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Identification of Renin Inhibiting Natural Products from Nauclea latifolia
(University of Winnipeg, 2011-08-30)
Natural products, particularly plants have been an important source of food and medicine throughout the history of mankind. High blood pressure has become a growing health burden all over the world. There is an obvious ...
Legendre Moments Explorations via Image Reconstruction
(University of Winnipeg, 2016-06-29)
Legendre Moment has been applied in image reconstruction since early years. In this research, a numerical integration method is proposed to improve the computational accuracy of Legendre moments. To clarify the improved ...
The effects of Livestock Grazing on Vegetation and Lepidopterans in Endangered Alvar Sites in Manitoba's Interlake: A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Science degree
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-07)
Alvar is a rare type of ecosystem characterized by open, flat terrain and incomplete vegetation intermixed with patches of exposed calcareous pavement. Alvars in Manitoba’s Interlake support tall grass prairie and boreal ...
Renewed Spirit in Winnipeg's North End: An emerging Aboriginal young adult co-creative leadership model
(University of Winnipeg, 2014-09-02)
This thesis argues that the Winnipeg youth movement, “Meet Me at the Bell Tower” (MMBT), offers a new form of spiritual, cultural, and political renewal. Qualitative data drawn from interviews of youth leaders in this ...
Millennial fire history reconstruction in the boreal forest of south-central Canada using lake-sediment charcoal, tree-ring and archival records
(University of Winnipeg, 2016)
The Canadian boreal forest has been developing since the end of the last glaciation approximately 10,000 years ago. During this time, fire has modified the development of the forest by altering species distribution, stand ...
The Ideology of the Feminine in Byzantine historical narrative: The role of John Skylitzes' Synopsis of Histories
(University of Winnipeg, 2003-08)
The medieval Eastern Roman Empire (commonly referred to as the Byzantine Empire) is the least well documented of all the early medieval Christian societies. Modern historians studying the Byzantine world are inordinately ...
"Guide" vs "Gatekeeper": Information Rights Legislation and The Provincial Archives of Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg, 2000-12)
Access and privacy legislation (also known as information rights legislation) has been an evolving feature of Canadian life for more than twenty years. Public archives, as custodians of the records of their government ...
Trouble on the Home Front: Perspectives on Working Mothers in Winnipeg, 1939-1945
(University of Winnipeg, 2001)
The Second World War created a shortage of labour in Canada, and by 1942 mothers were encouraged by the National Selective Service to accept opportunities for paid employment. The federal government responded to the need ...
Cis-Regulatory divergence and expression of ryanodine receptor paralogues in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)
(University of Winnipeg, 2013-06-12)
Ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are large homotetrameric proteins that in mammals are encoded by three genes: RyR1 in skeletal muscle; RyR2 in cardiac and smooth muscle; and RyR3 which is expressed in a diversity of cell types. ...
Twig Pattern Search in XML Database
(University of Winnipeg, 2011-03-03)
For current search engine, we got results ranked by popularity. However, the most popular topics are not always I want. Millions people have millions different favors. So, the main challenge is how to dig the information ...