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The cognitive processes underlying routine and novel naturalistic action performance: examining the role of executive function and memory
Naturalistic actions are multistep activities involving the manipulation of objects to achieve a goal. They can either be routine actions (NA) performed many times or novel actions (NNA) unfamiliar prior to instruction. ...
Self-report of symptoms in adolescents with ADHD
There is much debate regarding who are the best or appropriate informants regarding an individual's mental health symptoms and functioning (Achenbach, 2011; De Los Reyes, 2011). In childhood disorders such as ADHD, parents ...
Through a different lens: examining the effect of person construal on children's implicit attitudes
Research suggests that non-Black children show an implicit pro-White (versus Black) bias from early childhood (Baron & Banaji, 2006; Dunham, Baron, & Banaji, 2008). Across four studies I examined whether encouraging children ...
Machiavelli on the art of the state and the true way
"This monograph reopens a central and contentious question about Machiavelli's thought: how does he understand the relation between morality and politics? In the twentieth century, three of the most influential answers ...
Outside the multicultural: solidarity and the silencing of Palestinian narratives
"This dissertation examines a series of efforts by the Canadian state to silence and censor the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM), particularly activism engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, in the ...
Becoming economic: a political phenomenology of car purchases
"The point of this dissertation is to revisit the most ambiguous and perhaps most controversial aspect of Karl Polanyi's embeddedness thesis, namely the implication that socially disembedded economic action (i.e. action ...
Compound specific concentration and stable carbon isotope ratio measurements of secondary organic aerosols
The formation, composition and processing of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) m the atmosphere is poorly understood and is of great interest to the scientific community. It has been proposed that the use of concentration ...
The effect of fire disturbance on bee community composition in oak savannah habitat in Southern Ontario, Canada
Determining how bee communities respond to environmental disturbance is crucial for ensuring that the pollination service that bees provide is sustained. Studies have reported that bee communities respond to environmental ...
Augmentative and alternative communication in Canadian children with developmental disabilities
This thesis presents a two-part investigation of AAC use within a sample of children who have Developmental Disabilities (DD) with or without autism. Study 1 was derived from an online survey of 148 parents of children ...
The dynamics of exclusionary constitutionalism: israel as a jewish and democratic state
"This dissertation examines the meaning and implications of Israel's constitutional definition as ""a Jewish and democratic state"" focusing on constitutional theory. It seeks to explore how this definition is used to ...