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2020 — Disrupting Euro-Western Onto-Epistemologies (Re)Imagining Possibilities for Mathematics Education Through/With Indigenous Knowledges and Complex ConversationsAbstract
This thesis is a representation of my research interests and explorations in interfacing Indigenous knowledges and mathematics education. This focus arose near the onset of my doctoral coursework as experiences of tension/contradiction occurred that were disruptive to my onto-epistemologies, especially to my ways of knowing and being in relation to mathematics education. These disruptions eventually led me to want to work at (re)imagining my mathematics learning/teaching practices through/with processes that might be recognized as decolonizing. My review of related literature increased my awareness of the possibility that the discipline of mathematics was potentially misframed. I was especially drawn to discussions … Read more
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2016 — Re/Creating Worldviews with Children: Environment as an Integrating ContextAbstract
We are situated in experiences – many not of our own choosing, especially as children. These experiences have profound effects on our worldviews, our relationships, and our holistic learning and development. “Young children experience their world as an environment of relationships. These relationships affect every aspect of learning and development…If we believed that knowing requires a personal relationship between the knower and the known, our students [children] would be invited to learn by interacting with the world not by viewing it afar” (Palmer, 2007, p.8). It is, therefore, of prime importance for educators to consider the influences of the environment … Read more
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2012 — “That’s the Life of a Gangster”: analyzing the media representations of Daniel Wolfe.Abstract
Daniel Wolfe has been represented by the news media as one of Saskatchewan and Manitoba’s most “notorious gang members.”1 Wolfe first made headlines at the age of 31 after he instigated a fatal home invasion in the rural community of Fort Qu’Appelle, northeast of Regina.2 Later that year, while on remand at the Regina jail, Wolfe and five other Aboriginal inmates staged an elaborate break-out which received extensive national media coverage.3 Two years later Wolfe was killed in prison. His death, although tragic, was regarded by media and experts as an “obvious conclusion” to a gangster’s story.4 Through an interdisciplinary … Read more
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2017 — A Narrative Inquiry into Indigenous Nurses' Experiences of Care: A Dialogic/Performative Narrative AnalysisAbstract
One of the most fundamental social processes regularly explored in nursing practice and education is the concept of care and caring. This study suggests that the more deeply we understand the experience of caring in our own lives, the more we realize its centrality as a human condition activated through human relations. Understanding care involves attentiveness to the social and historical conditions of life that demands sensitivity to the ways in which pre-professional experiences impact values, interests, processes, needs, and desires and how these tenets are performed in the nurse’s practice. This research involved a three-year collection of the life … Read more
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2024 — Community ecology of migratory bats in a northern sky islandAbstract
Animal migrations are often motivated by the opportunity to exploit seasonal abundances of resources, a phenomenon particularly pronounced for species migrating to higher latitudes where seasonality is more extreme. Bats are the only mammalian order to have evolved flight, and three North American migratory bats are the long-distance migrating hoary (Lasiurus cinereus) and silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans), and the regionally migrating little-brown Myotis bats (Myotis lucifugus). I describe a highly seasonal community of migratory bats in a northern “sky island” within the Cypress Hills of southern Saskatchewan, Canada, focusing on abundance trends, foraging behavior, niche ecology, and ecophysiology. By collecting … Read more
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2021 — Life, Death, and Life AgainAbstract
This paper is in support of the exhibition Propagation, my Master of Fine Arts graduating exhibition that was held at the Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre from February 3rd – March 28th, 2021. The exhibition and paper explore my personal history with my childhood garden, the lineage of knowledge I came to carry, and the food I have grown as a result. Firstly, I describe the exhibition itself, and the logic behind the particulars of its installation. Next, I explore the development of the exhibition through the MFA program, and a few key moments where the work shifted. In the … Read more
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2020 — “Curiously Alive and Vital”: D.H. Lawrence, Gender and the BodyAbstract
