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- UNBC
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- Dissertations, Theses, and Projects
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- The collection contains graduate (and select undergraduate) dissertations, theses, project reports and practicum papers. The collection contains most published works from 1994 to the present.
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- Over the Edge Newspaper
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- Over the Edge is the University of Northern British Columbia's student newspaper. Twice a month it publishes content that is aimed to connect students and reflect what is unique about UNBC student life. Issues are in PDF format and comprise nearly all issues of the newspaper since its inception in October 1994. The original print issues are held in the Northern British Columbia Archives and Special Collections at UNBC. Missing issues include: Vol. 2 Iss. 5, Vol. 5 Iss. 11, Vol 9 Iss. 11 & 12.
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- Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute (NRESI)
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- The Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute publishes an Occasional Paper Series, a Research Extension Note Series and a Technical Report Series. NRESi Occasional Papers are peer-reviewed publications of papers and symposia sponsored or produced by members of the Institute. They provide an outlet for position, idea, concept, and opinion oriented papers. In addition, each spring NRESi (with the support of a Northwood Pulp & Paper (now Canfor) endowment) hosts an Annual Lecture Series and written versions of the presentations are often published as part of this Occasional Paper Series. NRESi Research Extension Notes are peer-reviewed publications of the research findings of NRESi members and of graduate students in the NRES Graduate Program. This series is intended to provide an outlet through which Institute members can make their research findings available to a non-technical audience. NRESi Technical Reports are comprehensive final reports of research projects. They contain results relevant to the region and the broader research community. This publication series creates an opportunity for NRESi members to make their research results available in a unified form.
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- Faculty Publications
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- Here are located publications authored by the UNBC's faculty.
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- In Singing, He Composed a Song.
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- Jeremy Stewart (author), Robert Budde (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- In Singing, He Composed a Song is a rhizomatic assemblage of texts, voices, and fragments. It uses a collage of prose, lined poetry, photography, a transcribed interview, an epistle, psychiatric records, literary theory fragments, and more to narrate the story of John Stevenson's altercation with the RCMP and subsequent committal to the Psychiatric Ward at the Prince George Regional Hospital. The materials that make up the text are arranged in a rhizomatic network theorized as an assemblage. The rhizome is the polyvalent figure strategically adopted by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It destabilizes unified, hierarchical relationships and structures. In Singing is an assemblage of enunciations which are fictional and provisional, and whose relationships are multiple and indeterminate. The assemblage enacts the palimpsestic, vertiginous layering of stories that informs John's precise difficulty with providing what his psychologist calls 'a fair account of himself.' --P. ii.
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- English
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- Initial investigation into using a two-level regional voting approach for face verification.
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- Jun Ma (author), Liang Chen (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- Face verification is defined as a person whose identity is claimed a priori will be compared with the person's individual template in database, and then the system checks whether the similarity between pattern and template is sufficient to provide access. In this thesis we introduce a new procedure of face verification with an embedding Electoral College framework, which has been applied successfully in face identification. The approaches are evaluated by experiments on benchmark face databases applying the Electoral College framework embedded with standard baseline PCA algorithm and newly developed algorithm S-LDA. The results demonstrate that the proposed face verification systems improve the performance of these holistic algorithms. --P. i.
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- Computer Science
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- Genetic variation of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. Latifolia [Engelm.]) chemical and physical defenses that affect mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae attack and tree mortality.
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- Daniel Stephen Ott (author), Dezene Huber (Thesis advisor), Kimberly Wallin (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- The current outbreak of mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), and its fungal complex Grosmannia clavigera has affected ~15 million hectares of lodgepole pine Pinus contorta var. latifolia (Engelm.) in British Columbia. This is of great concern to forest industry in British Columbia but it has provided a rare opportunity to study genetic variation of lodgepole pine defense mechanisms against MPB. Based on a previous study, we selected 45 open-pollinated families from a population of 180 families, with the number of trees per family ranging from 16-26 (for a total of 887 trees) from two 20-year field tests which had undergone attack from MPB. Chemical and physical defensive responses were quantified in response to simulated attack by the MPB fungal complex on these 45 families. These responses included: physical exudation of resin, host compartmentalization response to fungal inoculation, and levels of constitutive and induced resin terpenoids. Further assessments were made for tree height, DBH (diameter at breast height ~1.4 m), bark texture, tree mortality, and MPB presence, attack density, reproduction, and brood development, as well as the presence of hypersensitivity reactions by the tree to MPB. --P. iii.
