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Observer-based chaos synchronization for secure communications
(2006)Chaos, with reference to chaos theory, refers to an apparent lack of order in a system that, nevertheless, obeys particular laws or rules. The chaotic signals generated by chaotic systems have some properties such as ... -
Occupational health and safety as a global public health concern and the situation in Guyana
(2009)I now wish to turn to ... workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from ... some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. [Regarding] maladies that ... -
Off the beaten track : messaging as a means to reducing depreciative behaviour in a national park
(2005)Over the 2004 peak visitor season, a covert observational study was conducted at St. Lawrence Islands National Park, Ontario, Canada to assess the extent of social trail use on two islands. The study examined the ... -
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 ... -
Old-growth forests and timber supply : a case study from the boreal forest
(1997)Historically in Canada, old-growth forest preservation concerns, research, and analyses have centred on the stately coniferous forests of British Columbia (e.g., Clayoquot Sound). Within the past decade, however, the ... -
Older adults as volunteers in Thunder Bay
(1993)This is a descriptive and exploratory study which examines the characteristics and expressed motivations among older adults in Thunder Bay toward volunteerism and if altruism is in fact the main reason for why older ... -
Older adults' use of memory strategies and self-reported medication compliance : a metacognitive model
(2000)Fifty community-dwelling adults aged 51-83 years of age (M=70.1, SD=7.61) reported their medication compliance and their use of memory strategies. The first goal of the present study was to replicate Gould McDonald-Miszczak, ... -
Older men's conceptions of masculinity, aging, and the body / by Stephanie Anderson Chesser.
(2010)While much gerontology research has focused on the female gendered experience of aging, little attention has been paid to the ways in which older men conceptualize their own masculinity. The objectives of this constructivist ... -
Older people's adaptation to new modes of communication
(2014-12-19)The advances in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the past three decades have served to improve the lives of older persons globally. While this evolution of ICT has in large measure benefited older Canadians, ... -
"Omar comin" : examining hegemonic masculinities in The Wire
(2018)This research explores ways that masculinity is depicted in the HBO series The Wire, which aired for five seasons from 2002-2008. More specifically, I examine and analyze the character of Omar Little and his portrayals ... -
"Omens of good and evidences of evil" : gender and respectability in the Thunder Bay Sentinel, 1875-1895
(2001)An exploration of late-Victorian ideals of masculinity and femininity, as well as masculine-feminine social and economic roles, through the pages of the Thunder Bay Sentinel (a weekly newspaper, Port Arthur, Ontario, ... -
On the control methedologies of a novel active vibration isolator
(2010)The work presented in this thesis is motivated by the need for new and effective methods to isolate vibrations in the rapidly growing technological sector, with particular interest in the control methodologies for active ... -
On the motion of vertical and oblique sand jets in stagnant immiscible liquids
(2019)Sand jets and particle clouds in water and viscous fluids have been a frequent subject of intense research and are pertinent to many environmental, industrial, and engineering processes. Mixing and dispersion of sand ... -
On the perfect orderability of unions of two graphs
(1996)A graph G is perfectly orderable if it admits an order < on its vertices such that the sequential coloring algorithm delivers an optimum coloring on each induced subgraph (H, <) of (G, <). A graph is a threshold graph ... -
On the spectrum G of a locally compact group G
(1999)Separation properties of the Fell topology, on the spectrum G of a locally compact group G, characterize important properties of G. We will develop three equivalent ways to describe the Fell topology on the spectrum  ... -
On-ice acceleration as a function of the Wingate anaerobic test and a biomechanical assessment of skating technique in elite ice hockey players
(2000)Success in ice hockey depends on an individual’s ability to accelerate from a standing start or change direction and continue skating quickly and efficiently. Previous research to determine those factors which had the ... -
On-line estimation of first order plus dead time process parameters based on under or over-parameterized models
(2007)Simple on-line process identification methods that can be used in tuning PID controllers or any other controllers have been studied in this work. The underlying continuous-time first order plus dead time FOPDT process model ... -
On-line optimization of thermomechanical pulping rejects screen using modified sequential simplex method
(2003)The sequential simplex method (SSM) was blended with the Nelder and Mead method to create two separate simplex methods. The first method is the Equilateral Optimum Following Simplex (EOFS). In this method, the simplex ... -
One world, one dream : comparisons of the newspaper coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games
(2009)This study compared and explored the newspaper coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic (OG) and Paralympic Games (PG) by a Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail. The methodology for this study was mixed methods design which ...
