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Forging a New Democratic Party: The Politics of the Third Way From Clinton to Obama
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation analyzes the evolution of the American Democratic Party’s ideological orientation from 1985 to 2014. The central problem is to develop an understanding of how shifts in political-economic context and ...
Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and Its Lost Subjects
(2015-12-16)
Using the Highway of Heroes as my point of departure, in “Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and its Lost Subjects” I interrogate the role of Canadian military commemoration in the production of hierarchies ...
Re-Conceptualizing "Contributing" Homelessness and Unpaid Labour in a Neo-Liberal Climate
(2015-08-28)
The goal of this research was to challenge notions of “contributing” in active citizen discourse. This was done by exploring how individuals experiencing homelessness give back to their communities while surviving through ...
3D Classification of Power Line Scene Using Airborne Lidar Data
(2015-08-28)
Failure to adequately maintain vegetation within a power line corridor has been identified as a main cause of the August 14, 2003 electric power blackout. Such that, timely and accurate corridor mapping and monitoring are ...
The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan Past and the uses of History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2015-08-28)
“The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan past and the uses of history in eighteenth-century Britain” examines the place of the late sixteenth-century Elizabethan and Shakespearean pasts in eighteenth-century popular ...
Shinichi Suzuki and Musical Talent: An Analysis of His Claims
(2015-08-28)
The Suzuki Method is a popular and influential method of music education for strings.
Central to this study is the Method’s premise that musical talent is not inborn, but rather cultivated through one’s environment. A ...
Identifying Attention Commonalities and Differences Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2015-08-28)
The present study examined one of Posner and Petersen’s (1990) attention networks (i.e., orienting – the ability to selectively focus on pertinent information) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as compared ...
Radical Vernaculars: Experiments with Tradition between Politics and Performance
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation focuses on four collective projects that take “tradition” as a starting point for creative experiments in performance practice. All of these disparate projects are based in early 21st-century settler-colonial ...
Narratives of Separation: Institutions, Families, and the Construction of Difference
(2015-01-26)
Parents of children with intellectual disabilities born in Ontario in the era following World War II found themselves obliged to make significant yet misinformed decisions regarding their child’s long-term care. Immersed ...
Effects of Metformin and Combinatory Derived Factors of Adipose Tissue on Prostate Cancer Growth
(2015-08-28)
Obesity is a growing concern worldwide and is associated with increased risk of prostate cancer (PCa) and poor patient prognosis. Metformin (MET) is reported to be protective against PCa in type 2 diabetics as they are at ...