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Constraints on the formation of depositional placer accumulations in coarse alluvial braided river systems
(1989)Placer accumulations are formed by the preferential sedimentation of heavy minerals from the general population of detritus being transported by a fluid. The depth, velocity, and grain size conditions under which placers ... -
Constructing bodies of knowledge: examining the discursive sites through which individuals come to understand what "health" means
(2015-02-02)How individuals perceive and understand health will impact the health behaviours that they en-gage in, how they engage with the healthcare system, and how they perceive themselves on a spectrum of healthfulness. Perceptions ... -
Constructing local culture in a near media monopoloy
(2003)The main objective of this thesis is to examine how the local radio news media in Thunder Bay construct local culture. Two paradigms are used to explain this process: instrumentalism and structuralism. Although other ... -
Constructing two-dimensional molecular networks on metal and semiconducting surfaces : a scanning tunneling microscopy study
(2019)The synthesis of two-dimensional organic nanostructures on metal and semiconducting surfaces is studied under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions. Three halogenated organic molecules are investigated using scanning tunneling ... -
Constructing unitizing: the critical strategies and models that build this essential mathematical concept
(2015-06-15)The focus of this longitudinal case study was to investigate the progressive development of unitizing in a cohort of students receiving reform-oriented mathematics instruction. One-on-one videotaped mathematics interviews ... -
Construction of a local Lie group from its Lie algebra
(1992)In "Symmetry Groups and Their Applications", by W. Miller [1, p.152-206], Miller discusses local Lie group theory and certain resulting applications in special function theory, in the course of this discussion Miller ... -
The consumed university: probing neoliberalism in higher educaton
(2018)This study probes the influence of neoliberal ideas and ideology in Canadian higher education. In order to examine such an influence, this study subjected the texts and artifacts from 14 Canadian university recruitment ... -
Content analysis of Men's Health magazine : masculinity and health
(2009)"Launched in 1987 as a health-oriented service magazine by founding editor Mark Bricklin, Men's Health has evolved into a lifestyle magazine for men, covering areas such as health, fitness, nutrition, relationships, travel, ... -
Content analysis of The Globe and Mail sports section coverage of the Winter Olympic Games
(1994)The purpose of this research was to collect empirical data on the Globe and Mail sports section coverage of the Modern Winter Olympic Games from 1924 to 1992; focusing on the coverage of male and female athletes ... -
Context aware services for smart learning environments
(2009)This thesis describes a cost-effective infrastructure and implementation for building ubiquitous learning spaces. It uses techniques from the semantic web and ubiquitous computing to build a learner-centric service-based ... -
Context sensitive neural network by overlapped systems
(2006)The use of context dependency in neural networks is an important issue in many cognitive situations. In this report we introduce a novel context dependent neural network model based on overlapped multi-neural network ... -
Context-aware mobile learning on the semantic web / by Xiaoyun Zhang.
(2008)Progress made in Semantic Web technologies and Ubiquitous Computing has lead to the development of mobile learning services that can adapt to the learner's background, learner's needs, and surrounding environment. In ... -
Contextualized garden-based mathematics
(2018)Research has investigated the use of locally valued activities to contextualize mathematics for First Nations students; for example, Beatty and Blair (2015), Lipka, Sharp, Adams, and Sharp (2007) , Nicol, Archibald, and ... -
Contextualizing an inventory for identifying critical incident exposure among Northwestern Ontario paramedics
(2021)As first responders, paramedics provide pre-hospital care to the public and experience exposure to critical incidents. Critical incidents are events that produce strong emotional reactions in emergency service personnel ... -
Contingent self-worth moderates the relationship between self-esteem and heart rate variability
(2014-11-28)Criticisms in the field of self-esteem research have led to new methods for conceptualizing and measuring the construct. One such method proposed by Crocker and Wolfe (2001) is that of contingent self-worth (CSW). Studies ... -
Continuing education needs of registered nurses in Northwestern Ontario : a needs assessment approach / Laura Kokocinski.
(1995)In Canada, there has been little progress in the development and advancement of continuing nursing education since World War II. The recent release of national and provincial documents, the trend toward specialization ... -
The contribution of fish movement to ecosystem function in Lake Superior
(2023)Ecosystems are complex, highly interconnected systems in which organisms interact with their physical environment. Often, to simplify our understanding of their function, populations within ecosystems are treated as either ... -
Contribution to the study of Volkische Ideologie and Deutschtumsarbeit among the Germans in Canada during the inter-war period
(1997)Between World Wars I and II, the ethnic Germans in Canada strove to retain their language and culture. The impetus came on the heels of the Great War because lingering anti-German sentiment and assimilationist policies ...