Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Title
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Factors associated with internet gambling in university students / by Nicholas M. Harris.
(2010)Problem gambling can have devastating financial, psychological, and social effects on the individual and the individual’s family. Over the past 15 years, Internet gambling has grown at an incredible pace and is believed ... -
Factors influencing thermal variability and fish distribution in small boreal steams / by Lisa McKee.
(2010)The spatial variability of stream temperature is an important component of habitat within streams providing optimal temperatures for foraging and thermal refugia for sensitive species such as brook trout. Riparian shading ... -
Factors that impact the implementation and sustainability of dialectical behaviour therapy programs: a qualitative study of clinician perspectives
(2017)Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a psychological treatment developed for individuals experiencing significant mental health issues along with high-risk behaviours (e.g., suicidal behaviours, self-harm, substance ... -
Fairness, engagement, and discourse analysis in AI-driven social media and healthcare
(2023)This thesis addresses the critical concerns of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) within the context of artificial intelligence (AI) systems applied to social media and healthcare domains. First, a ... -
Families First food security study
(2010)This study was developed to gain insight into what mechanisms and approaches Family First clients use to maintain food security. The Families First program services families in Manitoba that have children who are at risk ... -
Fat bullying of girls in school : implications for pre-service teacher education
(2015-08-05)Bullying of girls based on their body size remains a problem in schools that often appears to be tolerated and neglected by adult staff. Thus far, there has been a limited amount of research on this topic, including a ... -
Feature learning boosts network performance
(2020)Features are an important part of machine learning. Features are often the reduced-dimensional representation of input data, feature calculation, extraction, and fusion directly affect the final result of the network. ... -
Federated learning framework and energy disaggregation techniques for residential energy management
(2023)Residential energy use is a significant part of total power usage in developed countries. To reduce overall energy use and save funds, these countries need solutions that help them keep track of how different appliances ... -
FEM based analysis of highpass birdcage resonators for B1 field mapping
(2016)3D full wave finite element method (FEM) based electromagnetic (EM) analysis is a technique to map EM fields generated by electrical devices. To better understand and apply this technique to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ... -
Female Brazillian students' experiences at Canadian post-secondary institutions
(2017)This qualitative study investigated the experiences of Female Brazilian international students studying in Canadian post-secondary institutions. While funds and research have been invested in the promotion and marketing ... -
Female Canadian university sexual assault survivors: why they do not report
(2018)Female Canadian university students are at a high risk for sexual victimization and as few as 5% report the assault. Various Canadian provincial governments have put forward legislation to develop and improve university ... -
Female care partners’ experiences of their relative's transition to nursing home: a critical feminist perspective
(2023)The decision to transition a relative to a nursing home is usually preceded by many months or years of physical and emotional care. While women continue to do most of the care work throughout their lives due to socially ... -
A feminist analysis of women’s chronic pain experiences in Northwestern Ontario
(2023)This feminist research project explores women’s experiences with chronic pain in Thunder Bay, Northwestern Ontario. Through an intersectional feminist narrative approach, I examine how chronic pain impacts women’s sense ... -
Fetal programming from sub-lethal radiation: glucose metabolism in the liver and brown adipose tissue
(2018)Exposure to ionizing radiation contributing to negative health outcomes is a widespread concern among the public, scientific community, and workers in the nuclear energy industry and diagnostic imaging field. However, ... -
Fiber laser system for the detection of trace gas
(2017)The research presented in this thesis is on the development of a trace gas detection system based on intracavity absorption spectroscopy (ICAS). The developed system was capable of detecting nitrous oxide (N2O) and acetylene ... -
Fictions of a settler-state: indigenous and iraqi peoples in canadian newspapers, 1990-2010
(2013-02-12)This thesis interrogates canadian newspaper coverage of Indigenous and Iraqi peoples from 1990 to 2010. I engage in discourse analysis of these primary source materials in order to extricate from them racial sentiments and ... -
Finding food deserts : a spatial analysis of food security in Northwestern Ontario (1996-2006) / by Sarah Wintle.
(2010)The purpose of this study is to examine the state of food security in Northwestern Ontario communities by identifying food deserts, or neighbourhoods with high levels of social deprivation and limited access to nutritious ... -
The Fine root dynamics after stand-replacing fire and clearcutting in the boreal forest of central Canada
(2012-11-10)In boreal forest ecosystems, stand age is a key driver of forest ecosystem productivity, carbon storage/sequestration, and other ecosystem functions. The age-related decline of aboveground productivity is well known in ... -
Fine root dynamics for three distinct Northern Ontario forests : a comparison of approaches used to estimate fine root biomass, productivity, and turnover
(2009)There is increasing interest to develop quantitative approaches to carbon accounting and determine carbon sequestration potential at both the site and landscape scales. Currently, our lack of understanding of fine root ... -
Fire performance of a novel concealed mass timber moment-resisting connection utilizing mechanically-fastened steel rods
(2020)A major hindrance to more application of engineered-wood products in the Canadian building construction market is the lack of technical documentations and guidelines for the design of timber beam-to-column connections, ...