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"""There's nothing 'alternative' about legislation"": an enquiry into the influence of regulatory culture and legal consciousness on regulators' responses to ADR legislation"
Legislation regarding Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) can legitimize its use as an alternative to a more formal, law- or court-centred dispute resolution process. However, recent studies warn that prescribing and ... -
Rearing Mesostoma ehrenbergii and studying chromosome movements during meiosis in their spermatocytes
"The Mesostoma ehrenbergii spermatocyte is an advantageous cell for studying meiosis. Its many unique features include regular and persistent bivalent kinetochore oscillations, distance segregation of univalents and the ... -
Clock-related regulation of mitochondrial physiology in skeletal muscle
Biological rhythms regulate numerous functional processes within organisms, including the expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-y coactivator 1-a (PGC-1a), a potent regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis. ... -
Studying protein-DNA interactions using kinetic capillary electrophoresis
Protein-DNA interactions are essential to a cell as they control all vital cellular functions such as DNA replication, repair, recombination and transcription. In order to understand the dynamics of these fundamental ... -
Development of a tandem microfluidic two-phase extraction device for continuous arylboronic acid phase-switching purification
The last 20 years has witnessed a surge in the development of fluidic devices and techniques aimed at the generation of novel tools for chemical transformations, chemical analysis, bioassays, therapeutics, medical diagnostics, ... -
"Unpacking ""Alberta beef"": class, gender, and culture in Edmonton packinghouses during the era of na ti on al pattern bargaining, 1947-1979"
"The struggle to establish a progressive American-based industrial union, United Packinghouse Workers of America, in Edmonton's four major packinghouses during World War Two sparked the ""awakening"" of a social conscience ... -
Time, capitalism, and alienation: social time relations, clock-time and the making of world standard time
This dissertation enquires into the relationship between time and capitalism. In order to understand the nature of social time in capitalist societies, I perform a historical contextualization of the origins of clocks and ... -
Young, well-educated and adaptable people: Chilean exiles, identity and daily life in Canada, 1973 to the present day
"This dissertation describes the challenges and changes to lifestyle and identity experienced by twenty-one Chileans who came to Canada as exiles between 1973 and 1978. It is based largely on the testimony of the exiles ... -
Stable carbon isotope composition of ambient VOC and its use in the determination of photochemical ages of air masses
Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition measurements can provide valuable information about the processing of trace gases in the atmosphere. Not only can it be used to distinguish physical processes such as dilution and mixing ... -
The effects of chronic muscle use and disuse on cardiolipin metabolism
Mitochondrial membranes have a diverse structure composed of numerous phospholipids, including cardiolipin (CL). Several processes are required to synthesize· and remodel CL. We previously demonstrated that CL content ... -
The public communication and biopolitics of human embryonic stem cell research in the United States and the European Union
This dissertation uses the methods of interpretive social science to explore the multidimensional nature of the stem cell controversy, its competing epistemologies, and types of resolution and policy closure that have been ... -
The struggle for liberation from caste and gender: representations of Dalit women in the neo-Buddhist movement
This dissertation analyzes the representations of Dalit neo-Buddhist women in literature, iconography, and media, and situates these representations in a religious context. It fills a gap in the existing research by bringing ... -
Choices and compromises: the abortion movement in Canada 1969-1988
This dissertation explores pro-choice activism in Canada following the 1969 omnibus bill that decriminalized abortion. The 1969 legal amendments permitted abortions performed in accredited hospitals and approved by the ... -
Tyrosine phosphorylation in Tetrahymena thermophila during intercellular communication
Emerging evidence suggests that tyrosine phosphorylation signaling is present in unicellular organisms. There is also emerging evidence suggesting the presence of tyrosine phosphorylation in the unicellular ciliate protozoan, ... -
Satirizing habits in Victorian fiction: novelistic satire, 1830s-1890s
"This dissertation argues for a significant presence of satire within Victorian novels from the 1830s to the 1890s - the very decades in which many influential critics, from the early twentieth century to the present day, ... -
Risk in regulation: a US piblic firm ownership perspective
"The study examines different approaches to the regulation of the capital markets with a focus on explaining why certain assumptions about markets, actors, and systems came to be embedded in the regulatory practice in the ... -
Conceptions of the body in obesity epidemic discourses
"Competing explanations of the obesity epidemic identify either individual or systemic causes, blaming the failure of fat people themselves or larger societal problems as the cause of increasing rates of obesity. Yet, ... -
Saranjaam
"It was only during my second year of MF A studies at York University that I decided which film I wanted to make for my thesis project. I had faced several setbacks in my first year of Masters studies - some of which help ... -
Distress regulation in infancy: attachment and temperament in the context of acute pain
Through this study, the relationship between attachment, temperamental fear, and distress regulation during infants' 12-month immunizations was examined. Two broad research questions were answered: (1) Are attachment, ... -
Concussion incidence and risk factors in the National Hockey League between the 2005-2006 and 2011-2012 seasons
Ice hockey has been identified as a sport with a high risk for concussions, and given the injury's serious health consequences, it has become a major concern within the sporting community. While research is available at ...