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Access to Environmental Justice: NGO Environmental Advocacy on Mining-Related Environmental Issues in Mongolia
(2021-03-08)
In this thesis, I apply the theory of environmental justice to determine how NGOs use substantive and procedural environmental rights to advocate for mining-affected nomadic communities in Mongolia. Environmental NGOs often ...
A Natural Language Question Answering System for Exploring Online Conversations
(2021-03-08)
The proliferation of social media has resulted in the exponential growth of on- line conversations. Due to the volume and complexity of conversations, it is often extremely difficult to gain insights from such conversations. ...
An Exploratory Study on the Platforms of Sharing Reusable Machine Learning Models
(2021-03-08)
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, especially in Machine Learning (ML), have brought applications previously considered as science fiction (e.g., virtual personal assistants and autonomous cars) into the reach of ...
The Affectivity of White Nation-Making: National Belonging, Human Recognition and the Mournability of Black Muslim Women
(2021-03-08)
Drawing Canadian and Swedish national imaginaries into comparative dialogue, this dissertation considers how ideals of liberal, anti-racism paradoxically persist alongside white supremacist investments in the sanctity and ...
The Book and its Discontents: Truth, Information, and the Deathing of the Book
(2021-03-08)
Since the late 1980s, popular and academic writers, have engaged in a rhetorical phenomenon titled the death of the book or the book is dead. The repetition of these headlines indicate the anxieties brought about by the ...
Bringing Into Presence: Client Experiences of SpeakArt, a Group Therapy for Complex Trauma
(2021-03-08)
This qualitative study explored the experiences of women who completed an art therapy group for the treatment of difficulties related to complex trauma. Increasingly, treatments that address problems with self-organization ...
Do Great Apes Choose to Choose?: An Investigation of Preference for Computer-Provided Choice in Orangutans (Pongo abelii)
(2021-03-08)
This dissertation examined orangutans preference for computer touchscreen-provided choice and their capacity to recognize the content of 2-D pictures. Investigation of these factors is important for advancing our understanding ...
The Accuracy and Stability of Body Representation
(2021-03-08)
How we perceive our bodies and how the body is represented in the brain is not yet fully understood. We need accurate information about our bodies in order to interpret and react to sensory information that is constantly ...
The Effect of impaired Cyclooxygenase 2 activity on gene regulation in the developing mouse brain and the role of PGE2 in oxidative stress production in Differentiated Neuronal Cells
(2021-03-08)
Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is a signaling molecule derived from the lipid membrane through the enzyme cyclooxygenase2 (COX-2). These studies aim to investigate how changes in COX-PGE2 signalling can influence mouse gene ...
The Association Between Early Menarche and Preterm Birth
(2021-03-08)
Exploring healthcare outcomes throughout a females reproductive life is an important area of research that is in need of more investigation. Specifically, there is a limited body of evidence available that explores the ...