Retrospective theses: Recent submissions
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Spirituality in education : professorial viewpoints
(2006)There has been a dramatic rise in interest in spirituality over the last decade. Historically, universities began with a spiritual base. Today, superficially, education generally appears to have lost its spiritual emphasis. ... -
Formative evaluation of "Humanities 101 : a Lakehead University community initiative" : the perspective of the students
(2006)In the Fall of 2005, the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University implemented a twelve-week program aimed at providing non-traditional students an experience in higher education. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Wild wolves? Understanding human wolf interactions in a coastal Canadian national park reserve
(2006)Opinion surveys and interviews with park users (chiefly kayakers and canoeists) in the Pacific Rim (B.C) area, to examine their attitudes about wild wolves (Canis lupus). -
Evaluation of the Good Readers' Club : an early literacy intervention program
(2006)Programs reviewed include : Success for All, Reading Recovery, the 5th Block Program and the Good Readers' Club at the Lakehead District School Board (Thunder Bay, Northwestern Ontario). 29 grade two students from ten ... -
National view of household food insecurity : an analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey, cycle 2.1
(2006)Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (Rome Deceleration ... -
Differential item and test functioning of the Brief Child and Family Phone Interview in First Nations and non-First Nations children and adolescents / by Dana Bova.
(2006)In 2001 the Ontario Ministry of Social Services mandated that all Ontario funded providers of children mental health services utilize the BCFPI (Brief Child and Family Phone Interview) which assesses emotional and behavioural ... -
Study of heteroaromatic enediyne and substituted benzothiophene synthesis with relative reactivity of substituted aryl iodides in the Sonogashira reaction
(2006)Enediyne compounds have captured the imagination of chemists since their discovery as a class of natural products. Because of their cytotoxicity, these compounds are not suitable for use in cancer treatment. As a result, ... -
Adaptive time-step control algorithm for nonlinear time-domain envelope transient
(2006)This thesis outlines a general method to analyze circuits with several time variables using a technique known as Multi Partial Differential Equation, MPDE. The key idea of MPDE is to convert the system of ordinary ... -
Influence of fire, logging, and overstory composition on understory abundance, diversity, and composition in boreal forests, Ontario Canada
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Genetic profiling variation caused by tissue type, error, and damage
(2006)Genetic profiling variations caused by tissue type, error, and damage have been studied only minimally in the past. Even though it is well accepted that damage to the DNA molecule and PCR induced error occur, little focus ... -
Peer acceptance, deviancy training, and victimization as predictors of adolescent problems : a search for personality moderators / by Hilary Cartwright.
(2006)"More recently, the importance of peer relationships with respect to the development of behavioural and emotional difficulties in children and adolescents has been acknowledged ... The extent to which individuals' experience ... -
"I'm with you now, I'm with you ..." : Michael Corleone as gangster figure in Mario Puzo's and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather texts / by Carmela Coccimiglio.
(2006)This thesis examines the construction of the gangster figure as embodied by Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III. The examination of Michael is ... -
Synthesis and electrochemical study of Pt- and IrO2-based nanostructured materials
(2006)With ever increasing awareness that our environment is being ravaged at an alarming rate and the very seriously high rate of diabetes, there has been much research into understanding, controlling and reversing these ... -
Factors influencing women's participation in mathematical disciplines
(2006)Few high-achieving, university-bound, female high school students are choosing to pursue a mathematics degree at university. Researchers have discussed a wide range of factors that may account for this situation. This ... -
Students' understanding of fractions within a reform based instructional program : an action research analysis
(2006)Students have a difficult time understanding the concepts behind fraction procedures. The purpose of this study was to determine which teaching method, traditional or reform, helped students to develop a conceptual ... -
Analysis of the change in golf swing kinematics associated with learning
(2005)Success in golf depends on the precise timing and coordination of a complex movement pattern. Because of the time consuming nature of learning the golf swing, it is important to establish a more efficient teaching and ... -
Development and evaluation of inductive and deductive models of elk (Cervus elaphus) summer resource suitability in Northwestern Ontario
(2006)Resource-selection modelling techniques take either a deductive or inductive approach. Deductive methods take a “bottom-up” approach, where individual wildlife-resource relationships are the building blocks that define ... -
Access control scheme for partially ordered set hierarchy with provable security
(2005)In many multi-user information systems, the users are organized as a hierarchy. Each user is a subordinate, superior and/or coordinate of some others. In such systems, a user has access to the information if and only if ...