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Anishinaabeg Kinship Diplomacy and Animal Nations: A Critical Review of Political Leadership
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-04)
In this thesis I argue that engagement with animal nations to remake the world is an embedded practice of Anishinaabeg stories. From the perspective of my survey of the Anishinaabeg resurgence literature I conclude that ...
Molecular Evolution of Small Peptide Hormones and Their Receptors: the Case of Relaxin and Insulin-like Peptide Signaling Systems in Deuterostomes
(University of Winnipeg, 2013-04-18)
Relaxin family peptides are a diverse family of signalling molecules that play important roles in the regulation of reproductive and neuroendocrine processes in vertebrates. The signalling of relaxin peptides is mediated ...
Cain and Abel: Reimaging Stories of Violence
(University of Winnipeg, 2013-06-24)
This thesis uses a close reading of the Cain and Abel narrative to offer an interpretation grounded in feminist theology, which imagines a world with less violence. It draws on sources from the social sciences, peace and ...
Postmating, Prezygotic Isolation among species of the Drosophila virilis subgroup
(University of Winnipeg, 2010-12-01)
Reproductive barriers between sexually reproducing organisms prevent interbreeding and
gene flow between species. Early studies of reproductive isolation focused on prezygotic and
postzygotic isolating mechanisms, yet ...
Home range, habitat selection, and annual survival of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in central Canada
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-10)
The little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) is one of several hibernating bat species in North America affected by a fungal pathogen that causes a disease known as White-nose syndrome (WNS). As a result, little brown bat ...
Habitat quality, torpor expression and pathogen transmission in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-03)
Protection of habitat can improve survival and reproductive fitness of threatened and endangered wildlife, particularly if that habitat helps individuals maintain energy balance. Temperate bats are heterothermic and rely ...
Legacies of afforestation on prairie plant, seed bank, and nematode communities in a northern rough fescue prairie
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-08-31)
Afforestation resulting from fire suppression, modified grazing, plantation establishment and climate change poses a threat to northern prairie ecosystems. Trees alter the composition and function of plant and soil communities ...
Indigenous Food Systems: A Viable Alternative to Food Security; A Case Study of the Irigwe Indigenous People of Kwall, in Bassa Local Government Area of Nigeria
(University of Winnipeg, 2016-08)
Despite the central role that Indigenous foods can potentially play in meeting people’s food security needs in Nigeria, it has continually been ignored by Government and policy makers. With 65% of Nigerian’s considered ...
Prolegomena To An Anglican Discussion of Authority: The Role of History on The Current Crisis
(University of Winnipeg, 2016-07)
Authority is problematic. It is problematic in theory, and it is problematic in practice. According to the Lutheran theologian Günther Gassmann, "The issue of authority has been a perennial problem in the framework of ...
Interchurch Families as Domestic Church
(Interchurch Families International Network, 2012)
Using research conducted in North America and England, the author explores the reality of interchurch marriage vis-a-vis the four "marks" of the Church, concluding that indeed such families can rightly be called "domestic ...