Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Northern Canada"”.
-
Indicators for Prenatal Support and Neonatal Outcomes in Northern Canada
Background: The current practice in northern Canada is to transfer pregnant women residing in communities without hospital facilities to larger centres at 37 weeks gestation. Little research has been conducted on how the practice of transferring women for childbirth affects available prenatal care …
-
An investigation of the factors affecting mercury accumulation in lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, in northern Canada
… fish species in some lakes in northwestern Canada. High mercury concentrations in lake trout in other regions have been associated with the biological features of the fish and various chemical and physical aspects of their aquatic ecosystems. Data including lake trout age, length, weight, …
-
Fluid Evolution and Structural Control on Uranium Deposits in Successor Basins in Northern Canada and Northern Australia
… the Martin Lake Basin in the Beaverlodge area in Canada, and the El Sherana Basin in the South Alligator River area in Australia. The Beaverlodge area records six temporally distinct stages of U mineralization spatially associated with the Martin Lake successor basin. Early minor stages are hosted …
-
Perpetuating Precarity in Theory and in Practice: A Case Study of Work-integrated Learning in the Non-profit Sector in Northern Canada
… eight diverse non-profit organizations (NPOs) in northern Canada are positioned to support students to develop personal agency through WIL. Most WIL research is urban-centric, focused on for-profit industries and framed within Human Capital Theory (HCT), making this study an outlier. Using a case …
-
Resource utilisation in the national parks of the Canadian Arctic
The national parks of northern Canada provide a useful reflection of the evolving attitude towards conservation of a fragile ecosystem, in a situation complicated by a background of political, social and economic transition. This thesis examines how this transition, in particular that of land claim …
-
Governance in Nunavut
… settlement of aboriginal claims has been on the northern policy forefront for the past two decades. At long last the settlement of these claims may be imminent. This dissertation examines a series of political-administrative strategies designed to assist in establishing a Native form of …
-
Dismantling Anti-Black Racism Against Black Teachers Through Equitable and Inclusive Practices: Northbound
… K1 Elementary, an Indigenous community school in Northern Canada. This work centers on initiatives aimed at dismantling anti-Black racism and discrimination faced by Black teachers, who have had to endure the negative consequences of being treated differently and unfairly concerning employment …
-
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Host: Fleas and the History of Pikas in North America
… collared pikas in the Northwest Territories of Canada provides additional context to the history of pikas in North America. <em>Margopsylla tolli </em>parasitizes both <em>Ochotona collaris </em>in Alaska and northern Canada and <em>Ochotona hyperborea</em> in eastern Siberia and Manchuria. The …
-
Harmony at home: the experience of parenting a child with externalizing behavior
… ethnic backgrounds living in a rural area of Northern Canada. Data were analyzed for themes within and across the participant’s descriptions. In-depth semi-structured phenomenological interviews revealed the following common experiences: participant’s had similar histories of inconsistent …
-
Postglacial Reconstruction of Fire History from a Small Lake in Southwest Yukon using Sedimentary Charcoal and Pollen
… severity of wildfire. Recent wildfire seasons in northern Canada generally support these studies, with some of the worst fire seasons on record occurring during the past few years. While we can readily track the spatial and temporal distribution of these events during recent decades using …
-
Uncovering the Ground Thermal Regime of Coastal Labrador: The Influential Effects of Snow and Vegetation on Ground Temperatures
… the future impacts of climate change in northern Canada. This thesis presents a machine learning-based method for estimating snow cover from local ground surface temperature (GST) and air temperature measurements and was tested using modelled and in situ data. Results were compared …
-
Future Extensions to Passive Optical Access Networks
Rapid changes in population distribution across Canada and the introduction of new telecommunication services to the consumer market have resulted in a number of significant challenges for existing network infrastructure. Fast growing populations in metropolitan regions require high density access …
-
Modelling of future flood risk across Canada under climate change
… key climate variables and hydrological cycle in Canada. In this study, future runoff projections made by 21 GCMs following four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) are used as inputs into a macro-scaled hydrodynamic model: CaMa-Flood to simulate 25 km resolution daily streamflow across …
-
Arsenic mobility in a changing northern climate: Implications for geochemical baselines and long-term stability of contaminants in lake systems
… the biogeochemical dynamics of lake systems in northern Canada. These changes may affect the loading and cycling of naturally occurring metal(loid)s and the long-term stability of mining-derived contaminants in sub-Arctic lakes. Arsenic (As) concentrations of lakes in the Courageous Lake …
-
Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Boreal-Arctic Land Surface State and Meteorology from AMSR-E
… biophysical monitoring sites across Alaska and northern Canada. Daily vapor pressure deficit is determined by employing AMSR-E daily maximum/minimum air temperature retrievals. The seasonal pattern of microwave emission and relative accuracy of the estimated land surface state are influenced …
-
Assessing cumulative human impacts on northern woodland caribou with traditional ecological knowledge and resource selection functions
… are federally listed and declining across Canada because of the cumulative impacts of human infrastructure development. The Atlin northern mountain herd, in the territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN), British Columbia, is less affected by development than southern herds. …
-
Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of Boreal-Arctic Land Surface State and Meteorology from AMSR-E
… biophysical monitoring sites across Alaska and northern Canada. Daily vapor pressure deficit is determined by employing AMSR-E daily maximum/minimum air temperature retrievals. The seasonal pattern of microwave emission and relative accuracy of the estimated land surface state are influenced …
-
Assessing cumulative human impacts on northern woodland caribou with traditional ecological knowledge and resource selection functions
… are federally listed and declining across Canada because of the cumulative impacts of human infrastructure development. The Atlin northern mountain herd, in the territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN), British Columbia, is less affected by development than southern herds. …
Page 1 of 2