• In Search of a New Homeland 

  Kalash, Bashar (2020-08-28)

  The origin of my MDes thesis/project is a story I wrote to document my journey from Syria to Canada as a refugee. It motivated the visual and theoretical research that came to inform the thesis that follows and the three ...

• The Institutionalisation of Graphic Design: Investigating an Extended Contemporary Practice 

  Bilson, Lucy Georgia Elizabeth (2020-08-28)

  Graphic design is an institutionalised discipline, afflicted by restrictive expectations of contemporary practice which operate under the guise of standards for good design. This thesis investigates the institutionalisation ...

• Physical Activity and Loneliness Among Adolescents with Disabilities: Exploring Possible Moderators Using the Quality Participation Conceptualization 

  Nicholas Santino (2020-08-11)

  Adolescents with disabilities (AWD) often report experiencing high levels of loneliness. Physical activity (PA) may be a valuable strategy to mitigate feelings of loneliness among AWD. The purpose of this thesis was to: ...

• The Value of Genetic Ties as Ethical Justification for Banning Gamete Donor Anonymity 

  Olivia Schuman (2020-08-11)

  Do we have a right to know who our genetic parents are? Do donor-conceived individuals have a moral right to know their gamete (sperm and egg) donors? From the beginning of the clinical practice of donor conception, ...

• Active Thermography Using Cellphone Attachment Infrared Camera 

  Nakisa Samadi (2020-08-11)

  Active thermography (AT) is a widely studied non-destructive testing method for the characterization and evaluation of biological and industrial materials. Despite promising applications of AT in industry and medicine, ...

• Changes in The Seasonality of Sea Ice and The Underlying Mechanisms Across Hudson Bay (HB) from 1979-2018 

  Ratiba Munir (2020-08-11)

  Sea ice in Hudson Bay (HB) holds great importance ecologically, climatologically, economically, and for the Inuit culture. It has been widely established that sea ice seasons: Break-Up (BU), Ice-Free (IF), Freeze-Up (FU) ...

• The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi, 1980s -2010s 

  Muhammad Ayyaz Ahsan Mallick (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation traces the evolution of working-class politics in Karachi (Pakistan) over the past four decades. I develop an integral and non-teleological approach to the study of class, state, and civil society by ...

• Thermodynamic Analysis of Aptamer-Ligand Binding by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry 

  Sladjana Slavkovic (2020-08-11)

  Aptamers are short, single stranded nucleic acid molecules typically 15 to 60 nucleotides in length with the capacity of binding diverse molecular targets, ranging from small molecules to whole cells primarily due to their ...

• Moving Through Images: Spectatorship and Meaning-Production in Interdisciplinary Art Environments 

  Melanie Thekala Wilmink (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation establishes a framework for understanding embodied experience within immersive art environments by examining artworks that deploy interdisciplinary conventions to turn attention towards spectatorship ...

• Improving the User Experience in Healthcare through Service Design: Developing a Digital Identity for Patients 

  O'Dell, Christine Alexandra (2020-08-11)

  Current healthcare systems are decentralized and siloed, comprised of multiple technologies and platforms lacking integration. Because of the absence of consolidated medical records, patient care is based on incomplete ...

• Design a Meme: Visual Representation, Creative Strategies and Memetic Culture 

  Han, Yaqing (2020-08-11)

  Millennials today are highly engaged with social media, which offers them a platform to openly express their emotions and opinions. These social media platforms have become important parts of their daily lives. In this ...

• A Case Study of Indigenous Representation in Film Music: Smoke Signals and Dances with Wolves 

  Stephanie Anne D'Amata (2020-08-11)

  This thesis explores the representation of North American Indigenous cultures through film music of the 1990s. I use two films as case studies: a Hollywood-produced film Dances with Wolves (1990) and an independent film ...

• Bright Side of Leader Emotional Labour: Impact of Leader Emotion Regulation on Employee Outcomes 

  Md. Mahbubul Alam (2020-08-11)

  The concept of emotion regulation has been a major topic of affect-based research in organizational studies. However, it has been studied mostly in service contexts as a form of labour that is stressful and impairs the ...

• Mindfulness-Based Coaching to Reduce Ambulatory Hypertension in Atrial Fibrillation: A Pilot-Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial 

  Meysam Pirbaglou (2020-08-11)

  Background: Hypertension (HTN) is widely implicated in the prevention and management of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), given its centrality in AF pathogenesis and prognosis. As impaired autonomic cardiovascular functioning is ...

• Analytically Defined Spatiotemporal ConvNets for Spacetime Image Understanding 

  Hadji, Isma (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation introduces a novel hierarchical spatiotemporal orientation representation for spacetime image analysis. This representation is designed to combine the benefits of the multilayer architecture of Convolutional ...

• Creation and Resilience of Decentralized Brands - Bitcoin & the Blockchain 

  Syeda Mariam Humayun (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation is based on a longitudinal ethnographic and netnographic study of the Bitcoin and broader Blockchain community. The data is drawn from 38 in-depth interviews and 200+ informal interviews, plus archival ...

• Why the Pirate Flag is the Only One Worth Flying Direct-Action and the Enforcement of International Marine Wildlife Conservation Laws 

  Sarah Eden Levy (2020-08-11)

  The subject of international law is fraught with debate over its legitimacy and efficacy. If laws without enforcement are merely good advice, then how can the environment be meaningfully protected by international legal ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Dharma noise: parergonality in Zen Buddhism and non-idiomatic improvisation 

  Schnee, Daniel Paul

  The objective of this dissertation is to explore philosophical and practical approaches to the study of improvisation in relation to Japanese Zen Buddhist doctrine and aesthetics. It specifically asks whether free form ...

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