the implications for their teaching and learning in practice ...
Road to Mobile Learning
(2012-01-24)
To meet the needs of students, and fulfill Athabasca University’s mission to remove barriers to learning, Athabasca University (AU) Library has initiated a number of mobile learning projects. The poster “Road to Mobile ...
Avatars and Open Courseware in Distance Education Freshman Physics
(2012-04-04)
Athabasca University has engaged thousands of students in for-credit, non-calculus freshman physics over the past 15 years, a success in part attributable to innovative use of home laboratory technology. In now offering ...
Overview of Modern Higher Education Management in Mainland China (1949-2010)
(2012-04-04)
The promulgation of the "Outline of China's National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020)" in July, 2010, opens a new page for higher education in China. To evaluate the significance ...
The Structure of Belief
(2012-04-04)
Beliefs play a significant role in most of the work we do with clients as career practitioners. This session will examine beliefs and belief structures historically and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint although the main ...
Political Economy and History – the Case of Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital
(2012-11-15)
Since her assassination, Rosa Luxemburg has been treated as an icon while her political and theoretical work is largely forgotten, neglected, or rejected. Recently, though, David Harvey used her ideas on capitalist expansion ...
Ethics and Economics: An Internal Relation
(2012-11-15)
The relationship between ethics and economics in the modern age is typically viewed as external. This view is most usually articulated in the notion that for economic relations to be ethical, an ethic must be imposed; ...
Work, Learning, Inequality and the Academy
(2012-11-15)
This paper will look at the connections between work, learning and inequality and apply these understandings to the academy as a worksite. (Theorizing from the literature)
Introduction
The connection between “work and ...
The Association Between Dementia Status, Co-morbidity, and Osteoporosis Treatment: A Population-Based Nested Case-Control Study
(2012-11-15)
BACKGROUND: Increasing age and a diagnosis of dementia both dramatically increase the risk of serious osteoporosis related sequela. At the same time, there remains an overall low rate of osteoporosis treatment particularly ...