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An Assessment of adherence to treating tobacco use and dependence clinical practice guidelines in First Nations primary health care settings in Northwestern Ontario
(2009)The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which tobacco clinical practice guidelines are followed by nurses within 22 primary health care settings in First Nations communities in Northwestern Ontario and to ... -
Assessment of black spruce portfolio trial survival and growth and implications for reforestation under climate change
(2018)The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of black spruce seedlings at a genetic trial designed to select seed sources adapted to several climate change scenarios. Height variability among trees is attributed ... -
Assessment of financial aptitude and knowledge in the elderly : The Montreal Assessment of Financial Activities Scale (EMAF-EN) / by Neil F. Pascoe.
(2007, c200)With the increasing age of the population, there is a corresponding increase in dementias and other similarly limiting disorders. An objective assessment tool of when a person is no longer capable to handle his or her own ... -
Assessment of fuel quality changes during storage of biofibre and its effect on cost
(2010)Bioenergy, energy produced from renewable biomass, can potentially replace fossil fuels and create employment in northwestern Ontario. However, the procurement of biomass for energy production can be uneconomical due to ... -
Assessment of hazard tree/snag detection using drone-based, multi-spectral sensors
(2022)Snags are an integral component of forest ecosystems as they provide habitat for a number of different species and add complexity to vertical forest structure. However, snags also may pose as potential hazards to people ... -
An Assessment of hospital-based mental health nurses' tobacco cessation practices in two Northeastern Ontario LHIN regions
(2012-11-10)This is the first Canadian study to examine acute care mental health nurses' adherence to clinician-level (4A protocol) and systems-level recommendations from the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario's best practice ... -
Assessment of hydrological drought in Northern Ontario using standardized streamflow index
(2018)Momentum is gaining for the use of a Standardized Streamflow Index (SSI) for the assessment of hydrological drought, which is an extension of the well-established and popularly used meteorological drought ... -
An assessment of juvenile lake sturgeon movement and habitat use in the Namakan River of Northwestern Ontario
(2013)The Namakan River of Northwestern Ontario is home to a recovering population of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Although the adult portion of this population has been well studied in recent years, very little information ... -
Assessment of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) mercury concentration across a gradient of food web complexity and environmental variables
(2023)Exposure to mercury has been linked to health risks in both people and wildlife. In Ontario, mercury pollution is to blame for 85% of the consumption restrictions on fish from inland lakes. Heavy metals like mercury ... -
Assessment of land cover changes and hydrologic response of Tamne River Basin
(1996)Northeastern Ghana, West Africa, is characterised by a high population growth rate and adverse climatic conditions, e.g., a long dry season followed by a short-duration but intense rainfall pattern. Land degradation in ... -
Assessment of magno-, parvo-, and koniocellular visual streams in migraine / by James Brazeau.
(2008)Although visual abnormalities have been noted in migraine, no studies have specifically sought to assess all three visual processing streams. We are the first to psychophysically assess visual functionality of the magnocellular ... -
An Assessment of organizational infrastructure gaps, barriers and enablers to developing formal palliative care programs in LTC homes : a comparative case study of two long term care homes in Northern Ontario
(2012-11-10)This research paper is a sub-study of a five year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci l of Canada (SSHRC) funded Community-University Research Alliance project: Improving Quality ofLife for People Dying in ... -
Assessment of permeable reactive barriers for sulphate reduction at the former Steep Rock Iron Mine site, Atikokan, Ontario
(2012-11-10)This study assessed if a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) could be used to reduce sulphate and metal concentrations in Hogarth pit lake, a sulphate-toxic (up to 2,000 mg/L) pit lake at the former Steep Rock iron mine in ... -
Assessment of psychiatric attitudes
(1989)The assessment of psychiatric attitudes has been inconsistent over the years despite considerable evidence of the important role which they play in the efficacy of intervention with psychiatric illness. The development of ... -
Assessment of strength profiles in adolescents and the relationship to mental health concerns
(2015-01-13)The purpose of the proposed investigation was to advance our understanding of the strengths concept in the adolescent population. The relationship between adolescent strengths and mental health, and individual differences ... -
Assessment of strength-based functioning, behavioural problems, and adaptive functioning in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities
(2005)Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are characterized by marked deficits in socialization. Along this spectrum, however, intellectual functioning varies. Individuals with low-functioning autism typically function in the ... -
Assessment of the differences in staff beliefs about sustance abuse in mental health and addiction treatment centres
(2005)This study sought to ascertain whether staff in mental health and addiction treatment centres in Thunder Bay, Ontario, endorsed a disease, eclectic or psychosocial approach with respect to their beliefs about the etiology ... -
Assessment of the random version of the Beck Depression Inventory II
(1997)The present study compared a random version of the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-IIR, based on the work of Dahl Strom, Brooks, & Peterson, 1990) with the standard version in a sample of 139 university students. The ... -
An assessment of the utility of an unmanned aerial vehicle for measuring tree heights in a jack pine provenance trial
(2020)This independent study is an assessment of the utility of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for measuring the heights of jack pine (Pinus banksiana) trees in a provenance trial. An electronic hypsometer, the Haglöf Vertex ...