• In Search of a New Homeland 

  Bashar Kalash (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 

  Lucy Georgia Elizabeth Bilson (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 ...

• Revisiting Adam Smith and the Politics of Commercial Societies 

  Maxime Alexandre Levy-Tessier (2020-08-28)

  The following dissertation investigates the connection between the division of labour, political subjection and the psychology of authority in Adam Smiths body of work to further his analysis of commercial societies. By ...

• Mining Ontario: Corporate Power, the Mining Industry, and Public Policy in Ontario 

  Matthew Joseph Corbeil (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation critically examines the history of the government of Ontarios policies towards the mining industry to analyze the impact of concentrated economic power on political processes in liberal democracies. It ...

• 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, ...

• "Let's talk about your weight": How fatphobia manifests in therapy 

  Samantha A. Abel (2020-08-11)

  Fat people experience individual and structural oppression in a variety of cultural and relational arenas. Experiences of fatphobia are shaped by body discourses, neoliberal agendas, and the medical model. This dissertation ...

• Effects of Exposure to CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots on the Neurophysiological Performance of Developing Zebrafish 

  Mahtab Zonouzi-Marand (2020-08-11)

  This research investigated the effects of exposure to sublethal concentrations of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots on the neurophysiological performance of larval zebrafish. Whole body metal content, physiological conditions, and ...

• 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) ...

• Family Quality of Life in a Canadian Sample 

  Fitzsimmons, C. Lindsay (2020-08-11)

  Background: Past studies have evaluated the psychometric properties of the Family Quality of Life Survey 2006 (FQOLS-2006). Analyses are sometimes conducted on data from different countries, combined. A countrys ...

• 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 ...

• Effects of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Resource Availability on the Growth Rates and Survival of Dunlin (Calidris Alpina Hudsonia) Chicks 

  Norman, Brandan Tyler (2020-08-11)

  Long-distant migrants nesting in the Arctic experience condensed breeding seasons and shorter periods of high arthropod availability due to climate change. Shorebirds have precocial chicks which may compensate for food ...

• 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 ...

• Trends in Geometry and Energy of Metal and Metal Oxide Clusters Calculated by Density Functional Theory 

  Dhillon, Harneet Kaur (2020-08-11)

  We have studied the structural and electronic properties for different groups of atomic clusters by doing a global search on the potential energy surface using a modified version of the Tabu search in descriptor space ...

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