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Discounting Life: The Impact of Gender, Race, Domestic Violence, and Ideal Victim Status on Second Degree Murder Sentencing in Canada
(University of Winnipeg, 2021-08-12)
Scholars, the media, and the public have been concerned about differing values placed on crime victims on the basis of social factors such as gender, race, and domestic violence affiliation. Some academics argue that ...
An Examination of Police Culture and its Effects on Patrol Officers Attitudes towards Restorative Justice
(University of Winnipeg, 2020-12-12)
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between restorative justice and police culture, and the level to which this culture acts as barrier to the successful implementation and use of restorative justice ...
The effects of Livestock Grazing on Vegetation and Lepidopterans in Endangered Alvar Sites in Manitoba's Interlake: A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Science degree
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-07)
Alvar is a rare type of ecosystem characterized by open, flat terrain and incomplete vegetation intermixed with patches of exposed calcareous pavement. Alvars in Manitoba’s Interlake support tall grass prairie and boreal ...
Renewed Spirit in Winnipeg's North End: An emerging Aboriginal young adult co-creative leadership model
(University of Winnipeg, 2014-09-02)
This thesis argues that the Winnipeg youth movement, “Meet Me at the Bell Tower” (MMBT), offers a new form of spiritual, cultural, and political renewal. Qualitative data drawn from interviews of youth leaders in this ...
Millennial fire history reconstruction in the boreal forest of south-central Canada using lake-sediment charcoal, tree-ring and archival records
(University 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 ...
Cubical homology-based Image Classification - A Comparative Study
(University of Winnipeg, 2021-12-23)
Persistent homology is a powerful tool in topological data analysis (TDA) to compute, study and encode efficiently multi-scale topological features and is being increasingly used in digital image classification. The ...
Envisioning a culturally safe midwifery model from the perspective of Indigenous families: A case study of midwifery care in inner city Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
(University of Winnipeg, 2020-04)
Prenatal care is associated with improved outcomes for the mother and baby. Ongoing research in Winnipeg shows that pregnant people, especially Indigenous people, living in Winnipeg’s inner city have significantly lower ...
A GPU-based Laplacian Solver for Magnetostatic Boundary Value Problems
(University 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 ...
An Examination of the Effects of Elevated CO2 on Juvenile Salmonids
(University of Winnipeg, 2022-08-23)
This thesis explores the behavioural and physiological effects of elevated carbon dixoide (CO2) on freshwater, juvenile samonids. Arctic Charr, Rainbow Trout, and Brook Charr were each exposed to elevated CO2 over a two ...
Exploring Drumming/Song and its Relationship to Healing in the Lives of Indigenous Women Living in the City of Winnipeg
(The University of Winnipeg, 2014-12)
This is an exploratory study on drumming/song and its relationship to healing in the lives of Indigenous women living in the City of Winnipeg. The participants of this study included urban-based Indigenous women actively ...