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Observer-Rated Housing Quality Scale (OHQS)
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2015-12-03)
In partnership with the West Broadway Community Organization, the Institute of Urban Studies is proud to launch the Observer-Rated Housing Quality Scale (OHQS) - Rooming house and Single Room Occupancy Hotel Edition. This ...
An Energy-Based Body Temperature Threshold between Torpor and Normothermia for Small Mammals
(The University of Chicago, 2007-09-05)
Field studies of use of torpor by heterothermic endotherms suffer from the lack of a standardized threshold differentiating torpid body temperatures (T_b) from normothermic T_b's. This threshold can be more readily observed ...
Election 2011 UNSPUN: Public Schools Financing
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2011)
Contemporary Water Governance: Navigating Crisis Response and Institutional Constraints through Pragmatism
(MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland, 2016)
Water has often been the source of crises and their frequency will intensify due to climate
change impacts. The Niagara River Watershed provides an ideal case to study water crises as it is an international transboundary ...
The ver Veelen family in Cologne and Amsterdam
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2004)
Non-Repetitive Tilings
(The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2002-07-03)
In 1906 Axel Thue showed how to construct an infinite non-repetitive (or square-free) word on an alphabet of size 3. Since then this result has been rediscovered many times and extended in many ways. We present a two-dimensional ...
Report on the Residence Satisfaction Survey
(2014-11-06)
The Residence Satisfaction Survey was undertaken to determine the level of satisfaction felt by students living in the University of Winnipeg's residences. The survey was administered in February 2001 by Janis Pregnall, ...
Beyond Food Security: Understanding Access to Cultural Food for Urban Indigenous People in Winnipeg as Indigenous Food Sovereignty
(Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 2015)
Access to safe, affordable and nutritious food is an obstacle facing many Indigenous people in the inner city of Winnipeg, which is known for having vast food deserts. While food security is an urgent social, economic, ...
Inuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut
(Université Laval, 2016)
Inuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut Although positive policies and laws promote the Inuit language and Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) in all sectors of Nunavut society, including at ...
Craniometric analysis of European Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic samples supports discontinuity at the Last Glacial Maximum
(Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2014-06-10)
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) represents the most significant climatic event since the
emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH). In Europe, the LGM may have played a
role in changing morphological features as a ...
Osmoregulatory, metabolic and nutritional condition of summer-run male Chinook salmon in relation to their fate and migratory behavior in a regulated river
(Inter-Research, 2011-06-01)
We studied the migratory success of male summer-run Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha in the Puntledge River on Canada’s Vancouver Island over a 3 yr period using biotelemetry and non-lethal physiological biopsy. ...
Swimming activity of migrating Chinook salmon in a regulated river
(Inter-Research, 2012-10-17)
Adult Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. have a fixed amount of energy available to
fuel their freshwater spawning migration, so they must optimize their activity in a manner that conserves energy to ensure successful ...
A User-Centric Case for Rights Reversions and Other Mitigations: The Cultural Capital Project Submission to ISED Consultation on Term Extension
(2021-03-09)
Term extension is unlikely to benefit any but the largest of rightsholders, and indeed, in general independent creators typically do not benefit greatly from the promised financial exploitation promised by copyrights. This ...
Mainstream media, reconciliation and Wab Kinew
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2016-03-30)
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2012)
Advancing Coordination of the Winnipeg Homeless Sector
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2017-05-23)
This is the Final Report of the project, ‘Advancing Coordination of the Winnipeg Homeless Sector’. Over the last year, there have been efforts in the homeless serving community to map out service gaps and needs, and to ...
Exploring Machine Learning Approaches to Precipitation Prediction: Post Processing of Daily Accumulated North American forecasts
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-11-22)
This thesis presents recent work on exploring machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models to improve the accuracy of 24 hour precipitation forecasts. Leveraging a comprehensive North American dataset of precipitation ...
Teachers' Voices: Pandemic Lessons for the Future of Education
(University of Windsor, 2021-05-26)
In late 2019 and early 2020, governments around the world closed educational institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A similar response occurred in Canada and resulted in a sudden pivot by teachers from classroom-based ...
Small-scale methane dispersion modelling for possible plume sources on the surface of Mars
(Geophysical Research Letters, 2012-10-11)
Intense interest in the characteristics of a methane source on Mars has been spurred by recent observations of a plume structure. The current NASA Mars Science Laboratory and future landers and orbiters will be tasked with ...
Housing Needs of Low Income People Living in Rural Areas
(2002-01-01)
Four reports investigating the housing needs of low income people. Preeceville Saskatchewan, Brooks Alberta, Russell Manitoba, and Coral Harbour Nunavut are presented as case studies.