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- Natural Resources & Environmental Studies
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- Interactions of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, with typical and atypical host material, lodgepole pine and interior hybrid spruce, in the central interior of British Columbia.
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- Fraser Ray McKee (author), Brian Aukema (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- Interactions between mountain pine beetles and spruce hosts are rare, but a high frequency of mountain pine beetle attacks on interior hybrid spruce, an atypical host species, have recently been observed within the central interior of British Columbia, an area experiencing a severe outbreak of mountain pine beetle. I first examined the effect of natal history on host selection by females, and settlement patterns of conspecific males. In a second study, I examined the effects of host species and competitors on mountain pine beetle reproduction in a field experiment. The third study examined the association of within-stand beetle population density and pine vs. spruce availability with attraction to traps baited with pine and spruce host material. Using mountain pine beetle as a model organism, this work emphasizes insect host selection and reproductive success, with potential implications for host range expansion in eruptive herbivores. --P. ii.
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- Biology
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- Characterization of spawning habitat, incubation environment and early growth and development in bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus ) from pristine streams of northern British Columbia.
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- Cory John Williamson (author), Mark Shrimpton (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- No abstract available.
- Discipline
- Natural Resources & Environmental Studies
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- Evaluating community incentives for biodiversity conservation in protected areas in Nepal.
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- S. Arian Spiteri (author), Gail Fondahl (Thesis advisor), Sanjay Nepal (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- No abstract available.
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- Natural Resources & Environmental Studies
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-
Canadian Indians and the Second World War: The pivotal event of the 20
th century for Canadian Indians and Canadian Indian policy? - Contributors
- Roy P. Toomey (author), Theodore Binnema (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- No abstract available.
- Discipline
- History
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- Linear separability of the vertices of an n-dimensional hypercube.
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- Nicolle Gruzling (author), Lee Keener (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- No abstract available.
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- Computer Science
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- Scripts for Misfits: A creative thesis comprised of short fiction.
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- Carly Stewart (author), Robert Budde (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- Scripts for Misfits is a creative thesis comprised of three short stories set in Prince George. Thematically, 'Crazy Old Birds,' '1957 Taylor Dr.' and 'The Box-Shaped Man' are linked in their separate explorations of the positive and negative impacts that popular texts (cinematic or literary) can have on female characters. Ultimately, my thesis pushes the reader to examine how these fictional women come to not only navigate the largely negative sociopolitical ideologies that popular culture prescribes as appropriate gender roles, but also, Scripts for Misfits illustrates how individuals can work toward self-actualization by deconstructing the messages that have previously worked to contain them. --P. ii.
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- English
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- Exploring predictors of tobacco use during pregnancy in Northern British Columbia: Barriers to conducting tobacco research.
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- Denys M. Smith (author), Ken Prkachin (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- Living in northern remote regions has implications for smoking rates in pregnancy and for participant recruitment and retention in tobacco research. The purpose of this research was to identify predictors of smoking through pregnancy for women in northern remote areas in BC. Structured telephone interviews were conducted with 12 participants recruited from the region. Questions asked at baseline were reproduced from a triage tool developed in earlier research. Additional questions specific to pregnant women examined community characteristics, transportation, initial impact of pregnancy and transience. Principal outcomes were: smoking status, smoking rate and quit attempt. Recruitment and retention issues resulted in low participant numbers. Results were interpreted with caution and research interests redirected. Possible solutions to problematic design issues were discussed in the final evaluation. The design appeared, in theory, to be reasonable however, in reality, it was not compatible with unique environmental and cultural factors impacting data collection in the north. --P. ii.
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- Psychology
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- Voices and visions: Transformative creativity in a northern context.
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- Zander Dahne Harding (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- This thesis is an arts-based, qualitative examination of the phenomenological reality of individuals who practically and/or theoretically live on the edge of society in Prince George, British Columbia. The primary group consists of homeless women living in an emergency shelter in downtown Prince George, British Columbia and grew to include students and social justice activists. Though the primary discussion is centered on the women from the shelter, quotes and contributions from the other groups are included to highlight some of the common threads. The research project is an investigation of the potential of art as a powerful mechanism for theorizing about the structures of oppression which mediate everyday experiences however, it also became apparent that there was a connection between the creative process, feminine solidarity, and healing while creating a model for community arts-based research that can contribute positively to the individuals, agencies, and research institutions who participate. --P. iii.
