Head injuries are a major health concern for sport participants as 90% of emergency department visits for sport-related brain injuries are concussion related (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2016). Recently, reports have shown a higher incidence of sport-related concussion in female athletes compared to males (Agel et al., 2007). Few studies have described the events by which concussions occur in women’s hockey (Delaney et al., 2014, Brainard et al., 2012; Wilcox et al., 2014), however a biomechanical analysis of the risk of concussion has not yet been conducted. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the riskiest concussive events in elite women’s hockey and characterize these events through reconstructions to identify the associated levels of peak linear and angular acceleration and strain from finite element analysis. 44 head impact events were gathered from elite women’s hockey game video and analyzed for impact event, location and velocity. In total, 27 distinct events based on impact event, location and velocity were reconstructed using a hybrid III headform and various testing setups to obtain dynamic response and brain tissue response. A three-way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was conducted to determine the influence of event, location and velocity. The results of this study show that head-to-ice impacts resulted in significantly higher responses compared to shoulder-to-head collisions and head-to boards impacts however, shoulder and boards impacts were more frequent. All events produced responses comparable to proposed concussion threshold values (Zhang et al., 2004). This research demonstrates the importance of considering the event, the impact characteristics, the magnitude of response, and the frequency of these impacts when attempting to capture the short and long term risks of brain trauma in women’s hockey.

The composite event detection process in different consumption modes has been proven to be difficult to comprehend. It is believed that visualization of this process can make it easier to grasp. In this final year project, a prototype of a visualization tool that visually displays the composite event detection is developed. The prototype uses time graphs to display the composite events and the chronicle consumption mode is used in the detection of the composite events. Animation is used in the prototype when the composite events are visualized, as it is believed that animation can be of help when learning complex algorithms, such as consumption modes. The prototype is then compared with other similar visualization tools. This prototype addresses factors, which have been identified as playing a central role in the visualization of composite events, that other similar visualization tools do not.

Recreational events gather large numbers of people in concentrated areas for brief periods of time. Effects of these events extend far beyond their spatial and temporal boundaries; a music festival is one such event. This paper asks, “What are some measures that can move music festivals strategically toward sustainability?” A framework for strategic sustainable development based on backcasting from sustainability principles is applied. Research draws on pertinent literature, interviews with festival organizers and an in-depth case study with International Music Concepts. Results indicate that critical flows and management routines upon which music festivals depend contribute to systematic undermining of social and ecological systems. Festival organizers sit at the centre of these flows, and are crucial to changing them. Education to inspire behavioural change of festival organizers and other stakeholders, notably suppliers, audience and artists, appears critical to shifting music festivals toward sustainability. This can be underpinned by building in-house ‘sustainability capacity’ of festival organisations; creating strategic alliances between festival organizers; and scaling up organisational efforts to include lobbying governments for financial and other support to authenticate a high-level commitment to true sustainable development. Music festivals may then leverage their role in society to move society itself toward sustainability. A template and guidebook are presented to facilitate this shift.

The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how Canadian sport system stakeholders select the international youth events in which athletes will take part. The first part looked at the policies and processes consistent among all national sport organizations (NSOs) using a policy-based approach. The second part focused on how NSOs responded to these demands in conjunction with pressures stemming from their specific sport communities and stakeholders, and analyzed the NSOs’ governance structures and processes in doing so. A conceptual framework composed of the governance, stakeholder theory and policy diffusion literatures guided the study and a qualitative methodology was used. Sport Canada and Own the Podium (OTP) played a steering role within the event selection process. NSOs faced numerous pressures such as learning, coercion, imitation, and competition, which they responded to by creating policies and processes for their organization and through selecting events for their athletes that best responded to these pressures. The final findings found the policies and processes were created using a network governance approach, taking into consideration NSOs’ sport-specific needs, which included, but were not limited to, the NSO’s organizational capacity, the number of athletes competing in the sport, and the depth and field of competition within Canada. Two key concepts outlined as best practices among successful NSOs and as an area for improvement for the Canadian sport system overall were alignment and communication.

