The habitat use of thirteen female and four male GPS collared white-tailed deer, captured in the Clear Lake area of Riding Mountain National Park between 2012 and 2014, was examined. Range sizes were smallest during the summer and largest during the breeding season for both sexes, with an additional peak in female range size occurring in April. Female deer displayed a greater association with areas of human use and infrastructure than males, with the highest use of these areas by females occurring during the late winter and early spring. This increased use of developed areas by deer during the winter and early spring is thought to relate to factors including food resource availability, snow depth, predator avoidance, and thermal cover. / October 2016

This essay examines Angela Carter’s feminist rewritings of classical fairy tales. By examining the original fairy tales and comparing them to what Angela Carter published I aim to highlight a feminism that is subtle and non-binary. In the analysis I draw on ideas presented by Hélène Cixous as well as Simone de Beauvoir. Furthermore, a pedagogical reflection is included to show ways in which these stories could be incorporated in the upper- secondary school.

Nous exposerons dans notre thèse, les éléments déterminants liés à la tradition imagée du Petit chaperon rouge, et aux supports qui lui sont associés, afin de mieux les mettre en perspective avec l'objet de notre étude : voir dans quelle mesure les livres illustrés, albums et autres supports espagnols hébergeant le conte, s’inscrivent à l’intérieur d’une tradition iconographique que nous pourrions qualifier d’européenne,ou en quoi, au contraire, ils rompent avec cette tradition. / We will expose in our thesis, the determining elements related to the pictorial tradition of Little Red Riding Hood, and the media associated with it, to better place them in perspective with the object of our study: to what extent books, illustrated albums and other Spanish media hosting storytelling, enroll in within an iconographic tradition that we might call European, or how, on the contrary, they break with this tradition.

According to social psychologists, we as a species are inequity averse. We prefer conditions that foster fairness and reject injustice against common good. At the same time, however, unequal power and status hierarchies color almost every aspect of our lives. Advantages are distributed asymmetrically based on hierarchical status processes. Life, in other words, is systematically unfair in addition to being populated by free riders. Are the outcomes of potential free riders correlated with status as well? Does status affect the individual’s ability to successfully free ride? Are higher status actors typically granted a greater degree of social leniency than lower status actors? Are they less likely to be marked as free riders? I conducted a simple vignette study to in which participants were presented with a hypothetical, one-shot interaction, involving a collectively oriented, task in order to investigate the relationship between status and free riding.

Conceptualiser, réaliser, étalonner et valider une plateforme d'étude de la posture du cavalier. mise en place de capteurs de selle et de capteurs d'étriers. Nous utiliserons un cheval mécanique référent pour valider notre matériel. Nous voulons mettre en évidence la notion d'assiette passive et d'assiette active. Après modifications et étalonnage du cheval mécanique grâce à l'accéléromètrie, nous créons une plateforme filaire pour étalonnage. Nous réalisons des expérimentations in situ dans les écuries avec des cavaliers de dressage et de CSO. Nous étudions les deux types d'assiette par une expérimentation finale à la recherche de normes. Nous exporterons notre analyse dans le monde du Handisport et dans le monde de la rééducation. / Conceptualize, implement, calibrate and validate a platform for studying the rider's posture. We will use a referring horse simulator for our device's validation.We want to highlight the concept of passive and active riders seat. After changes and horse simulator's calibration by accelerometry, we create a calibrated wired platform such as embedded system. we perform experiments in the stables with expert's riders, jumping and dressage. we are studying the two types of rider's seat with an ending experiment. We try to determine seated standart positions for rider. we will export our analysis experiment in the world of Para and in the rehabilitation's world.

