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Annotated list of the ants of the Thunder Bay District
(1970)Thirty nine species and subspecies of ants were collected from the Thunder Bay District of Ontario, Canada, in the summer of 1970. Extensions of known range were recorded for Leptothorax poss. texanus, Camponotus ... -
Annual production and population dynamics of a relatively unexploited walleye, Stizostedion vitreum vitreum (Mitchill 1818), population in Savanne Lake, Ontario
(1979)Most studies of the walleye have been conducted on highly exploited populations. Savanne Lake in northwestern Ontario, and having an area of 364.29 ha, was exploited until 1969, whereupon it was designated a fish ... -
Antipsychotic medications and disruptive behavior in long term care : a path analysis / by Annie Roy.
(2008)The purpose of this study was to examine the frequencies and structure of score on Minimum Data Set 2.0 (MDS 2.0) items relevant to disruptive behaviour and antipsychotic medications in Ontario LTC home residents. These ... -
Application and review of a strength-based program in classrooms with behavior disordered children
(2003)The strength perspective of psychology involves focusing on an individual’s resources rather than weaknesses. Recent studies have found that enhancing existing strengths achieves the same outcome as the deficit approach, ... -
Application of a physically based hydrological model on a semi-arid watershed in Northern Ghana
(1997)Land degradation in semi-arid environments is increasing due to rapid population growth, poor landuse practices and variable climate conditions. Landuse planners require a better understanding of the impact that proposed ... -
Application of a sequential partial extraction procedure to investigate uranium, copper, zinc, iron and manganese partitioning in recent lake, stream and bog sediments, northern Saskatchewan / by Douglas Andrew Warren Lehto. --
(1981)Sequential partial extractions show that partitioning of uranium, copper, zinc, iron and manganese into lake, stream and bog sediments are affected by the type and abundance of component fractions present in sediments ... -
Application of acceleration frequency domain factors in the analysis of headform impacts / by Evan Walsh.
(2008)This research thesis was composed of two studies. The first study was a pilot investigation to show evidence of the validity and reliability of the instruments and methodology used in the second, main investigation. The ... -
Application of the transtheoretical model of change to binge eating and smoking
(1999)Applicability of the stage of change and decisional balance constructs for bingers and smokers was examined in a study of 191 participants; bingers (n = 47), smokers (n = 80), and controls (n = 64). The Stage of Change ... -
Applications of chaos theory to history in the novels of Michael Ondaatje : disorder within order in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter and In the Skin of a Lion
(2001)This is a thesis studying Literary Chaos Theory and its use in explicating the novels of Michael Ondaatje. The paper concentrates on elements of Chaos theory, such as ‘strange attractors,’ ‘bifurcation points’ and ... -
Applications of satellite remote sensing to develop forest inventory for strategic-level planning
(2003)Forest inventory is the fundamental base information for most decision making processes in today’s forest management planning. Recently in Ontario, with increasing industrial involvement, new environmental and multiple ... -
Applying criteria and indicators to assess ecological integrity of a boreal national park and adjoining forest management units / by Andrew James Promaine.
(1999)Assessing and evaluating ecological integrity is a complex and often subjective task. However, recent legislative changes have forced ecosystem managers to develop more quantitative techniques to measure ecological ... -
Approach to predict nutrient status and growth response of fertilized jack pine by foliar diagnosis
(1979)A factorial experiment testing N, P and K fertilizers, and a series of simpler, two-treatment (control and NPK) fertilizer trials were established in a range of jack pine stands to determine the application of a foliar ... -
Approximate inverse based multigrid solution of large sparse linear systems
(1988)In this thesis we study the approximate inverse based multigrid algorithm FAPIN for the solution of large sparse linear systems of equations. This algorithm, which is closely related to the well known multigrid V-cycle, ... -
Archetypal symbolism in William Faulkner's Light in August
(1974)The following paper is an investigation of the extent of the archetypal symbolism in one of William Faulkner's greatest novels, Light in August. It proceeds from a definition of archetypal symbolism combining major literary, ... -
Archetypes of the collective unconscious in three novels by John Steinbeck
(1974)The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the influence of work of Carl Gustav Jung on the fiction of John Steinbeck and to illustrate the value and appropriateness of Jung's psychology as a critical tool in explicating ... -
Arguesian lattices of order 3
(1981)Since the mid 19th century it has been known that every Desarguean projective’ plane is coordinatizable over a division ring. This coordinatization procedure was used by von Neumann [9] to show that every complemented ... -
Arousal imagery effects on competitive state anxiety and performance of the soccer penalty kick
(2000)Study participants: 2 soccer teams in Northwestern Ontario (age 13-18 years). -
Art and music in the fiction of Helen Weinzweig
(2000)Critics Northrop Frye and, more recently, Linda Hutcheon have commented tellingly on the relationships that exist among Canadian art, music and literature. Perhaps surprisingly, aside from an incidental comment here and ... -
An arts-informed study of Artemis and Apollo: implications for teachers
(2008)Using arts-informed research and the intuitive artistic processes of drawing and painting I searched for visual symbols and feelings in the myths of Artemis and Apollo. Visual imagery, symbols and meaning provide a ...