Ce travail a eu pour objectif de proposer des modèles conjoints d'intensités de processus d'événements récurrents et d'un événement terminal dépendant. Nous montrons que l'analyse séparée de ces événements conduit à des biais d'estimation importants. C'est pourquoi il est nécessaire de prendre en compte les dépendances entre les différents événements d'intérêt. Nous avons choisi de modéliser ces dépendances en introduisant des effets aléatoires (ou fragilités) et de travailler sur la structure de dépendance. Ces effets aléatoires prennent en compte les dépendances entre événements, les dépendances inter-récurrences et l'hétérogénéité non-observée. Nous avons, en premier lieu, développé un modèle conjoint à fragilités pour un type d'événement récurrent et un événement terminal dépendant en introduisant deux effets aléatoires indépendants pour prendre en compte et distinguer la dépendance inter-récurrences et celle entre les risques d'événements récurrents et terminal. Ce modèle a été ajusté pour des données de patients atteints de lymphome folliculaire où les événements d'intérêt sont les rechutes et le décès. Le second modèle développé permet de modéliser conjointement deux types d'événements récurrents et un événement terminal dépendant en introduisant deux effets aléatoires corrélés et deux paramètres de flexibilités. Ce modèle s'avère adapté pour l'analyse des risques de récidives locorégionales, de récidives métastatiques et de décès chez des patientes atteintes de cancer du sein. Nous confirmons ainsi que le décès est lié aux récidives métastatiques mais pas aux récidives locorégionales tandis que les deux types de récidives sont liés. Cependant ces approches font l'hypothèse de proportionnalité des intensités conditionnellement aux fragilités, que nous allons tenter d'assouplir. Dans un troisième travail, nous proposons de modéliser un effet potentiellement dépendant du temps des covariables en utilisant des fonctions B-Splines. / This work aimed to propose joint models for recurrent events and a dependent terminal event. We show how separate analyses of these events could lead to important biases. That is why it seems necessary to take into account the dependencies between events of interest. We choose to model these dependencies through random effects (or frailties) and work on the dependence structure. These random effects account for dependencies between events, inter-dependence recurrences and unobserved heterogeneity. We first have developed a joint frailty model for one type of recurrent events and a dependent terminal event with two independent random effects to take into account and distinguish the inter-recurrence dependence and between recurrent events and terminal event. This model was applied to follicular lymphoma patient’s data where events of interest are relapses and death. The second proposed model is used to model jointly two types of recurrent events and a dependent terminal event by introducing two correlated random effects and two flexible parameters. This model is suitable for analysis of locoregional recurrences, metastatic recurrences and death for breast cancer patients. It confirms that the death is related to metastatic recurrence but not locoregional recurrence while both types of recurrences are related. However, these approaches do the assumption of proportional intensities conditionally on frailties, which we want to relax. In a third study, we propose to model potentially time-dependent regression coefficient using B-splines functions.