Les systèmes complexes sont présents partout dans notre environnement : internet, réseaux de distribution d'électricité, réseaux de transport. Ces systèmes ont pour caractéristiques d'avoir un grand nombre d'entités autonomes, des structures dynamiques, des échelles de temps et d'espace différentes, ainsi que l'émergence de phénomènes. Ce travail de thèse se focalise sur la problématique du contrôle de tels systèmes. Il s'agit de déterminer, à partir d'une perception partielle de l'état du système, quelle(s) actions(s) effectuer pour éviter ou au contraire favoriser certains états globaux du système. Cette problématique pose plusieurs questions difficiles : pouvoir évaluer l'impact au niveau collectif d'actions appliqués au niveau individuel, modéliser la dynamique d'un système hétérogène (plusieurs comportements différents en interaction), évaluer la qualité des estimations issues de la modélisation de la dynamique du système. Nous proposons une architecture de contrôle selon une approche " equation-free ". Nous utilisons un modèle multi-agents pour évaluer l'impact global d'actions de contrôle locales avant d'appliquer la plus pertinente. Associée à cette architecture, une plateforme a été développée pour confronter ces idées à l'expérimentation dans le cadre d'un phénomène simulé de " free-riding " dans les réseaux d'échanges de fichiers pair à pair. Nous avons montré que cette approche permettait d'amener le système dans un état où une majorité de pairs partagent alors que les conditions initiales (sans intervention) feraient évoluer le système vers un état où aucun pair ne partage. Nous avons également expérimenté avec différentes configurations de l'architecture pour identifier les différents moyens d'améliorer ses performances / Complex systems are present everywhere in our environment: internet, electricity distribution networks, transport networks. This systems have as characteristics: a large number of autonomous entities, dynamic structures, different time and space scales and emergent phenomena. This thesis work is centered on the problem of control of such systems. The problem is defined as the need to determine, based on a partial perception of the system state, which actions to execute in order to avoid or favor certain global states of the system. This problem comprises several difficult questions: how to evaluate the impact at the global level of actions applied at a global level, how to model the dynamics of an heterogeneous system (different behaviors issue of different levels of interactions), how to evaluate the quality of the estimations issue of the modeling of the system dynamics. We propose a control architecture based on an ``equation-free'' approach. We use a multi-agent model to evaluate the global impact of local control actions before applying the most pertinent set of actions. Associated to our architecture, an experimental platform has been developed to confront the basic ideas or the architecture within the context of simulated ``free-riding'' phenomenon in peer to peer file exchange networks. We have demonstrated that our approach allows to drive the system to a state where most peers share files, despite given initial conditions that are supposed to drive the system to a state where no peer shares. We have also executed experiments with different configurations of the architecture to identify the different means to improve the performance of the architecture

This study used video feedback to improve the horseback riding skills of advanced beginner riders. The study focused on three skill sets, those used in jumping over obstacles, dressage riding on the flat, and jumping position riding on the flat. Baseline consisted of standard lesson procedures. Intervention consisted of video feedback in which a recorded attempt at the target behaviors was immediately shown to the rider and the instructor. The rider and instructor reviewed the video while the instructor delivered feedback. Target behaviors were scored according to checklists that correspond to each skill. For all participants, video feedback increased their correct riding skills.

In 2018, the Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association (CTRA) connected with the University of Victoria to initiate a research project focusing on social connectedness. Social connectedness is the psychosocial process of belonging that can be developed within a community context. Feelings of social connectedness can reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts, lessens violence, health compromising behaviours, and the impact of stress and trauma, and is linked to high self-esteem. The aim of this mixed methods case study was to understand the social connectedness of families participating in a community therapeutic riding program. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was used to investigate social connectedness at the CTRA. Three different perspectives were sought to explore social connectedness at the CTRA; guardians, children, and instructors. Participants completed the quantitative Connectedness to Treatment Setting Scale (CTSS) in Phase 1, and qualitative semi-structured interviews in Phase 2 to follow-up and expand upon findings from Phase 1. Fifteen participants (guardians (n = 12) and instructors (n = 3)) participated in Phase 1 of the study whereas five guardians (including a guardian and child dyad) and two instructors participated in Phase 2 of the study. The CTSS comprised of 10 questions assessed on a 6-point scale (from 1 = Totally disagree to 6 = Totally agree). Frequencies were computed for each question and overall mean scores (+ SD) were computed for guardians and instructors separately. The interview transcripts were coded twice. Initially, a deductive orientational approach guided by seven attributes of social connectedness was used. Then, an inductive approach was used to examine how social connectedness was experienced, fostered, or hindered at the CTRA, as well as suggestions for improvement. The CTSS scores revealed that the vast majority of guardians and instructors felt highly socially connected at the CTRA. The overall mean score of the guardians was 55.3 (SD = 4.5) and 56.7 (SD = 3.1) among the instructors. All seven attributes of social connectedness were represented in the guardians and instructors’ responses however, trust, caring, and reciprocity were the most evident attributes. Two themes emerged from the inductive analysis: effective communication equates with social connectedness and expectations of services. Guardians reported that communication as a team with their instructor, volunteer(s), and the animals positively influenced their families’ social connectedness. The results suggested that social connectedness might be mediating relationships between negative factors preceding a therapeutic riding session and the experience of that lesson. Although the instructors and majority of families were socially connected at the CTRA, guardians had high expectations of the program and wanted the CTRA to foster connections beyond their son/daughters therapeutic riding lesson by organizing opportunities for peer and family relationships. The people and animals at the CTRA contributed heavily to family’s sense of social connectedness. Most families had a desire to connect and form relationships with the people and animals at the CTRA. The CTRA provides a community context that supports the development of social connectedness. / Graduate

