• Reading Material: Literary, Picturing, and Representational Strategies in the work of Carol Laing, Sue Lloyd, Andy Fabo, Sharon Switzer, Jane Buyers, and Allyson Clay 

  Janice Lee Durrant Andreae (2020-05-13)

  To employ a critical process that draws upon the network of relations and associations between works of art and literature, that generates different ways of reading and viewing that are inclusive and meaningful, and that ...

• Vessels: Designing for Autonomous Sound 

  Sharon Reshef (2020-05-13)

  This thesis explores the process of designing for natures autonomous soundscape through an experimental meditation on the phenomenology of acoustic resonance: the sonic vibrations of objects. Manifested in a series of ...

• Still Processing 

  Sophy Romvari (2020-05-11)

  A box of stunning family photos unearthed from storage and unseen for decades awakens lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera. Part narrative family drama and part personal essay film, Still Processing ...

• Strategic Categorization, Category Bundle, and Typecasting: Three Essays on Product Categorization 

  Jie Yang (2020-05-11)

  Categories are social agreements about the meanings of labels applied to products. Categories serve as the basis for market interaction: audiences use categories to make sense of the products offered to them, producers ...

• The Deployment of Difference: The Space of Possibility and Garifuna Resistance to Dispossession in Honduras 

  Kimberly Jayne Palmer (2020-05-11)

  This dissertation focusses on Garifuna struggles against dispossession from their territories in Honduras. My work focusses on two organizations and their affiliates in the present and is based on an ethnographic analysis ...

• Religion and the Validation of Magic: Literary Magic in Middle English Literature 

  Kathryn Margaret Muriel Walton (2020-05-11)

  Much scholarship on magic in the literature of medieval England has tried to uncover how literary magic reflects actual cultural practices of magic in medieval society. This dissertation contends that the cultural practice ...

• The Strong Isospin-Breaking Correction to the Leading-Order Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon 

  Christopher Lewis James (2020-05-11)

  The contribution of strong isospin-breaking (SIB) effects to the value of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is studied using the leading-order SIB component of the photon vacuum polarisation function, calculated ...

• The Choice of Acculturation Strategies: Intercultural Adaptation of International Students from Sub-Saharan African Francophone Countries in Ontario 

  Aurore Coco Avolonto (2020-05-11)

  According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (2019), the number of foreign students studying in Canadian public colleges and universities rose 16.25% in 2018 for an overall increase of 73% in the five years ...

• Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba 

  Ryan Ivan Rimas (2020-05-11)

  The enhanced warming in the Subarctic is thawing the permafrost in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), making the peatlands carbon sources to the atmosphere. In the HBL, studies have observed that the shallow aquatic systems ...

• Sleep and Cardiac Tachyarrhythmia: Results from the Cross-Sectional Sleep Heart Health Study 

  Pouria Alipour (2020-05-11)

  Background: Despite the well-known relationship between sleep disorders and general cardiovascular risk, relatively few studies have examined sleep quality and quality at pre-clinical levels in patients with cardiac ...

• Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess 

  Michelle Marie Johnson (2020-05-11)

  This dissertation examines female figures in Disney animation through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), a system for observing and articulating movement qualities. Drawing from six major films released between ...

• The Discursive Construction of Hate: A Comparative Analysis of the Marginalization and Dehumanization of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany and in Pre-Stonewall United States 

  Mario Andres Guerrero-Coral (2020-05-11)

  This research study explores and compares substantive and rhetorical strategies through which homosexuals came to be reviled and pathologized in Nazi Germany and the pre-Stonewall US by sufficiently large segments of their ...

• Refusing the End of History: The Politics and Aesthetics of Castorf's Volksbhne 

  Christine Andrea Korte (2020-05-11)

  From 1992 to 2017, the cultural landscape of Berlin was contested and shaped by the Volksbhne under its artistic director, Frank Castorf. Throughout his tenure, Castorf refused the liberal democratic consensus euphorically ...

• Precise Point Positioning Augmentation for Various Grades of Global Navigation Satellite System Hardware 

  John Egyir Aggrey (2020-05-11)

  The next generation of low-cost, dual-frequency, multi-constellation GNSS receivers, boards, chips and antennas are now quickly entering the market, offering to disrupt portions of the precise GNSS positioning industry ...

• The Effect of the Heat Treatment on Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Medical Grade Ti6AL4V 

  Niyousha Azgomi (2020-05-11)

  The merger of metal 3D printing with a simple post-processing treatment to fabricate parts using Ti6Al4V medical-grade titanium alloy would prove very desirable for most biomedical applications. In this study, the effect ...

• Resisting Obsolescence: A Comprehensive Study of Canada's Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner and the Office's Efforts to Innovate While Strategically Asserting Greater Independence 

  Ian Norris Kellner Stedman (2020-05-11)

  In 2017, Justin Trudeau become the first Prime Minister to be found in violation of Canadas parliamentary ethics laws. This incident alone demonstrated the need for a comprehensive study of the Canadian parliamentary ethics ...

• Where Are Your Fingers? 

  Lindsey Ellen Fraser (2020-05-11)

  How do we know how our fingers are oriented in space? Contributions to limb and finger perception include afferent sensory signals from the muscles, joints, skin, as well as vision and other senses, and top-down assumptions ...

• The Effects of a Self-Regulation Professional Learning Intervention on Early Childhood Educator Beliefs and Practices Regarding Child Behaviour, Relationships with Children, and Professional Stress 

  Angela Marie Rosati (2020-05-11)

  Decades of research on early student-teacher relationships (STRs) show that they play a pivotal role in the behavioural, academic, and social outcomes of the child. This research allows us to conclude with near certainty ...

• Under the Hood: An (Auto) Ethnographic Study of How White Adolescent Males Critically Engage with Race in Grand Theft Auto V 

  Paul Darvasi (2020-05-11)

  Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) is emblematic of the public controversies that associate video games with violence, misogyny, and damaging depictions of race and gender. However, it is also a layered referential and self-reflexive ...

• Tensile Behaviour of Ultra-High-Performance Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete 

  Yuechen Yang (2020-05-11)

  Reinforcing bars are provided in reinforced concrete structures on account of conventional concretes negligible resistance to tension. However, corrosion of steel reinforcement inevitably occurs due to carbonation and ...

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