In this thesis, I examine the importance of the body to identity and fulfilment in three of D.H. Lawrence’s best-known novels. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow, and Women in Love, each written in the early twentieth century before Lawrence’s death in 1930, Lawrence represents the bodies of his characters as equally as integral to their identities as their minds. Also prominent in these works are Lawrence’s criticisms of modern technology, as well as of the privileging of the mind and mental processes that this technology encourages. Lawrence offers the “life of the body” as an alternative to mental, mechanical … Read more
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2021 — Surviving and Thriving as a Teacher: Exploring the Emotional Management Struggles and Strategies of TeachersAbstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the struggles teachers face when they first encounter the emotion work in teaching. Furthermore, I explored the strategies they had to develop to healthily manage this work. In this way, teachers are not just surviving, but thriving, in their role. To achieve this, I used a combined methodology of an auto-ethnography to explore my own lived experiences and empathetic semi-structured interviews with five other teachers. The main findings are categorized into struggles and strategies. Participants identified their struggles with the emotion work as the emotions of stress, anxiety, and caring. The emotion … Read more
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2021 — Estrogen and Cognitive Functioning in the Menopause TransitionAbstract
Most women report cognitive problems in the menopause transition (i.e. ‘perimenopause’), which refers to the five or so years preceding the final menstrual period. Chief concerns allude to forgetfulness, fuzzy thinking, poor working memory, and poor concentration. Although it has been proposed that the hormonal changes associated with the menopause transition may be a contributing factor, very little research has been devoted to studying the effect of reproductive hormones on cognitive functioning during this transition period. The goal of this study was therefore to improve our understanding of the role that reproductive hormone changes play in triggering perimenopausal cognitive difficulties. … Read more
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2019 — Effects of Equal Volume High-Repetition Resistance Training With Different Workout Frequency on Muscle Mass and Muscle Performance in Postmenopausal WomenAbstract
The purpose was to examine the effects of equal volume, high-repetition resistance training (HRRT) to volitional fatigue, with different workout frequency, on muscle mass and muscle performance in healthy postmenopausal women. After matching participants for age, weight and years post-menopause, postmenopausal women were randomized to perform HRRT two days per week (HRRT-2; 60.8 ± 5.5 years, 72.1 ± 16.4 kg, 160.2 ± 3.9 cm; 3 sets of 20-30 repetitions/set to volitional fatigue for elbow and knee flexion and extension) or three days per week (HRRT-3; 61.8 ± 4.6 years, 67.6 ± 13.6 kg, 160.7 ± 4.4 cm; 2 sets of … Read more
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2019 — Jesus Christ Superscribe: Knowledge, Interpretation, and Teaching in the Gospel of MatthewAbstract
Jesus-characters are most often created as a reflection of their authors, and the author/s of the text traditionally known as “The Gospel According to Matthew” is no different. Matthew creates a Jesus that is focussed on knowledge retention, interpretation, and dissemination. Throughout the text, they set up different scribe-characters as foils for Jesus, so that Jesus’s superior ability to interpret and teach the Hebrew writings can be displayed. Like ben Sira, Matthew creates an “ideal scribe” in their Jesus, and also displays the characteristics of the “ideal scribe” in the composition of the text. This scribe is an able teacher, … Read more
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2018 — On The Classical Parameters of the Crack DistributionAbstract
The three parameter Crack distribution is a useful and effective tool in statistical analysis in conjunction with the desired interest of engineering studies relating to fatigue cracks that occur in materials used for numerous products such as lorry, air craft and other heavy machinery due to excessive load or when the force is exerted beyond the materials ability. This distribution contains as special cases: the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution, the Inverse Gaussian distribution, and the Length Biased Inverse Gaussian distribution, all of which are well known, have their own characteristics and are naturally related to each other. In this thesis, we derive … Read more
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2012 — Corrosion Evaluation for Absorption - Based CO2 Capture Process Using Single and Blended AminesAbstract
One of the major problems associated with the amine-based carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process is corrosion of process components, which results in unexpected downtime, production loss, and even major fatalities. Most of the published corrosion literature is on conventional monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent, and there have been very few corrosion studies conducted on other single amines like methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), diethanolamine (DEA), 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP), and some blended amines. Although there has been extensive research conducted on the kinetics of concentrated piperazine (PZ) as an attractive solvent for the CO2 absorption process, no corrosion studies have been conducted for this solvent. This work … Read more
