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"Girl You Better Apply to Teachers' College": The History of Black Women Educators in Ontario, 1940s - 1980s
(2017-07-27)
Girl You Better Apply to Teachers College examines the role of black women educators in Ontario from the 1940s to the 1980s. In an attempt to contribute to historical analysis on black identity, citizenship and racial ...
Altering the ADIPO: LEP Ratio Secreted by Obese Adipose Tissue affects the Tumor Growth Microenvironment of MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells
(2017-07-27)
Breast cancer continues to be the number one cause of new cancer cases and second in mortality rate in Canadian women. For almost 50 years now researchers have shown a statistical link between obesity and breast cancer. ...
Personal Touches, Public Legacies: An Ethnography of LGBT Libraries and Archives
(2017-07-27)
Personal touches, Public legacies: An ethnography of LGBT libraries and archives examines lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) information organizations in Vancouver, Canada and surrounding areas. In order to ...
Improving the Accuracy, Versatility, and Partitioning Efficiency of Nonequilibrium Capillary Electrophoresis of Equilibrium Mixtures
(2017-07-27)
Studying the affinity and the kinetics of biomolecular interactions is an essential task in biology and pharmacology. Nonequilibrium capillary electrophoresis of equilibrium mixtures (NECEEM) is a promising technique that ...
Surviving Racist Culture: Strategies of Managing Racism among Gay Men of Colour - An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2017-07-27)
Racism, a unique source of stress, occupies a peripheral point of analysis in the literature on gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) health research. Canadian investigators have not examined the coping strategies that non-White ...
Characterizing and Improving Logging Practices in Java-based Open Source Software Projects - A Large-scale Case Study in Apache Software Foundation
(2017-07-27)
Log messages (generated by logging code) contain rich information about the runtime behavior of software systems. Although more logging code can provide more context of the system's behavior, it is undesirable to include ...
The Stability/Sustainability Dynamics: The Case of Marine Environmental Management in Somalia
(2017-07-27)
Since January 1991, Somalia has been a war-torn society without law and order machinery. After a decade of chaos, in January 2001, an interim government formed in Djibouti was brought to Mogadishu, albeit it failed to ...
On the Genesis of Divergence and Gravity Wave Emission from Oscillating Barotropic Vortices in Rotating Fluids
(2017-07-27)
Internal gravity waves are ubiquitous in the atmosphere. Our understanding of gravity wave emission from atmospheric jet-front systems, such as the baroclinic vortices, has considerably improved over the past decade. ...
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Alleviates Stress and Depression in Adults with Chronic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(2017-07-27)
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in improving attention and pain-related outcomes, using a randomized controlled trial. Secondary aims included ...
The Limits of Regulation: A Case Study of Virtual and Intangible Harm
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation deals with the limits of regulation through the analysis of virtual and intangible harm and the capacity of regulation to prevent or at least reduce such harm. The case study at hand is the potential harm ...