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Fall 2022

Bednarski, Alicia

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...

Fall 2023

Hadley, Ashley V

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...

Spring 2022

Miller, Erin

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...

Fall 2021

Johnson, John, J

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...

Fall 2022

Hecker, Lee

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...

Fall 2019

Normandeau, Jacalyn

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....

Spring 2021

Mulligan, Kelly

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....

Spring 2020

Bohart, Alyssa Mary

Migration is a behavioral response to temporal variation in resources. While migration phenology is often predictable, phenology is expected to shift as climate change alters seasonal resource availability. We used data from satellite-linked telemetry collars on adult female polar bears (Ursus...

Fall 2010

Bush, Jason Russell

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a recurrent microdeletion syndrome characterized by severe obesity, hyperphagia, hypotonia, and developmental delay, and is caused by the loss of expression of four protein-coding genes and set of small nucleolar RNAs on chromosome 15. NDN, encoding the protein...

Spring 2010

Zheng, Jingjing

This thesis explores the changing identity of Asian North American women in the past thirty years through the analysis of the work of three Asian North American female artists, Liu Hung (b.1948), Jin-me Yoon (b.1960), and Nikki S. Lee (b.1970). It argues that Asian North American female identity...