It is well documented in the literature that Aboriginal peoples have a lower health status compared to the non-Aboriginal population in Canada. The underlining causes for this health disparity are found in the historical ...

This ethnographic study explored the experiences of six Aboriginal nursing students in a nursing program with the hope of gaining understanding of such experiences. Four important themes emerged from the analysis of the ...

Several ways of understanding aboriginal rights surfaced in the wake of section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, which recognizes and affirms aboriginal and treaty rights. During my Masters’ studies, I journeyed these ...

Drawing upon field work, mass media accounts, and Canadian government internal documents, this thesis considers how settler/Aboriginal power relations were reproduced when Taiwan Aboriginal artefacts held by the Royal ...

In the context of growing concerns regarding global climatic change, developing methods to assess the carbon storage of various ecosystems has become important. This research attempts to develop low or no cost methods to ...

BlobTree modelling has been used in several solid modelling packages to rapidly prototype models by making use of boolean and sketch-based modelling. Using these two techniques, a user can quickly create complex models as ...

China’s renewed engagement in Africa is shaped by an ever more coherent and multi-faceted African strategy which is informed by and supportive of Beijing’s emerging foreign policy strategy in general. Through an investigation ...

Detector mis-modelling or hardware problems may cause an excess of Missing Transverse Energy (MET) to be inferred in physics events recorded in ATLAS, leading to higher than expected backgrounds for new physics. In particular, ...

Testimonies of “wireless catching up with wireline” have begun. However, the nonstationary and hostile nature of the wireless channel impose the greatest threat to reliable data transmission over wireless links. The ...