The characteristics of Mexico are different to the characteristics of countries where the mainstream theories on social movements were developed — which are countries with consolidated democracies. Hence, to study the Mexican case, one must be aware of this difference, as one of the fundamental aims of this thesis is to evaluate the pertinence of these theories in a young democracy with an authoritarian heritage that experiences conditions of social inequality, insecurity and low levels of trust in public institutions. A question that must be asked first is whether the case of Mexico, following the mainstream theories, is going to produce similar outcomes to those that we can find in the literature, or due to the peculiarities of this country, the outcomes are going to be different. In this research work we take the individual as a unit of analysis. Thus, we analyze the variables that have an effect on the propensity of individuals to protest. Beyond the paths of pure micro, meso or macro level analyses, this thesis examines these three social levels in combination to explain the individuals' likelihood to participate in protest events. That is to say, we analyze the effects of the macro or meso level on the micro level. With this aim, we seek to determine whether the case of Mexico is going to produce similar outcomes to those that we can find in the literature or, whether due to the peculiarities of this country the outcomes are going to differ. Contrary to other studies which only analyze the characteristics of protesters, in this work we analyze the characteristics of both protesters and non-protesters. The latter is an important group of analysis, since with it we can make a real contrast to observe which variables are more likely to trigger protest participation in individuals. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Parmi toutes les études/cohortes existantes en transplantation rénale, peu d’entre elles étudient l’impact des paramètres pharmacologiques. L’utilisation d’un auto-questionnaire, en complément du dossier médical, a été validée pour le recueil de ces données. La comparaison du dossier médical et des auto-questionnaires pour la déclaration des événements indésirables a permis de mettre en évidence des différences. Les infections étaient les événements indésirables les plus déclarés par les médecins alors que les patients n’en déclaraient que très peu. L’observance, évaluée par l’auto-questionnaire, diminuait entre la 1ère et la 3ème année post-greffe, tout comme la sensation d’euphorie et de renaissance. En effet, le score de qualité de vie (QdV) de la dimension « Santé mentale » du ReTransQol diminuait entre ces deux périodes. En revanche, la peur de la perte du greffon du patient augmentait comme démontrée par la diminution du score de QdV de la dimension « Peur de la perte du greffon ». La QdV, évaluée par des questionnaires génériques ou spécifiques aux greffés rénaux, est aussi un paramètre important à prendre en compte dans le suivi des patients. Les propriétés psychométriques de la 2nde version du ReTransQol, ainsi que sa reproductibilité et sa sensibilité aux changements ont été validées dès le 3ème mois post-transplantation rénale. L’étude de pharmaco-économie Ephegren, suite de la cohorte Epigren, va notamment étudier les rapports coût-efficacité et coût-utilité des stratégies immunosuppressives et anti-cytomégalovirus. Ainsi, des recommandations pourront être proposées afin d’homogénéiser les pratiques et diminuer les coûts de prise en charge des greffés rénaux. / Among all existing studies/cohorts in kidney transplantation, only a few study the impact of the pharmacological parameters. In addition to the clinical file, the use of a self-administered questionnaire has been validated to collect these data. Comparison between clinical file and self-administered questionnaire concerning the reporting of adverse events highlighted some differences. Infections were the most reported adverse events by the physicians while the patients declared only a few. Adherence evaluated with the self-administered questionnaire decreased between the first and third post-transplantation year and so did the feeling of euphoria and revival. The « Mental health » dimension of the quality of life (QOL) ReTransQol score decreased over this period. However patients’ fear of losing the graft increased as shown by the decrease of the « Fear of losing the graft » dimension of the QOL score. QOL, evaluated by generic and kidney-transplanted-specific questionnaires is also an important parameter that must be considered in patient follow-up. Psychometric properties of the second version of the ReTransQol, as well as its reproducibility and its sensitivity to changes have been validated as early as the 3rd post-kidney-transplantation month. The pharmacoeconomic study Ephegren, development of Epigren cohort, will study the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility ratio of immunosuppressive and anti-cytomegalovirus strategies. Guidelines will then be proposed to standardise the treatments and decrease the management costs of kidney-transplant recipients.

Le statut de la ville de Rabat comme étant le grand centre politique et administratif du pays suscite un intérêt linguistique particulier. Ville à la fois moderne et ancienne, cela implique une hétérogénéité et un conflit inavoué entre ses habitants. Cette thèse tend alors à mettre l’accent sur les différences de langage dans les rues de Rabat ainsi que la présence du français dans ses rues à travers les enseignes, les noms des rues et même le parler des locuteurs. Ainsi, nous avons choisi de prendre deux grands quartiers de la capitale, l’un populaire et l’autre résidentiel, qui dévoilent une dualité criante, et nous avons fait une comparaison entre le parler des locuteurs y appartenant via l’enregistrement des interactions effectives dans des lieux publics.Nous avons remarqué la présence du français et d’un langage plus soutenu dans le quartier résidentiel, vu le statut socio-économique de ses habitants. Par contre, le quartier populaire est plus archaïque côté infrastructures et langage utilisé. La problématique de cette thèse se veut d’étudier, dans un premier volet, la présence du français dans la capitale politique du Maroc, à travers ses rues et ses quartiers, en s’intéressant notamment aux enseignes, au marquage de l’espace et aux noms de rues, et dans un deuxième volet, les interactions langagières effectives dans la ville de Rabat en enregistrant les échanges verbaux dans des lieux publics. Cela nous a permis de déterminer la place qu’occupe le français dans le parler des locuteurs. L’analyse de faits de langue s’est également intéressée aux changements morphologiques que subissent les mots français empruntés et si bien adaptés par les locuteurs au point même de ne plus pouvoir les détecter. / The status of Rabat as the country’s biggest political and administrative center arouses a particular linguistic interest. Rabat is both a modern and ancient city, this implies heterogeneity and an unseen conflict between his inhabitants. This thesis tends to focus on the differences in language in the streets of Rabat and the presence of the French language in the streets through signs, street names and the way people speak. Thus, we have opted for two large areas in the capital : one popular and the other one residential, which reveal a flagrant duality. We have made a comparison between the ways people belonging to this areas speak by means of recording real interactions in public places.We have noticed the use of the French and of a more formal language in the residential area given the socioeconomic status of its residents. On the other side of the coin, the popular area is more archaic as far as infrastructures and language are concerned.The objective of this thesis is to study, in a first step, the presence of the French language in Morocco’s political capital, through its streets and neighbourhoods, paying a particular attention to signs, space marking and street names. And as a second step, the real language interactions in the city of Rabat, by recording verbal exchanges in public places. This allowed us to determine the place held by the French language in the way people speak. The analysis of facts of language has also interested itself in the morphological changes that the borrowed French words have undergone to the point of not being able to detect them