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- Gender Studies
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- The impact of climate change and harvest of mountain pine beetle stands on streamflow in northern British Columbia.
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- Faye Hirshfield (author), Jueyi Sui (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- This research examines the impact of climate change and MPB harvest on streamflow in northern British Columbia using the Hydrologiska Byr~\u2022ns Vattenbalansmodell-Environment Canada model (HBV-EC) a semi-distributed conceptual hydrologic model. Streamflow for the Goathorn Creek watershed in Telkwa is modeled under the IPCC A1B, A2 and B1 emissions scenarios. The TreeGen downscaling method and four global climate models were used to generate future climate. Global climate models used were the Canadian developed CGCM3, ECHAM5 from Germany, GFDL-CM2.1 from the United States and CSIRO-Mk from Australia. Under all climate scenarios HBV-EC modeled a 16 percent reduction in mean annual flows the timing of spring peak flows was also forecast to occur up to 30 days earlier in the year. A change in the timing of peak flows and an overall reduction in mean flows will have important implications for water managers, domestic users and industrial development within the Bulkley Valley. The HBV-EC model was also used to model Moffat Creek streamflow under various harvest scenarios for mountain pine beetle stands. The model predicted an increase in streamflow with an increase in harvest area. When compared to measured streamflow it was however found that average spring discharge during the MPB epidemic was 14 percent lower than it had been during the previous 30 years. The low spring discharge during the MPB epidemic appeared to be related to the 9 percent decrease in SWE for the same years however further investigation is required.
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- Environmental Science
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- Breaking copper: Legislating the repatriation of First Nations cultural property to restore self-determination and promote reconciliation.
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- Pamela Flagel (author), Michael Murphy (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- The repatriation of cultural property to First Nations is often guided by voluntary procedures developed by museums, and legislation enacted by government. The treaty process can also direct repatriation negotiations between First Nations and museums. The return of cultural property from museums to First Nations has the potential to restore aboriginal cultural self-determination rights and begin a process of reconciliation between these two groups. However, neither First Nations cultural self-determination nor reconciliation with museums can be achieved through the repatriation of cultural property alone. In order for cultural self-determination to be fully realized complete control over cultural property must be reinstated to First Nations communities. Conditions placed on the care and storage of returned objects can interfere with First Nations cultural practices and can foster mistrust and resentment towards museums. An examination of voluntary policies, treaty processes, and legislative acts demonstrates that legislation is best able to restore full cultural self-determination to First Nations and achieve reconciliation with museums. --P.ii.
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- Political Science
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- Journeys of disorientation & dislocation: Women/invisible dis/ability in and out of social work. A transdisciplinary exploration.
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- Jorge Mai Kelly (author), Si Transken (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
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- Research question: Please describe your experience of invisible illness/ dis/ ability and what this has meant to you both professionally and personally. This is a qualitative, exploratory study in which six women (including myself) who work/have worked within the social work profession, responded to the research question employing an online-email method. I developed a variety of self-monitoring questions to assist the process. These questions were designed to be used as conversational prompts only if necessary, and to make up for absence of face-to-face contact. The participants were found using a snowball sample. This research is an exploration of female social workers' experiences with invisible illness/dis/abilty. Specifically, the study explores the intersections and subjectivity of a variety of women's oppressions, including socialization, media/body image, sexual identity, and aging in relation to the effects of gender violence and women's health, sense of well being, and social worker retention in rural, isolated, and northern communities. Gender violence will be understood to include a continuum of violence extending from economic coercion to outright physical abuse. I explored the possibilities (and potential linkages) that there may or may not be a relationship between women's previous experiences of marginalization and oppression, including trauma, abuse, neglect, poverty, and abandonment, which might increase the likelihood of further such experiences within a social work setting, and that gender violence is contrary to social worker retention, specifically in rural, isolated, and northern communities ...This may include that women position or allow themselves to be positioned in social work environments paradoxically to re-encounter such situations that would not likely be experienced in other non-caring, or traditionally male professions. Our choices are shaped by our structural contexts and vice versa. Our choices are also influenced by subconscious and subtle dynamics. More specifically, in
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- Social Work