• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Uncertain Grounds: Key Moves in the Making of Modernity, from Tudor England to the Globalized Present 

  Vanessa Nathalie Miceli (2020-05-11)

  Which historical lens and what scope can capture modernitys complex social, political, economic, and epistemic permutations? Using an historical interpretive lens to explore contingent moments in its making, this work seeks ...

• Understanding Open Versus Proprietary Research and Innovation: A Case Study of Canada's Pharmaceutical Sector 

  Margaret Elizabeth Chiappetta (2020-05-11)

  With decreasing public funding for scientific research and innovation (R&I) in Canada, the onus has fallen on public research institutions strategically partner with industry to ensure that research generates innovative ...

• Viewing the World Through the Lens of 'Normal': The Perceptions of Children with ASD and Sport 

  Joyce Rheanelle Magat (2020-05-11)

  This qualitative study was informed by grounded theory methods in order to explore sport providers perceptions. Eight sport providers took part in a semi-structured interview. The main overarching theme that emerged was ...

• Welcome to the Terrordome: Race, Power and the Rise of American Rap Music, 1979-1995 

  Francesca D'Amico (2020-05-11)

  Welcome to the Terrordome examines how late twentieth century rappers used culture as a critical and politically useful battleground to unmask the modes and mechanisms of a persistent and haunting coloniality in the ...

• Worth 

  Meelad Moaphi (2020-05-11)

  Set in a remote Pakistani village, 'Worth' is a 13-minute fiction film about a poor widower who, due to an impending threat to his and his familys lives, decides to sell his infant son and use the money to escape with his ...

• Virtual Reality Aesthetics and Boundaries in New Media Art Practices 

  Resat Fuat Cam (2020-05-11)

  This dissertation maps out the epistemological and political coordinates of contemporary Virtual Reality (VR) aesthetics through a hybrid inquiry that combines conventional academic research practices with artistic ...

• Uncertain Future, Unsettled Present? Everyday Geographies of Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada 

  Kathryn Elizabeth Dennler (2020-05-11)

  Increasing processing times for immigration applications and increasing numbers of people admitted on temporary visas mean that more newcomers spend longer periods of time living in Canada with restricted rights and uncertain ...

• Cross-Sectional Associations Between Movement Behaviours, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome in an Out-Patient Population with Suspected Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction 

  Nourouzpour, Sarah (2020-05-11)

  Background: Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (CMVD), affects the smaller vasculature and is difficult to diagnose without invasive tests. Little is known about the relationship between movement behaviours and CMVD, which ...

• Abnormal Structural Connectivity Patterns in Large-Scale Brain Networks in Schizophrenia 

  Pinnock, Farena Soshana (2020-05-11)

  Background: While cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia, a minority of patients demonstrate average to superior ability on many standard cognitive measures with no attenuation of the psychotic disease ...

• Updating During Lateral Movement Using Visual and Non-Visual Motion Cues 

  Jong-Jin Kim (2020-05-11)

  Spatial updating, the ability to track egocentric positions of surrounding objects during self-motion, is fundamental to navigating around the world. Past studies show people make systematic errors when updating after ...

• Transcriptional Regulation of Pokeweed Antiviral Protein 

  Diaz, Camille Anne (2020-05-11)

  Phytolacca americana (American pokeweed) expresses pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP), a ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) thought to function in defence. Several PAP isoforms are differentially responsive to jasmonic acid ...

• With Great Advantage Should Come Responsibility: How the Territorialist Approach in Private International Law Maybe Overcome to Ensure Justice is Done for those Left in the Wake of Canadian Business Abroad 

  Michele Dominique Lemieux Charles (2020-05-11)

  Conflict of laws rules in Canada bias toward taking jurisdiction over matters involving human rights or environmental abuse inflicted abroad, particularly when inflicted by Canadian corporations. Contrary to enumerated ...

• Unstructured Performance Task to Assess Executive Functions: A Study in Typically-Developing Children 

  Elizabeth Arden Wanstall (2020-05-11)

  A weak concordance between performance-based measures and behavioural ratings of executive functions (EF) has been well-documented in children with and without neurodevelopmental conditions. Performance-based EF measures ...

• Ultra High Speed Single-Ended Traveling Wave Based Protection of Transmission Lines after Auto-Reclosure 

  Mohammad Mohammadifirozjaee (2020-05-11)

  The auto-reclosure take place after a fault in power lines, in order to remove the temporary fault and reconnect the line as fast as possible. As there is no information whether the fault is temporary or permanent, the ...

• Impossible grief: motivation and intention in Macbeth 

  Wells, Ker

  This paper considers the issues of identification and motivation in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Proceeding from the proposal that the play allows for a remarkable level of audience identification for the characters of Macbeth ...

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