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Books and readers, 1596; a survey and analysis of all books printed in England or in English abroad during the year 1596
(1971)This thesis attempts to capture the temper of English life in 1596 through the medium of its extant printed works. It examines all of the extant printed works from that year in the fields of religion, the arts, education ... -
Boosting feature extraction performance on the aspect of representation learning efficiency
(2022)Machine learning is famous for its automatic data handling. While there is a slow growth in the performance of the state-of-the-art models in the most recent well-known learning frameworks, the number of parameters and ... -
Boosting performance of transactional memory through transactional read tracking and set associative locks
(2013)Multi-core processors have become so prevalent in server, desktop, and even embedded systems that they are considered the norm for modem computing systems. The trend is likely toward many-core processors with many more ... -
Bottom-up and top-down forces shaping caribou forage availability on the Lake Superior coast
(2013-02-03)Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) occupying the Lake Superior Coastal distribution, Ontario, exist in three subpopulations with distinct ranges and demographics. In this study, three ranges are analyzed in terms of ... -
Braided strands of meaning : Mavis Gallant's language
(1994)This thesis grew out o£ the difficulties in classifying Gallant’s fiction. Critics, when examining the works of Mavis Gallant, have tended to use a thematic approach: the themes of exile, fractured human relationships, ... -
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services (Inc.) program evaluation
(1995)This study is a qualitative evaluation of a community based social service agency whose mandate is to provide services for persons living with the effects of head injury. Designed to describe program operations from ... -
Bravery, accountability, and praxis: decolonizing international education
(2020)International education operates in a fundamentally post/colonial paradigm. This study aims to amplify the voices of a diverse group of students, learning at Green School, Bali (an international school environment) around ... -
Breast and cervical cancer screening : knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Vietnamese Canadian women living in Toronto, Ontario / by Tue Tran Nghi Nguyen.
(2006)Breast cancer is the most common cancer, and cervical cancer is the second most common cancer, among Vietnamese women in North America. This ranking replicates the order of cancer prevalence among women residing in ... -
Breast cancer in rural communities
(2010)This paper provides a review of the existing research on women’s experience of breast cancer in rural communities. It includes a total of 46 studies that used quantitative and qualitative research methods. In the review ... -
Breastfeeding and postpartum depression: assessing the influence of breastfeeding intention and other risk factors
(2015)Risk and protective factors for postpartum depression have been extensively studied, and more recently an association between breastfeeding and maternal mood has been reported. The purpose of the present study was to clarify ... -
Brief of professor Phil Lord in opposition to the proposed class action settlement in Leung v. Uber Canada Inc. et al.
(Elsevier, 2022)This is a Brief submitted in opposition to the proposed class action settlement in Leung v. Uber Canada Inc. et al. -
A brief review on restoration projects on Lake Superior coastal wetlands in Ontario, Canada
(2020)In recent years, human beings have done much damage to the lakes and wetlands, resulting in some irreversible effects. It is, therefore, necessary to restore and protect the remaining wetlands. The most representative ... -
British West Indians in Panama : an analysis of Linda Smart Chubb's memorandum in The Forgotten People / by Nicole Butzke.
(2008)"Of the many documents available to researchers, one report stands out as a unique first hand account of the history of the West Indian diaspora in Panama. In 1943 Linda Smart Chubb, a West Indian woman of British citizenship ... -
Brook Trout abundance and distribution at multiple spatial scales in Lake Superior tributaries
(2023)Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations and habitat conditions are adversely affected by anthropogenic impacts that could impact abundance and distribution of Brook Trout at different spatial scales. My goal was ... -
Buffering against the negative effects of body image media exposure : a comparison of social psychological interventions
(1999)Evidence of sociocultural influences on the development and maintenance of body image comes from shifting media trends and cross-cultural differences in the prevalence of eating disorders. Further, previous research has ... -
"Build it, they are already coming": railfan tourism in North America
(2012-11-10)Across North America many rail enthusiasts are engaged in watching and photographing trains. Most often these aficionados go unnoticed, but increasingly small cities and towns are accommodating these "railfans". A review ... -
Building a semantic blog support system for gene Learning Objects on Web 2.0 environment / by Wei Yuan.
(2008)Blogging has become a popular practice on Internet in recent years, and it has been used as information publishing and participate platforms. In recent years, a style of blog called 'semantic blogs' have been introduced ... -
Building an EMPOWERed Classroom: examining the impact of a two-session virtual workshop on mental health literacy and self-efficacy to recommend mental health resources among postsecondary course instructors
(2023)Postsecondary students are a population at elevated risk for mental health concerns due to the unique stressors they face regularly compounded by pandemic induced barriers to support. With an increase in both the prevalence ...