This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Kinesiology, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
“Born of a Spirit That Knows No Conquering:” Innovation, Contestation, and Representation in the PCHA, 1911-1924., Taylor Mckee
Informing Future Media Approaches: The Perspective of Paralympic Athletes, Erin Pearson
Telling Stories: Intersections of Paralympic Bodies with High-Performance Sport, Nancy H. Quinn
Oculomotor Task-Switching Performance Improves and Persists Following a Single Bout of Aerobic Exercise, Diksha Shukla
Exploring the Relationship Between Sedentary Behavior and Subjective Well-Being, Wuyou -. Sui
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Strains in Regions of the Brain Modelled from Female Youth Soccer Players Performing Purposeful Headers in Season, Wayne Allison
Improving the Assessment and Understanding of Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension, Jacquie Baker
No Coward Plays Hockey, Rachael Bishop
Sprint interval training improves oculomotor planning in high-fit individuals independent of exercise modality, Jonathan Blazevic
The Relations between Newcomer Integration Processes and Youth Athletes’ Perceptions of the Group Environment in Competitive Ice Hockey, Jeffrey J. Chamberlain
Impacts of blood flow occlusion on the human neuromuscular system, David B. Copithorne
RESEDENT study- REducing SEDENTary behaviour may slow cognitive decline in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: A pilot study, Kirsten B. Dillon
Sleep Quality, Shift Work and its Effects on Stroop Task Errors in University Student Nurses: A Feasibility Study, Michael Gaspar
Does an acute Achilles tendon rupture become a patient's Achilles heel in the long-term?, Michaela CM Khan
Action potential subpopulations in human muscle sympathetic nerve activity: discharge properties and governing mechanisms, Stephen A. Klassen
The Effects of Exercise Training versus Intensive Insulin Treatment on Skeletal Muscle Fibre Content in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Rodents, David P. McBey
The Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise and Caffeine on Working Memory and Caffeine Withdrawal, Anisa Morava
Nutrition and exercise interventions during pregnancy: How important is adherence?, Taniya S. Nagpal
Biofeedback Use in Sport, Kendra Nelson Ferguson
Quantitative analysis of the kinematics of the foot during gait with respect to barefoot running shoes using a Multi-Segment Foot Model, Lisa Y. Oikawa
Optimizing the Carrot Rewards app: An examination of team-based financial incentives to increase walking, Emma Pearson
Relationship Among Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension, Cerebral Hemodynamics, and Cognitive Functioning, Lindsay Robinson
Using the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) to understand and change sedentary behaviour in office workers: Effects on motivation, behaviour, and health outcomes, Andrew Scott Rollo
The Relationship Between Perceived Sedentary Behaviour and Psychological Health, Kelsey Sick
Menstrual Phase Differences in Muscle Deoxygenation, Respiration and Blood Lactate Concentration Do Not Influence Exercise Performance, Jordyn L. Smith
Investigating the simulated diving reflex in professional divers, Sydney O. Smith
Nitrate supplementation does not alter the V̇O2p SC-muscle fatigue relationship in recreationally active men, James Joseph George Vanhie
The Grand Experiment: Jerome Dwight Davis and the Young Men’s Christian Association’s War Prisoner Aid Sports Programing for German POWs in Canadian Camps During World War Two, Courtney Hope van Waas
Narratives of Canadian Identity at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Jared V. Walters
Organizational Governance of Event Impacts, Kylie Wasser
Is Professional Breath-Hold Diving Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction?, Emilie Woehrle
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Magnetic Field Frequency-Response for Human Magnetophosphene Perception and Associated EEG Modulations, Cadence M. Baker
Performance Impact of Different Lower-Limb Setup Positions in the Backstroke Swimming Start, Gordon E. Barkwell
The Role of the Canada Games in Canadian Sport: Canadian Celebration and Political Tool, Kerri Bodin
The Effectiveness of Neurofeedback and Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Individuals with Long-Term Post-Concussive Symptoms, Marquise Bonn
Capacity for Sport for Development, Ryan Clutterbuck
Understanding how to make physical activity pleasurable, Cassandra L. Ellis
The Acute Effects of Nicotine and Exercise on Working Memory in Smokers, Matthew Fagan
Participatory Action Research Examining the Role of Physical Activity in Mentoring for Resilience, Francesca Gable
TRUE NORTH STRONG Canada 150: Canadian Identity and its Contribution to Doping Free Sport, Helena A. Hlas
Pilot Study: Heart Rate Variability Analysis and Mental Health Outcomes in University Female Hockey Players, Kaitlyn Jacobs
Properties of Perceptual Motor After-Effects in Visuo-Spatial Tasks, Ben Kajaste
Cardiodynamic Associations With Resilience in Undergraduate Students and the Effect of a Mentorship Intervention, Rachel J. Knetsch
Examining Eudaimonic Well-Being in Sport, Despina Kouali
The Mental Health and Resilience Benefits of Being a Peer Mentor, Gazal Kukreja
Functional Anatomy of Palmar Musculature, Colin W. Moore
“And, Needless to Say, I Was Athletic, Too:” Southern Ontario Black Women and Sport (1920s – 1940s), Ornella Nzindukiyimana
