The central theme of this paper revolves around the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) from their traditional socio-economic means of production and their subsumption into the ...

The current sources of our energy supply are plagued with many problems, and the impact on the climate is of grave concern. To preserve and sustain our environment, a non-polluting and renewable energy source is required. ...

The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between advanced music training and neurocognitive functioning, with specific focus on executive function, working memory, and tactile interhemispheric transfer. ...

The Regina household energy consumption model is designed to estimate residential energy consumption for the city of Regina using agent-based technology. The impact of social and economic factors on the levels of energy ...

This study analyzes the role of willing self-sacrifice in Guy Gavriel Kay’s trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry. I begin by detailing anthropological studies about sacrifice which provide the critical framework for this thesis. ...

Even as teacher education programs raise issues of social justice with pre-service teachers, the opportunities for them to practice their skills happen within the existing school structure— a structure that resists change. ...

From 2002-2008, the television series, The Wire, realistically conveyed the inner city problems of Baltimore, with a particular focus on the drug trade and its social and psychological effects on Baltimore’s black underclass. ...

The thesis is a further study about algebraic Riccati equations for which the four coe cient matrices form a regular M-matrix K. We prove a property about minimal nonnegative solutions of such an algebraic Riccati equation ...

Plant development varies depending on whether it occurs in the light (photomorphogenesis) or in the dark (skotomorphogenesis). This phenomenon has been studied in depth in flowering plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana ...

Neural stem and progenitor cells (NSPCs) from the adult subventricular zone hold therapeutic potential for regenerative medicine. Specifically, differentiated oligodendrocytes can aid in remyelinating denuded axons in ...