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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Canadian Prairies"”.
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The Social Impacts of Flood on the Canadian Prairies
Climate extremes are costly environmental hazards, which create social stressors due to impacts on all human uses of land and water resources. Humans are adaptable, but their capacity for adaptation is constrained by various social factors, including social inequality. This research project asked: …
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Stochastic Modelling of Heavy-Tailed Precipitations in Canadian Prairies
… to a historical data set from twelve stations in Canadian prairies where precipitation is a crucial factor in agriculture. In this thesis, the three main important characteristic of a precipitation based data set, as mentioned above, have been described through a dynamic mixture model. Firstly, in …
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Mapping elk distribution on the Canadian prairies: Applying local knowledge to support conservation
Once abundant across the Great Plains of North America, prairie-parkland elk (Cervus canadensis manitobensis) underwent a catastrophic population collapse and dramatic contraction of their overall range through the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s due to habitat loss (primarily from agricultural …
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Establishment, Forage Production and Drought Resistance of Native Perennial Legumes of the Canadian Prairies
… in the Brown and Dark Brown soil zones of the Canadian Prairies near Swift Current and Saskatoon, SK. The experimental design was a Randomized Complete Block Design with four replicates with treatments being species mixtures/monocultures and harvest dates (July and August). The native …
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Model Estimation of Depression-focused Groundwater Recharge and its Variability in the Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies is characterized by a cold, semiarid climate with topographical variations containing numerous depressions. These depressions play an important role in the hydrology of the prairie region by storing runoff water and replenishing groundwater through focused infiltration termed …
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Transnational Migration: A Study of Ghanaian Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Socio-economic Activities in the Canadian Prairies
… of Ghanaian immigrant entrepreneurs in three Canadian Prairie cities – Calgary, Saskatoon/Regina, and Winnipeg. The study specifically explores immigrants’ motivation for transnational entrepreneurship, experiences, challenges, and coping strategies. A qualitative research method involving …
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Drivers and Barriers to Producer Adoption of Climate Resilient Pea Varieties in the Western Canadian Prairies
… through an online survey of 461 Western Canadian field crop producers that incorporated a discrete choice experiment (DCE), Tanaka et al.’s (2010) prospect theory game, and Ellsberg’s (1961) two-urns paradox. These methods allowed us to explore how risk, loss, and ambiguity aversion …
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DISCRIMINATING OVERWINTERING ORIGIN AND MIGRATORY CONNECTIVITY IN A LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATORY SHOREBIRD STAGING IN THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES
Migratory birds are experiencing widespread global declines. Shorebirds appear to be experiencing some of the most dramatic declining population trends, with the long-distance, Arctic-breeding migrants apparently losing ground the fastest. Challenges arise in monitoring these populations as they …
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Cover Cropping on the Canadian Prairies: A Mixed Methods Study to Gain Understanding of Cover Crop Agronomic Practices Among Farmers
… services. However, currently within the Canadian Prairie agriculture systems, the recent use of CC is limited with upwards of 100,000 acres seeded. Farmer responses in previous surveys indicated they need more information of CC agronomy and performance to support incorporating CC into …
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The Public Good and Private Business of the Crow Rate: Prairie Grain Handling and Transportation Policy
The Crow rate shaped the Canadian prairies’ agricultural settlement yet a highly charged debate over it fostered a sense of western alienation. Originally signed in 1897 the Crowsnest Pass Agreement, more popularly known as the Crow rate, between the federal government and the Canadian Pacific …
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An Improved Water-Driven Sediment Yield Model for Cold Agricultural Regions
… data from three research basins across the Canadian Prairies, and a sensitivity analysis was performed to determine sensitivity to parameter and forcing variation. Model behaviour for sediment load was shown to have high sensitivity to surface slope, soil texture, and storage capacity of the …
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A STUDY OF PEAK INSTANTANEOUS AND AVERAGE DAILY DISCHARGES FROM SMALL PRAIRIE WATERSHEDS
This thesis is a study of watersheds on the Canadian prairies with an effective area of less than 300 sq. mi. to develop the relations between peak instantaneous discharge and average daily discharge. An empirical approach was used to develop graphical correlations between the ratio of peak …
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Differential moisture sensitivity in the life cycle of selected vegetable crop
… production of the high-cash crops on the Canadian prairies. While the mechanics of irrigating field crops formulate a well-developed science, much is still to be learned about the improvement of irrigation efficiency via a thorough understanding of how much water the plant needs for …
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Political fanaticism, alienation and the Trickster archetype in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland
… Spanish Civil War and Gilliam’s depiction of the Canadian prairies as an isolated and hostile landscape, it will be argued that political fanaticism and alienation are, from a Jungian psychological perspective, symptomatic of a modern mode of being that divests individuals of the numinous …
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Books and Broomsticks: Prairie Indigenous Female Domestic Workers and the Canadian Outing System, 1888-1901
This thesis discusses the Canadian outing system, a direct feature of industrial schools in the prairie west prominent in the late nineteenth century. Seen as an extension of the school’s vocational training, the outing system became an outlet with which the Canadian federal government’s Department …
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