Browsing University of Winnipeg Theses by Title
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Unheard Voices: Healing Stories of Reclamation and Rebuilding for Families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people who have not been involved in the National Inquiry
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021)This work uncovers the stories of relatives who have been impacted by the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S) in Canada, who have not been involved in the National Inquiry ... -
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation using Satellite Images for Significantly Different Infrastructure Objects
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-03-28)Deep learning has become one of the most efficient computer vision tools in recent years. The success and variety of deep learning semantic segmentation models inspired scientists in the remote sensing domain to apply them ... -
Urban Design, Neoliberalism, and Social Control in the Context of Winnipeg's Canada Life Centre
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2024-04-30)This research analyzes modes of urban social control through conventional and non-conventional policing practices in Winnipeg’s “Sports, Hospitality and Entertainment District” (SHED), and the area surrounding Winnipeg’s ... -
Using Behaviour to Understand Conservation and Management Strategies for Threatened Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus)
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2014-11)Captive assurance populations can help preserve populations in the face of rapid declines that cannot be mitigated in the wild. Individual behavioural tendencies or personality may affect how easily different individuals ... -
Using Machine Learning to Improve Neutron Tagging Efficiency in Water Cherenkov Detectors
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-11-25)When an anti-neutrino collides with a proton in the atomic nucleus, it yields an anti-lepton and a free neutron. In a water Cherenkov neutrino detector like Super-K or the next generation Hyper-K, the free neutron is ... -
The Value of Community-Based Ethnic Archives: A Resource in Development
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 1997-05)Archives are entrusted with the difficult task of capturing the nation's history. Obtaining an accurate reflection of a diverse nation through the documentary evidence they choose to retain is a great challenge. For much ... -
"We are the land, and the land is us": Connecting Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change in the Canadian Prairies.
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2018-12-11)Owing to years of Indigenous lobbying, organizing, and scholarship, recent decades have seen growing engagement with Indigenous peoples and their knowledges in environmental management, policy-making, and research around ... -
“Weaponized sexuality” to the normalization of sexual violence: Rape culture and the non-consensual distribution of intimate imagery (NCDII)
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-08-22)This thesis research explores the non-consensual distribution of intimate imagery (NCDII), a form of technology-facilitated sexual violence. NCDII is the digital sharing of sexualized visual content of another person, ... -
Winnipeg Meat Packing Workers' Path to Union Recognition and Collective Bargaining
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 1996-07)This thesis explains why in the 1940s, Winnipeg meat packing workers secured sustainable industrial unionism. By tracing the development of the Winnipeg meat packing industry and investigating previously unsuccessful ...