Browsing Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects by Title
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Black Gloss Ceramics From Cerveteri: The Vigna Marini Project 2012
(2014-03-19)The purpose of this thesis is threefold: to catalogue the black gloss ceramics excavated by the Vigna Marini project in Cerveteri in 2012; to understand the relationship between Rome and Caere in terms of ceramic production, ... -
"The Black Imprint of Sandals in White Mosaic Floors": H.D.'s Mythomystical Poetics
(2011-09-01)My dissertation examines the traces of inverse (mytho)mysticism, more synchronous with mythical alchemy than transcendent mystery, in H.D.’s mature work (1946-1961). Whereas H.D.’s earliest works respond to a fin de siècle ... -
Black in Kingston: Youth Perspectives on "Blackness" and Belonging in a Small Ontario City
(2011-01-04)Within the past decade, two major events raised the national profile of the experiences of black youth and the realities of racism in the city of Kingston, Ontario. The first event occurred in the spring of 2001 and ... -
‘Black Settlers’: Hybridity, Neoliberalism and Ecosystemic Change Among Tonga Farmers of Southern Zambia, 1964-2008
(2016-10-06)This dissertation examines a process of indigenous accumulation among Tonga farmers in Zambia’s Southern Province. In the 1970s multiple authors concluded that capitalist farmers had emerged among Tonga agro-pastoralists, ... -
Black-Capped Chickadee Dawn Chorus Singing Behaviour: Evidence for Communication Networks
(2008-09-18)There has been a recent paradigm shift in the study of animal communication from examining interactions as dyads to considering interactions as occurring in a communication network. The dawn chorus of songbirds, a striking ... -
Blind Estimation of Perceptual Quality for Modern Speech Communications
(2009-01-05)Modern speech communication technologies expose users to perceptual quality degradations that were not experienced earlier with conventional telephone systems. Since perceived speech quality is a major contributor to the ... -
Block Copolymer Self-Assembly, Hierarchical Assembly, and Application
(2013-02-05)This thesis addresses three issues. These are the self-assembly of block copolymer in selective solvents, hierarchical assembly of micelles or crosslinked micelles of block copolymers, and the application of block copolymers ... -
Block Copolymers Containing a Low-Surface-Energy Block and Their Applications
(2016-08-05)This thesis reports the synthesis and/or applications of three types of block copolymers that each bear a low-surface-energy block. First, poly(dimethylsiloxane)-block-poly(2-cinnamoyloxyethyl acrylate) (PDMS-b-PCEA) was ... -
Blockade of the Human Ether A-Go-Go-Related Gene (hERG) Potassium Channel by Fentanyl
Fentanyl poses a serious health concern, with abuse and death rates rising over recent years. Despite the high number of overdose deaths attributed to fentanyl, the complete molecular mechanisms of such deaths have not ... -
Blood pressure control among Canadians with hypertension, with and without diabetes
(2013-11-14)The thesis offers the following contributions to the epidemiology of hypertension in Canada: 1.The first manuscript uses cross-sectional data from the 2007-2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) to compare the ... -
A Blueprint for Student-Athlete Success: Understanding the Conditions Implemented by University Coaches
Student-athletes represent a unique group of individuals that must balance their academic goals with their athletic pursuits in a high performance sport context. Coaches play a significant role in helping athletes achieve ... -
Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
This dissertation investigates the emergence and transformation of national identification (ID) systems in modern Japan. I focus on colonial techniques of the ID systems in Northeast China under Japanese occupation in ... -
Bodies, Deviancy, and Socio-Political Change: Judith Butler on Intelligibility
(2012-10-09)In this thesis I contribute to arguments showing how the human body is much more than a vessel that enables us to experience the world through our senses. Our sense of embodiment and our embodied performances give meaning ... -
Body Segment Inertial Parameters of Toddlers
Body segment inertial parameters (BSIPs) are required to study human kinetics and to model the human form. The purpose of this study was to determine the BSIPs in toddlers using the photogrammetric method. Twelve male and ... -
The Book of Life in the Double Helix: Cultural Differences in Biological Beliefs
(2009-08-20)Biological beliefs posit that biological predispositions can sufficiently explain and predict human characteristics, behaviors, or other phenomena (e.g., Paul carries a gene for athletic abilities; he will become good at ... -
Bootle Rumble: Gamifying Rehabilitation Exercise for Youth with Cerebral Palsy
Youth with cerebral palsy (CP) may be prescribed rehabilitation exercises by physiotherapists in order to improve or maintain motor function as they grow into adolescence. However, in the field of physiotherapeutic medicine, ... -
A Bootstrapped Approach for Abusive Intent Detection in Social Media Content
The proliferation of Internet connected devices continues to result in the creation of massive collections of human generated content from websites such as social media. Unfortunately, some of these sites are used by ... -
Borderline Cinema
The term ‘Borderline Cinema’ may sound strange at first, even for scholars and film aficionados. It may also sound like something unprecedented, modern, a result of the changes and re-adaptations in the film industry that ... -
Borders and the Exclusion of Migrant Bodies in Singapore's Global City-state
(2010-05-13)Feminist geographic debates have drawn attention to the multi-scalar role of borders as processes of social differentiation that are reproduced and inscribed on the bodies of migrant workers in everyday life. This thesis ... -
Boredom, Overload, and the Crisis of Meaning in Late Modern Temporality
(2015-07-03)Boredom, in its blankness, has been both a canvas and a subject for modern artists and intellectuals. Whereas those in the early and mid-twentieth century theorized and aesthetically reencountered the conditions of boredom ...