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Wood properties of city street trees for utilization in forest products
(2020)Forest products are an essential part of the Canadian economy. Maximizing the number of trees we can use to make forest products will be a crucial part of continuing to produce forest products. The objective of this study ... -
Woody biomass-based bioenergy development at the Atikokan power generating station: local perceptions and public opinions
(2015-08-05)To tackle climate change, reduce air pollution and promote development of renewable energy, the Ontario government is investing in the conversion of the coal-based Atikokan Power Generating Station (APGS) in Atikokan, ... -
Word attributes predict the speed of translation from English to French : (Do they do so by facilitating first language processing?)
(1993)It has been found that some attributes of a word predict how easy it will be to translate that word into a second language (Murray, 1986) . It is not clear whether these attributes are specific to translation itself or ... -
Working-out : women's work at a leisure facility
This thesis investigates women's formal and informal marginalization at work, focusing on employment and job assignments in the aquatics department of a leisure facility in Thunder Bay. I outline the theoretical ... -
Workplace support for employees with cancer / by Behdin Nowrouzi.
(2008)PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to survey human resource personnel about how their northeastern Ontario workplaces assist employees with cancer. METHODS: This crosssectional study sent surveys to 255 workplaces in ... -
Workshop intervention approach to nursing stress management
(1996)This research project presented a total of six twelve-hour stress management workshops to twenty-eight female registered nurses. They were recruited from general hospitals, medical offices, and nursing homes. Topics ... -
A world-maker's will: the post-apocalypse and human power in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(2015-08-05)This thesis discusses human empowerment in Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road. While much of present-day scholarship on The Road views the novel as nihilistically highlighting the hopelessness of existence ... -
Worldviews in transition : the changing nature of the Lake Nipigon Anishinabek Metis
(2003)In Northwestern Ontario (NWO) there is a need to assure a more complete understanding of the Indigenous voice. The researcher, who examined existing theories and research methodologies in sociology, determined that these ... -
Writing bodies into history : Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin / by Tamara Arthur.
(2008)Historical fiction simultaneously can be used to document history while also questioning traditional history and ways of knowing. In particular, Margaret Atwood’s historical fiction questions traditional history and ... -
Writing the ascent : narrative and mountaineering accounts / by Justin Allec.
(2009)Mountaineering is an activity traditionally practiced in remote areas of the world by a select few participants. Upon returning from an expedition, some mountaineers retrospectively publish their account as a testament of ... -
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 ... -
X-ray diffraction and Rietveld structural refinement of selected fluoroperovskites
(2000)This study presents an X-ray diffraction analysis and Rietveld structural refinement of selected synthetic fluoroperovskite-type compounds including the Na1-xKxMgF3 solid solution series in addition to synthetic analogues ... -
Year-round biodiesel use strategy in diesel engines in Canadian adverse cold weather conditions
(2017)The effects of climate change that have been seen at an unprecedented scale over last decade or so, have sparked intensive efforts toward the identification and development of clean, environmentally compatible, and renewable ... -
Yearning to learn: a pandemic-inspired approach to grief literacy
(2023)The COVID-19 global pandemic exacerbated and altered death- and non-death-related loss, insisting that grief and bereavement adhere to protocols that were unfamiliar and sometimes even prohibitive to moving forward in a ... -
Yield and morphological responses of wild blueberry (vaccinium spp.) to forest harvesting and conifer release treatments
(1997)This thesis synthesizes three papers on the effects of forestry practices on the growth and fruit production of lowbush (V. angustifolium) and velvet leaf (V. myrtilloides) blueberry in i) young jackpine, ii) boreal ... -
Young adolescents' comprehension of literary texts as mediated by the reinterpretation - representation of literary texts through drama : a literary unit on humane and environmental education
(2003)This qualitative study describes the relationship between young adolescent readers’ comprehension of environmentally-themed literary texts and the representation and reinterpretation of those texts through drama. The ... -
Young offender recidivism over a 28-month follow-up period
(1992)This follow-up study investigated 81 former young offenders of the Thunder Bay Youth Centre to determine the rate of recidivism and to evaluate predictor variables. Correctional records were used and both a liberal and ... -
Youth perspectives of schooling in a Northern-Ontario community
(2023)In Ontario, northern, rural youth face disadvantages due to their geographic location, as the majority of students attending high school, if not relocated to another community for their studies, must endure daily commutes ... -
An ytterbium-doped fiber laser at 1.1 um
(2013-02-12)A pulsed ytterbium-doped fiber laser is proposed and developed. A length of samarium-doped fiber was inserted into the laser cavity to induce passive Q-switching. The laser oscillated in the continuous wave, Q-switched ...