• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Tomorrow's Godly Americans: Citizenship Education and National Identity in Conservative Christian Homeschools 

  Butler, Jeffrey Ian

  "This dissertation examines citizenship discourse and national identity in conservative evangelical homeschools in the U.S. Using the Christian Home-Educators of Colorado (CHEC) as an ethnographic case study, it elucidates ...

• Engaging the Savage Imagination: an actors search for the heart of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream 

  Bergquist, Adam Lane

  This thesis will explore the notion of the Savage Imagination as it applies to an actors' process in preparation for and performance of the role of Bottom in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It establishes ...

• Ensemble prediction of a severe weather event: a study of the 2009 Southern Ontario storm 

  Bell, Geoffrey

  The tornadic storm of August 20, 2009 of Southern Ontario is studied using a numerical prediction model. It is found that a 3km resolution simulation works as well as a 1km resolution model to model the storms underlying ...

• Improved laser locking techniques for realizing an enhanced measurement of the helium 2 triplet P fine structure 

  Beica, Hermina C.

  The atomic fine-structure constant is a fundamental parameter that describes the coupling strength between charged particles and electromagnetic fields. Our group's objective is to measure this constant to an accuracy of ...

• Hidden and surreptitious adoption of organizational information technology solutions 

  Aksulu, Altay

  "Despite a broad literature on organizational adoption of technological innovations, the extant research has paid very little attention to a particular adoption scenario corresponding to user-initiated, surreptitious ...

• Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction 

  Wrobel, Katherine

  The Condition-of-England Question - a series of discussions that involve commentary on the state of relations between disparate groups and classed subjects - contains a nexus of competing and overlapping discourses, as ...

• Two weddings: an examination of the design process as applied to Blood Wedding and Vernasz 

  Walker, Lindsay C.

  The objective of this study was to examine the design process, and how it was affected when applied to the different forms of opera and theatre, using two specific examples as test subjects. To ensure homogeny between these ...

• Top girls: conventional costumes and a digitized stage design 

  Spidell, Scott George

  Top Girls: Conventional Costumes and a Digitized Stage Design describes the process of designing the projected sets and traditional costumes for an intermedial production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. Intermediality in ...

• A study of oral language use in a grade three classroom: implications of a systematic approach 

  Simpson Schwartz, Lisa

  Oral communication is a vital component of the learning process. Research demonstrates that children benefit from engaging in oral interactions with their peers and, through such interactions, can co-construct knowledge ...

• But is it really worth it? Examining the economic returns on higher education for Caribbeans and Latin Americans in the Greater Toronto Area 

  Rayne, Jessica Alina

  My research analyzes the social mobility of Caribbean and Latin American ethnic groups by examining the economic returns on higher education for both groups in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Through quantitative data ...

• Exemptions for the non-performance of contractual obligations in cisg article 79 and the quest for uniformity in international sales law 

  Mazzacano, Peter J.

  "The premise of this dissertation is that Article 79 of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods-which concerns exemptions for contractual non-performance due to an ""impediment"" beyond a party's ...

• Wildlife, cattle, and people in the limpopo national park: a more-than-human political ecology of conservation-induced displacement and resettlement 

  Massé, Francis

  "Established in 2001, the Limpopo National Park (LNP) in Mozambique joined South Africa's Kruger and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park a year later to form the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park with the aim of creating a ...

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