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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"southwestern Ontario"”.
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Breakfast Consumption and Diet Quality of Teens in Southwestern Ontario
… Healthy Eating Index-2015 scores among teens in Southwestern Ontario. METHODS: Cross-sectional, baseline data were used from the SmartAPPetite project, which is currently ongoing. 24-hour dietary recalls and sociodemographic information were obtained from participants and parents (n=512). …
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Allostratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Blue Mountain Formation, Southwestern Ontario, Canada
The Upper Ordovician units in Southwestern Ontario record the distal response to the development of the Taconic Appalachian foreland basin. The proximal representation in Ohio and Pennsylvania, contain the Utica/Point Pleasant Play (!). The relationship between the proximal and distal portions of …
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The Role of Community Paramedicine Programming in Providing Lift Assists in Southwestern Ontario
… the role of CPs in providing lift assists in Southwestern Ontario. Interview transcripts were inductively coded and analyzed to generate themes and broader categories to examine paramedic perceptions of community paramedicine programming and the experience of responding to lift assists. This …
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Resolving community conflicts with public participation: A case study of a southwestern Ontario community
This qualitative case study of a southern Ontario urban fringe community demonstrates that unresolved community conflict continues to be played out in the political arena by different actors in on-going disputes. A macro, meta and micro level of analysis reveals that negative patterns of …
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Crop monitoring and yield estimation using polarimetric SAR and optical satellite data in southwestern Ontario
… monitoring and yield estimation applications in southwestern Ontario. Firstly, the sensitivity of 16 parameters derived from C-band Radarsat-2 polarimetric SAR data to crop height and fractional vegetation cover (FVC) was investigated. The results show that the SAR backscatters are affected by …
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Geology of the western portion of the Dogtooth pluton, Lake of the Woods region, southwestern Ontario
… intrusion located about 16 km east of Kenora, Ontario was extensively sampled for study by petrographic modal analysis and trend surface analysis. The Dogtooth pluton, the main intrusive body sampled, is part of a granitic batholith known as the Dryberry dome, which is interpreted to have been …
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Isotopic Fingerprinting of Shallow and Deep Groundwaters in Southwestern Ontario and its Applications to Abandoned Well Remediation
Abandoned hydrocarbon wells in southwestern Ontario can act as conduits for Sulphur water, brines, and hydrocarbons from deep Paleozoic bedrock aquifers. Such leakage may pose a threat to shallow groundwater and the environment. Cost-effective plugging of these wells requires knowledge of the …
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Postglacial paleoecology and effects of European settlement on the environment of Lake Hunger and Lake Lisgar, Southwestern Ontario /
This investigation has three purposes I to make a comparative chemical study on sediment cores collected for Lake Lisgar (man-made lake in an urban center) and Lake Hunger (natural basin in a rural community) encompassing the time since European settlement I to determine the postglacial chemical …
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Exploring the Scale-up of a Free Community-Based Physical Activity Intervention to Rural and Smaller Urban Settings in Southwestern Ontario
… the counties of Oxford, Elgin and Middlesex in Southwestern Ontario. This dissertation entailed four interrelated studies, which start with exploring the movement behaviours of the children in the study area via online surveys. Study 1 entailed a longitudinal assessment of children’s physical …
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Examining environmental and life history correlates of winter and migratory movements in a nomadic Arctic-breeding passerine
… of movements of Snow Buntings overwintering in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, we first investigated which environmental and intrinsic factors influenced space use during the wintering period, and used this as a basis to estimate spring migration initiation. To accomplish these goals, we …
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The Perfect Storm: Emergency Management Regulations and Small Municipalities in Ontario
… examines emergency management legislation in Ontario with a specific focus on identifying the barriers that small municipalities experience with implementing provincial emergency management regulations. Through a qualitative research approach, this study examines three small municipalities in …
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Exploring Clinical Instructors’ Perceptions of Competencies Required for Their Role in a Baccalaureate Nursing Program
… role in a baccalaureate nursing program in a southwestern Ontario university. A sample of 27 CIs participated in the study to evaluate the importance and implementation of the WHO competencies. The results were analyzed using Wilcoxan Signed Ranks. The findings suggest that 36 out of 37 of the …
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Effects of Inflow Parameters and Operating Conditions on the Structural Response and Power Production of a Commercial Wind Turbine
… in the atmospheric boundary layer. At a farm in Southwestern Ontario, a commercial-sized wind turbine operates in close proximity to a meteorological mast capable of quantifying the inflow parameters of the approaching wind profile. The turbine's steel supporting tower has been instrumented with …
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Exploration of Fatigue in Fourth-Year Nursing Students
… nursing students enrolled at a university in southwestern Ontario. A sample of 134 participants completed a demographic questionnaire and the Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery (OFER) scale midway through their final semester of school. The study examined the perceptions of fatigue, …
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Gender and Grade Differences in How High School Students Experience and Perceive Cyberbullying
… through a survey and focus groups with youth in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Survey findings revealed that boys reported cyberbullying more often than girls on most items while girls reported experiencing cyberbullying more often than boys on most items. Grade alone did not account for …
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Straight allies: Combating homophobia and interrogating heteronormativity 'straight' on
… Alliances (GSAs) in secondary schools in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Drawing on both queer theoretical perspectives and Kumashiro’s (2002) framework of anti-oppressive education, I investigate what motivates or influences allies' decisions to become members of GSAs, and I explore their …
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