Lakehead University Knowledge Commons: Recent submissions
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Effect of oral glutamine supplementation on resting blood and saliva immune parameters in endurance trained athletes
(2001)There is considerable evidence suggesting that frequent, intense, long duration exercise is associated with adverse effects on the immune system as shown by a decrease in immune cell numbers and function. This may ... -
Relationships between timing of injury onset in the sport season and emotional response to injury
(2001)The relationship between the timing of injury onset in the sport season and athletes’ emotional reaction to sport injury was investigated. Twenty (10 male and 10 female) varsity and recreational athletes involved in the ... -
Lived experience of a traditional female Ojibway elder
(2001)This qualitative study examined the lived experience of a traditional female Ojibway Elder and her perspectives of leadership. An emergent framework of traditional female Ojibway leadership resulted from the data, and ... -
Increased meaning elaboration does not account for the picture superiority effect
(2001)Study manipulated meaning process at study (congruent/incongruent meaning questions vs. no questions) and study/test form (picture or word at study crossed with picture or word at test). Particpants were 72 psychology ... -
Alternative music : jazz and the performance resignification of identity in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley
(2001)In this thesis, I argue that Jazz, a music which finds its basis in improvisation, not only functions as music, but as an extremely potent means of political resistance to a number of systems by and through which identity ... -
Comparison of post-harvest sample designs to assess impact to organic forest soils in eastern Manitoba
(2001)Five sampling methods were developed, tested, and compared to assess soil impact from harvesting equipment on organic sites in unfrozen condition. This study pointed to the gap in the literature for such a sample design. ... -
Investigation of automatic and recollective memory in phonological association
(2001)Two experiments manipulated the study variables associative pairing, attention, and modality, in an attempt to produce process dissociations (Jacoby, 1991) between estimates of recollective and automatic memory in a ... -
Cognitive-behavioral program for young offenders : by focusing on the peer helping approach
(2001)The present study evaluated a newly developed cognitive behavioral program, the Equip program (Gibbs, Potter & Goldstein, 1995), that focuses on teaching youth to think and act responsibly through a peer helping approach. ... -
Interpretive study of four secondary level male music teachers in Northwestern Ontario
(2001)The relative dearth of qualitative studies on characteristics of exemplary secondary level music teachers buttressed the need for this thesis. I selected four secondary male music teachers deemed exemplary by members ... -
Educating resource technicians to the new concept of ecological classification systems
(2001)The topics o f Ecosystem Management (EM) and Ecological Classification Systems (ECS) are appearing more frequently in forest management literature. These systems facilitate our understanding, not only o f forests from a ... -
Yuma state : a philosophical study of the Indian residential school experience
(2001)Indian residential schools in Canada span a history over one hundred years producing a storm of controversy that is ongoing. The principal parties to this controversy include a number of Christian churches in Canada, the ... -
Efficacy of intensive case management for a concurrently disordered population
(2002)The Northwestern Ontario Concurrent Disorders Program (NOCDP) offers a multidisciplinary, assertive community treatment approach to clients with concurrent disorders, substance dependence and co-morbid severe and ... -
Relationship between burnout, psychological empowerment, and gender role orientation in long term-care nurses
(2001)The influence o f psychological empowerment and gender roles on burnout was investigated. Ninety-six nurses employed at long-term care facilities completed the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Spence, Helmreich, & ... -
Satisfaction and stability within long-term relationships involving trait hostility
(2001)This study examined correlates of trait hostility within long-term relationships. In accordance with the rules of complementarity put forth by interpersonal theorists, it was predicted that hostile individuals would more ... -
Relative error transmission and detection in Strategic Forest Management Model
(2001)The relative error (term error in the thesis always stands for relative error) transmission from Forest Resource Inventory (FRI) data to Strategic Forest Management Model (SFMM) outputs based on different FRI data to ... -
Effects of landscape disturbance on the population dynamics and behaviour of moose (Alces alces) in the greater Pukaskwa ecosystem, Ontario
(2001)I studied the population dynamics, movements and home range of moose {Alces alces) in the Greater Pukaskwa Ecosystem, Ontario, during 1995-1999. My study compared two landscapes experiencing different management regimes: ... -
Direct and indirect effects of post-fire conditions on successional pathways and ecological processes in black spruce-Kalmia forests
(2002)The goal of this thesis was to estimate the relative importance of the mechanisms by which forest stands of east-central Newfoundland are replaced by unproductive dwarf-shrub communities following wildfire. Sheep laurel ... -
Ojibway plant taxonomy at Lac Seul First Nation, Ontario, Canada
(2000)The Ojibway (Anishinabe) of Lac Seul First N ation reside in the transition zone of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence and southern Boreal Forest regions of northwestern Ontario, Canada. Hunting and gathering of certain animal ... -
Neighborhood system in concept lattice
(2000)In this thesis, we apply and generalize the notion of neighborhood system from topology to study the relation between the concepts in a concept lattice. We classify all concepts in the concept lattice into various classes ... -
Cutting grass : the uncertainty of coming of age in the post-Fordist era
(2000)An ethnographic description and analysis of a small group of young adult males (Kingston, Ontario) trying to make the transition from employment as a youth into the adult world of work. Discussion of the interrelationships ...
