Graduate Electronic Theses and Dissertations

N-Dimensional Polynomial Neural Networks and their Applications

Ben Abdallah, Habib (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 ...

Analysis of Impact of Alcohol on Brain's Activity

Tripathy, Dharitri (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-11-30)

Electroencephalography is an electrophysiological monitoring process to capture electrical activity on the scalp that has been shown to represent the macroscopic activity of the surface layer of the brain underneath. It ...

Cubical homology-based Image Classification - A Comparative Study

Choe, Seungho (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...

Discounting Life: The Impact of Gender, Race, Domestic Violence, and Ideal Victim Status on Second Degree Murder Sentencing in Canada

Belisle, Breanna (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...

Shaping Post-Christendom Spiritual Practice in the United Church of Canada One Prayer Shawl at a Time

Piercy, Mary Elizabeth (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-17)

Although shawls have been fashioned in one way or another for hundreds of years, this research is focused around the special shawl-making of the relatively new Christian prayer shawl ministry that has developed in North ...

Improving LULC Map Production via Semantic Segmentation and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Tsenov, Rostyslav-Mykola (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 ...

Re-routing using Contraction Hierarchies in Software-Defined Networks

Miranda, Sebastian (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2020-10)

According to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), one of the reasons to reexamine traditional network architectures is the increment of mobile devices and its data transmission. The global IP traffic forecast by CISCO ...

An Examination of Police Culture and its Effects on Patrol Officers Attitudes towards Restorative Justice

Broschuk, Braeden (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...

Envisioning a culturally safe midwifery model from the perspective of Indigenous families: A case study of midwifery care in inner city Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Wiscombe, J. Dawn (University of WinnipegUniversity 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

Welitharage, Piyumi Madhubhashini (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 ...

Millennial fire history reconstruction in the boreal forest of south-central Canada using lake-sediment charcoal, tree-ring and archival records

Waito, Justin M. (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 ...

Home range, habitat selection, and annual survival of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in central Canada

Habrich, Andrew (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 ...

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

Rodgers, Jessica Lynne (University of WinnipegUniversity 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 ...

Legacies of afforestation on prairie plant, seed bank, and nematode communities in a northern rough fescue prairie

Coffey, Victory (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 ...

Habitat quality, torpor expression and pathogen transmission in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)

Breit, Ana M. (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 ...

Breeding Ecology of Wild and Captive-released Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) in Southwestern Manitoba

Froese, Alexandra (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2016)

Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) once occupied grassland ecosystems in the western Provinces of Canada, as far east as Winnipeg, Manitoba, and west into the southern interior of British Columbia (B.C.). No single factor ...

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

Oloko, Majing (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 ...