Browsing University of Winnipeg Theses by Title

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    • Field Plant Identification Through Indoor Imagery Using Image Augmentation and Object Detection Algorithms 

      Sotoodeh, Parsa (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-11-04)
      A growing global population and recent changes in climate make it increasingly necessary to incorporate recent advances in machine learning and robotics into agricultural practices. Plant detection is the problem of ...

    • Financial Fetters: Mothers, Lone Parents and Welfare Reform, Winnipeg in the 1960s 

      Fields, Sari (University of Manitoba & University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2002-08)
      This thesis is a study of Manitoba’s social welfare system in the 1960s based on findings in the provincial and City of Winnipeg’s annual reports. In order to understand the position of welfare administrators during this ...

    • "For any who have the Power": John Milton's the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) and the ideology of oligarchic republicanism in the English Revolution 

      Neufeld, Matthew G. (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 2002-03)
      John Milton's political philosophy, and its relation to the events and ideologies of the English Revolution (1640-1660), is the subject of fierce debate among literary scholars and students of political thought. In 1977 ...

    • Form Criticism and the Life of Jesus 

      Dyker, George Fraser (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1939)
      The publication of David Friedrich Strauss's book, "Life of Jesus", in 1835, marked a growing interest in the historicity of the gospels. This book, as typical of the theology of its time, was based on the priority of ...

    • Forrest Gump: theological text in a postmodern context 

      Wells, Chris (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2004)
      As a Christian minister I have been trained in interpretation of the biblical text. This current interpretive exercise goes beyond the biblical text, however, to include contemporary artistic expression. The modern North ...

    • Functional Relevance of N-myristoyltransferase as a Biomarker for Colorectal Cancer 

      Rathinagopal, Tharmini Jenny (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2018)
      Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada. The high mortality rate for CRC patients demonstrate the urgent need for a convenient, accurate and cost-effective screening test, which could ...

    • Genome-Wide Regulatory Interactions in the Early Stages of Drosophila Speciation 

      Go, Alwyn Clark (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-12-15)
      Speciation occurs when reproductive barriers prevent the exchange of genetic information between individuals. A common form of reproductive barrier between species capable of interbreeding is hybrid sterility. Genomic ...

    • Gikinoo'amaagowin Anishinaabeg 

      McIvor, Colleen Sheryl (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2014-09-25)
      This thesis analyzes the roles and responsibilities of Anishinaabe Ogichidaakwe (woman warrior) using Anishinaabe and Western methodologies. As an Anishinaabekwe I use Anishinaabe language to engage in my responsibility ...

    • GPU-Accelerated Algorithm to Compute Bessel-Fourier Moments 

      Xia, Tianpeng (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-03)
      Bessel-Fourier moments have been applied in image pattern reconstruction since their introduction in 2010. In this research, a scalable GPU-based algorithm is proposed to accelerate the computation of Bessel-Fourier moments ...

    • A GPU-based Laplacian Solver for Magnetostatic Boundary Value Problems 

      Welitharage, Piyumi Madhubhashini (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2019-10-04)
      Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) have more computing power than CPUs, and thus, GPUs are proposed as more efficient compute units in solving scientific problems with large parallelizable computational loads. In our ...

    • A Granular-based Approach for Semisupervised Web Information Labeling 

      Sengoz, Cenker (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2015-04-22)
      A key issue when mining web information is the labeling problem: data is abundant on the web but is unlabelled. In this thesis, we address this problem by proposing i) a novel theoretical granular model that structures ...

    • "Guide" vs "Gatekeeper": Information Rights Legislation and The Provincial Archives of Manitoba 

      Nicholls, Jacqueline M. (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 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 ...

    • Habitat Characterization and Biology of the Threatened Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae) in Manitoba 

      Rigney, Christa Leigh (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2013-10-09)
      The Dakota Skipper, Hesperia dacotae, is a threatened butterfly restricted to fragmented prairies in the Interlake, southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan in Canada. Currently there is limited data on the life ...

    • Habitat quality, torpor expression and pathogen transmission in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) 

      Breit, Ana M. (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...

    • Hibernation Behaviour of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) 

      Czenze, Zenon (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2014-09-25)
      For temperate endotherms (i.e., mammals and birds) energy costs are highest during winter but food availability is lowest and many mammals depend on hibernation as a result. Hibernation is made up of energy-saving torpor ...

    • Holiness and the Atonement 

      Sellars, W. C. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1952-04)
      Thesis: That the concept of Atonement as throughout the work of a God whose nature is holy love is more clearly exhibited in the classic view described by Aulen in Christus Victor than in either the subjective or objective ...

    • Home range, habitat selection, and annual survival of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in central Canada 

      Habrich, Andrew (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...

    • Humanism and Theism 

      Moffatt, Kenneth Herbert (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1948-04)
      The purpose of posing humanism against theism is to allow us to view the fallacies of both when they are examined analytically and objectively. It is obvious today that humanism is playing, and has played, a great role in ...

    • Humidity, huddling & the hibernation energetics of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) 

      Muise, Kristina A. (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-18)
      During winter, many mammals hibernate and lower their body temperature and metabolic rate (MR) in prolonged periods of torpor. Hibernators will use energetically expensive arousals (i.e., restore body temperature and MR) ...

    • Identification of Renin Inhibiting Natural Products from Nauclea latifolia 

      Agomuoh, Anthony (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...