"The primary objectives of the study were to explore Aboriginal women's current cervical health practices and cervical cancer screening (CCS) utilization, to identify Aboriginal women's knowledge and risk associated with ...

The knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about influenza and the influenza vaccine of individuals in the community are not well known. The purpose of this study was to conduct a review of current literature related to influenza ...

South-Eastern Asia has the highest levels of undernourishment among children in Asia. Cambodia remains one of the least developed and poorest countries in this region; the probability of a child dying before age five is ...

Various applications in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence rely on high-performing semantic similarity and word sense disambiguation techniques to solve challenging tasks such as information retrieval, ...

The emergence of knowledge-based economy has sparked the demand for people who have advanced education and training. The looming faculty shortages in Canadian and other developed countries make a study of the PhD graduates ...

Lake trout spawning sites, and the substrate on these sites, are structurally unique in many ways. These sites are generally at the end of the fetch of a lake, close to shore (1 m) and composed of small to medium sized ...

The purpose of this portfolio is to provide evidence of my graduate learning and to employ this new knowledge in a manner that contributes to the rich and varied decolonization efforts that are being made by Indigenous ...

This thesis addresses two research objectives. The first investigates landscape factors in the paleo-environment which may have influenced the geographic positioning of an archaeological site near Thunder Bay. The time ...

Emergent diseases such as white nose syndrome (WNS) and habitat loss are negatively affecting the populations of Ontario bat species. There are eight bat species native to Ontario: Estesicus fuscus, Lasiurus cinereus, L. ...