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Dairying for profit; or,.
(Montreal, J. Lovell,, 2014-04-15) -
Damage Threshold of Near-Cross-Ply and Angle-Ply Tubes Used in Concrete Filled FRP Tubes Loaded in Flexure
Concrete-filled fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes (CFFTs) have been studied extensively, but a lingering question remains regarding the vulnerability of the exposed tube to accidental damage or vandalism. In this thesis, ... -
Dame Europa's remonstrance, and her ultimatum on the Russo-Turkish war.
(Toronto :4B Belford Brothers,, 2014-04-15) -
Dames of Distress: Female Violence and Revised Socio-Cultural Discourses in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
(2009-11-18)This study examines the figure of the violent woman in Atwood’s fiction as a productive starting point for the re-evaluation of various socio-cultural debates. Emerging from Atwood’s conviction that art, in its various ... -
The dance between artefact, commodity and fetish: a case study of Brendan Fernandes’ Lost Bodies
(Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2017-05-02)In 2015, artist Brendan Fernandes was invited to interpret ‘African collections’ from the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Textile Museum of Canada. The result, Lost Bodies, critiques racist ideologies that justified ... -
Dancing for Canada/Dancing Beyond Canada: The History of the National Ballet of Canada and Royal Winnipeg Ballet's International Tours, 1958-1974
This thesis traces the growth of the National Ballet of Canada (NBC) and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) through international ballet exchanges and reveals how foundational they were to the companies’ current reputations. ... -
The danger of mercenary parliaments
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A Dangerous Form of Belief: An Analysis of Alfred Rosenberg's Mythus of the Twentieth Century as an Example of a Modern Form of Religion
(2005-09-13)This paper examines the thought of the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg as it is contained in his book, The Mythus of the Twentieth Century. I examine the spiritualized racism he describes in the Mythus as a distinctly ... -
Daoism and Nature
(2012-06-04)Draft essay on Daoism and Nature for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology edited by Roger Gottlieb (Oxford University Press). -
Daoism and Sustainable Development
(2012-06-07)This paper examines the relationship between Daoism and sustainable development. It examines the contribution of religion to issues of sustainability in local economies and the way in which Daoist world views intersect ... -
Daoism in Brazil: The Globalization of the Orthodox Unity (Zhengyi) Tradition
(2010-08-13)The Daoist Society of Brazil (Sociedade Taoista do Brasil) was founded by Wu Jyh Cherng (Wu Zhicheng 武志成), a Taiwanese immigrant, in 1991. Today the Society operates two temples in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and is ... -
Daphnia vertical position and implications for the impact of the invasive zooplankton predator, Bythotrephes longimanus, on plankton communities in south-central Ontario
Species diversity and identity play an important role in determining community structure and regulating ecosystem processes. However, species interactions are often characterized by the mean effect or response, often ... -
Dark Matter Searches with Germanium and Silicon detectors in SuperCDMS and CUTE
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) uses germanium and silicon semiconductor detectors to search for dark matter. Particle interactions with these detectors create observable signals in the form of phonons ... -
Dark Matter-Neutrino Scattering in the Galactic Centre with IceCube
While there is evidence for the existence of dark matter, its properties have yet to be discovered. Simultaneously, the nature of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube remains unresolved. If dark matter ... -
The Dark Personality and Job Success in the United States Army: Use of Interpersonal Manipulation in the Workplace
(2016-07-18)This dissertation relates job desires and outcomes to the Dark Personality (Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Low Agreeableness, Low Honesty-Humility) in the United States Army. It purports that individuals high ... -
The Dark Side of Helping: Escalation
(Queen's University, 2020)In the real world, employees may be presented with difficult tasks that could be tackled in multiple ways and with available resources. On top of this, with deadlines, few external resources, and other tasks that employees ... -
The Dark Triad and Faking Ability on Self-Report Personality Inventories and Autobiographical Accounts
(2008-10-21)Three studies were undertaken to examine the relationship between the Dark Triad (i.e., psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) and faking ability. Study 1 examined the relationship between psychopathy and the ability ... -
Darwinism and Meaning
(Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, 2010)Darwinism presents a paradox. It discredits the notion that one’s life has any intrinsic meaning, yet it predicts that we are designed by Darwinian natural selection to generally insist that it must—and so necessarily ...