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  • Water and city-regionalism : discourse, power and hidden dynamics 
    Nicol, Lorraine A. (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of EconomicsArts and ScienceDepartment of Economics, 2013)
    Region-based solutions present a promising avenue to water management in water stressed regions by providing increased flexibility. But regional solutions require the messy reworking of networks of power among multiple ...
  • Water requirements of a Southern Alberta riparian cottonwood ecosystem 
    Orchard, Trina; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological SciencesArts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 2015)
    The eddy covariance (EC) method was used to determine the amount of water used for evapotranspiration (ET) over the 2014 growing season by a Southern Alberta riparian cottonwood ecosystem in Lethbridge, AB, Canada. Isotopic ...
  • Watershed-scale controls on snow distribution in a montane watershed 
    Dixon, James David Neil; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Geography, c2011Arts and ScienceDepartment of Geography, 2011)
    Snow accumulation in mountain headwater basins is vitally important to southern Alberta, where snowmelt supplies more than 80% of annual downstream runoff. This study evaluated two snow measurement techniques, and snow ...
  • "We came to Canada and we were going to make it": oral history, agency, and post-Second World War Dutch immigrant children and adolescents in Alberta 
    Toth, Elaine; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Department of HistoryArts and ScienceDepartment of History, 2019)
    This project reconceptualizes the immigrant child in a way that underscores their experience as distinct from that of an adult. There is little qualitative research on the histories of Dutch child immigrants and the findings ...
  • "We were having conversations that weren't comfortable for anybody, but we were feisty" : re-conceiving student activism against reproductive oppression in Calgary and Lethbridge during the 1960s and 1970s 
    Patton, Karissa; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of HistoryArts and ScienceDepartment of History, 2015)
    This thesis examines student activism against reproductive oppression in Calgary and Lethbridge during the 1960s and 1970s. The purpose is to highlight the strong and multi-facetted character of student activists’ fight ...
  • Wearing four hats: the role of local government in the making of planned innovation parks in China 
    Bai, Qianhui; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : Universtiy of Lethbridge, Department of GeographyArts and ScienceDepartment of Geography, 2018)
    Building innovation parks has been adopted by many governments to promote regional innovation capability and economic growth. Due to the decisive role of Chinese government and the special innovation park governing system, ...
  • Weaving phenomenology : the lived experience of home-based client-centred occupational therapy 
    Lee, Judy; University of Lethbridge. School of Health Sciences (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, School of Health Sciences, 2007School of Health Sciences, 2007)
    The metaphor of weaving and the methodology of phenomenology are used to expose eight ordinary people’s lived experience of receiving client-centred occupational therapy at home. This qualitative study reveals the themes ...
  • Web-based drawing software for graphs in 3D and two layout algorithms 
    Barahimi, Farshad; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer ScienceArts and ScienceDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2015)
    A new web-based software system for visualization and manipulation of graphs in 3D, named We3Graph is presented with a focus on accessibility, customizability for applications of graph drawing, usability and extendibility. ...
  • Weight cutting a biomechanical investigation of the effect on martial arts striking performance 
    Evans, Jared, Scott (Lethbridge, Alta. University of Lethbridge, Dept. of KinesiologyArts and ScienceDepartment of Kinesiology, 2013)
    Weight cutting is a phenomenon that exists in combative weight-class-based sports. The goal of this research was to investigate the effect of weight cutting on striking performance parameters amongst mixed martial arts ...
  • What can behavioural structure tell us about motivation? Insights from object play and foraging in Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques 
    Pelletier, Amanda (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of PsychologyArts and SciencePsychology, 2017)
    Current research is not unanimous on whether object play is motivationally linked to foraging, due to a lack of systematic comparison of the behavioural structure of both activities. This thesis aimed to address this gap ...
  • What does it mean to "stand on guard for thee"? Detuning the Canadian national anthem 
    Stewart, Tyler J; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Cultural, Social, and Political ThoughtArts and ScienceDepartment of Cultural, Social, and Political Thought, 2021)
    At their core, national anthems attempt to unite citizens of the nation through music. While “O Canada” might endeavour to unify the country in song, this research-creation project unsettles and detunes the anthem to ...
  • What is grief and what can it teach us? 
    Dill, Sandra; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1999Education, 1999)
    While a growing body of grief research focuses on how death affects the lives and the menatl well-being of survivors, death continues to be a mystery and the ultimate human crisis. Grief is now emerging as a concept of ...
  • What makes school a positive experience for 12 junior high school students? 
    McFadzen, Kathryn; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2001Education, 2001)
    This study examined the perceptions and needs of junior high school students considering the question, What makes school a positive experience for 12 junior high school students? Previous research indicates that many ...
  • What puts the 'terror' in terrorism 
    Rejman, Karl; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2003Arts and ScienceDepartment of Philosophy, 2003)
    How are we to combat terrosrism? Is terrorism ever morally justified? When is it rational to become a terrorist? What is so terrorizing about terrorism? The answers to these important questions depend on the most fundamental ...
  • What they need : delivery of career development to grade twelve students 
    Bloxom, Joan; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2003Education, 2003)
    Rapidly changing social and economic conditions can impart significant challenges to high school career decisions. Recent career education initiatives have been structured to support this school-to-work and school-to-pos ...
  • What voters want, what campaigns provide : examining Internet based campaigns in Canadian federal elections 
    Farries, Greg; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2005Arts and ScienceDepartment of Political Science, 2005)
    This paper examines differences between what voters want from a campaign website and what political parties are actually providing on their campaign websites. A series of focus groups were conducted and the results of those ...
  • What's the mindset? : an investigation of junior hockey players' attitudes toward sport psychology 
    Shaw, Andrew Robert; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of EducationEducation, 2018)
    In this study, 114 Canadian junior hockey players’ attitudes toward sport psychology were investigated. Participants provided demographic information and completed two questionnaires. Results indicate that Canadian junior ...
  • When one stock share is a biological individual: a stylized simulation of the population dynamics in an order-driven market 
    Liu, Hanchao; University of Lethbridge. Dhillon School of Business (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dhillon School of BusinessDhillon School of Business, 2019-08-12)
    The demand-supply relationship plays an important role in an order-driven stock market. In this thesis, we propose a stylized model by defining demand (supply) over a stock at a certain time as how many shares are on the ...
  • White nation building and sex between men in the British Columbia and Washington press, 1866 to 1910 
    Rieger, Jillian Grace; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of HistoryArts and ScienceDepartment of History, 2021)
    This thesis examines the representations of sex between men in the British Columbia and Washington press from 1866 to 1910. During this period, B.C. and Washington newspapers covered both local and international sex scandals ...
  • Why are we reading this?: hermeneutic inquiry into the practice of teaching (with) literature 
    Schaufele, Morgan; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of EducationEducation, 2018)
    Philosophical hermeneutics has much to offer the high school English teacher, for it fundamentally reorients our understanding of what it means to interpret – or teach (with) – literature. When we adopt a hermeneutic stance, ...