Retrospective theses: Recent submissions
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Effects of harvesting, prescribed burning and wildfire on soil chemical properties in Northwestern Ontario
(1997)Soil chemistry responses to disturbances were quantified and compared at two dates by sampling the organic, 0-5 cm and 5-10 mineral soil layers in a northwestern Ontario boreal mixedwood site. The disturbance treatments ... -
Exciton operators : commutation relations and dynamics
(1997)The electron-hole pair operator commutation relations for a semiconductor are explicitly derived showing that the pairs are quasi-bosons with statistics intermediate between bosons and fermions. These pair operators are ... -
Vegetation response to harvesting, harvesting and prescribed-burning and wildfire in Northwestern Ontario : patterns of reproductive strategies and nutrient accumulation
(1997)Initial species composition was investigated on a group of boreal mixedwood sites that had experienced various forms of disturbance. The hypothesis explored was that environmental changes caused by different disturbances ... -
Frequency response based system identification and controller tuning
(1997)A detailed simulation based analysis of different frequency response and transfer function identification techniques are performed and critically studied. Standard closed loop and open loop recursive least squares system ... -
Participatory action research as a tool for community development : experiences from Northwestern Ghana
(1998)This study reports on a community development project conducted in Charia, a small village in northwestern Ghana. The primary intent of the study was to field-test the participatory action research approach of actively ... -
Effects of sex, mood and sex-role beliefs on interpersonal responses to depressed persons
(1997)This study examined interpersonal reactions to depressed individuals as a function of the sex of a depressed person, and the sex and sex-role beliefs of the respondent. Egalitarian and traditional participants of both ... -
Stem wood structure of four Ghanaian Khaya species
(1997)Four closely related Ghanaian Khaya woods were studied for differences in anatomical, chemical and physical properties to enable clear identification o f the species. The species were Khaya cmthotheca (Ka), Khaya ivorensis ... -
Sport in high school : the relationship of athletic participation, gender differences, and academic stream to self-esteem, academic achievement, and educational aspiration
(1997)The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction effects of athletic participation, gender, and academic stream with self-esteem, academic achievement, and educational aspiration. The sample (n=341) was drawn ... -
Writing women's lives : the fictional aesthetic of Alice Munro
(1997)When questioned by interviewers about matters of craft, Alice Munro is usually vague in her responses, once insisting that she has "no idea how to write a story" (The Globe and Mail) E. I). Her reluctance to make any ... -
Trapped in her lover's arms : the problem of courtship and romance in selected novels by L. M. Montgomery
(1997)L.M. Montgomery may be viewed as a subversive author, rebelling against patriarchal authority. She employed the conventions of the courtship or domestic novel of popular fiction as a vehicle by which to challenge existing ... -
Tewahia:ton tipaacimowin -- : two stories seen intertribally, the first novels of Ruby Slipperjack and Thomas King
(1997)Ruby Slipperjack's Honour The Sun (1987) and Thomas King's Medicine River (1989) are the two novels I discuss. Slipperjack's novel investigates the adolescence of a female protagonist known as the Owl, who passes through ... -
Effects of manual, mechanical, and aerial herbicide conifer release on songbird numbers in regenerating spruce plantations in Northwestern Ontario
(1997)This study examined the effects of conifer release with herbicides [Vision® (glyphosate) ], [Release® (triclopyr) ] , and proposed alternatives to herbicides with manual brush saws and mechanical brushsaws, on breeding ... -
Battered and nonbattered women's preferences for and expectations about liberal feminist, radical feminist, and cognitive therapy
(1997)Prior research has suggested that feminist therapy is an effective form of counseling for battered women (BW). To date however, virtually no studies have considered the importance of the client's expectations of, or ... -
Ordinary lives : extraordinary narratives, the transformation of character and theme in the fiction of Carol Shields
(1997)The primary objective o f this thesis is to examine the ways in which the ordinary lives that Carol Shields describes in her fiction are transformed into extraordinary narratives. I will use three of Shields’ novels as ... -
Effects of prescribed burning on mycorrhizal fungi in a pinus banksiana stand
(1997)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of fire on mycorrhizal fungi in a Pinus banksiana stand. It was hypothesized that an optimal fire intensity leads to an increase in ectomycorrhizal colonization of ... -
Jungian bridge to native philosophy
(1997)The gap between Western and Native world views is much more profound than the West has imagined. I support this claim from a variety of angles and offer insight into it from the work of Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung ...