Lakehead University Knowledge Commons: Recent submissions
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Perfectionism from inside and outside: clarifying the role of intra- and interpersonal processes in predicting maladjustment using multi-source and intensive longitudinal methods
(2024)Life as a post-secondary student can be volatile and stressful, and illustrated by maladjustment (e.g., depressive symptoms). It is critical to understand factors that increase the risk for negative outcomes that can ... -
Influence of prey type and environment on Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) activity, mercury dynamics, and life histories
(2024)Understanding food web structure in lentic ecosystems is a requirement for determining pathways and rates of energy flow, yet predator-prey interactions can be highly dynamic across space (i.e., between- and within-lakes) ... -
Functional outcomes following total knee arthroplasty utilizing lifestyle risk factors and comorbidities on performance-based tests
(2024)Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an orthopedic surgical procedure designed to alleviate the effects of knee osteoarthritis (OA), aiming to enhance patients' strength, range of motion (ROM), and ability to perform activities ... -
Forest recovery and conservation, a socioeconomic and environmental alternative for the inhabitants of the community of Yunguilla, Ecuador. Case study
(2024)This study investigates the socioeconomic and environmental transformations caused by the recovery and transformation of the forest in a rural community in Ecuador. It attempts to determine if these transformations have ... -
Situational peer preferences within the dark triad and light three: peer selection and ranking
(2024)The Dark Triad is a trio of socially aversive sub-clinical personality traits consisting of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. The Light Three is a grouping of three prosocial sub-clinical personality traits ... -
Housing and health of asylum aeekers and refugees in Canada: a cross-sectional study
(2024)Asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) represent a growing global population due to various factors including armed conflicts, political instability, and persecution. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports ... -
Lignin-acrylamide-diallyl dimethylammonium chloride copolymer: mechanism of polymerization and purification
(2024)The world economy is growing faster than ever, while environmental issues are getting worse. The use of ecologically friendly materials has increased as a result of environmental concerns. Promoting ecologically friendly ... -
Intelligent algorithm based robust and fault tolerant control of induction machines
(2024)Induction machines (IMs) are the driving force in industries such as manufacturing, transportation and wind power generation. Hence, it is essential to reliably detect faults in IMs so as to enhance production quality ... -
Characterization of alteration and mineralization of the Moss gold deposit, Shebandowan greenstone belt, Northwestern Ontario
(2024)The Moss Au deposit is an orogenic-style gold deposit hosted in felsic to intermediate rocks of the western Shebandowan Greenstone Belt, close to the terrane boundary between the Wawa-Abitibi terrane and the Quetico ... -
Futurities in Anishinaabe arts practices: beading as decolonial praxis
(2024)This dissertation explores ways of knowing, being, and doing that are made present and possible through Anishinaabe creative practice and the role and value of beadwork as decolonial praxis. This study draws upon framings ... -
Zhiitaa-ook waa-ni onj-kiijig: re-activating Anishinaabe gikendaasowin (knowledge) for caregiving at the end of life
(2024)Indigenous peoples have long-standing cultural knowledge of caring for people who are preparing to journey to the spirit world. Settler-colonialism, however, disrupted that continuous intergenerational knowledge transfer ... -
Developing ecologically conscious macro-models embedded in Gandhi’s educational philosophy for Indian K12 Schooling: a Teacher’s handbook
(2024)The need for a transformative approach to environmental education has become more pressing as traditional teaching methods often fail to foster deep ecological understanding and sustainable behaviors among students. This ... -
Identifying significant groundwater recharge areas and modelling surface and subsurface water balance of the Neebing River
(2024)This study provides a hydrological function assessment of the Neebing River, a stream that starts in a rural context and transitions to an urban environment that has historically been prone to flooding. Hydrological ... -
Impact of urbanization on McVicar Creek, Thunder Bay
(2024)Urbanization has significantly altered natural ecosystems, particularly impacting waterbodies like streams and creeks. In Thunder Bay, Ontario, the urbanization of McVicar Creek has led to increased impermeable surfaces ... -
Hyperpolarized xenon-129 chemical exchange saturation transfer (HyperCEST) molecular imaging: achievements and future challenges
(MDPI, 2024)Molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an emerging field that is set to revolutionize our perspective of disease diagnosis, treatment efficacy monitoring, and precision medicine in full concordance with personalized ... -
Enantioselective cross-coupling of monosubstituted ferrocenes in chiral ionic liquids
(2024)Planarly chiral ferrocenes have applications in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and biomedical research for their use as ligands or catalysts in asymmetric synthesis. Previous methods of enantioselective synthesis of ... -
The status of turtle populations in Point Pelee National Park: a 20 year update
(2024)Long-lived species such as turtles may appear to have healthy persistent populations if adults are consistently observed; however, study of size structures can reveal declining populations left vulnerable by limited ... -
Ground improvement of non-cohesive soil using nanoparticles, specifically, laponite
(2024)Ground improvement through densification is a widely used techniques to mitigate the risk of liquefaction and significant soil deformations. Traditional site stabilization techniques have certain limitations such as ... -
The design of fast-transient cap-less low-dropout voltage regulators
(2024)This thesis provides a theoretical and experimental study of cap-less LDO regulators for high speed applications. The three different architectures used in LDO designs are re- viewed in detail along with their advantages ... -
Symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder and cycle phase are associated with enhanced facial emotion detection: An online cross-sectional study
(Sage, 2024)Background: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a depressive disorder affecting 5%–8% of people with menstrual cycles. Despite evidence that facial emotion detection is altered in depressive disorders, with enhanced detection ...
