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Summer storms trigger soil N₂O efflux episodes in forested catchments
(American Geophysical Union, 2016-01-14)
Climate change and climate-driven feedbacks on catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry have the potential to alter the aquatic versus atmospheric fate of nitrogen (N) in forests. This study investigated the hypothesis that ...
Inuit Perspectives on Sustaining Bilingualism in Nunavut
(Université Laval, 2009)
This article presents an Inuit perspective on how bilingualism and biliteracy may be achieved and sustained in Nunavut. The Nunavut Literacy Council interviewed "language role models" (i.e., Inuit who are admired for their ...
Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health: It’s time to get it right
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2011)
Yielded to Christ or conformed to this world? Postwar Mennonite responses to labour activism
(Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 2007)
The urbanization of North American Mennonites after the Second World War necessitated a reconsideration of Mennonite religious beliefs. Post-war concerns for social justice led to a greater emphasis on non-violence and ...
Quantifying nearness in visual spaces
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Cybernetic vision systems can be deployed in problem domains where the goal is to achieve results similar to those produced by humans. Fundamentally, these problems consist of evaluation of image content between sets of ...
Signature-based perceptual nearness: Application of near sets to image retrieval
(Birkhäuser, 2013)
This paper presents a signature-based approach to quantifying perceptual nearness of images. A signature is defined as a set of descriptors, where each descriptor consists of a real-valued feature vector associated with a ...
Collin Graham
(2013-06-19)
Light-toned salty soils and coexisting Si-rich species discovered by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in Columbia Hills
(Journal of Geophysical Research, 2008-12-19)
Light-toned soils were exposed, through serendipitous excavations by Spirit Rover wheels, at eight locations in the Columbia Hills. Their occurrences were grouped into four types on the basis of geomorphic settings. At ...
Winnipeg's Vanishing Rooming Houses: Change in the West Broadway and Spence Neighbourhoods
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-06-24)
The Canada Jobs Grant: Perpetuating Aboriginal Exclusion
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2013-11-05)