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The social experiences of depression among Lakehead University students
(2021)While depression is known to be prevalent among university students (Ibrahim et al. 2013), there has been little research on how students deal with this in day-to-day life. Drawing on 21 semistructured interviews with ... -
Social facilitation of extinction in rats
(1991)Theories of resistance to extinction such as the generalized decrement theory (GDT) have been largely based on research involving isolated individuals. In the natural environment however, extinction, like acquisition ... -
Social justice and equity : exploring the perspectives of senior administrators on whiteness and racism in postsecondary education
(2015-08-05)This study explored senior administrators‘ perspectives on Whiteness and racism in postsecondary education. The study focused on Canadian senior administrators at postsecondary institutions located in 2 provinces and in 2 ... -
Social modeling of eating and the mirror neuron system: the role of neurophysiological mechanisms in predicting susceptibility to modeling
(2017)The social modeling of eating effect refers to the consistently demonstrated phenomenon that individuals tend to match the quantity of their food intake to their eating companion. The current study aimed to explore the ... -
Social network analysis of lake sturgeon in the Namakan River and Reservoir, Fort Frances District, Ontario
(2017)Social network analysis is the study of individuals or units and the relationship between them at a given time. It allows insight about evolution, maintenance of social relationships, and behavioural characteristics. These ... -
Social-ecological resurgence through farmers’ traditional knowledge and agroecology in Pakistan
(2024)There is an urgent need to transform global food systems. Basic food supply chains have been disrupted due to the structural vulnerabilities within the dominant food system. Scholars, ecologists, smallholder farmers, ... -
Sociological investigation of "The Simpsons" with respect to the institution of education
(1997)Operating from the premise that episodic television comedy The Simpsons is perceived more as a living culture than as a symbolic artifact, this thesis uses a qualitative approach to examine the program's education system ... -
Sociotropy and perception of own and close friend's dieting behaviours and body image
(2012)A woman’s physical appearance has been strongly associated with her sense of self-worth and success. Moreover, through family, media and one’s friends, messages of an unrealistically thin ideal body have been perpetuated, ... -
Soft path approach as a water management strategy: a case study in Thunder Bay, Ontario
(2014)The purpose of this research is to examine the criteria for a soft path approach as it may apply to municipal water management in the City of Thunder Bay. A categorization of Thunder Bay's water management practices was ... -
Soil characteristics of the deciduous forests in Central Ontario and their relationships with site indicies of sugar maple, American beech and red oak
(2004)Tolerant hardwood forests occupy a broad geographic range in Ontario and they are important for their ecological and economical values. Although sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.), American beech (Fagus grandifolia ... -
Soil respiration following alternative site preparation treatments in a boreal mixedwood forest
(1996)The effects of experimental site preparation on CO2 evolution and on planted black spruce {Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) seedling growth were studied one year after the site preparation treatment, during the 1994 growing ... -
Soil-site relations for jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) in Northeastern Ontario
(1994)Site index of jack pine {Pinus banksiana Lamb) measured on 76 plots in northeastern Ontario was related to features of soil and topography using multiple regression. Site index at breast height age 50 years (SIBHSO) was ... -
Soil-site relations for jack pine in the Thunder Bay area
(1986)Site index of natural jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) in the Thunder Bay area was related to features of soil and topography using multiple regression analyses. Site index (SI, height of jack pine trees at 50 years from ... -
Soil-site relations for trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) in Northwestern Ontario
(1991)Soil-site relations for trembling aspen in Northwestern Ontario were studied using 98 site plots representing a wide range of glacial landforms, soil conditions, and site quality. Site index was related to features of ... -
Soil-site relationships for young white spruce plantations in north central Ontario
(1991)Site index of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) in North Central Ontario was related to features of soil and topography using both multiple regression techniques and principal component analysis. Two different ... -
Some dielectric and spectroscopic studies on hydrogen bonding
(1984)Dielectric relaxation studies were carried out principally on some hydroxy compounds (e.g., phenols) and some carboxylic acids in polystyrene (PS) matrices and, in some cases, in compressed solids (CS). The hydroxy compounds ... -
Some dielectric studies
(1969)Two methods of approach are current in the literature for the interpretation of dielectric relaxation. One is that due to Debye which assumes that the relaxation process has its origin in the retardation of molecular ... -
Some dielectric studies of molecular and intramolecular motions
(1978)Dielectric relaxation studies of a series of polar diaryl molecules and of some analogous rigid molecules dispersed in atactic polystyrene and poly(vinyltoluene) have been carried out. Preparation of both polymer matrices ...