Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Title
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Fish biomonitoring in an industrial environment : the Toxicity Early Warning System (TEWS)
(2009)Industrial, agricultural and municipal effluent discharge into receiving waters continues to be a significant environmental problem. Currently, industrial effluent quality is assessed using chemical assays or by evaluating ... -
Fitness that fits: evaluating the effectiveness of an individualized, choice-based, matching tool for older adults
(2014-01-22)Background/Objective: A positive relationship exists between exercise and improved overall health; this is especially important for older adults since they have been identified as the most sedentary segment of the North ... -
Flexural bending behaviour of built-up glulam box-selection beams at ambient and elevated temperatures
(2018)The recent increasing trend of sustainable construction and advancement in the manufacturing of engineered wood have made products such as glued-laminated timber (glulam) and cross-laminated timber (CLT) preferred building ... -
Flocculation performance of lignin-acrylamide derivatives
(2019)Wastewater produced in different industries contains fine suspended particles that raise a number of environmental concerns due to their potential toxicity and physicochemical properties and make their removal from industrial ... -
Floristic composition and functional stability of black spruce-Kalmia shrub savannah
(2023)Scope: In eastern Canada, black spruce (Picea mariana)-Kalmia angustifolia forest revert into forest, or become Kalmia heath, or Kalmia-spruce shrub savannah (SS) depending on fire severity. My main research objective ... -
Floristic structure, composition and depth of edge influence at buffer and wildfire edges along small boreal streams
(2009)Within the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario clearcutting and fire are the most common edge-creating disturbances. Along streams, wild fire consumes the majority of trees to the edge of riparian zones. However, forest ... -
Focusing on the future: Congolese students’ perceptions of and experiences with secondary education in Nyarugusu Camp
(2020)In Nyarugusu Camp, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, only 7% of youth are enrolled in secondary school. While literature on refugee education has focused almost exclusively on organizational aspects of planning ... -
Foliar nutrient resorption and litterfall production with stand age, overstory composition, and disturbance origin in boreal forests
(2015-01-13)Nutrient resorption (NuR) prior to developmental senescence allows for nutrient conservation in plants, driven primarily by genetics, development stage, climate and soil fertility, and litterfall is the vector for the ... -
Folk schools: slow education for fast times
(2017)Folk schools are an enduring vision of nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Nikolai Severin Grundtvig. These schools for life offer non-competitive, non-vocational, residential, youth and adult education. This thesis ... -
Food security advocacy and activism among post-secondary students: a case study of Lakehead University
(2023)This research project is a case study that explores post-secondary student food insecurity advocacy and activism at one Northern Ontario university. Using a feminist intersectional case study approach, I examine how the ... -
Formational processes of recent, arsenic rich, ferromanganese lacustrine precipitates in Nova Scotia and Northern Ontario
(2014-01-22)Banded iron - and manganese - rich precipitates were collected from the lake bottoms of Lake Charlotte (Nova Scotia), Lake Shebandowan (Ontario) and Sowden Lake (Ontario). Investigations of study areas at the macro, meso ... -
Fostering greater equity and inclusion with plant-based food options in school: a critical inquiry with elementary parents in the Lakehead District School Board
(2022)While there has been increasing attention to equity and inclusion in Ontario schools, school food and drink offerings have yet to be explicitly incorporated in most equity and inclusion policies and practices. With the ... -
Fracture behavior of fiber-reinforced cemented paste backfill under curing pressure
(2022)Due to the rapid strength acquisition rate, relatively high solid content, and sustainable reuse of waste tailings, cement paste backfill (CPB) technology has gradually become a standard practice in underground mining ... -
A framework to avoid maloperation of transformer differential protection under geomagnetic disturbances
(2023)Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs), which are generated due to Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs), can saturate the cores of power transformers and their associated Current Transformers (CTs). To avoid maloperation of ... -
From alpinism to activism: outdoor athletes’ perspectives on ecological and climate learning through their sport
(2022)While climate change education has been studied extensively, the process of environmental and climate learning outside of a structured educational context has seen little study. Previous research has shown the efficacy ... -
From coal to wood thermoelectric energy production: Socio-economic impacts in northwestern Ontario, Canada
(2016)The province of Ontario in Canada is the first North American jurisdiction with legislation in place to eliminate coal-fired thermoelectric production. Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) coal-fired Atikokan Generating Station ... -
From divestment to climate justice: perspectives from university fossil fuel divestment campaigns
(2022)The Fossil Fuel Divestment (FFD) Movement has helped facilitate a global transition away from fossil fuels by stigmatizing the sector’s public image. The movement has been claimed to be rooted in climate justice, a ... -
From paper to practice: educator understanding and facilitation of self-regulation in the kindergarten classroom
(2021)There is growing concern about the mental health and resilience of today’s students (McCain, Mustard, and Shanker, 2007) and difficulties with self-regulation as part of human development are implicated in educational ... -
From social media to expert reports: automatically validating and extending complex conceptual models using machine learning approaches
(2019)Given the importance of developing accurate models of any complex system, the modeling process often seeks to be comprehensive by including experts and community members. While many qualitative modeling processes can ... -
Fruit and vegetable intake of students and prevalence of vegetarianism at Lakehead University / by Hesam Kooshesh.
(2010)Purpose : The purpose of this study was to assess the daily intake levels of fruits and vegetables in a population of post-secondary students at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario [Northwestern Ontario] and to ...