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Dis-orienting Polyamory: Preserving Poly's Transformative Potential
(2020-08-11)Drawing on the narratives of 21 people practicing polyamory in the city of Guelph, ON, this study explores how participants define and conceptualize polyamory, in general, and in relation to their self-concept. Drawing on ... -
Online Information for Caregivers of Adolescents with Autism
(2020-08-11)Many adolescents with autism live at home with their immediate family. Family members, usually the mother, are often the caregivers of these adolescents. These families are present in all levels of society. Many find their ... -
MakerMinds: An exploration of making and mindfulness pedagogies
(2020-08-11)In this doctoral research, I explore how making and mindfulness pedagogies interact when carried out in a single curricular intervention (MakerMinds) and, in particular, how making works to engage students in mindfulness ... -
Observations in Orchestration: John Williams
(2020-08-11)This thesis presents a composition using orchestral techniques gleaned from an analysis of the scores of film composer John Williams. Areas of focus include melodic and rhythmic support, harmonic choices, conducting ... -
Animating Performance: Tracing Venices Resonant Diva Attraverso il Palco e la Soglia
(2020-08-11)Seventeenth-century Venetian operatic divas pioneered a new social identity for women both onstage, as virtuosic opera singers, and as independent professionals in Venice. They accomplished this partly in prototypical ... -
Retributive Minds
(2020-08-11)Retributive Minds is a narrative short film in which Javid, an Iranian living abroad, returns to his home country to mourn the sudden death of his sister. Throughout this film, we understand that his sister has been the ... -
Essays on Creditor Rights Protection, Corporate Debt and Corporate Liability
(2020-08-11)This dissertation examines how information asymmetry and bankruptcy costs magnify the conflict between creditors and borrowers. And the conflict between creditors and managers.The central idea of this dissertation is that ... -
Zombies, Phallic Monsters, and Rocket Launchers: An Examination of Gender Representations and Simulations in the Resident Evil Series
(2020-08-11)Capcoms Resident Evil series (1996-present) is the second longest running horror video game series, following Konamis Castlevania (1986-present). The series has, from its beginning, offered a choice of gendered protagonists ... -
The Role of Endothelial FoxO Proteins in Coordinating Skeletal Muscle Recovery Following Hind Limb Ischemia
(2020-08-11)Muscle regeneration requires inflammation followed by microvascular growth and blood-flow recovery; however, these are impaired in ischemic muscle of peripheral artery disease patients. Endothelial cell (EC)-specific ... -
The Unity of Cognition and Emotion in Preschool Teachers' Understandings of Language Learning and Language Use
(2020-08-11)My research study investigates how teachers of linguistically diverse young learners understand language learning and language use in the context of their professional and personal experiences. Drawing on the concept of ... -
American Girl: A Critical Inquiry into Dolls, Childhood, and Consumer Culture
(2020-08-11)Through a theorization and analysis of the American Girl doll brand, in this dissertation I illustrate the mutually constructing connection between childhood and consumer culture. There are several elements that contextualize ... -
Characteristics of Air Flow Over a Sessile Droplet at the Verge of Shedding
(2020-08-11)A Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) study on the air flow over a sessile water droplet exposed to a boundary layer flow was done in a wind tunnel. Reynolds number based on free stream velocity and the height of the droplet ... -
Cladoceran Subfossils as indicators of ecosystem responses to multiple stressors in Lake Ontario (Canada) Coastal Wetlands
(2020-08-11)This thesis explores the use of Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) subfossil remains preserved in sediment cores as potential ecological indicators of wetland health in three coastal wetlands of Lake Ontario (Canada). ... -
Mental Welfare: Voluntary Mental Health and Learning Disability Organizations in Britain, c. 1946-1959
(2020-08-11)This dissertation traces the trajectories of four British voluntary organizations working in the fields of mental health and learning disability in the late 1940s and 1950s: the National Association for Mental Health; the ... -
Resolving the Stellar Populations of Clumpy Star-Forming Galaxies Using Finite Resolution Deconvolution
(2020-08-11)Understanding the physical details of when and where stars form within galaxies remains as one of the key goals in extragalactic astronomy. Kiloparsec-scale, star-forming structures found in distant, irregular galaxies are ... -
Study of Autonomous Capture and Detumble of Non-Cooperative Target by a Free-Flying Space Manipulator Using an Air-Bearing Platform
(2020-08-11)This thesis developed a 3-DOF satellite simulator with an attached 3-DOF manipulator to capture and detumble a target satellite simulator. Existing systems are heavily dependent on external systems to compute the position ... -
Essays in Incomplete Information and Trade Policy
(2020-08-11)Strategic trade policy has been one of the most intensively researched areas in theory of industrial organization and international trade over the last three decades. The fundamental motivation is that governments adopt ... -
Neurodiversity in Relation: An Artistic Intraethnography
(2020-08-11)We move research creation by inventing with neurodiversity. Neurodiversity is relation. This moves autism away from the concept of dis-order and as non-relational and we untether from the pathology paradigm (Walker) to ... -
The Effects of Interpersonal Variables and Dance on the Well-Being of Informal Caregivers
(2020-08-11)The purpose of this research was to explore how interpersonal variables and dance may benefit caregivers. In Study 1, 20 couples coping with Parkinsons disease (PD) were surveyed about their attitudes toward their partners, ... -
Soft-Switched Multi-Input Converter for Renewable Energy Systems
(2020-08-11)In a renewable energy system, multiple energy sources (such as combining renewable energy and energy storage) are utilized together to enhance the overall energy conversion reliability since renewable energy, such as wind ...
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