Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Gikinoo'amaagowin Anishinaabeg
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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)
(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)
(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 ... -
Home range, habitat selection, and annual survival of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in central Canada
(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 ... -
Humidity, huddling & the hibernation energetics of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)
(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
(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 ... -
The Ideology of the Feminine in Byzantine historical narrative: The role of John Skylitzes' Synopsis of Histories
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 2003-08)The medieval Eastern Roman Empire (commonly referred to as the Byzantine Empire) is the least well documented of all the early medieval Christian societies. Modern historians studying the Byzantine world are inordinately ... -
Improving LULC Map Production via Semantic Segmentation and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-04-13)In recent years, a lot of remote sensing problems benefited from the improvements made in deep learning. In particular, deep learning semantic segmentation algorithms have provided improved frameworks for the automated ... -
Incarceration and Re-entry for Provincial Prisoners: Is there Hope?
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2023-04)This thesis explores the impacts of hope on the experience of incarceration and re-entry into the community and how ex-prisoners make sense of and foster hope in their lives. This research was conducted through qualitative ... -
The "Indian," the "Other" in the Canadian Quest for Identity
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 1981-03)“The 'Indian,' the 'Other' in the Canadian Quest for Identity” focuses on four prairie novels of the 1970's to examine the relation of literature to a nation's identity. By looking at the way the authors use Indian characters ... -
Indigenous Anglicans in Canada: A New Agape and the Path to Self-Determination
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2015-04-22)The encounter between Indigenous peoples and settlers in North America is rife with challenges and missed opportunities, and marred by colonial domination, resulting in great harm to Indigenous people. The Anglican Church ... -
Indigenous Food Systems: A Viable Alternative to Food Security; A Case Study of the Irigwe Indigenous People of Kwall, in Bassa Local Government Area of Nigeria
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2016-08)Despite the central role that Indigenous foods can potentially play in meeting people’s food security needs in Nigeria, it has continually been ignored by Government and policy makers. With 65% of Nigerian’s considered ... -
Indigenous Identities and Nation-Building within Canadian Urban Centres: Relevance for Algonquin Nationhood
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2013-06-03)I document and analyze, using a decolonization framework, historical and contemporary understandings of Indigenous identities, focusing primarily on Indigenous Canadian identity in urban centres. I describe the reconstruction ... -
Indigenous Knowledge and Tourism on Protected Areas Under Constitutional Sumak Kawsai in Ecuador: Policies and Legislation
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2024-05-11)This thesis aims to expose the deficiencies in Ecuadorian legislation in protecting Indigenous culture and Indigenous knowledge within the tourism economy located within Indigenous traditional lands and protected areas of ... -
Indigenous Perspectives in Program Evaluation: A scoping literature review exploring wise practices for program evaluation with Indigenous communities in northern Manitoba
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-31)This study explored how organizations that offer programming and services in northern Indigenous communities could inform, adapt, and improve their evaluation approaches to involve an Indigenous perspective. Without this ...