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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Eastern Ontario"”.
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Exploring Tools to Develop the Bioeconomy in Eastern Ontario
… has been proposed as a mechanism by which Ontario’s resource-dependent communities might be revitalized. This thesis applies a knowledge economy framework to the establishment of a bioeconomy, with a strong focus on bioenergy as a first step, in Kingston and the surrounding region. The …
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Core French in Eastern Ontario: a language-minority student's experience
… learning French in a core French class in Eastern Ontario. In-class observations and interviews with the language-minority learner (LML), his guardian, his teachers and principal were conducted over a six-week period. The data collected helped to create a thick description of the LML’s …
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Soils, Symbiosis, and Succession: Eco-centric Care in Eastern Ontario
… thesis explores human relationships to soil in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Through 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with biologists, ecologists, gardeners, farmers, and natural historians, this thesis is an inquiry into the entanglements between soil and human life. My interlocutors, who I …
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A Regional Chemical Characterization and Analysis of Groundwater in Eastern Ontario
… and analysis of groundwater chemistry in eastern Ontario, Canada, where elevated TDS, Na and halogens occur in shallow groundwater. Water-types, PCA and mapping are used to investigate the processes and features controlling the chemistry. The chemical patterns are associated with …
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The Spatial and Molecular Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Eastern Ontario
… notifiable in 2009 until the present. In Ontario, Canada's largest province by population, average Lyme disease incidence across the province is similar to that of national estimates. However, in eastern Ontario, which is near tick endemic regions in the northeastern Unites States, Lyme …
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Maple Sugar Bush Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Eastern Ontario, Canada
… the extent to which sugar bush management in Eastern Ontario might contribute to biodiversity maintenance and conservation and therefore be promoted as a form of rural sustainable development. Ontario government policy seeks to actively promote actions that strengthen the province’s rural …
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Environmental justice and public participation: Implementing source water protection in eastern Ontario
… call is explored through the lens of the Ontario Source Water Protection (SWP) Initiative in the Raisin Region Source Protection Area. As Source Water Protection is ongoing, it provides an outstanding opportunity to observe the implementation of public participation within a …
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Expected impacts of climate change on water and wastewater treatment in the Eastern Ontario region
… and wastewater treatment infrastructure in rural Eastern Ontario. In total, 13 municipal WTPs and 28 municipal wastewater treatment systems in the Eastern Ontario region were investigated. These facilities were characterized using existing data, questionnaires, and sites visits. On the basis of …
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The Use of Radionuclides to Identify Vulnerable Fractured and Karst Bedrock Aquifers in Eastern Ontario
Domestic water wells in Eastern Ontario were identified in potentially vulnerable fractured and karst bedrock aquifers using geologic and geochemical data. A novel methodology is presented that evaluates ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pbₑₓ as local indicators of groundwater vulnerability. The method is designed to …
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The Wandering Mussels: Analyzing the Ecological Impact of Dreissenid Mollusks Across Spatial and Temporal Scales in Eastern Ontario Using Environmental DNA
… coupled with contemporary eDNA sampling across Eastern Ontario. These models demonstrated a biogeographical landscape with high dreissenid saturation, limited broadly by calcium but driven divergently by bathymetry for zebra mussels and temperature for quagga mussels. They captured spatial …
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Wildlife Road Mortality on the 1000 Islands Parkway in South Eastern Ontario: Peak Times, Hot Spots, and Mitigation Using Drainage Culverts
… surveys of the 1000 Islands Parkway in south eastern Ontario during 2010 and 2011. These data were grouped with similar data collected in 2008 and 2009 to determine when and where animals were killed along the Parkway to better inform mitigation options. Temporal and spatial clustering was …
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Fusarium stalk rot incidence in maize, Zea mays L., in relation to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) infestation, genotype maturity and eastern Ontario climatic gradient.
Development of maize, Zea mays L., germplasm resistant to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) and Fusarium fungal pests has been in progress for more than three decades as a worldwide cooperative effort. Some of the host plant resistance to the European corn borer and Fusarium has …
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Bird and Bat Diversity and Abundance in Agroecosystems in Relation to Drainage Hedgerow and Landscape Structure
… recordings of bats along drainage hedgerows in eastern Ontario to test my hypotheses. Overall, I found that drainage hedgerow height was positively associated with higher biodiversity for birds and bats. Width and variation in height were also important depending on the response considered. With …
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De-duotanging Core French: Case study of a Digital Learning Space Portfolio in a Grade 8 Classroom
… The study took place at a rural school in Eastern Ontario and included fourteen students, six male and eight female. The results indicate that students had positive experiences using the digital learning space portfolio which supported student participation in the FSL classroom. In …
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Evaluation of agricultural beneficial management practices: Cattle access restriction to surface waters subsurface tile drainage management
… on the environment. The study was conducted in Eastern Ontario on typical small scale agricultural practices. The first part evaluates the impact of a conventional pasture system and an excluding pasture system on surface water quality. The three year study compared water quality endpoints such …
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Curb Cuts for Writing: Students with Learning Disabilities' Perceptions as Learners and Writers using Assitive Technology
… Association’s listserv located in a mid-sized Eastern Ontario city. Three groups of two to three Grades 4-8 students previously identified with a learning disability, and who were already using word prediction software (e.g. Co-Writer or WordQ), attended a 3-hour session. This session included …
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Changes in Patterns of Territory and Habitat Overlap in Wood-Warblers Over Evolutionary Time
… at the Queen's University Biological Station in eastern Ontario. I predicted that closely related species would separate by habitat and not overlap their territories. However, I found that the two most recently diverged species pairs overlap their territories and habitats significantly more than …
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