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Iron status and cognitive performance in adolescent females
(2006)Study group from high schools in the Thunder Bay Region (Northwestern Ontario). -
Is patch use determined by fine-scale microhabitat differences or density dependent habitat selection?
(2006)If individuals base their patch and habitat choices on fine-scale differences in microhabitat, then their use o f patches, defined by capture sites, should correspond with measures o f microhabitat. But if individuals ... -
Issues influencing implementation of inclusion in the regular classroom : perspectives from special education and regular classroom teachers
(2007)This study was premised upon the issues that influence the successful implementation of inclusion in the regular classroom. In particular, this qualitative research investigated the perspectives of experienced regular ... -
The Italian community in Fort William's East End in the early twentieth century
(1977)By the turn of the twentieth century in the midst of almost every significant urban centre of Canada and the United States, there existed a so-called "Little Italy" or "Italian Colony". These were sections of cities or ... -
Item response theory analyses of the Personality Assessment Inventory in samples of methadone maintenance patients and university students / by Albert Patrick Gouge.
(2008)This dissertation employed a variety of item response theory models and methods to examine the psychometric function of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in a sample of opioid dependent individuals (TV = 323) ... -
Iterative learning control for robot manipulators
(2004)When a system is performing the same task repeatedly it is, from an engineering perspective, advantageous to use the knowledge from the previous iterations of the same task in order to reduce the error on successive ... -
Job satisfaction of secondary school principals in the Rift Valley province of Kenya
(1993)Few studies have examined how school administrators in Kenya perceive their work and employment conditions. The primary purpose of this study was to determine which aspects of the principal' s position contributed to ... -
Job sharing in a rural satellite health clinic : a human health resource model for retention
(2008)Disparities in health care access and health human resources exist in rural communities. Rural nursing practice is very challenging which leads to retention issues. Job sharing is an innovative scheduling solution. The ... -
Joint design of PAPR, PICR and OBP in OFDM systems
(2008)Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique has been adopted by many existing and future wireless communication systems for high-speed data transmission. However, a major problem of OFDM systems is the high ... -
Jungian bridge to native philosophy
(1997)The gap between Western and Native world views is much more profound than the West has imagined. I support this claim from a variety of angles and offer insight into it from the work of Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung ... -
Kakanjegawin, to know. Anishinawbe epistemology and education : a philosophic and holistic exploration of Anishinawbe approaches to knowledge and implications in education / by Amy Lynn Farrell.
(2008)Ttiis literature-based study explores the holistic and tradition-based Anishinawbe knowledge systems and what it means to know in the Anishinawbe sense. Several aspects of discussion include the source from which knowledge ... -
Kind of prohibition : alcohol administration in pre-computer Ontario, Canada 1927-1975
(2006)This thesis describes in detail the development of a vast bureaucracy of surveillance by provincial authorities around alcohol control, and concerns itself with the categories employed in a vast social sorting operation ... -
Knowledge and practices of women in rural Nkwerre, Nigeria, regarding cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening / by Cynthia Ihekwoaba.
(2007)The International Network of Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR, 2004) has identified cancer as a major health problem in Nigeria, as in most other African countries. Cervical cancer is the commonest cancer in the ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about HIV/AIDS among males and females aged 15 to 49 in Cameroon, Africa / by Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi.
(2007)Levels of knowledge about AIDS are widely believed to be high in Cameroon, a country with low prevalence rates compared to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, not much effort has been made to evaluate these ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of individuals attending influenza immunization clinics sponsored by the regional municipality of York / by Lara McLees.
(2008)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 ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of Whitefish Bay residents regarding type 2 diabetes / by Ella Goodman.
(2007)The purpose of this study was to explore Whitefish Bay residents’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of Type 2 diabetes. The objectives were to examine current literature related to Type 2 diabetes with an emphasis on the ... -
Knowledge, experience, perceptions and beliefs of women with cardiovascular disease in Northwestern Ontario
(2006)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary killer of men and women. Mortality rates in Northwestern Ontario (NWO) continue to be higher than the provincial average. Current trends suggest that cardiac-related deaths for ...