Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Title
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Exploring the Experiences of Frontline Food Security Service Providers in Thunder Bay, Ontario
(2021)In Canada, staggering rates of household food insecurity are emblematic of broader issues, such as systemic discrimination, poverty, and a global, capitalist food system. The means to address food insecurity are contested ... -
Exploring the feasibility of wireless sensor networks within the MRI environment
(2012-11-10)Wireless communications have long since been utilized to connect a multitude of devices quickly and easily to a common network. However, such methods have not yet been implemented inside a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ... -
Exploring the perspectives of experienced healthy older adults participating in a community-based tai-chi program
(2019)Only 13% of older Canadian adults, often identified as individuals between the ages of 50 and 65, participate in the recommended 150 minutes of physical activity per week. Tai chi has been promoted as a form of physical ... -
Exploring the Potential for Achieving Self-determined Community Economic Development in Nunavut: An Examination of the Government of Nunavut’s Economic Development Strategies
(2016)Self-determined political and economic structures can nurture local capacity for adaptive response to a rapidly changing climate and economy. What level of potential for creating such structures is contained within ... -
Exploring the relationship between health-related fitness and biological CVD risk factors in Canadian young adult men and women
(2012)It is well known that physical inactivity leads to development of poor musculoskeletal health and obesity, two major modifiable risk factors for the development of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD; Eyre, Kahn, & Robertson, ... -
Exploring the relationship between motivation and dog-walking behaviour: what motivates older adults to walk with their dogs?
(2013-02-03)Background/Objectives: Dog ownership in older adulthood has been connected with increased likelihood of meeting the physical activity guidelines. There are older dog owners, however, that do not walk their dogs. Investigation ... -
Exploring the relationship between strengths of youth, their level of functioning, and internalizing or externalizing symptom expression
(2014-01-22)Mental health assessments produce profiles specifying the nature and severity of youths’ symptoms and impairments. Interest in developing more comprehensive mental health profiles has motivated efforts to also assess youth’s ... -
Exploring the role of cannabis in fatal car crashes and a survey of Canadians’ beliefs, cannabis use behaviours and decision-making processes related to cannabis and driving
(2023)This mixed-method research project involved two phases investigating relationships between cannabis use and driving. The first phase utilized data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) to determine how much ... -
Exploring the role of climate emotion tools in climate science learning with youth and Indigenous climate activists from Mexico
(2024)One of the biggest problems faced by activists, youth, Indigenous people and other people at the forefront of climate impacts and the climate movement is inaction by governments and the majority of the world’s population. ... -
Exploring wild blueberries as a place-based socio-economic development opportunity in Ignace, Ontario
(2014-01-22)Wild blueberries are an important food source in rural communities of Northwestern Ontario, and can be used as a possible alternative to diversify their economic resource base. This study explores the socio-economic ... -
Exposure to work-related physical and psychological load in career firefighters at three timepoints over one year
(2019)Background: Firefighters experience high rates of injury – both physically and to their mental health. Firefighting is a unique context to study the interaction of these factors due to the cyclical nature of the work and ... -
Expression of integrin and toll-like receptors in cervical cancer (in vivo and ex vivo study)
(2009)Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women world-wide. Although persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is considered the most important causative agent of cervical cancer, the mechanisms toward ... -
Expression of T4 lysozyme gene in escherichia coli and trichoderma reesei
(2014-01-22)The T4 lysozyme, from bacteriophage T4, has the ability to lyse bacterial cell walls; thus it has attracted immense attention as an antimicrobial agent. Nonetheless, the production of T4L cannot meet our needs. All of the ... -
The extent of tobacco consumption in the Indigenous population in association with pulmonary diseases in Canada
(2025)Objectives: (1) To explore the prevalence of and characteristics associated with tobacco consumption in the overall Indigenous population and within specific demographic groups (e.g. age, sex, etc.). (2) To explore the ... -
Exterior characteristics and internal wood decay of hazard trees in Thunder Bay, Ontario
(2013)One major component of urban forestry is the ability to recognize hazard trees and have them removed before they fail or cause damage to people or property. Thunder Bay's urban forest consists of approximately 20,000 street ... -
Extracting lignocelluloses from various spent liquors via adsorption
(2015-10-20)The spent liquors of thermomechanical (TMP) and neutral sulfite semichemical (NSSC) pulping processes contain some lignocelluloses that are recently treated in the waste water of the processes, and thus wasted. In this ... -
Extracting specific text from documents using machine learning algorithms
(2018)Increasing use of Portable Document Format (PDF) files has promoted research in analyzing the files' layout for text extraction purpose. For this reason, it is important to have a system in place to analyze these documents ... -
Extraction of phytochemicals betulin and betulinic acid from the chaga mushroom and their effect on MCF-7 Cells
(2018)Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) grows on birch trees found mainly in temperate regions like Canada, Northern United States and Siberia. It contains phytochemicals such as betulin and betulinic acid, which are a ... -
Fabrication, characterization and electrochemical studies of nickel and nickel-based materials
(2017)Nickel is a naturally abundant transition metal and is very cost effective. This, along with mechanical and magnetic characteristics, and good catalytic activity in different applications, has made it an interesting non-noble ... -
The face of Homo floresiensis: an investigation of scale
(2023)The face of Homo floresiensis has been described as small in absolute and relative size, comparable to the condition observed in modern humans (Homo sapiens). It has even been claimed that LB1’s relative facial dimensions ...
