Lakehead University Knowledge Commons: Recent submissions
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Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of Whitefish Bay residents regarding type 2 diabetes / by Ella Goodman.
(2007)The purpose of this study was to explore Whitefish Bay residents’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of Type 2 diabetes. The objectives were to examine current literature related to Type 2 diabetes with an emphasis on the ... -
Maintaining food security in Elsipogtog First Nation / by Elisa A.M. Levi.
(2007)Food and nutrition is recognized as a key health issue in Aboriginal communities throughout Canada. The purpose of this research is to understand how a Migmag First Nation on the Atlantic coast maintains food security. ... -
Design and modeling of a CMOS VCO using wave digital filters / by WeiBo Li.
(2007)Wave digital filters (WDFs) transform an analog network into a topologically equivalent digital structure. A natural application of WDF is the simulation of electric circuits since measurements of any desired node voltages ... -
Optimizing the sensitivity and specificity of genetic disease detection / by Travis E. Marion.
(2007)The molecular diagnosis of genetic disease is of great importance to the field of medicine and medical research. Though many rare inherited diseases have been described in the medical literature, the inheritance pattern ... -
Internet use of linguistic minorities within a dominant culture : a case study of Francophones in Northwestern Ontario / by Nicole Corbett.
(2007)Outside the province of Québec, Francophones are often marginalized with regard to availability of products in their language. The Internet, a growing phenomenon, is marketed as a tool, which provides information and ... -
Effect of water salinity on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of light backfill material
(2007)A series of one-dimensional compression tests was conducted to examine and compare the hydro-mechanical behaviour of light backfill (LBF) material, composed of 50% bentonite and 50% sand, in the presence of distilled water ... -
Understorey plant regeneration after wildfire in the boreal borest of Northwestern Ontario / by Alexander J.A. Zeller.
(2007)The ecological patterns and processes of the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario are dominated by large-scale disturbances such as wildfire. These disturbances have the potential to control or affect the composition of ... -
Improving genetic profiling techniques for low copy number DNA / by Shana Hayter.
(2007)The extraction of DNA from ancient samples presents many obstacles to the analyst. These samples are often subjected to many years of harsh environmental conditions and many forms of damage resulting in low copy number and ... -
Site fidelity and habitat characteristics of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) nursery areas in Wabakimi and Woodland Caribou provincial parks, Northern Ontario / by Natasha Lynn Carr.
(2007)To prevent further range recession, habitat features essential to the life history requisites of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) such as calving and nursery areas need to be protected for the persistence of ... -
Attitude estimation and control of a ducted fan VTOL UAV
(2007)A significant area of current research is to develop aircraft which are unmanned. More specifically, some researchers are focusing on hovering type aircraft, or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Since these ... -
Feel the Power Feel Fit Girls program : a formative evaluation / by Alison Lorraine Massey.
(2007)This research study set out to formatively evaluate a physical activity program directed at female adolescents. The program, Feel the Power Feel Fit Girls (FTPFFG) is run by Hamilton Public Health Services and funded by ... -
Pre-service teachers' conceptual understanding of perimeter, area, and volume
(2007)In this study, pre-service teachers’ understanding of perimeter, area, the relationship between the two, and volume are explored. A questionnaire on these concepts was administered to 110 participants, comprising the ... -
Context sensitive neural network by overlapped systems
(2006)The use of context dependency in neural networks is an important issue in many cognitive situations. In this report we introduce a novel context dependent neural network model based on overlapped multi-neural network ... -
Effects of water-based exercise on activities of daily living in Parkinson's disease patients
(2006)Physical exercise plays an important role in reducing the physical and psychological symptoms of those who suffer from Parkinson’s Disease (PD). One form of exercise, water exercise, is a relatively untested means in ... -
Nonlinear controller design for a buck converter
(2006)This thesis presents five different nonlinear control techniques for voltage regulation of a DC-DC buck converter operating in continuous conduction mode. A state space averaging model is derived from a non-ideal buck ... -
Curvature-density functional theory of shape transformation in vesicles of two-component lipid systems
(2006)The shape transformations and composition variation of two-component model lipid membrane isolated vesicles are studied. These are studied as aggregates in low concentration solutions so that the vesicles are isolated ... -
Body and affect words : valence, cognitive specificity, and temporal change among young women
(2006)Attentional biases and extreme attitudes have been linked to schematic functioning and development in depression and eating disorders. Previous research concerning attentional biases toward schema-congruent material in ... -
Prevalence of injuries in a selected cohort of high school football players in the city of Winnipeg
(2006)While many studies have been published documenting injuries in college aged and professional sports, there are few studies that describe the prevalence of injuries among high school athletes. As a first step to creating ... -
Design and control of a 6 DOF biped robot
(2006)This thesis is composed of the following five parts: construction of a 6 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) biped robot, control system design, analysis of forward kinematics and inverse kinematics, walking pattern planning, and ... -
Empirical study of dense schedule performance ratio on open-shop scheduling problem
(2006)In this paper, we study properties of dense schedules for the open-shop problems and their average performance ratio. After using two sets of test problems, we show that the average performance ratio of dense schedules ...
