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Lake Manitoba and its Watershed: Knowledge Gaps & Next Steps
(2016)
Lake Manitoba is a large, shallow prairie lake located in central Manitoba. The lake and watershed are subject to numerous environmental pressures including climate change, land use change, and regulation of water levels, ...
Breeding Ecology of Wild and Captive-released Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) in Southwestern Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg, 2016)
Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) once occupied grassland ecosystems in the western Provinces of Canada, as far east as Winnipeg, Manitoba, and west into the southern interior of British Columbia (B.C.). No single factor ...
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 ...
Optical and radiometric models of the NOMAD instrument part II: the infrared channels - SO and LNO
(Optics Express, 2016-02-16)
NOMAD is a suite of three spectrometers that will be launched in 2016 as part of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission. The instrument contains three channels that cover the IR and UV spectral ranges ...
Briefing Note: Community Forestry in Canada
(Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research, University of Winnipeg, 2016)
Global economic instability, the need for local adaptation to climate change impacts, and Supreme Court rulings over Aboriginal and Treaty Rights have drawn attention to community dissatisfaction with centralized approaches ...
Democracy, Education and the public space; When do students become citizens? A teacher’s reflections on a protest at school
(University of Calgary, 2016)
This article describes a funding announcement by the prime minister of Canada at a high school in Winnipeg in February of 1998. The announcement was interrupted by a student protest, one that invoked harsh public criticism. ...
Canadians Do Oral History?
(Oral History Centre, University of Winnipeg, 2016-02-02)
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 Informal Sector and Tax Revenue Drive: A Nigerian Case Study
(2016-08-04)
There has been a recent need to boost internally generated revenue in Nigeria due to the fall in the price of oil, upon which Nigeria has been dependent for revenue. The Nigerian government's attention has been drawn to ...
Ideology Critique and Film Criticism in the New Media Ecology
(Film Criticism, 2016-01)