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Reading Material: Literary, Picturing, and Representational Strategies in the work of Carol Laing, Sue Lloyd, Andy Fabo, Sharon Switzer, Jane Buyers, and Allyson Clay
(2020-05-13)To employ a critical process that draws upon the network of relations and associations between works of art and literature, that generates different ways of reading and viewing that are inclusive and meaningful, and that ... -
Biolocomotion Detection in Videos
(2020-05-11)Animals locomote for various reasons: to search for food, to find suitable habitat, to pursue prey, to escape from predators, or to seek a mate. The grand scale of biodiversity contributes to the great locomotory design ... -
Still Processing
(2020-05-11)A box of stunning family photos unearthed from storage and unseen for decades awakens lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera. Part narrative family drama and part personal essay film, Still Processing ... -
Strategic Categorization, Category Bundle, and Typecasting: Three Essays on Product Categorization
(2020-05-11)Categories are social agreements about the meanings of labels applied to products. Categories serve as the basis for market interaction: audiences use categories to make sense of the products offered to them, producers ... -
Hryniak, the 2010 Amendments, and the First Stages of a Culture Shift?: The Evolution of Ontario Civil Procedure in the 2010s
(2020-05-11)This dissertation investigates the effects of amendments to Ontarios Rules of Civil Procedure that came into effect on January 1, 2010 (the 2010 Amendments) and were subject to interpretation by the Supreme Court of Canada ... -
The Deployment of Difference: The Space of Possibility and Garifuna Resistance to Dispossession in Honduras
(2020-05-11)This dissertation focusses on Garifuna struggles against dispossession from their territories in Honduras. My work focusses on two organizations and their affiliates in the present and is based on an ethnographic analysis ... -
Breaking Binaries: Rethinking Gendered Metaphors in Translation Theory
(2020-05-11)In efforts to understand the complexity of translation, theorists have often turned to metaphor. As Lori Chamberlain (1988) shows, some of these metaphors have mirrored the androcentric hierarchy of Western society, ... -
Delineating the Interaction Between TRAF1 and the Linear-Ubiquitin Chain Assembly Complex
(2020-05-11)Tumour necrosis factor receptor (TNFR)-associated factor 1 (TRAF1) is a signaling adaptor that plays opposing roles in NF-B activation downstream of TNFR and Toll-like receptor (TLR) family members. Furthermore, TRAF1 has ... -
Disability's Encounter with Legislation and Governance: Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario
(2020-05-11)This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the new legal framework for the long-term care (LTC) sector (also known as nursing homes) in Ontario, Canada. The research sought to answer the following question: What are the ... -
Adaptive Momentum for Neural Network Optimization
(2020-05-11)In this thesis, we develop a novel and efficient algorithm for optimizing neural networks inspired by a recently proposed geodesic optimization algorithm. Our algorithm, which we call Stochastic Geodesic Optimization (SGeO), ... -
Religion and the Validation of Magic: Literary Magic in Middle English Literature
(2020-05-11)Much scholarship on magic in the literature of medieval England has tried to uncover how literary magic reflects actual cultural practices of magic in medieval society. This dissertation contends that the cultural practice ... -
A Comparison Study on Control Moment Gyroscope Arrays and Steering Laws
(2020-05-11)Current reaction wheels and magnetorquers for microsatellite are limited by low slew rate and heavily depends on orbital parameters for coverage area. Control moment gyroscope (CMG) clusters offer an alternative solution ... -
Microstructural and Mechanical Integrity of 3D Printed 316L Stainless Steel
(2020-05-11)Hindrance to the advancement of materials processing and components using metal-based additive manufacturing is a result of numerous challenges due to the complex mechanisms that occur such as multiple modes of heat, mass, ... -
The Strong Isospin-Breaking Correction to the Leading-Order Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
(2020-05-11)The contribution of strong isospin-breaking (SIB) effects to the value of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is studied using the leading-order SIB component of the photon vacuum polarisation function, calculated ... -
Comparing Representations of Contribution Labels in Goal Models
(2020-05-11)Goal models have been proposed to be an effective method to support decision making in early requirements engineering. Key to using them is the concept of contribution links that represent how the satisfaction of one goal ... -
The Choice of Acculturation Strategies: Intercultural Adaptation of International Students from Sub-Saharan African Francophone Countries in Ontario
(2020-05-11)According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (2019), the number of foreign students studying in Canadian public colleges and universities rose 16.25% in 2018 for an overall increase of 73% in the five years ... -
Sleep and Cardiac Tachyarrhythmia: Results from the Cross-Sectional Sleep Heart Health Study
(2020-05-11)Background: Despite the well-known relationship between sleep disorders and general cardiovascular risk, relatively few studies have examined sleep quality and quality at pre-clinical levels in patients with cardiac ... -
Development of Sustainable Masonry Brick
(2020-05-11)Implementation of environmentally-friendly and cost-effective building designs has been a persistent challenge to the civil engineering community. The current study aims to develop innovative masonry bricks which could ... -
A History of the Royal (Toronto) Conservatory of Music Piano Examinations, 1887-2015: Their Impact and Influence
(2020-05-11)Since its inception in 1887, the Royal Conservatory of Music has maintained its position as one of the largest and oldest community-based music schools and education centres in North America, with an integrated examination ... -
Evaluation and Application of Max-DOAS Methods for Monitoring Aerosols, NO2, and SO2 in Urban and Industrial Environments
(2020-05-11)The ideal measurement technique to effectively address an air quality problem depends on the chemical and physical properties of the species and its environment. Multi-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy ...
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