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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aspects of Radiative Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model and Beyond
(2016-08-25)
In this thesis, I discuss the conformally symmetric (CS) Standard Model (SM) and the hidden sector extensions to address the hierarchy/ naturalness problem, the origin of electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking (SB), dark matter ...
A narrative inquiry into parents' experiences with teens with substance use issues: Where are the schools in their stories?
(2017-01-11)
Responding to students who are experimenting with substance use is a complex challenge for schools and administrators. For parents of these children, deciding how to best serve their child’s needs can be an overwhelming ...
Genotypic and environmental variation in protein content of field peas
(1976-08)
The contributions of genotype, location, and year to variability in yield and protein content of field peas were estimated from a study of 25 genotypes grown at three locations in one year and 22 genotypes grown at one ...
Latino Migrant Farmworkers in Saskatchewan: Occupational Health and Safety Education and the Sustainability of Agriculture
(2016-09-16)
In Saskatchewan, there is a dearth of scholarly documentation on the experiences of Latino migrant temporary farmworkers, especially with respect to their agricultural occupational health and safety (OHS) education and ...
Examining an Animal Model of Depression with Recurrent Depression-like Episodes
(2017-01-12)
Depression is a complex psychiatric disorder. It is recognized as a cyclical disease with multiple episode relapses. Many preclinical animal models have been utilized to study the behavioral and neurobiological characteristics ...
A NOVEL TRANSIENT TESTING METHOD FOR HEAT/ENERGY WHEEL COMPONENTS
(2016-07-28)
Heat wheels and energy wheels are widely used in ventilation systems to recovery sensible and latent energy, and consequently, reduce the energy required to condition outdoor ventilation air for buildings. This Ph.D. thesis ...
Minding the Iraqi refugee: Psychological challenges of Iraqi war refugees and the effectiveness of existing support services in Saskatoon
(2016-11-14)
This thesis explores the psychological challenges experienced by Iraqi war refugees living in Saskatoon, the effect of war trauma and forced displacement on their mental health, and examines the adequacy of existing mental ...