This study examined the observed effects of horse-riding which took place as an extra-curricula activity within the school day. The three children in the case study were primary aged students from a Canberra primary school who have an intellectual disability requiring high support. The criteria for selection was on the basis of how long they had taken part in the horse-riding programme. The three children were either just about to start or had just started the programme and had no previous experience with horses or horse-riding. The aim of the study was to explore the effects that the horse-riding programme had on the children's behaviour, attitudes and the way they communicated when riding. The children's behaviour was observed in the different settings of the school and the stables environment. Certain individual behaviours were observed and recorded on a weekly basis for an eight week period. Audio-recordings of behaviour took place as well as interviews both before and after the eight week period, from teachers, riding instructors, helpers, and parents. Whilst the case study could not be said to be large enough to be representative of all children with intellectual disabilities attending this horse-riding programme, in general some common themes relating to counselling emerged which corresponded with other studies referred to in the literature. These include positive effects such as a general sense of well-being and a feeling of success whilst being in control of the horse. An emerging empathy and closeness of each child with their particular horse was observed over time, which appeared to lead to increased communication. This took place whilst the children were talking or communicating to the horse or in the presence of the horse.

Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka om ridlärare och ridelever upplever att musik påverkar dem och deras ridning om musik används under dressyrlektioner. Undersökningen är gjord genom enkäter besvarade av ridelever på ridskola, ridgymnasium och eftergymnasiala ridelever som deltar i ett ridprojekt, samt genom enkäter besvarade av ridlärare. I svaren från undersökningen uttryckte eleverna bland annat upplevelsen att musiken påverkade dem och deras hästar både till avslappning och stimulans. Rideleverna upplevde även att det var lättare att hitta en bra takt tillsammans med sina hästar i sitt dressyrarbete under träningen med musik, under förutsättning att musikens takt stämde ihop med dressyrrörelsen. I varje deltagande ridelevsgrupp fanns det någon elev som inte önskade träna till musik. Orsak till detta angav de bland annat var att musiken upplevdes som störande. Ridlärarna påtalade i sina svar bland annat vikten av musikens ljudnivå för att uppnå en bra kommunikation med sina elever. / The aim of this work is to investigate whether riding instructors and riding students experience that music affect them and their riding, if music is used during dressage lessons. The study was conducted through questionnaires answered by students at a riding school, a high school with a riding profile and young people taking part in a riding project, and also through questionnaires answered by riding instructors. In the survey responses, the students expressed among other things that the music affected them and their horses for relaxation as well as stimulation. The riding students also felt that it was easier to find a good pace along with their horses in the dressage work while exercising with music, provided the music´s pace harmonized with dressage movement. In each participating group of riding students, there was one who did not want to practice with music. The reason for this they stated was, for example, that music was perceived as disturbing. The instructors pointed out in their answers, for one thing, the importance of the sound level of the music to achieve a good communication with their students.