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Trust, Risk, and Dissonance: Prairie Agriculture and Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan
(University of Winnipeg, 2024-04-29)
In the wake of combined economic and ecological pressure, Prairie farmers and the Canadian ministries responsible for agriculture are pressed to instigate sustainable agricultural development. However, Canada’s central ...
GPU-Accelerated Algorithm to Compute Bessel-Fourier Moments
(University 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 study on the modeling for obesity
(University of Winnipeg, 2021-12-03)
This study primarily aims to develop an Agent Based Model (ABM) that can simulate the obesity rates based on statistical analysis and to find out how obesity is affected by risk factors in a Canadian environment. As obesity ...
Anishinaabekwewag Teachings of Self-Determination
(University of Winnipeg, 2020-08-12)
Since being excluded from decolonization efforts in the mid-twentieth century on the grounds that they were not colonized peoples but minorities living within sovereign states, Indigenous peoples have called for a broader ...
Resolving Stock Structure of Sauger (Sander canadensis) in Manitoba, Canada using Biometric, Isotopic, and Genetic Approaches
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-12-06)
Many sauger (Sander canadensis) populations in Manitoba have declined in numbers and biomass. Fisheries managers have proposed a province-wide sauger management plan to protect and restore sauger populations, but they are ...
Nursing Resources in Manitoba 1995 A Description of the Current Situation and Consequent Policy Implications
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 1995-08)
The purpose of this study is to describe the nursing resources available in Manitoba as of April, 1995 and to delineate possible policy initiatives based on the collected data. After years of inattention and neglect, the ...
Automated Deep Neural Network Approach for Detection of Epileptic Seizures
(University of Winnipeg, 2021-12-09)
In this thesis, I focus on exploiting electroencephalography (EEG) signals for early seizure diagnosis in patients. This process is based on a powerful deep learning algorithm for times series data called Long Short-Term ...
Locating the Franciscans within the Cities of Thirteenth Century Northern Italy Using the Chronicles of Salimbene de Adam
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2007)
In 1210, a young man later to be canonized as St. Francis went to Pope Innocent III and obtained permission to form a new religious order that was radically different from any order that had gone before. In the beginning ...
Sparks of Light: Survivor Narratives Reflected Through the Lens of Irving Greenberg’s Theology
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-01-22)
In the future, when no first-person witnesses to the Shoah are left to tell their stories, we will be left with their written, audio, and video narratives. Those who will be left to bear witness for them can tell their ...
Picture This: Hudson's Bay Company Calendar Images and their Documentary Legacy, 1913-1970
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 2000-12)
Between 1913 and 1970, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) produced an annual calendar which it distributed free of charge through its department stores, fur trade posts, and various administrative offices. While quantities ...