Capacity for Change: Critical Factors in the Organizational Implementation of Gender Equity in Sport Initiatives, Swarali H. Patil
Antipointing Adherence to Fitts' Equation is Amplitude-Dependent, Marlowe J. Pecora
Performing 30 second weight training bouts for five weeks decreases 2000 m ergometer times in collegiate rowers, Andre Beven Pelletier
A 10-Minute Single-Bout of Moderate to Very-Heavy Intensity Aerobic Exercise Improves Executive Function in Older Adults, Andrea F.M. Petrella
Motor Variability in Rowing, Maude Potvin-Gilbert
Self Presentation of Select Female Athletes on Instagram and Public Responses, Erin Ratelle
Social and Organizational Value in Sport: A Shared Value Perspective of a Men’s Health Initiative, Brendan Riggin
Standing and Dynamic Sitting in the University Classroom, Siobhan Smith
Head Impact Exposures In Youth Canadian Football Players Aged 12-14 Do Not Significantly Impair Antisaccade Performance, William J. Smith
The Influence of Soft Tissue Balancing on Postoperative In Vivo Tibiofemoral Contact Kinematics in Total Knee Arthroplasty, Jared Webster
Working Memory and Falls Risk in Older Adults: An Event-Related Potential Study, Yee (Michelle) S. Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
History of Sioux Lookout Black Hawks Hockey team, 1949-1951, Fatima Ba'abbad
Recruitment Strategies In Human Sympathetic Nerve Activity, Mark B. Badrov
The Effects of Moderate Intensity Strength Training Coupled with Blood Flow Restriction: A 12 Week Intervention, Kelly Barrett
The Responses of VO2, VCO2, Substrate Utilization and Maximal Performance to Long Duration Exercise, Michael Bitel
No Evidence that Binocular Vision Enhances Online Corrections for Reaches in the Lower-Visual Field, Jennifer N. Campbell
Stronger, Leaner, Francophone: Physical Culture in the Nationalism of Adrien Gagnon, Phillip Chipman
Women in Leadership within Professional Sport in Canada, Amanda B. Cosentino
A Simulated Walk in Nature: Testing Predictions from the Attention Restoration Theory, Corey Crossan
A Pilot Study on the Affective Responses to Watching Consecutive Episodes of a Television Show during Aerobic Exercise below the Ventilatory Threshold, Lauren Crutchlow
The role of muscle strength and voluntary activation on symptomatic fatigue in multiple sclerosis, Shannon P. Davidson
Insulin Resistance and T1D: The Effect of Exercise on Skeletal Muscle Lipid Metabolism, Michelle Dotzert
Power reserve following ramp-incremental cycling to exhaustion: Implications for muscle fatigue and function, Michael D. Hodgson
e-Visits For Early Post-operative Visits Following Orthopaedic Surgery Can They Add Efficiency Without Sacrificing Effectiveness, William G. Jeffery
Reliability and Validity of the Star Excursion Balance Test in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis, Lauren Kanko
Age-Related Reductions of Motor Unit Discharge Rates in the Human Hamstrings, Eric A. Kirk
Physiological Resolution of Periodic Breath Holding During Heavy Intensity Fartlek Exercise, David J. Lim
The Moderating Effect of Physical Activity on the Association between White Matter Hyperintensities and Gait Characteristics, Navena Rebecca Lingum
The Influence of Limb and Target Vision in Target-Directed and Allocentric Pointing Movements, Joseph Manzone
Winter Sport Nationalism: The Canadian Olympic Press from Calgary 1988 to Vancouver 2010, Andreja Milasincic
Impaired Dynamic Cerebrovascular Autoregulation in Adolescent Concussion, Marcy Erin Moir
The effect of insulin treatment and exercise modality on skeletal muscle fiber size in streptozotocin-induced type 1 diabetic rats, John Z. Nickels
Is Allocation of Attention Impaired in Fallers Compared to Non-Fallers? An Event-Related Potential Study, Phil Parrot-Migas
Promoting Benefits of Physical Activity through Persuasive Communication, Priynka Patil
Participatory Action Research in Rural Community Sport and Recreation Management, Kyle A. Rich
A Single-Bout of Aerobic Exercise Improved Executive Control: Evidence From the Antisaccade Task, Ashna Samani
The Feasibility of Square-Stepping Exercise as a Universal Intervention for Older Adults with Chronic Disease to Improve Cognitive and Physical Function, Erin M. Shellington
The Ruin of the Past: Deindustrialization, Working-Class Communities, and Football in the Midlands, UK 1945-1990, Neil Stanley
Motor Unit Firing in the Human Anconeus During High Intensity Eccentric Contractions of Elbow Extensors, Christopher W. Stolworthy
Oculomotor Executive Dysfunction During the Early and Later Stages of Sport-Related Concussion Recovery, Brandon Webb
Character In Leadership: Perceptions Of Canadian Intercollegiate Athletics Administrators, William Z. Weese
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Impact of Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields on Human Postural Control, Alicia N. Allen
Indicator Amino Acid Derived Estimates of Dietary Protein Requirement in Exercise-Trained Individuals, Arash Bandegan
The use of P3b as an indicator of neurophysiologic change from subconcussive impacts in football players, Jeffrey S. Brooks
The Ontario Parasport Legacy Group: A Case Study of a Collaborative Partnership as an Event Legacy, Robert Carlisi
Drop Vertical Jump Landing Mechanics Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With and Without Lateral Extra-Articular Tenodesis, Michal Daniluk
Effect of Terminal Haptic Feedback on the Sensorimotor Control of Visually and Tactile-Guided Grasping, Shirin Davarpanah Jazi
A Gender-Sensitized Weight Loss and Healthy Lifestyle Program for Overweight and Obese Male Hockey Fans: Effects on Dietary Behaviours, Ashleigh De Cruz