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Varying food quality and its influence on spruce budworm growth, development, and fecundity
(1995)These studies assess how changing food quality influences spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.), in terms of the performance characteristics of survival, development, growth, and fecundity. The components of ... -
Vegetation and vegetation-environment relationships in a muskeg-fen near Thunder Bay, Ontario
(1979)This study takes place in an endangered peatland within the city of Thunder Bay Ontario. The study area, William Bog, is one of a few remaining peatlands in the Thunder Bay district which have developed on abandoned Minong ... -
Vegetation response to harvesting, harvesting and prescribed-burning and wildfire in Northwestern Ontario : patterns of reproductive strategies and nutrient accumulation
(1997)Initial species composition was investigated on a group of boreal mixedwood sites that had experienced various forms of disturbance. The hypothesis explored was that environmental changes caused by different disturbances ... -
Vegetative and sexual phenology, reproductive dynamics and bud differentiation in a clonal seed orchard of white and black spruce
(1981)To evaluate the importance of phenology and strobilus production in a clonal seed orchard of white and black spruce, 14 clones of each species represented by 4 ramets each, were selected from the Mattawin seed orchard. ... -
Verbal content and affective response in an interview : as a function of experimenter gaze direction
(1974)This study was designed to investigate the effects of one's looking or not looking at another's eyes upon the content of the other's speech and his affective response to the encounter. The relationships between experimenter ... -
Vibration suppression in a traversing mass-cantilever beam system
(2003)A cantilever beam carrying a traversing spring-mass system is modeled. Applications of the system include robot traversing on space trusses, loads moving along stacker cranes carrying moving loads in a large warehouse, ... -
Violent and aggressive students in Newfoundland and Labrador
(2002)Youth violence is a very real problem in North American schools. Understanding youth violence and aggression is key to developing effective school programs to reduce the number of violent acts in schools. This was a ... -
Vision-based trajectory tracking algorithm with obstacle avoidance for a wheeled mobile robot
(2005)Wheeled mobile robots are becoming increasingly important in industry as means of transportation, inspection, and operation because of their efficiency and flexibility. The design of efficient algorithms for autonomous ... -
Visual cryptography with cheating shares
(2006)Visual cryptography is a technique that applies the human visual system to decode encrypted information, such as text, image and number, without any sophisticated devices and computing capabilities. Therefore, compared ... -
Walk, stop, search : the effect of simulated motion on visual attention
(2006)Responses in covert orienting of visual attention tasks (COVAT) produce a biphasic pattern of results. When the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is less than 300 ms, reaction times (RTs) to cued targets are faster than ... -
Water and crop biomass dynamics in a Cassia siamea Lam. and Zea mays L. alley cropping system
(1994)Alley cropping is a crop production system in which food crops are grown in the alleys created by hedgerows of selected tree species, preferably legumes. The objective of this study was to model a Cassia /maize alley ... -
Water chemistry: its effects on amphibians in Northwestern Ontario, Canada
(2004)Understanding the role that abiotic environmental factors play in determining the distribution of organisms is of fundamental importance to ecologists. Most amphibians are inherently dependent on aquatic habitats and ... -
Water quality and toxicity investigations of two pit lakes at the former Steep Rock iron mines, near Atikokan, Ontario / by Andrea R. Goold.
(2008)Caland and Hogarth Pit Lakes formed after cessation of mining and dewatering efforts of open-pit iron mines, near Atikokan, Ontario. They were assessed for w ater quality changes since monitoring began in 1998. ... -
Water symbolism in the fiction of Margaret Laurence
(1985)Margaret Laurence makes frequent reference to the element, water, and also uses water-related words in her fiction; often these convey symbolic meanings. This thesis is based on a study of Laurence's five novels: This ... -
Wave reflections in a semi-infinitely long cylinder with an attached solid of revolution
(2008)A numerical procedure is presented for the study of end reflections in a semi-infinitely long isotropic circular cylinder with attached piezoelectric patch. The hybrid method which combines the finite element formulation ... -
Weaving the literary quilt : the layering of narrative in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water
(2004)This thesis explores the ways in which Thomas King layers levels of textual and symbolic narrative in order to show that truth is a relative concept that cannot be strictly bound by conventional, essentialist beliefs. In ... -
Web services - agent based model for inter-enterprise collaboration
(2004)Web Services technology is an emerging paradigm in establishing a standard environment for legacy applications integration over the Internet. Using Web services and related technologies facilitate the implementation of ... -
Weight distribution patterns among golfers of different skill levels
(1993)The purpose of the study was to determine whether a significant relationship existed between the skill level of golfers and the weight distribution patterns exhibited during the putting stroke. A differential research ...