• The Impact of Monocular Self-Occlusions on Depth Perception 

  Domenic Chun On Au (2020-11-13)

  Depth perceived from two-object arrangement half-occlusions has been shown to depend on the occluded regions size and texture properties. However, monocular regions also result from single-object self-occlusions where the ...

• Models for Capacity Allocation in Anticipation of Time-Varying Demand 

  Evghenii S. Furman (2020-11-13)

  In this dissertation, we propose and investigate several stationary capacity allocation methods that anticipate time-varying demand. We apply these techniques to three practical settings in customer acquisition and retention, ...

• The Call to the Filipino Diaspora: Local Development Through Transnational Practices 

  Clarence Laxina Magpantay (2020-11-13)

  Answering the Cry of the Poor (ANCOP) is an NGO operating in Canada and the Philippines. ANCOP, under the Catholic lay organization Couples for Christ (CFC) have a community development program where it builds villages for ...

• Unlikely Allies? The Intersections of Conservation and Extraction in Tanzania 

  Devin James Holterman (2020-11-13)

  Tanzania is largely considered the epicenter of the Second Poaching Crisis, having experienced dramatic declines in wildlife populations, in particular elephants. In response, the country has established a new (para)military ...

• The Interplay Between Beta-Hydroxybutyrate, Insulin and Glucose on Regulating MCF7 Cell Cycle Status 

  Monica Tawadrous (2020-11-13)

  The Ketogenic diet (KD), has been used to treat epileptic seizures, improve insulin sensitivity and reduce adiposity. This study demonstrates an in-vitro approach to stimulate the KD in order to evaluate the effects on ...

• Parent Outcomes in Group Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder 

  Odette Weiss (2020-11-13)

  It has been shown that having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts parents in many ways. However, there is limited research examining changes of these impacts over time, especially in the context of childrens ...

• Wholly Quantum 

  Armaghan Yari (2020-11-13)

  Most theories of quantum mechanics do not offer clear yes/no empirical answers to all questions that seem at face value. The Many-Worlds Interpretation, originated by Hugh Everett in the late 1950s, is unique for its ...

• The Effects of the Error-Sensitivity and Perturbation Schedules on the Slow and Fast Processes in Reach Adaptation 

  Ambika Tara Bansal (2020-11-13)

  To study the processes involved in motor adaptation we examined the occurrence of a spontaneous rebound to investigate any behavioural differences between a perturbation that was introduced abruptly compared to gradually. ...

• Improving the Logging Practices in DevOps 

  Boyuan Chen (2020-11-13)

  DevOps refers to a set of practices dedicated to accelerating modern software engineering process. It breaks the barriers between software development and IT operations and aims to produce and maintain high quality software ...

• National Debt and Public Education in Jamaica: "Glocal" Challenges and Responses 

  Giselle Francine Thompson (2020-11-13)

  This dissertation is a transnational case study, designed to capture how structural adjustment and austerity have affected public primary schooling in Jamaica, and the response(s) of alumni associations in the Torontonian-Jamaican ...

• Variations on Broken Lines 

  Nava Waxman (2020-11-13)

  This paper, Variations On Broken Lines, parallels my exhibition, presented in Gales Gallery at York University, Toronto. Variations On Broken Lines is a site-specific multimedia installation comprising screendance work, ...

• Soil, sand, salt 

  Elham Fatapour (2020-11-13)

  My practice focuses on exploring media, censorship, and communication through the mediums of painting and installation. Satellite dishes are one of the primary communication devices used to access mass media and as a result, ...

• Predictive Modeling of Early Stage Parkinsons Disease 

  Charles Stevens Leger (2020-11-13)

  Background: Early stage (preclinical) detection of Parkinsons disease (PD) remains challenged yet is crucial to both differentiate it from other disorders and facilitate timely administration of neuroprotective treatment ...

• The Smad7 Protein Interaction Network in Skeletal Myogenesis 

  Soma Tripathi (2020-11-13)

  Myogenesis or muscle development begins with cell cycle arrest and continues with a differentiation program that converts myoblasts into multi-nucleated cells referred to as myotubes. A complex hierarchy of transcriptional ...

• The Anti-Self-Help Project: Existential Suffering in Neonihilism 

  Patric Plesa (2020-11-13)

  The Anti-Self-Help Project is foremost a critique of neoliberalism, but more specifically, a reassessment of the neoliberal self-help industry. Relying on a Nietzschean/Foucauldian genealogical reassessment, the focus is ...

• Mending and Transforming the Torn Social Fabric: Lumpen Social Reproduction in Settler Urban Space as Relational Praxis Art 

  Liza Kim Jackson (2020-11-13)

  With this dissertation I look at the unique and indispensable political position of low-income peoples that I assert is not effectively represented via left progressive and working class struggles, academic theory or ...

• Pyrogeography in Context: Encountering Wildland Fire in Canadian National Parks 

  Colin Robert Sutherland (2020-11-13)

  The management of wildland fire in North America is premised on fire suppression, as has been the case for much of the last century. As the roles of wildland fire in ecosystem functions are better understood and the adverse ...

• "The Place of Imagination": Humphrey Jennings and the Biopoetics of Everyday Life 

  Scott William Douglas Birdwise (2020-11-13)

  This dissertation seeks to reanimate discussion of British artist and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings by reconsidering his body of work in light of the biopolitical transformations of modern life. While biopolitics ...

• Neural Question Generation with Transfer Learning and Utilization of External Knowledge 

  Marjan Delpisheh (2020-11-13)

  Neural question generation (NQG) applies deep neural networks to solve the problem of automatically generating questions from text documents. The performance of deep neural networks relies heavily on the availability of a ...

• The Transnational Mining Justice Social Movement: Indigenous Right to Consultation & Right to Remedy Law Reform Activism in Canada and Latin America From 1999-2019 

  Charis Kamphuis (2020-11-13)

  This portfolio dissertation studies the activism of the transnational mining justice social movement in Canada and Latin America from the late 1990s to 2019. It focuses on two of the movements most significant human rights ...

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