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‘Birth Tourism,’ Citizenship, and the Politics of Deservingness in Canada: Analyzing Parliamentary and Newspaper Media Discourses from 1990 to 2021
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This thesis examines a phenomenon that has been controversially labeled as ‘birth tourism’ in the Canadian context. Allegedly, pregnant women from other countries are coming to Canada solely for the purpose of giving birth to their children. This is ostensibly so that the child gains Canadian...
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‘To Stay or Not to Stay’: Migration Decisions and Professional Mobility of South African Educated Physicians in Rural Alberta
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Introduction: Rural communities in Alberta, Canada have faced physician shortages for decades. Attracting internationally educated physicians, including many South African physicians, is one way to address this problem. While much of the research on internationally educated physicians focuses on...
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2020-05-19
Stephanie J. Peacock, Martin Krkošek, Mark A. Lewis, Péter K. Molnár
Migrations allow animals to track seasonal changes in resources, find mates, and avoid harsh climates, but these regular, longdistance movements also have implications for parasite dynamics and animal health. Migratory animals have been dubbed “superspreaders” of infection, but migration can also...
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Anthropogenic influence on the autumn migration of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Hudson Bay
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Migratory species may shift established spatiotemporal patterns in response to anthropogenic impacts, so understanding the energetic consequences of behavioural plasticity may provide insight into how effectively migratory species respond to climate change. I used satellite telemetry to examine...
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Factors Influencing Bioacoustically Derived Arrival Timing of Three Migrant Bird Species in the Western Boreal Forest
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Habitat alteration is the leading cause of bird population declines globally. Therefore, understanding the processes influencing habitat selection are important for the identification and protection of important areas for birds. Long-distance migrant birds are particularly vulnerable and are...
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2015-01-01
Short-term and long-term population growth rates can differ considerably. While changes in growth rates can be driven by external factors, we consider another source for changes in growth rate. That is, changes are generated internally by gradual modification of population structure. Such...
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Influence of nutrition on the habitat selection of the Ronald Lake wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) herd
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Acquiring food is a key component of what it means to be an animal. A significant portion of any animal’s life is spent locating, acquiring, consuming, and digesting food. Nearly every aspect of their life is influenced by it. The nutritional quality varies depending on foraging strategy and is a...
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2020-06-20
Mark Lewis, William Fagan, Marie Auger-Methe, Jacqueline Frair, John Fryxell, Claudius Gros, Eliezer Gurarie, Susan Healy, Jerod Merkle
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement. Learning-based movement is clearly relevant to ecological problems, but the subject is rooted firmly in psychology, including a...
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Linking partial migration to endo- and ectoparasite infection of collared and uncollared elk (Cervus canadensis)
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Ungulate ecology studies can focus on forage-predation interactions, but parasites also can have significant impacts on body condition, fecundity, and survival in ungulates. The effects of migration on parasite exposure are not well understood, but exposure may differ on allopatric summer ranges....
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Long-term changes in migratory patterns of elk (Cervus canadensis) in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench of British Columbia, Canada
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Migration can be described as a round-trip movement between distinct ranges and is thought to be a response to a spatiotemporal variation in resources. Large vertebrate herbivores such as ungulates often migrate to track seasonal variability in high quality forage and reduce predation risk....