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ka pamihiwehk mino pimatisiwin: kichi ininiw ahkosowinow kakiskaocik ahkosowinow HIV (Promoting mino pimatisiwin: Urban Aboriginal Women Living with HIV)
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-25)This research projects examine the impact of HIV among urban Aboriginal women living with HIV in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Despite the antiretroviral tereatment and HIV prevention strategies, new HIV positive cases for urban ... -
Land as a Teacher: Indigenous Food Knowledges and Perspectives from Long Plain First Nations
(University of WinnipegUniversity 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, ... -
Legacies of afforestation on prairie plant, seed bank, and nematode communities in a northern rough fescue prairie
(University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ... -
Legendre Moments Explorations via Image Reconstruction
(University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ... -
Life-history Characteristics of Recreational Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Fisheries in Manitoba
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2023-10-23)Contemporary data concerning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) populations have been lacking in the province of Manitoba for several decades. I compared life history characteristics (age, condition, growth, maturity, and ... -
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 WinnipegUniversity 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 ... -
Long-Range Dispersal Behaviour and Spatial Distribution Modelling of Adult Mosquitoes in the Winnipeg Region
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-12-15)Mosquitoes are present in virtually every nation worldwide, acting as both a vector for many serious pathogens, and as a nuisance because of their blood-feeding behaviours. As a principle of Integrated Mosquito Management ... -
Martyrdom in Latin America: Gustavo Gutierrez Challenges the Traditional Concept of Authenticated Martyrdom in the Roman Catholic Church
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 1996-09-01)The concept of martyrdom emerged in the pre-Constantinian Church. Many Christians believed that the martyrs, imitators of Jesus Christ in life and death, would be saved in imitation of his resurrection. The local communities ... -
Matteo Ricci: Friendship and Chinese Christianity
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-08-16)In the late sixteenth century CE, Macau was a fishing village located on China's south. Ruled by the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a fleet of ships had anchored in the village’s docks. China had limited foreign visitors. ... -
The Mennonites in Canada
(University of WinnipegUnited College, 1947)The thesis describes the origin and rootage of the Mennonite movement in Europe and the history of the Mennonite Church in Canada. The last area of study dedicated to relations between the Mennonites and the United Church ... -
Millennial fire history reconstruction in the boreal forest of south-central Canada using lake-sediment charcoal, tree-ring and archival records
(University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ... -
Miyo pimatisiwin opikinawasowin: Living the good life in child rearing ways
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2023-08-14)Opikinawasowin is the Cree word for the lifelong process of growing children. Indigenous child rearing practices adopt a holistic approach while being inclusive of the family unit and the community. The tipi is the conceptual ... -
Molecular Evolution of Small Peptide Hormones and Their Receptors: the Case of Relaxin and Insulin-like Peptide Signaling Systems in Deuterostomes
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2013-04-18)Relaxin family peptides are a diverse family of signalling molecules that play important roles in the regulation of reproductive and neuroendocrine processes in vertebrates. The signalling of relaxin peptides is mediated ... -
N-Dimensional Polynomial Neural Networks and their Applications
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-04-06)In addition to being extremely non-linear, modern machine learning problems require millions if not billions of parameters to solve or at least to get a good approximation of the solution, and neural networks are known ... -
On Temporal Bipartite Graphs and Their Application in Disease Spread Prediction
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2024-04-30)The original temporal bipartite graph is flawed in the context of disease spreading models as it does not account for concepts such as virus incu-bation and recovery periods. In this thesis, a new graph structure, referred ... -
On the Evaluation of Pattern Match Queries in Large Graph Databases
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2018-01)Recently, graph databases have been received much attention in the research community due to their extensive applications in practice, such as social networks, biological networks and World Wide Web, which bring forth a ... -
Pauline Scholarship and Jewish-Christian Dialogue
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2023-08-31)This thesis endeavours to make a contribution to the larger project of mutual understanding within Jewish-Christian dialogue, and in this regard, I address one issue—that of reading Paul within Judaism as a necessary element ... -
Perceptions of Crime Seriousness and Punitive Attitudes in Post-Secondary Students
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-11)Public perceptions of crime seriousness and attitudes towards the punishment of crime stem from the social norms and values that shape society and are informed by ways of knowing about crime. Located within a social ... -
Physiological and Behavioural Responses of Lake Trout to Catch-And-Release Angling
(University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ... -
Post mating isolating barriers between Drosophila species and the role of seminal fluid gene expression
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2023-12-07)Reproductive genes are known to be among the fastest evolving category of genes within the genome, and males’ reproductive genes show a high divergence between species. A class of genes expressed in the male’s reproductive ...