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Dog Population Management and Dog Bite Prevention in Rural and Remote Northern Saskatchewan Aboriginal Communities
(2017-01-11)
Communities employ a wide variety of methods to reduce critical encounters and dog population numbers. However, systematic studies evaluating the success of approaches and techniques are currently lacking. Nor has significant ...
Controlling Contagion: Policing and Prescribing Sexual and Political Normalcy in Cold War Canada
(2016-08-23)
This dissertation examines the Cold War fear of infiltration and the ‘enemy within.’ While several Cold War histories examine the culture of anxiety, few consider how the larger fears of nuclear weaponry and radiation ...
Sexualized Bodies in Canadian Women's Short Fiction
(2016-08-23)
In this dissertation, I examine short stories by Canadian women writers from the 1970s to the 2000s to answer three overarching questions. First, I analyze, using various theories of corporeality, how bodies of female ...
UREIDE ACCUMULATION DURING ABIOTIC STRESS IN LEGUMES
(2016-08-18)
Allantoin and allantoate, ureides formed during the catabolism of purines, accumulate in plant tissue in response to drought and other abiotic stresses. Allantoin, allantoate, and a precursor molecule, uric acid, have been ...
Methodology for extensive evaluation of semiautomatic and interactive segmentation algorithms using simulated Interaction models
(2016-09-21)
Performance of semiautomatic and interactive segmentation(SIS) algorithms are usually evaluated by employing a small number of human operators to segment the images. The human operators typically provide the approximate ...
'You Can't Have it All French, All at Once': French Language Rights, Bilingualism, and Political Community in Saskatchewan, 1870-1990
(2016-07-14)
This study is about the place of French and French speakers in the Saskatchewan political community. Beginning with the political foundations of western Canada in 1870, it argues that exclusion of the French language and ...
Working Towards Desistance: Canadian Public's Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders, Sex Offender Treatment, and Policy
(2016-07-18)
Understanding public attitudes towards sex offenders and public endorsement of sex offender policy is essential to the development of successful and workable policies that reduce sexual recidivism. The current research ...
The medial prefrontal cortex and the dorsomedial striatum are necessary for working memory in rats: role of NMDA receptors
(2016-12-19)
Working memory is a form of short-term memory involved in the storage (maintenance) of information over time and reorganization (manipulation) of a memory set necessary for complex cognition. The human frontal cortex and ...
Generalized Metrics
(2016-07-11)
A distance on a set is a comparative function. The smaller the distance between two elements of that set, the closer, or more similar, those elements are. Fr\'echet axiomatized the notion of distance into what is today ...
Carbohydrate Composition and Structure Changes as Phloem Sap is Converted to Nectar in Borago officinalis L. and Select Brassica spp. L.
(2016-08-10)
Nectar is a carbohydrate-rich solution produced by nectary organs as a reward to pollinators and animal mutualists. Nectar production involves the upload of carbohydrate (i.e., sucrose) from the phloem sap, intracellular ...