Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs): Recent submissions
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Motion Synchronization of Multiple Piezoelectric Actuators (PEAS) Using the Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Controller (LADRC)
(2019-07-02)This thesis investigates how the Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Controller (LADRC) can be used with the synchronous strategy for motion synchronization of multiple piezoelectric actuators (PEAs). Both a single PEA ... -
End of the Rope
(2019-07-02)End of the Rope is a sci-fi drama about an injured dancer's journey towards self-empowerment. After being crippled by a car accident, a former dancer enters a power struggle with an exploitative scientist who promises her ... -
The Politics of Memory: Cultural Interaction and Confrontation among the Haunting Ghosts of Russians, Japanese, and Chinese in Harbin
(2019-07-02)This dissertation focuses on a spatial analysis of the cultural memories of Harbin, a city in Northeast China, a former (semi)colony of Russia and Japan, and a habitat of more than forty nationalities from across the world ... -
The Object/The Body/The Ritual: An Affectual Dissection of Plastic Bags Through Performance Design
(2019-07-02)Roland Barthes has famously noted plastics as miraculous substances of infinite transformations and transmutations, yet we are in the midst of a paradigm shift in which the material plays an increasingly destructive role ... -
The Green Line: An Investigation of the Arabization of the Playwriting Process through an Exploration of Intergenerational Memory
(2019-07-02)The author examines the limitations and potential in the "Arabization" of the playwriting process through an exploration of the Lebanese Civil War and the inheritance (or erasure) of intergenerational memory. Through a ... -
Rethinking Performance: A Cognitive Journey toward Excellent Play
(2019-07-02)Perfectionistic traits, which have both cognitive and behavioral facets, can have negative effects on a performing artists psychology and/or their ability to perform at their best. A review of literature was undertaken, ... -
Meditation for Electronic Valve Instrument and Chamber Jazz Ensemble
(2019-07-02)This composition for a jazz chamber group, is presented in partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. The chamber group consists of flute, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, ... -
Mindful Acting: Freeing the Comfortable Self on Stage
(2019-07-02)This thesis will explore how I can reduce the impact of anxiety on my stage performance and how I can be more comfortable, while finding ways to be unique as an actor. For this effect, a range of methodologies will be ... -
Freedom in Discipline: Grounding Wild Impulse with Self-Mastery in Sarah Ruhl's Orlando
(2019-07-02)The following document is an exploration in practicing the power of discipline in Theatre@Yorks production of Orlando. This support document crafts a personal redefinition of discipline, examines the artistic fertility in ... -
Playful Transformations: Directing Sarah Ruhls adaptation of Orlando by Virginia Woolf
(2019-07-02)This thesis documents my artistic process as a director for a production of Sarah Ruhls adaptation of Orlando by Virginial Woolf. The research and preparation for this process begins with Ruhls aesthetic and approach to ... -
Eat Me: Destabilizing Theatrical Forms of Representation in Order to Resist Reproduction of Prevailing Ideologies
(2019-07-02)Eat Me is a praxis exploration in how to destabilize theatrical form in order for an artist to speak their truth as fully as possible. Inspired by the Italian Futurists, this journey takes into account different forms of ... -
Lost Fool: Re-Inventing a Professional Theatre Process
(2019-07-02)This supporting thesis document chronicles the exploratory journey of developing and implementing a nascent creative studio practice, resulting in the crafting, rehearsal and performance of a solo, multi-media theatrical ... -
Orangutan Vision, Looking Preferences, and Passive Looking-Time Versus Active Touchscreen Paradigms
(2019-07-02)Key aspects of orangutan picture preference, looking paradigms, and vision were assessed in three manuscripts. These studies have important contributions to research on comparative vision and animal picture perception, as ... -
Novel Reconfigurable Delta Robot Dual-Functioning as Adaptive Landing Gear and Manipulator
(2019-07-02)In this work a novel dual-functioning rotorcraft undercarriage is developed. The design is a reconfigurable delta robot which allows for transformation between Adaptive Landing Gear for vertical take-off and landing and ... -
Optimal Image-Aided Inertial Navigation
(2019-07-02)The utilization of cameras in integrated navigation systems is among the most recent scientific research and high-tech industry development. The research is motivated by the requirement of calibrating off-the-shelf cameras ... -
Global Narratives and the Vulnerable Frontiers: A critical assessment of global climate change communication processes and traditional retentions
(2019-07-02)Contemporary ecological issues compound environmental communications primary challenge of raising public consciousness and effectively mobilizing agency to mount robust systemic and practical actions. This fundamental ... -
Mass Spectrometry Methods for Enhanced Characterization of Biological Systems
(2019-07-02)As the pharmaceutical industry moves towards larger protein-based therapeutics over chemically synthesized small molecules, there are increasing demands for parallel advancement in the technologies used for quality control ... -
Telling Giselle: Reworking the Ideologies of a Canonical Ballet
(2019-07-02)This paper outlines the process from conception to analysis of Telling Giselle which was performed February 7-9 2019 in the McLean Studio as the performance component of Patricia Allisons MFA thesis at York University. This ... -
The Posthuman Reality of Feed-Based Social Media Systems
(2019-07-02)The conceptual boundary between the subject and user parallels the boundary between humanist and posthumanist definitions of human being, and the challenges of new media communications technology today impel this evolution. ... -
The Use of Human Behaviour in Fire to Inform Canadian Wildland Urban Interface Evacuations
(2019-07-02)Wildland urban interface (WUI) communities are generally the most at risk of being impacted by wildfires. In order to assess the vulnerability of these communities, it is important to understand the impact that human ...