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Consuming the "Oriental Other," Constructing the Cosmopolitan Canadian: Reinterpreting Japanese Culinary Culture in Toronto's Japanese Restaurants
(2008-03-25)During the last decade, Japanese cuisine has become firmly rooted in Canada. The once unusual sounding dishes such as sushi, tempura, and edamame are now familiar to most Canadians. Indeed, Japanese restaurants make up a ... -
Contact zone dynamics and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a North American treefrog, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
(2013-03-04)Despite over seven decades of speciation research and 25 years of phylogeographic studies, a comprehensive understanding of mechanisms that generate biological species remains elusive. In temperate zones, the pervasiveness ... -
Containment of Organic Contaminants Using Geosynthetics
(2016-03-02)The use of geosynthetics to contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in composite liner systems is evaluated through laboratory and field experiments. Diffusive parameters for benzene, ... -
CONTEMPORARY MEASURES OF MENTAL HEALTH STATUS AND SCHOOL-BASED RELATIVE AGE EFFECTS IN CANADIAN ADOLESCENTS
This thesis is on the epidemiology of relative age effects and how they relate to the mental health status of young people. Contemporary measures of mental health are developed, and the association between school-based ... -
Contested Futures - Traditional Rice as a Keystone of Alternative Agriculture Movements
The Green Revolution reshaped rural livelihoods by introducing new, exogenously-generated, inputs and knowledge. Predicated on enhancing yields and food productivity, this had widespread implications on biodiversity ... -
Contested Terrains: Visualizing the Nation within Global Military Conflict
(2011-12-22)In this study, I use visual and material culture that addresses the contemporary war in Afghanistan to critically assess the ways in which national conflict history is envisioned. I focus in particular on cultural production ... -
A Context Management Framework to Support Context-Aware Pervasive Computing
(2012-09-07)As computing devices become more pervasive and integrated with our lives, it becomes useful for these devices to understand the environment which surrounds them and the activities of their users, so that they may adapt ... -
Context Sensitive and Secure Parser Generation for Deep Packet Inspection of Binary Protocols
Network protocol parsers constantly dissect a large number of network data to place into internal data structures for further processing by traffic analysis systems. Many network protocol parsers are hand-written for ... -
Context, Construct, and Consequences: Washback of the College English Test in China
(2016-01-28)The College English Test (CET) is a large-scale language testing program implemented for the purpose of enhancing English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Chinese tertiary education context. Its results have been used ... -
Context-Aware and Real-time Entrustment Framework for Securing Next Generation Internet Communications
The Internet has been repeatedly demonstrated to be insufficiently secure for transferring sensitive information worldwide. This insecurity is an inherent characteristic as the Internet did not make any security considerations ... -
Contextual Influences on Family Role Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana
(2013-12-20)This dissertation explores the cultural and socioeconomic factors that influence adult role transitions in Ghana. Guided by a life course theoretical framework, and using a nationally representative survey (2003-2008 Ghana ... -
A Contextual View of Support for Graduate Students’ Scholarly Teaching
(2012-09-28)Graduate students' teaching contributes to undergraduate education throughout North America (Park, 2004), the United Kingdom (Muzaka, 2009), Australia (Kift, 2003), and New Zealand (Barrington, 2001), particularly in ... -
CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN TRADITIONAL AKAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION PRACTICES
This dissertation examines traditional religio-cultural beliefs/practices and environmental problems in Ghana using the Kwahu Traditional Area as a case study. Its primary objective is to examine the continuities and ... -
Continuity of Care in Mental Health
(2013-04-26)Background: Individuals who make multiple visits to EDs for mental health complaints are a highly visible and challenging group. Recent healthcare priorities aimed at reducing inappropriate or unnecessary service use call ... -
Continuous and Digital Approaches to Manipulation and Detection of Analytes on Microfluidic Devices
(2016-04-04)Microfluidic devices are extremely popular in the area of analytical research as they reduce sample input requirements, have low operational cost, fast analysis time, high separation resolution and low detection limits. ... -
Continuous relative phase variability of hand-held load carriage techniques: The effectiveness of a mover's assistive device
(2012-10-02)Professional furniture movers must carry objects of all shapes, sizes and weights. When carrying boxes between a house and the moving van, professional movers will carry boxes two different ways. The first way is holding ... -
Continuously Improving in Tough Times: Overcoming Resource Constraints With Positive Psychological Resources
(2013-10-01)Individuals and organizations must continuously improve to succeed in today’s competitive economic climate, yet a major dilemma in tough economic conditions is that the resources needed to support such proactive improvement ... -
Continuum Damage Modeling of Rocks Under Blast Loading
Rock fragmentation by blasting has been in practice in civil and mining industries for centuries. The controlled use of explosives is considered the dominant approach for the purpose of breaking the rock material in any ... -
A Continuum Modelling Study of Macro-Geometry choices and Their Impact on Excavation Damage Zone Development in Brittle Rock at Depth
Canadian and International experts agree that deep underground repositories are the single best solution regarding safe, long-term nuclear waste disposal (IAEA 2009). Numerous European and Asian countries have already begun ... -
Contrasting Emotion Processing and Response Inhibition Deficits in ADHD and Bipolar Disorder
(2015-08-27)Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BD) are prevalent in the population, highly comorbid, and have similar clinical features that complicate diagnoses despite rather distinct diagnostic ...