Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Title
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Plant community assembly 15-37 years after clearcutting, clearcutting plus prescribed burning, and wildfire in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest of Central Canada
(2010)Study area: Northwestern Ontario. -
Plant diversity effect on soil carbon dynamics
(2019)Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a valuable natural resource, supplying goods and services for human benefits, including mediating global climate change and securing food production and environmental quality. Biodiversity loss ... -
Plant microfossil analysis of middle woodland food residues, northern Minnesota
(2014-12-12)Northern Minnesota lies within the southern edge of the Boreal Forest and, as a result, archaeological sites in this region typically have poor organic preservation and thin, disturbed, stratigraphy. For this reason, little ... -
Plant mixture effects on fine-root biomass and its functional traits
(2023)Fine roots play a critical role in the uptake of soil water and nutrients and make a crucial contribution to the carbon pool through their fast turnover rate and subsequent decay. Plant traitbased approach enables us to ... -
Planting the seeds of local food capacity in Northern, Provincial Canada: a case study of community and market gardening initiatives in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
(2021)This thesis explores the impacts of two gardening initiatives – a community garden and a market garden – in a municipality inhabited mostly by Indigenous people in Northern Saskatchewan. This case study employed an ... -
Plasmonic nanostructure on a tapered fiber for chemical detection
(2017)A simple, cost effective technique to manufacture plasmonic nanostructures as a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrate was investigated. The plasmonic structure of gold nanorods was developed on the surface ... -
Poetizing disability : arts-informed reflections
(2009)Through arts-informed educational research, I engaged in poetic exploration of the lived experience of disability. Theorizing and creating through poetry helped me to reflect and deepen my understanding of my own disability, ... -
Polar bears: the conservation of an arctic icon in a warming climate
(2014-12-16)Subpopulation growth rates and the probability of decline at current harvest levels were determined for 13 subpopulations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) that are within or shared with Canada based on the most recent ... -
Population genetics and phylogeography of aplodinotus grunniens (freshwater drum)
(2013-02-03)The purpose of this study is to determine the population genetic and phylogeographic structure of Aplodinotus grunniens (freshwater drum) populations through analysis of the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2) region and ... -
Pore-scale modelling of electrochemically reactive flow
(2022)Electrochemistry, a field revolving around charge transport, is omnipresent in our every-day life. It is found in batteries, water treatment, medicine, and food processing, to name a few. Water dissolves more substances ... -
Position control of a quadrotor UAV using stereo computer vision
(2019)Quadrotors are a recent popular consumer product, prompting further developments with regards to combining attitude and position control for such unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The quadrotor’s attitude (orientation) ... -
Positron/electron annihilation via the two-photon pathway
(2012-11-10)When a positron/electron pair annihilate via the two-photon pathway, the emitted photons are momentum correlated. This correlation ensures that they move along a straight line path in opposite directions. An experiment ... -
Postmodern imaginative constructivism for STSE understanding
(2014-12-05)The influences of science and technology on society and the environment (STSE) have been an integral component of the formal educational curricula for four decades, and yet industrialized countries frequently struggle ... -
Posttraumatic growth, depreciation, and psychopathology following sexual victimization: a unified model of predictors
(2023)Sexual violence is amongst the most detrimental events a woman can experience, with survivors suffering long-term consequences to their mental health and perception of self. However, accumulating research shows trauma ... -
Potential dual purpose molecular probe for HPV16 E6: a computational and experimental approach
(2015-08-05)The goal of this project is to find a molecular probe for HPV variant 16 protein E6. This goal is accomplished using a combination of Virtual Ligand Screening (VLS) and experimental ligand binding assays. Protein E6 is ... -
The Potential use of SIFT-MS as a breath diagnostic tool
(2009)The measurement of volatile chemicals in human breath has recently emerged as a non-invasive technique with the potential for the early diagnosis of disease. A benefit of early diagnosis is that treatment plans including ... -
Power efficient survivable routing with p-cycles
(2011)Power awareness in networking has been a vital area of research in wireless networks but, until recently, has been largely ignored in wired networks. In wireless applications, the amount of power utilized by transmission ... -
Power loss investigation in low power current source inverters using wideband gap devices for solar energy applications
(2023)With the steady expansion of renewable energy comes the need to develop next-generation power converters focusing on high power density, efficiency, and reliability with lowered costs, simple structure, and the ability ... -
Power loss investigation of series-connected current source inverters
(2021)Current-source inverters (CSIs) are a type of direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) converters that generate a defined AC output current waveform from a DC current supply. As the counterpart of voltage source ... -
Power minimization and optimum ONU placements in integrated wireless optical access networks
(2014-01-22)The deployment of optical fibre in place of copper cable in access networks has experienced remarkable growth over the past several years due to a wide range of benefits. A major benefit of optical fibre over copper cable ...