Browsing Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects by Title
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Cyclic Testing of Pre-engineered Beam-Hanger Connections & Reinforcement of Holes in Glulam Beams Using Self-tapping Screws
This thesis is split into two sections: the first evaluates the performance of pre-engineered beam-hanger connections under cyclic loading, and the second evaluates the reinforcement of holes in glulam beams using self-tapping ... -
Cynicism in the Fin de Siècle
(2010-05-17)Cynicism is one of the most frequently used, but most polysemic, words in the modern lexicon. This dissertation attempts to shed some light on a dark subject by tracing the idea of cynicism from the late eighteenth century ... -
CYP26B1 limits inappropriate activation of RARgamma by retinoic acid during murine embryogenesis
(2012-11-07)Proper embryonic patterning requires precise spatio-temporal regulation of retinoic acid (RA) activity. Morphogenesis can be regulated at the level of RA distribution, mainly via its synthesis and catabolism by the RALDH ... -
Cystatin Related Epididymal Spermatogenic Protein Resides in the Outer Dense Fibres and Likely Transiently Associates With the Surface of Epididymal Mouse Spermatozoa
(2010-09-08)Cystatin Related Epididymal Spermatogenic protein (CRES) is expressed in both the testis and epididymis and found associated with spermatozoa. It appears as non-glycosylated (14 and 12 kDa) and glycosylated isoforms (19 ... -
Cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 2 activation mediates post-myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury inflammatory processes
(2013-09-26)Myocardial infarction (MI) is primarily caused by blockade of the coronary circulation, resulting in ischemic insult. The only available remedy is reperfusion, which induces oxidative stress and activates inflammatory ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Data Management Workflow and Architecture For Simulation-Based Medical Training
(2015-09-01)Purpose: Research is ongoing on how best to integrate simulation-based surgical training and the associated quantitative metrics into competency-based medical education. In a review of the literature, study data management ... -
Data Mining the Genetics of Leukemia
(2010-01-13)Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children under the age of 15. At present, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment decisions are made based upon blood and bone marrow laboratory testing. With ... -
Data Quality of Fleet Management Systems in Open Pit Mining: Issues and Impacts on Key Performance Indicators for Haul Truck Fleets
(2015-04-30)Open pit mining operations typically rely upon data from a Fleet Management Systems (FMS) in order to calculate Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). For production and maintenance planning and reporting purposes, these KPI’s ... -
Data Use in Ontario School Board Improvement Plans
Board improvement plans (BIP) are documents which include goals and actions to improve student achievement and well-being within a school board. School boards in Ontario are encouraged to use data to make informed educational ... -
Data-driven estimation for Aalen's additive risk model
(2007-08-02)The proportional hazards model developed by Cox (1972) is by far the most widely used method for regression analysis of censored survival data. Application of the Cox model to more general event history data has become ... -
Days of Action: Ontario's Extra-Parliamentary Opposition to the Common Sense Revolution, 1995-1998
From 1995 to 1998, Ontario was the site of a sustained political and industrial conflict between the provincial government of Premier Mike Harris and a loosely-coordinated protest movement of labour unions, community ... -
De-duotanging Core French: Case study of a Digital Learning Space Portfolio in a Grade 8 Classroom
This case study explored the use of a digital learning space portfolio by Grade 8 French as a Second Language (FSL) students. The focus of this study was on the meaning students assigned to the use of the digital learning ... -
Dealing with a massacre : spectacle, eroticism, and unreliable narration in the Lemnian episode of Statius' Thebaid
(2008-06-19)I offer three readings of the Lemnian episode narrated by Hypsipyle in book five of the Thebaid, each based upon an interpretive tension created by textual, intertextual, and cultural factors and resolved by the death of ... -
The Death and Life of the Polis
(2008-09-17)Aristotle argues in Chapter 2 of Book I of the Politics that the polis exists by nature. I argue that this notion of a natural polis, what I call the Naturalness Thesis, is fundamentally important to Aristotle's political ... -
Death Threat Letters: Allegories of American Authorship in the Age of Terrorism
(2016-06-22)This dissertation examines novels that use terrorism to allegorize the threatened position of the literary author in contemporary culture. Allegory is a term that has been differently understood over time, but which has ...