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  • Gender and Discourse on an Academic Internet Community 
    Beaulieu, Hendrika H.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 1995)
    Do men and women write differently and if so, do these stylistic differences represent differing world \iews and/or do they indicate divergent decisions that are made by the gendered individual with respect to the ...
  • Gender, migration, and practices of political participation in Lethbridge 
    Vardazaryan, Greta; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Women and Gender StudiesArts and ScienceDepartment of Women and Gender Studies, 2016)
    This research explores political participation of immigrant women in Lethbridge. More specifically, research participants identified the factors that affect immigrant women’s practices of political participation in ...
  • Gendered obstacles and opportunities for women seeking positions of prime minister and president: the case of Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine, 1999-2010 
    Sereda, Anatasia J. N.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Department of Women and Gender StudiesArts and ScienceDepartment of Women and Gender Studies, 2018)
    This thesis is a case study of Yulia Tymoshenko, who was twice prime minister of Ukraine in 2005 and from 2007-2010 yet failed to achieve the position of president in 2010. Due to her political achievements and her inability ...
  • Gene expression in a microspore-derived cell suspension culture of Brassica Napus exhibiting enhanced oil production 
    Davoren, Jonathan M.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1997Arts and ScienceDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1997)
    Triacylglycerol (TAG) production in the microspore derived (MD) cell suspension culture ofBrassica napus L. cv Jet Neuf was enhanced when the sucrose concentration in the growth medium was increased from 2 to 14 % (w/v). ...
  • Generalized uncertainty principle and quantum gravity phenomenology 
    Bosso, Pasquale; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : Universtiy of Lethbridge, Department of Physics and AstronomyArts and ScienceDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, 2017)
    The fundamental physical description of Nature is based on two mutually incompatible theories: Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity. Their unification in a theory of Quantum Gravity (QG) remains one of the main challenges ...
  • Generating plant lines with markers designed to assess cell polarity defects at the molecular level 
    Pageni, Utsab; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological SciencesArts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2021)
    Cellular polarity is a fundamental aspect of all multicellular organisms that enables certain cell types to carry out their functions. Therefore, cell polarity formation is an important basis for understanding the molecular ...
  • Genetic analysis of leaf vascular patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana 
    Steynen, Quintin John; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge : University of Lethbridge, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science, 2001Arts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2001)
    I have isolated and characterized a recessive mutation in the Forked (FKD) gene that results in the abnormal initiation of vascular bundles in the foliar organs, such that the apices of the vascular bundles initiate freely. ...
  • Genetic engineering of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to target chloroplasts and identification of a novel nuclear localization signal of VirD2 protein 
    Matsuoka, Aki; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological SciencesArts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2015)
    Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been adopted to become a greatest tool for plant genetic engineering. Since Agrobacteria predominantly integrate single copy of the transgene into the nuclear genome, the transgene expression ...
  • A genetic fallacy : monstrous allegories of mixed-race in Gothic and contemporary literature 
    Spenrath, Rylan; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of EnglishArts and ScienceDepartment of English, 2016)
    My thesis examines the similar intersections of hybridity that are embodied in both representations of monstrosity and the politics surrounding people of mixed-race. Drawing from Robert J.C. Young’s text Colonial Desire, ...
  • Genetics and epigenetics of direct and indirect radiation responses in normal mammary and breast cancer cells 
    Luzhna, Lidiya (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological SciencesArts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2014)
    The successful approach for decreasing breast cancer fatalities depends upon reliable diagnostic screening and optimal treatment modalities. Ionizing radiation is widely used for both screening and therapeutic procedures. ...
  • Genêt unmasked : examining the autobiographical in Janet Flanner 
    Gaudette, Stacey Leigh; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2006Faculty of Arts and ScienceDepartment of English, 2006)
    This thesis examines Janet Flanner, an expatriate writer whose fiction and journalism have been essential to the development of American literary modernism in that her work, taken together, comprises a remarkable ...
  • Genomic and epigenomic changes in transgenerational response to cold stress in Arabidopsis thaliana 
    Rahman, Ashif; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological SciencesArts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2020)
    Plants are continuously exposed to various environmental stresses. They employ numerous strategies of resistance and develop a memory of stress exposure for future generations. Abiotic stress, like cold, can prompt the ...
  • Genotype X environment impact on selected bioactive compound content of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) 
    Lee, Ee Lynn; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological Sciences, c2009Arts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2009)
    Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) is a medicinal plant with potential applications in the natural health product industry. In a multi-environmental setting, 10 genotypes were tested across 14 growing environments ...
  • Geographical impacts of BSE in Alberta 
    Baarda, Lewis (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Geography, c2009Arts and ScienceDepartment of Geography, 2009)
    BSE was discovered in Canada in 2003. Research on the impacts of BSE indicates that cattle producers suffered significant economic losses, and that these may have reverberated into local communities, where industries ...
  • Geographies of online social interaction: a big data analytics approach to social media platform Sina Weibo 
    Wang, Chaowen; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : Universtiy of Lethbridge, Department of GeographyArts and ScienceDepartment of Geography, 2018)
    Social media has revolutionized many aspects of people’s social life. However, few studies have utilized massive individual-level data from social media to examine the effects of geography. In this study a program was ...
  • Gertrude Stein and her audience : small presses, little magazines, and the reconfiguration of modern authorship 
    McKay, Kali; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, c2010Arts and ScienceDepartment of English, 2010)
    This thesis examines the publishing career of Gertrude Stein, an American expatriate writer whose experimental style left her largely unpublished throughout much of her career. Stein’s various attempts at dissemination ...
  • Get mad, stay mad : exploring stakeholder mobilization in the instance of corporate fraud and Ponzi schemes 
    McCormick, Cameron Anthony (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Management, c2011Management, 2011)
    Using a multi-case study, three Ponzi schemes were investigated: Road2Gold, Bernie Madoff’s empire, and the Earl Jones affair. This grounded study used an inductive bottom-up methodology to observe and describe stakeholder ...
  • Getting real : peer counselling as a way to authenticity 
    Six, Karen Ruth; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1993Education, 1993)
    The purpose of this thesis is to address the question, "Is Peer Counselling a way of fostering or promoting the existential notion of authenticity?" The intention of Peer Counselling is to improve the psychological health ...
  • Girls in science : the effect role models have on student interest / Maike L. Horn 
    Horn, Maike L.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2011Education, 2011)
    The central query of this study is focused around questions about increasing the numbers of girls and women in science. Surveys and focused group interviews were conducted with Grade 8 and 11 girls in two rural southern ...
  • A GIS based approach to the spatial analysis of the Fincastle Bison Kill Site (DIOx-5) 
    Mills, Tammi; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Geography, c2009Arts and ScienceDepartment of Geography, 2009)
    The Fincastle Bison Kill Site (DlOx-5), located in Southern Alberta, Canada, yielded a significant number of archaeological remains, including projectile points, lithic tools, debitage, fire broken rock (FBR) and fauna. ...