Browsing 2013/2014 collection by Issue Date
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Generic on-board-computer hardware and software development for nanosatellite applications
(2012-11)This study outlines the results obtained from the development of a generic nanosatellite on-board-computer (OBC). The nanosatellite OBC is a non-mission specific design and as such it must be adaptable to changing mission ... -
The Church and the law: examining the role of Christianity in shaping sexual politics in Jamaica
This thesis examines the ways in which a number of faith discourses and institutions seen to comprise 'the Christian religion' - at least in its Jamaican manifestations -continue to shape sexual politics and discourses in ... -
Cracks in the glass ceiling?: laughter and politics in Broadcast News Interviews and the gendered nature of media representations
"This dissertation investigates politicians' laughter in televised Broadcast News Interviews (BNIs) and mass media representations of Hillary Rodham Clinton's laughter in the context of her failed bid for the Democratic ... -
Public sphere in Muslim societies; its reflection on social, political thought and law case study: Iran and Turkey
This comprehensive study aims to situate and contextualize the meaning of the public sphere in Muslim societies, especially Iran as compared with the experience of Turkey, utilizing diverse tools of inquiry in qualitative ... -
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. ... -
Logging in strained, logging out sustained: the utility of online support groups for caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancer
"The current investigation explored both the process and content of four separate online support groups run through CancerChatCanada, with a national sample of caregivers of individuals with advanced-stage cancers. A ... -
Virgin martyrs in pre-modern England: emulation, appropriation, and refashioning
This dissertation explores literary representations of virgin martyrs in England from the thirteenth century into the reign of Charles I. Previous studies have identified the social significance of the literary virgin ... -
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 ... -
Stabilizing the technoscientific witness: a history of controversy, medicolegal practice, and the Ontario sexual assault evidence kit
Over its thirty-four years in Ontario, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) has gained credibility as the objective technoscientific witness of sexual assault. This dissertation traces the Ontario Sexual Assault Evidence ... -
Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction
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 ... -
Breastfeeding: power, ethics, poetics
"In this dissertation I aim to put women back into breastfeeding through the development of an ethics and poetics drawn from Levinas, Irigaray and the later work of Foucault. In contrast with currently dominant discourses, ... -
Traces of motion: making the learning visible in creative dance education
What is the learning that happens in creative dance in an elementary school setting? Can pedagogical documentation, inspired by the educators of Reggio Emilia, make this learning visible to the various stakeholders in ... -
Assessing and optimizing patient-provider communication regarding cardiovascular rehabilitation (VRCOMM)
"Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is proven to reduce morbidity and mortality in cardiac patients. Despite the evidence of benefit, only 15-20% of patients participate. The most successful strategy to promote CR utilization ... -
State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety: psychometric properties and experimental manipulation to evaluate sensitivity to change and predictive validity
The State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA; Ree, French, MacLeod, & Locke, 2008) is a relatively new measure of state and trait anxiety that contains somatic and cognitive anxiety subscales. The ... -
The Staphylococcus aureus Ser/Thr kinase Stk1 specifically phosphorylates GraR, a transcription factor involved in global signal transduction
Staphylococcus aureus coordinates gene expression at appropriate times throughout its life cycle. The work herein demonstrates S. aureus serine-threonine kinase (Stk1) can phosphorylate the response regulator GraR in vitro. ... -
Accumulation by dispossession and the transformation of property relations in Egypt: housing policy under neoliberalism
This dissertation examines the ways in which workers and peasants access to housing has been shaped under different political regimes over the past two centuries (1805-2011). Up until 1952, Egypt did not have an official ... -
Labouring bodies: living standards and the distribution of food in Britain, 1850-1914
This dissertation analyses the social relations of distribution upon which the 'production' of cheap food in Britain between 1850 and 1914 came to rest. It argues that these relations of distribution were essential to the ... -
Landscape, home, & nation: Chinatown identities in urban Southeast Asia
Existing research on Chinatowns have focused largely on the development of the ethnic community, and racial and ethnic discourses in the context of urban spatialities in the form of enclaves, as well as economic networks. ... -
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 ... -
DragonflEYE: a passive approach to aerial collision sensing
"This dissertation describes the design, development and test of a passive wide-field optical aircraft collision sensing instrument titled 'DragonflEYE'. Such a ""sense-and-avoid"" instrument is desired for autonomous ...