Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Implications of the metaboreflex on cerebral blood flow: physiological responses and assessment strategies
(2021)Exercise is responsible for acutely modifying cerebral blood flow (CBF) during an exercise bout, and eliciting chronic increases to resting CBF in trained individuals. Research to date has focussed on the individual ... -
Implementing a tree pruning cycle into the city of Thunder Bay
(2021)Several cities in Ontario and across Canada were contacted regarding their tree pruning programs. Of the ten from Ontario that responded, seven had a cyclical tree pruning program. Annual budgets ranged from $50,000 up ... -
Effects of soil microorganisms on bamboo (Phyllostachys praecon C. D. Chu et C. S. Chao 'Prevernalis) growth
(2021)Soil microorganisms and plants together form a stable dynamic system in which they interact and influence each other. The growth and development of plants provide nutrients to the soil microorganisms, which in turn promote ... -
The correlation between fire and boreal forest soil degradation: a review of the effects of forest fire on soil properties
(2021)The boreal forest has a vast area, and its types are distributed in a belt around the polar regions. The soil types of boreal forests are also different due to different vegetation types and climatic conditions in the ... -
A review and evaluation of growth response, stand value and profitability of pre-commercially thinned Jack pine stands in Northwestern Ontario
(2021)This thesis will be a literature review with the purpose of evaluating the impact precommercial thinning (PCT) has on the tree growth response and if it can meet the objective of profitability in Jack pine (Pinus banksiana ... -
The management plan and forest inventory of a private woodlot in Southern Ontario
(2021)In Southern Ontario, private landowners hold the majority of forested land because of privatization. These property owners face degraded forests because of past logging practices. Other challenges faced by these owners ... -
Manual tending is a viable alternative to herbicide application in the Lake Nipigon forest
(2021)This thesis explores the viable alternative to tending crop plantations by implementing manual tending instead of herbicide application in the Lake Nipigon Forest. The thesis provides a comparative analysis between manual ... -
Crossing the divide: supporting students and families relocating from remote First Nations communities to urban centres
(2020)This research explores the experiences of First Nations students and families when they relocate from their homes in remote First Nations communities to an urban centre. The research considers student, family and school ... -
Study of the activation of the inflammasome protein complex by Haemophilus influenzae Type a
(2021)Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) is a gram-negative bacterium capable of causing severe invasive infection such as meningitis and is classified by the presence or absence of polysaccharide capsule. The polysaccharide capsule ... -
Using homophily to analyze and develop link prediction models with deep learning framework
(2021)Twitter is a prominent social networking platform where users’ short messages or “tweets” are often used for analysis. However, there has not been much attention paid to mining the medical professions, such as detecting ... -
The effect of sociodemographic and health system factors on the association between multimorbidity and colorectal cancer survival
(2021)This thesis aimed to assess the effect of multimorbidity (MMB) on colorectal cancer (CRC) patients’ survival and explored whether sociodemographic and health system factors affected this relationship or not. This thesis ... -
Compact magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound phased array system
(2021)Phased array ultrasound transducers (Txs) can induce electronically controllable localized hyperthermia to tissue deep within the human body. This localized heating can be applied to tumours as an adjunct therapy in ... -
Abundance, transportation, and preservation of Mysis diluviana eDNA in freshwater ecosystems
(2021)Environmental DNA (eDNA) has proven to be a valuable tool in detecting rare or invasive species, particularly within the Great Lakes and surrounding aquatic ecosystems. Recent work has shown that sedimentary eDNA (sedDNA) ... -
Climate change impacts on the health and livelihoods of Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario
(2021)Climate change is expected to affect people’s health and livelihoods in northern Indigenous communities more adversely than in others due to existing socio-economic conditions and direct reliance on the environment to ... -
Efficacy of a multimolecular extraction from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue
(2021)As the genetic basis and gene expression components are being discovered for an increasing number of diseases and disorders there is a rising interest in using multiomic approaches to better understand these conditions. ... -
Development of a language model and opinion extraction for text analysis of online platforms
(2021)Language models are one of the fundamental components in a wide variety of natural language processing tasks. The proliferation of text data over the last two decades and the developments in the field of deep learning ... -
Gallium nitride on low temperature cofired ceramic templates for Schottky junctions
(2021)In this work aluminum, silicon and zinc oxide were used as intermediate layers for thin film growth on cofired glass ceramic substrates. The motivation behind this work is a direct deposition of nitride thin films on the ... -
Behavior of exposed column base plate connection subjected to combined axial load and biaxial bending
(2021)Column base plate (CBP) connections are one of the most crucial structural components of steel structures that act as a transfer medium for all the forces and moments from the entire building into the foundation. Importance ...