Browsing Health and Human Performance Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations by Title
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“Are there any other male friendly subs on here?” - Online men's rights groups as simultaneous communities of care and hate, inclusion and exclusion.
ABSTRACT Online communities provide spaces and places where (almost) anyone can find like-minded others. This is true of many digital leisure spaces and is especially true for men’s rights and other masculinist groups. ... -
Constituting the ideal body: A poststructural analysis of “obesity” discourses among gay men
Ideal bodies are constituted through various social and cultural discourses. One such discourse that constitutes bodies is the “obesity” discourse. The term obesity is a contested and medicalizing term that constitutes a ... -
Expression, distribution and regulation of sex steroid hormone receptors in mouse heart
The effects of sex hormones on the heart are dependent on the presence and distribution of sex steroid hormone receptors (SSHR) in cardiac tissue. This study used subcellular fractionation, Western blot analysis and ... -
The freedom to explore: examining the influence of independent mobility on weekday, weekend and after-school physical activity behaviour in children living in urban and inner-suburban neighbourhoods of varying socioeconomic status
BACKGROUND: Children's independent mobility (CIM) is critical to healthy development in childhood. The physical layout and social characteristics of neighbourhoods can impact opportunities for CIM. While global evidence ... -
Gay men’s sexual health promotion in virtual space: Exploring stakeholders’ attitudes and approaches to outreach on mobile apps in Nova Scotia
HIV infections are still are a concern for many gay men in Canada despite prevention efforts. Social networking applications (SNAs) have predominantly been where gay men meet for sexual encounters. Grindr is the most common ... -
HIV and disability: a pilot study exploring the use of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills to measure daily life performance
INTRODUCTION: Limitations in performing activities of daily living (ADL) are important indicators of health and overall wellness, yet relatively few studies specifically identify the ADL abilities of people living with ... -
A Journey of Gender in Health: A Comic Book
The comic book aims to illustrate how sex and gender can influence the health of people and to create knowledge, enthusiasm, and discussions among health professionals and researchers. We follow the story of H, a person ... -
Mood Disorders among Older Adults Participating in Individual and Group Active Environments: "Me" versus "Us," or Both?
Involvement in physical activity is associated with improved mental health including better social skills, coping mechanisms, and lower rates of depression. However, evidence on whether group or individual active environments ... -
Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods, and academic activism in researching men’s rights and the far right: a researcher’s struggles
Researchers using feminist theory in immersive qualitative research like ethnography must contend with a feminist ethics of care, where the researcher is compelled to treat their participants like people, engaging with and ... -
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Orientation to Compassion: Exploring How Space Constructs Meanings of Compassion for 2SLGBTQ Individuals
Cis-heteronormative discourses within society create experiences of homophobia, transphobia, violence, and harm for many Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and other sexual and gender diverse (2SLGBTQ+) people. ... -
Spatial Interactions between Successive Eye and Arm Movements: Signal Type Matters
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Variation in mode of physical activity by ethnicity and time since immigration: a cross-sectional analysis
BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) levels are known to be significantly lower in ethnic minority and immigrant groups living in North America and Europe compared to the general population. While there has been an increase ... -
Vitamin D and Musculoskeletal Status in Nova Scotian Women Who Wear Concealing Clothing
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