Lakehead University Knowledge Commons: Recent submissions
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Evaluating consumer grade UAVs and their potential applications and implications in Ontario consulting archaeology
(2019)Archaeological investigation is an inherently destructive process that threatens permanent data loss if archaeological sites are inadequately recorded. While archaeologists strive to develop innovative methods to ensure ... -
The influence of water table fluctuation on hydrarch succession in two subarctic peatlands in Eastern James Bay, Quebec
(2019)Northern peatlands contain close to one-third of the world’s soil carbon and changes to their ecology and hydrology play a major role in the fate of these carbon stocks and the direction of their climate feedbacks. Recent ... -
Barren-ground caribou - a cyclic species: The development of a cycle-stratified harvest model and a cycle analysis of North American barren-ground caribou subpopulations
(2019)Unlike all other members of the deer family, subpopulations of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) exhibit fluctuations in numbers that have been described as cyclic. We created a cyclic individual-based ... -
Online competency-based resident assessment for the discipline of anesthesiology: a needs assessment
(2019)In Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) are implementing a model of competency-based medical education (CBME) for all specialty-training programs called Competence by Design (CBD). ... -
Developing an ecological consciousness as an international student at Lakehead University: a practical guide
(2019)The portfolio will focus on the increasing ecological consciousness of teachers and student populations in India and Canada. It will largely focus on my personal journey from India to Canada in terms of my ecological ... -
Implementing team based learning in postgraduate medical education
(2019)My portfolio is focused on team-based learning (TBL) in the area of health sciences education. My interest in this topic stems from my work in the Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) setting where I work as an instructional ... -
A deadly dimorph: what you need to know about Blastomyces spp.
(2019)Maxx had just returned from spending a holiday weekend at a camp near Geraldton, Ontario when his owners noticed he just “wasn’t himself.” He began coughing and then “started licking his paws a lot.” When his paws began ... -
Is Presidential compensation linked to performance of Ontario’s colleges?
(working paper, 2018)This paper examines relationships between Presidential salaries and key performance indicators for Community Colleges in Ontario, Canada. This paper aims to determine the impact College performance has on executive salary ... -
Outdoor play-based number sense and numeration experiences for primary levelled students
(2019)Classroom educators have a great deal of responsibility beyond the generally understood career description of delivering lessons. As educators are creating well thought out lessons that are differentiated to meet the ... -
Sowingo : Promoting Innovations in Dental Office Inventory Management
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Unhappy with erroneous and inefficient inventory management affecting his dental practice, Dr. Bhatti, a seasoned dentist, founded Sowingo in 2012 to create a solution tailor-made for busy health practitioners. Since then, ... -
A comparison of the hydrothermal alteration systems around the Mo-hosting White Pine intrusion, Utah, and the Buckingham Porphyry, Nevada
(2015)The White Pine Fork Mo porphyry has an estimated resource of 16 Mt of Mo at 0.1% Mo. The host intrusions are K-feldspar- and quartz-porphyritic monzo- to syeno-granites characterised by LREE enrichment, fractionated HREEs ... -
Fuzzy adaptive control of a two-wheeled inverted pendulum
(2018)Recently, the two-wheeled inverted pendulum has drawn the attention of robotic community in view of a plethora of applications, such as transport vehicles: Segway, teleconferencing robots, and electronic network-vehicle. ... -
Adaptive backstepping control of quadrotors with neural-network
(2018)A quadrotor is a type of unmanned aerial vehicles. It has been widely used in aerial photography. The quadrotor has the capability of vertical takeoff and landing, which is very useful in small or narrow areas. The ... -
Bacterial isolation and bioconversion of organic materials to industrial platform chemicals
(2018)Careful selection/isolation of the suitable microbial consortium for enzymatic saccharification of organic matters is a critical step in biofuels production. We isolated strains EF2, OW1-1 and HK2 from intestine of Eisenia ... -
"Omar comin" : examining hegemonic masculinities in The Wire
(2018)This research explores ways that masculinity is depicted in the HBO series The Wire, which aired for five seasons from 2002-2008. More specifically, I examine and analyze the character of Omar Little and his portrayals ... -
We are more than missing and murdered: the healing power of re-writing, re-claiming and re-presenting
(2018)This study explores remembrances (life stories) of Jane Bernard as shared by her daughter (my Nokomis) to her granddaughter (the researcher). I investigate how intergenerational learning through letter writing for remembrance ... -
Nanomaterials based electrochemical approaches for biosensing and bacterial disinfection
(2017)Electrochemical approaches to myriad medical and environmental challenges are highly attractive due to their strong potential for extensive and green applications. Point of care diagnostics through the electrochemical ... -
Sport perfectionism and risk factors of sport injury rehabilitation overadherence
(2018)Rehabilitation overadherence is a form of nonadherence in which individuals exceed practitioners’ guidelines regarding the rehabilitation of their injury, resulting in enhanced risk for re-injury and prolonged recovery ... -
Understanding Aboriginal music for the understanding of Aboriginal cultures
(2016)How do Aboriginal musicians and music professionals make connections between their music and their cultures? This qualitative study explores the interconnections between Aboriginal music and Aboriginal cultures and ... -
Correspondence rules in SU (3)
(2018)In this thesis, I present a path to the correspondence rules for the generators of the su(3) symmetry and compare my results with the SU(2) correspondence rules. Using these rules, I obtain analytical expressions for the ...
