Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs): Recent submissions
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Multi-Species Cities for the Anthropocene: Narrativizing Human-Wildlife Relations in an Urban Organizational Niche
(2022-03-03)Amidst academic debates about how wildlife conservation should adapt in a postnatural world, big conservation NGOs have shown an increasing interest in cities as the kind of humanized landscapes that may define conservation ... -
Judicial Depictions of Responsibility and Risk: The Erasure of State Accountability in Canadian Sentencing Judgments Involving Indigenous People
(2022-03-03)This dissertation is set within the context of Canadas mass imprisonment of Indigenous people and centres on a critical evaluation of reported sentencing judgments. In particular, the dissertation examines some of the ways ... -
Composing Care: The Aesthetics and Politics of Music Therapy in the Clinic
(2022-03-03)This dissertation examines the care work of music therapists in North American hospitals. Based on sixteen months of fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2020 in Canada and the United States, this ethnography investigates ... -
Design of Energy Management Strategies for a Battery-Ultracapacitor Electric Vehicle
(2022-03-03)The battery pack is the most expensive component in electric vehicles. Electric vehicles are prone to accelerated battery degradation due to the high charging/discharging cycles and high peak power demand. One solution to ... -
Playing and Making History: How Game Design and Gameplay Afford Opportunities for a Critical Engagement with the Past
(2022-03-03)For decades there has been a call for educators to explore new possibilities for meeting educational goals defined broadly under a number of 'twenty-first century competencies' curricula (Dede, 2014; Voogt et al., 2013). ... -
The Effect of C-Section Birth on Attention Task Performance and Cortical Grey Matter Integrity
(2022-03-03)Past evidence suggests that Caesarean section (C-section) birth is a factor in reduced performance on visual attention tasks, as well as altered intrinsic functional neural networks, for both infants and adults born via ... -
Understanding Lightness and Brightness in Different Media
(2022-03-03)This thesis aimed to study how lightness and brightness perception relate to each other. We used a simple task to study whether observers perceive lightness and brightness to be different percepts and what cues they use ... -
Conjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures
(2022-03-03)This dissertation asks: how are the legal, political, and social legacies of the Green Revolution and India's incorporation into the global knowledge economy shaping or undermining the emergent discourses, practices, and ... -
Biologically-inspired Neural Networks for Shape and Color Representation
(2022-03-03)The goal of human-level performance in artificial vision systems is yet to be achieved. With this goal, a reasonable choice is to simulate this biological system with computational models that mimic its visual processing. ... -
Working for Citizenship in the Liminal Space: Social Reproduction in the Emergency Family Shelter System
(2022-03-03)Family homelessness remains an endemic social problem in Canada. Parents residing in the family shelter system must continue raising their children, although they lack the means afforded by housed and employed parents. ... -
Girls in Child Protective Services: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Self-Perceptions, Interpersonal Connections, and Academic Resilience
(2022-03-03)Aim: The aim of the present study was to advance the understanding of academic resilience among girls in the care of child protective services. Using a developmental framework of resilience this research examined: the ... -
A Novel Neurorehabilitation Model Designed to Examine the Neural Plasticity Involved in Disease
(2022-03-03)Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that that is most often characterised for its motor impairments. However, people with PD (PwPD) often experience a range of mental health and non-motor ... -
Assessing Agroecological Principles at the Intervale in Burlington, Vermont: A Case Study and Multimethod Research with a Participatory Approach in a Peri-Urban Socioecological System
(2022-03-03)The emerging field of urban agroecology promises to mend the prevalent unsustainable rupture between rural and urban/peri-urban agri-food endeavors since global industrial conglomerates took power. My research contributes ... -
Using Data Mining Techniques to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on the Auto Insurance Industry in China
(2022-03-03)Since coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was discovered at the end of 2019, the whole world has been severely affected. The insurance industry, regarded as an important factor in recovery, has also been affected by COVID-19. ... -
Characterization of UHPFRC Materials for Bridge Construction: An Opportunity to Offset the Need for Prestressing in Bridge Decks
(2022-03-03)In the current decade, an increasing number of reinforced concrete bridge structures are deemed to be in need of repair either due to the short durability lifetime of the materials of their original design, or due to ... -
Development, Validation, and Application of Methods for High Time-Response Measurement of Gaseous Atmospheric Chlorinated Species
(2022-03-03)Halogenated compounds that participate in catalytic cycles in the atmosphere can influence the fate of chemicals, including ozone, methane, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These halogen radicals, in particular atomic ... -
Phonemic Discrimination and Eye-Movements in Infants
(2022-03-03)The ability to discriminate between different phonemes is a crucial part of language development in the first year of life. While language acquisition is a process that has been studied in both infants and adults in the ... -
The Economic Geography of Canada's AI Ecosystem
(2022-03-03)Canada's artificial intelligence (AI) sector is receiving significant interest and investment from governments across Canada. These investments target emerging clusters of AI startups across the country and follow an ... -
Resolution of Self-Interruption in Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Model of Client Processes
(2022-03-03)The aim of this study was to develop and preliminarily validate a transdiagnostic model of how clients overcome Aversion to Emotion/ Self-Interruption (AESI) over the course of a session of emotion-focused therapy. The ... -
What are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab
(2022-03-03)Informed by Tilly's (2005) and Tilly and Tarrow's (2007) work on the use of storytelling as a tool for the (re)construction of collective identities and boundary formation, Alexander's (2006) work on the civil sphere and ...