University of Winnipeg: Recent submissions
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Descriptive Topological Spaces for Performing Visual Search
(Springer, 2019-02-02)This article presents an approach to performing the task of visual search in the context of descriptive topological spaces. The presented algorithm forms the basis of a descriptive visual search system (DVSS) that is based ... -
A Descriptive Tolerance Nearness Measure for Performing Graph Comparison
(IOS Press, 2018-11-03)This article proposes the tolerance nearness measure (TNM) as a computationally reduced alternative to the graph edit distance (GED) for performing graph comparisons. The TNM is defined within the context of near set theory, ... -
Discounting Life: The Impact of Gender, Race, Domestic Violence, and Ideal Victim Status on Second Degree Murder Sentencing in Canada
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-12)Scholars, the media, and the public have been concerned about differing values placed on crime victims on the basis of social factors such as gender, race, and domestic violence affiliation. Some academics argue that ... -
ka pamihiwehk mino pimatisiwin: kichi ininiw ahkosowinow kakiskaocik ahkosowinow HIV (Promoting mino pimatisiwin: Urban Aboriginal Women Living with HIV)
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-25)This research projects examine the impact of HIV among urban Aboriginal women living with HIV in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Despite the antiretroviral tereatment and HIV prevention strategies, new HIV positive cases for urban ... -
Effects of multigenerational exposure and phenotypic variation on a freshwater fish species exposed to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2)
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-11)The amount of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) and the acidity of aquatic ecosystems is increasing as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase due to human activities. Changes in pH and dissolved CO2 can have considerable ... -
Indigenous Perspectives in Program Evaluation: A scoping literature review exploring wise practices for program evaluation with Indigenous communities in northern Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-31)This study explored how organizations that offer programming and services in northern Indigenous communities could inform, adapt, and improve their evaluation approaches to involve an Indigenous perspective. Without this ... -
Restorying Canada: Multiple Narratives in Progress
(Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil, 2017)This article examines, from two different perspectives, the relationship between historical and literary modes of restorying Canada: first exploring the process by which the country has shaped itself historically since ... -
Quantifying biological responses of catch-and-release angling in understudied fish species and practices
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-20)Many catch-and-release angling events involve air exposure and exhaustive exercise that elicit a physiological stress response, and depending on a variety of factors, delayed mortality is a possible outcome. There have ... -
Humidity, huddling & the hibernation energetics of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-18)During winter, many mammals hibernate and lower their body temperature and metabolic rate (MR) in prolonged periods of torpor. Hibernators will use energetically expensive arousals (i.e., restore body temperature and MR) ... -
Shaping Post-Christendom Spiritual Practice in the United Church of Canada One Prayer Shawl at a Time
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-17)Although shawls have been fashioned in one way or another for hundreds of years, this research is focused around the special shawl-making of the relatively new Christian prayer shawl ministry that has developed in North ... -
Linking dominant rainfall-runoff event hydrologic response dynamics with nitrate and chloride load estimates of three boreal Shield catchments
(American Geophysical Union, 2021-08-21)Understanding hydrological dynamics in boreal Shield catchments is critical for projecting changes in stream runoff and chemistry in a region that is sensitive to climate change. Previous work has mostly focused on a limited ... -
Short Text Classification with Tolerance Near Sets
(University of Winnipeg LibraryUniversity of Winnipeg, 2021-08-13)Text classification is a classical machine learning application in Natural Language Processing, which aims to assign labels to textual units such as documents, sentences, paragraphs, and queries. Applications of text ... -
Poetika i imaginariji Montréala u suvremenoj kvebeckoj knjizevnosti
(Hrvatsko filološko društvo, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, 2021-07-19)[Poetics and Imaginaries of Montréal in Contemporary Québécois Literature.] Contemporary narratives no longer display a singular city but a palimpsest of cities. “L ’esprit migrateur” (Pierre Ouellet) and “la rencontre ... -
Poétique et imaginaires de Montréal dans la littérature québécoise contemporaine
(Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil, 2017)Le récit littéraire d’aujourd’hui ne semble plus habiter une ville, mais un palimpseste de villes. «L’esprit migrateur» (Pierre Ouellet) et la rencontre transculturelle» (Patrick Imbert) s’avèrent être les nouvelles ... -
Qualitative Interviewing and Transcription: The Things We Wish We Knew Before We Started!
(Community-Based Research Training Centre, 2021-04-23)It’s just a conversation, right? Wrong. An interview is SO much more… In this hands-on workshop, two experienced interviewers from city planning and sociology will highlight the practical skills that are needed to conduct ... -
Planning for Teacher Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adaptive Regulation to Promote Resilience
(Rivera Open, 2021-06-25)Increased job demands coupled with insufficient resources, typically result in job strain which can lead to burnout. However, in a series of studies conducted with Canadian teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the findings ... -
Crystal structure and computational study of an oxo-bridged bis-titanium(III) complex
(International Union of Crystallography, 2021-06)The solid-state structure of the new compound mu-oxido-bis[dichloridotris(tetrahydrofuran-kappa-O)titanium(III)], [Ti2Cl4O(C4H8O)6], at 150 K has been determined. The crystal has monoclinic (C2/c) symmetry and the complex ... -
Représentations de la filiation dans les littératures francophone et autochtone du Canada dans le contexte des Amériques
(Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil, 2019)Cet article dont la réflexion se situe à la croisée des études littéraires, des études comparatistes et transculturelles explore différentes représentations de la filiation (familiale, culturelle et communautaire) dans les ... -
Représentations de la mobilité dans le récit de soi contemporain au Canada francophone
(Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Brock University, 2020)Il existe une relation de complémentarité entre la mobilité culturelle (W. Moser) et la mobilité poétique au sens de la naissance d’un « esprit migrateur », selon Pierre Ouellet. Les deux notions s’appliquent principalement ... -
Hydrological and catchment controls on event-scale dissolved organic carbon dynamics in boreal headwater streams
(Wiley, 2021-06-23)Hydrological events transport large proportions of annual or seasonal dissolved organic carbon (DOC) loads from catchments to streams. The timing, magnitude and intensity of these events are very sensitive to changes in ...
