Effects of a 7-week active breaks intervention program on physical literacy and body mass index by Javier Urbano-Mairena, Laura Muñoz-Bermejo, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, Raquel Pastor-Cisneros, José Adrián Montenegro-Espinosa, María Mendoza-Muñoz

“…Thus, active breaks (AB) could be an ideal option for increasing physical activity time in schoolchildren.MethodsA cross-sectional quasi-experimental study was conducted, involving 89 participants aged 8-12 years from Extremadura. The Canadian assessment of physical literacy (CAPL-2) was administered to assess the participants' physical literacy level. …”
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Living with Parkinson’s and the Emerging Role of Occupational Therapy by Jelka Jansa, Ana Aragon

“…The purpose of this work is to outline the role of occupational therapy clinical practice in the management of people living with Parkinson’s disease and its emergent evidence base, combined with details of current occupational therapy philosophy and process, as applicable to occupational therapy practice for people with Parkinson’s. The Canadian Practice Process Framework is used to structure this overview and was selected because it is a well-recognized, evidence-based tool used by occupational therapists and encompasses the core concepts of human occupation and person-centred practice. …”
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Hydrologic outputs generated over the Great Lakes with a calibrated version of the GEM-Hydro model by Étienne Gaborit, Juliane Mai, Daniel Princz, Hongren Shen, Vincent Vionnet, Bryan Tolson, Vincent Fortin

“…These outputs were simulated with a calibrated version of the GEM-Hydro model that was run in open-loop mode (no assimilation) and driven with atmospheric forcings coming from ECCC’s Canadian Surface Reanalysis version 2.1. GEM-Hydro achieves satisfactory simulations of various hydrologic variables when compared to reference datasets. …”
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Supporting Mothers’ Engagement in a Community-Based Methadone Treatment Program by Nicole Letourneau, Mary Ann Campbell, Jennifer Woodland, Jennifer Colpitts

“…Twelve mothers and six service providers were recruited from an outpatient Atlantic Canadian methadone treatment program. Two major barriers to engagement in MMT were identified by both mothers and service providers including (1) the lack of available and consistent childcare while mothers attended outpatient programs and (2) challenges with transportation to the treatment facility. …”
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Health Status and Health Determinants of Older Immigrant Women in Canada: A Scoping Review by Sepali Guruge, Birpreet Birpreet, Joan A. Samuels-Dennis

“…We searched CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane databases for the period of 1990 to 2014 for Canadian-based, peer-reviewed studies on the topic. …”
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Monitoring Spruce Budworm with Light Traps: The Effect of Trap Position by Marc Rhainds, Edward G. Kettela

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Trace Metal Content of Sediments Close to Mine Sites in the Andean Region by Cristina Yacoub, Agustí Pérez-Foguet, Nuria Miralles

“…The sediment quality analysis was performed using the threshold effect level of the Canadian guidelines (TEL). The sediment samples analyzed show that potential ecological risk is caused frequently at both sites by As, Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, and Zn. …”
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Le défi de l’appropriation de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) par des syndicats nationaux : les leçons de la Coalition québécoise contre les ateliers de misère (CQC... by Emmanuelle Champion

“…Can a multi-stakeholder coalition promote ownership by national unions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its practices? In 2003, a major Canadian private sector union created, with several other civil society actors, the Coalition Québécoise contre les Ateliers de Misère (CQCAM), with the mandate to raise public awareness of their existence and develop alternatives to counter their proliferation. …”
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Sorvegliare, punire, assimilare. Il collegio autoctono di Sept-Îles a Maliotenam by Annalisa D’Orsi

“…After a brief presentation of the history of Canadian residential schools and the Innu First Nation, the article delves into the specific reality of the Maliotenam boarding school. …”
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Analysis of The Role of Deep Learning Models in Image Classification Applications by Li Xiang

“…Training these models involves the use of well-known datasets like Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST), which provide the necessary data for optimization and validation. …”
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Food Integrity and Food Technology Concerns in Canada: Evidence from Two Public Surveys by Ellen Goddard, Violet Muringai, Albert Boaitey

“…In this paper, data from two national online samples are used to examine an aggregate of food integrity concerns, genetic modification in food, and food nanotechnology concerns in the Canadian public. A variety of trust, health, environmental, and science attitude variables are used to help explain the concerns that vary across the population. …”
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Impact Evaluation of Assimilating Surface Sensitive Infrared Radiance Observations over Land and Sea Ice from Observing System Simulation Experiments by S. K. Dutta, L. Garand, S. Heilliette

“…A control simulation was generated excluding the new data source, but including all data assimilated operationally at the Canadian Meteorological Center. Experiments were conducted allowing surface sensitive channels to be assimilated over all surfaces or excluding Polar Regions. …”
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Technology adoption by women-owned businesses in Canada by Huju Liu, Hassan Faryaar

“…This paper linked two cycles (2017 and 2019) of the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy with the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database to study the use of advanced and emerging technologies by women- and men-owned businesses in Canada. …”
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Hypoglycemia Symptoms Improved with Diet Modification by Monique Aucoin, Sukriti Bhardwaj

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Building the foundation for polar bear science: fifty years of research on polar bears in Western Hudson Bay by B.A. Biddlecombe, A.E. Derocher, E. Krebs, N.J. Lunn, D. McGeachy, E.S. Richardson

“…In 1966, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) (then Canadian Wildlife Service) initiated a research program on polar bears (Ursus maritimus, Phipps, 1774) belonging to the Western Hudson Bay subpopulation (WH). …”
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Healthcare Use for Pain in Women Waiting for Gynaecological Surgery by Sarah Walker, Wilma M. Hopman, Meg E. Carley, Elizabeth G. Mann, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof

“…Methods. 590 women waiting for surgery in a Canadian tertiary care centre were asked to report on HCU in the year before surgery. …”
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A Strength-Based Intervention to Increase Participation in Leisure Activities in Children with Neuropsychiatric Disabilities: A Pilot Study by Anna Ullenhag, Mats Granlund, Lena Almqvist, Lena Krumlinde-Sundholm

“…The goal attainment of participation goals (GAS), the perceived performance ability according to the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), the self-efficacy, and the participants’ satisfaction were used to study the effect. …”
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Isolated, individualised, and immobilised: information behaviour in the context of academic casualisation by Rebekah Willson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Heidi Julien, Lisa M. Given

“…In-depth, semi-structured interviews with 34 contract academic staff, working in various disciplines across Canadian universities, were conducted to examine their information practices. …”
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Parent Training Occupational Therapy Program for Parents of Children with Autism in Korea by Sun-Joung L. An

“…Four parent-child dyads living with autism participated in five months of parent training at the HOPE center. The results on the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure showed that the parent training improved the occupational performance of both children and parents. …”
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