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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 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 ...
Physiological and Behavioural Responses of Lake Trout to Catch-And-Release Angling
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-07-13)
Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), like many other native fishes in North America are a popular species typically targeted for recreational angling. Catch-and-release angling (C&R) relies on the assumption of high fish ...
Hibernation Behaviour of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus)
(University 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 ...
The Long and Short of IT: The International Development Research Centre as a Case Study for a Long-term Digital Preservation Strategy
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2007)
This thesis is a contribution to the study of the challenges facing archivists and record managers working on the long-term management and preservation of digital records. This thesis discusses the International Development ...
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 ...
Field Plant Identification Through Indoor Imagery Using Image Augmentation and Object Detection Algorithms
(University 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 ...
Land as a Teacher: Indigenous Food Knowledges and Perspectives from Long Plain First Nations
(University of Winnipeg, 2024-05-16)
This study adopts a community-based Indigenous research approach to understanding Indigenous food knowledge and perspectives from Long Plain First Nation, Manitoba. Through in-depth interviews with nine community participants, ...
Financial Fetters: Mothers, Lone Parents and Welfare Reform, Winnipeg in the 1960s
(University 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 ...
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 ...
Evolutionary history and diversity of human-specific FAM72A paralogs
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-12-14)
Gene duplication is a key driver of genetic diversity and adaptation, allowing genomes to develop complexity and redundant sequences that evolve along different trajectories. In human evolution, gene duplication played an ...