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French Canadian adolescents in a minority milieu
(1997)This inquiry describes the lived experience of minority francophone adolescents in Thunder Bay, Ontario. A snowball sampling approach was used to recruit 22 participants for interviews where they were asked to talk about ... -
Frequency domain tuning approach for adaptive feedforward controllers
(2003)Feedforward control provides a means for compensating measurable disturbances before the process output is affected. A novel tuning strategy for tuning feedforward controllers in frequency domain is developed in this ... -
Frequency response based system identification and controller tuning
(1997)A detailed simulation based analysis of different frequency response and transfer function identification techniques are performed and critically studied. Standard closed loop and open loop recursive least squares system ... -
From alpinism to activism: outdoor athletes’ perspectives on ecological and climate learning through their sport
(2022)While climate change education has been studied extensively, the process of environmental and climate learning outside of a structured educational context has seen little study. Previous research has shown the efficacy ... -
From coal to wood thermoelectric energy production: Socio-economic impacts in northwestern Ontario, Canada
(2016)The province of Ontario in Canada is the first North American jurisdiction with legislation in place to eliminate coal-fired thermoelectric production. Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) coal-fired Atikokan Generating Station ... -
From divestment to climate justice: perspectives from university fossil fuel divestment campaigns
(2022)The Fossil Fuel Divestment (FFD) Movement has helped facilitate a global transition away from fossil fuels by stigmatizing the sector’s public image. The movement has been claimed to be rooted in climate justice, a ... -
From ethnic towards transnational : The green library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
(2002)This thesis argues that The Green Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer can be read as a Canadian national narrative. In the novel, Keefer sets a task to explore how ethnic minorities in Canada (Ukrainian Canadians in this case) ... -
"From moribund to mobilized" : the Lake Superior Regiment, 1920-1940
(1999)The intent of this work is to determine to what extent the Lake Superior Regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia1 fulfilled both its military and civic role in the Lakehead cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, ... -
From my sewing basket ... : traditional native healing ceremonies and social work practice with native people
(1997)Includes a general review of the literature and a study within the District of Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada. The author has worked with the Healing Our Own Counseling Unit at a Native Women's Crisis Home, has participated ... -
From paper to practice: educator understanding and facilitation of self-regulation in the kindergarten classroom
(2021)There is growing concern about the mental health and resilience of today’s students (McCain, Mustard, and Shanker, 2007) and difficulties with self-regulation as part of human development are implicated in educational ... -
From social media to expert reports: automatically validating and extending complex conceptual models using machine learning approaches
(2019)Given the importance of developing accurate models of any complex system, the modeling process often seeks to be comprehensive by including experts and community members. While many qualitative modeling processes can ... -
Front yard machines : interpreting cultural landscapes in Thunder Bay
(2004)The house and the yard have ceased to be solely functional objects. Rather, today they are often invested with tremendous amounts of time and money resulting in objects which transcend traditionally functional roles to ... -
Frontierism and metropolitanism in relation to development on the north shore of Lake Superior
(1993)The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the various influences within the metropolis-hinterland construct that were evident in the development of the area around Thunder Bay and along the north shore of Lake ... -
Frost hardiness of balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera L.) during the spring dehardening period
(1990)Changes in the frost hardiness of balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera L.) cuttings from four populations along a latitudinal transect from N. Wisconsin to Bearskin L, Ontario, were examined during the spring of 1987. ... -
Fruit and vegetable intake of students and prevalence of vegetarianism at Lakehead University / by Hesam Kooshesh.
(2010)Purpose : The purpose of this study was to assess the daily intake levels of fruits and vegetables in a population of post-secondary students at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario [Northwestern Ontario] and to ... -
Fuel characteristics of Northwestern Ontario tree species and their components
(2010)The use of forestry residues or any biomass in the production of energy has been a topic of great discussion due to the increasing pressure to establish environmentally friendly energy production. With the current energy ... -
Functional Imaging of the Lungs using Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Inert Fluorinated Gases
(2016)Fluorine-19 (19F) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lungs using inhaled inert fluorinated gases can potentially provide high quality anatomical and functional images of the lungs. This technique is able to visualize ... -
The functional interpretation of quartz and amethyst artefacts from the Mackenzie I site (DdJf-9)
(2017)Mackenzie I is the largest excavated archaeological site that is attributed to the Lakehead Complex, the first known occupants of the area surrounding modern day Thunder Bay, Ontario. As such, it has garnered much academic ... -
Functional niche differentiation in co-occurring congeneric plants
(2014)Niche differentiation is argued as one of the mechanisms explaining species coexistence. Despite their sessile nature, similar resource needs and traits to acquire and utilize resources closely related plant species coexist. ...
