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Using vehicular traffic count data to estimate the factors driving water-based recreation use in northwestern Ontario, Canada
(2010)
Within Canada's publicly owned forests (i.e., Crown forests), little information is available about how and when people use lakes and rivers for recreation. I report an example of using traffic monitoring to identify both ...
Measuring patients' perceptions of privacy and its outcomes in health care
(2011)
The purpose of this study is two-fold. The first is to develop a measurement instrument of patient perceptions of privacy in the healthcare sector. Privacy is critical in health care since it affects patient perceptions ...
Attitude estimation and stabilization of a quadrotor aircraft
(2011)
In the past few years, researchers have shown great interest in quadrotor aircraft
as a platform for UAV research due to simplicity of construction as well
as maintenance, ability to hover in small indoor locations or ...
Exploring the relationship between health-related fitness and biological CVD risk factors in Canadian young adult men and women
(2012)
It is well known that physical inactivity leads to development of poor musculoskeletal health and obesity, two major modifiable risk factors for the development of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD; Eyre, Kahn, & Robertson, ...
Amorphous selenium (a-Se) avalanche photodetector for applications in positron emission tomography (PET)
(2011)
Although avalanche amorphous selenium (a-Se) is a very promising photoconductor for a variety of imaging applications, it is currently restricted to applications with electron beam readout. This is performed with a vacuum ...
Dual-modality image guided high intensity focused ultrasound device design for prostate cancer : a numerical study
(2010)
In this study we established the feasibility of designing a multi-element high intensity focused
ultrasound (HIFU) device for Magnetic Resonance and an ultrasound imaging-guided transrectal
treatment of prostate cancer. ...
Using coarse-scale physical lake characteristics to model lake sturgeon (acipenser fulvescens) feeding habitat and their prey
(2012)
Coarse-scale, physical lake characteristics (lake fetch, shoreline exposure, and littoral-zone slope) were investigated as to their ability to predict benthic macroinvertebrate communities and lake sturgeon feeding along ...
An Analysis of motivation and motivational climate in physical education class of enrolled and non-enrolled female adolescent students
(2012)
This study investigated female adolescent students‘ motivation towards high school physical education (PE) class and the relationship of motivational class climate of enrolled and non-enrolled female adolescent students. ...
An economic analysis of an American ginseng growing operation in a woodlot in Janetville, Ontario
(2018)
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) has been valued for centuries as a medicine, particularly in Asian cultures. It is highly valuable, and as a result it has been poached to endangered levels throughout much of its ...
eFRI and Growth & Yield in Ontario: A Literature Review
(2018)
The forests of Ontario are a vast resource owned by the Crown that has been subjected to many methods of forest management since the beginning of Ontario as a province. The forest resource was thought of as inexhaustible ...