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2016 — Investigating Acoustic Properties of Biocomposite from Waste StreamsAbstract
Biocomposites are a type of material. Recently, research and development into biocomposites have experienced a resurgence, as they are environmental friendly material. As part of the “green” industries, biocomposites decrease the demands on traditional, synthetic or petroleum carbon based products. The biocomposite, as studied herein, consists of a reinforcing biofibres with a matrix and binder (polymers and elastomers) and were formed using thermal compression moulding. All the materials were reclaimed, except for the virgin polypropylene and polyethylene. The effects of varying the compositions of the biofibre and matrix/binding elements on the material and mechanical properties are analyzed and modeled. These … Read more
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2016 — Numerical Simulation of Landslide Impulsive Waves by WC-MPS MethodAbstract
Numerical simulation has been widely used and becomes a major approach for solving engineering related problems in the past few decades. Because of the flexibility, efficiency and compatibility of numerical simulation, it has been involved in various engineering and science areas. This approach is capable of interpreting the natural phenomena, and also offering an alternative way of theoretical studies and experiments. In hydrodynamic simulations, there are two kinds of approaches have been established. The traditional mesh-based methods (e.g., finite element and finite volume method) that have been the dominant methods for decades but not capable of large deformations and fragmentations … Read more
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2017 — Emergency Evacuation Management for Nuclear Power Plant Accidents Under Multiple UncertaintiesAbstract
Nuclear power accidents are one of the most dangerous disasters posing a lethal threat to human health and have detrimental effects lasting for decades. Therefore, emergency evacuation is important to minimize injuries and prevent lethal consequences resulting from a nuclear power accident. An evacuation management system in response to a nuclear power plant accident, involves a number of processes with a variety of socio-economic and environmental implications. These processes may be influenced by a number of factors, such as availability of traffic vehicles employed, number of evacuees, destinations of evacuees, limitations of evacuation times, budgets for evacuation, shelter and hospital … Read more
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2019 — Feasibility Analysis and Optimal Design of the Acidizing of Coalbed Methane WellsAbstract
Plugging is a prominent cause of reduced production in coalbed methane (CBM) wells. In this thesis, the feasibility analysis and optimal design of the acidizing of CBM wells to remove the plugging are researched. First, X-ray diffraction analysis shows that the plugging contains acid-soluble minerals and a field case indicates that the acidizing effect is positively correlated with the content of acid-soluble minerals. Inspired by this, the author analyzes influencing factors of the content of acid-soluble minerals. Well logging parameters (DEN, AC, GR) are selected to establish a neural network model to predict the content of the acid-soluble minerals. Furthermore, … Read more
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2020 — Assessment of the influence of Nonstationary Climate on Extreme Hydrology of Southwestern CanadaAbstract
The demand for water supplies across southwestern Canada has increased substantially over the past century with growing population and economic activities. At the same time, the region’s resilience to the impacts of hydrological extremes, floods and droughts is challenged by the increasing frequency of these extreme events. In addition, increased winter temperatures over the past century have led to declines in winter snowpack and caused earlier snowmelt, leading in some years to a substantial shortage of water during late summer and fall seasons. This calls for a better understanding of the flood and drought characteristics in addition to the information … Read more
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2023 — Exploring the work-related experiences of retail workers in Saskatchewan: A critical narrative studyAbstract
The retail industry is predominant in providing goods and services to customers worldwide. For example, studies have found that more than 10% of employees work in the retail sector in Canada. However, frontline retail employees experience considerable challenges, such as mistreatment and hostility from managers. Yet, research has generally failed to explore the nature of those challenges or offer strategies to address them. Using a narrative inquiry/approach methodology, the study explored the work-related experiences and conditions of four frontline retail workers at a Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada store. The study drew on critical theory and social justice theory as theoretical lenses … Read more