Worsening climate changes effects are predicted to increase the severity and frequency of extreme weather events (EWE), which can disrupt food systems, from the local to global level, and compromise community food security. In the rural U.S., food insecurity, poverty, low economic growth, and population loss are prevalent, and rural communities often lack the physical capital to bolster community resiliency to climate change adaptation. In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene (TS Irene) in Vermont was the most damaging EWE the state’s history. Severely damaged roads, infrastructure, homes, and land, rendered many rural towns isolated for up to several days. The levels and types of social capital (bridging and/or bonding) affect social cohesion, which in turn influences how the community responds to an EWE. Rural Vermont communities isolated by TS Irene had to respond to a disruption of basic needs, including food security, without the ability to depend on outside resources. We investigate how social capital influenced these community responses to TS Irene, and how the community actions affected community food security. To better understand how social capital influences community response to food insecurity following an EWE, we created a social capital framework on food security. We then conducted thirty-three semi-structured interviews in three Vermont communities known to have been severely affected by TS Irene, and isolated for several days. Using grounded theory, analysis resulted in social capital having a profound influence on community responses to food security following an EWE. Additionally, the type of social capital – bonding and/or bridging – affected both how the community mitigated food insecurity in the short-term, and upheld food security in the weeks following TS Irene. We found that not only do high degrees of social capital affect community response to acute food security needs after an EWE, but also that a community’s sense of place is different depending on the level of community social capital present prior to an EWE. The community response also shaped the community’s perception of, and ability to creating social capital five years after the event. Previous research indicates social capital is important in both community food security and climate shock responses. We discuss the need for rural development and community social capital to build rural resilience and adaptation for future EWE. As such, we suggest that promoting the development of social capital within rural communities through community development - creation of public events, investment in public infrastructure and schools, and the promotion of locally owned and operated businesses - can build resiliency and adaptation to future EWE by promoting the growth of community social capital, both bonding and bridging, within rural communities.

Highland games play a unique cultural role in Scotland, as a platform for indigenous sporting competition, traditional music and dance. There has been very little academic attention paid to Highland games and this is a first attempt to capture a detailed account of multiple events across Scotland. Organised by volunteers and operating the events on a not-for-profit basis, the majority of Highland games are self-sustaining, relying on the ingenuity and commitment of committee members. The political forces in Scotland do not appear to acknowledge or understand the importance of Highland games to communities; or the social, cultural and economic benefits they create, whilst contributing substantially to Scotland’s event and tourism industries. Key themes within the research objectives are volunteer organisers, sport, events, tourism and culture with social capital theory underpinning the study. The study adopts a mixed methods approach with three phases of data collection. An initial search identified 95 Highland games in Scotland which provided the context and knowledge base from 50 returned surveys. A second survey was conducted with audience members (n=1316) with the third data set collected from interviews with organisers and experts (n=16). The results reveal that Highland games operate in a very fragile financial environment with little support from central government or national tourism and event organisations. The events are well supported by domestic, UK and international visitors and tourists appealing to all age groups, encompassing family and adult social groups while transcending social and cultural diversity. There is evidence of repeat visitation by audience members and competitors to single and multiple events, furthermore, the evidence of bonding and bridging social capital is conclusive within the organising groups and spectators. This study confirms that Highland games collectively contribute to event tourism bringing social and economic benefits to Scotland and could be a key feature of Scotland’s international event and tourism strategies.