Browsing Graduate Theses, Dissertations and Projects by Title
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H20 to Go: marketing and materiality in the normalization of bottled water
(2007-10-11)This thesis aims to explore the rise in the consumption of bottled water and the dominant narratives of normalization that seek to explain it. Commonly understood as the cumulative result of the power of marketing and ... -
Habitat Associations of Coexisting Carrion Beetles (Subfamilies Nicrophorinae and Silphinae) in Southeastern Ontario
The coexistence of closely related species is thought to play an important role in shaping and maintaining local diversity and community organization. However, competition for shared limiting resources can inhibit coexistence ... -
"Half-Gods Good Surgeons May Be Called": Surgery's Quest For Occupational Credit in England, 1590-1715
(2014-09-09)This study contributes to the scholarship on early modern medicine and the professions by examining English surgical practitioners, 1590-1715. It explores the growth of surgery through the intersection of print culture ... -
Haloperidol-Environment Interaction Modulates Expression of c-Fos Proteins in the Basal Ganglia in Rats
(2015-12-16)Inverse incentive learning is the loss by stimuli of their ability to elicit approach and other responses. This has been shown in the horizontal bar test. Rats in the Paired group (n = 10) were injected with haloperidol ... -
Hamiltonian Systems of Hydrodynamic Type
(2010-12-23)We study the Hamiltonian structure of an important class of nonlinear partial differential equations: the so-called systems of hydrodynamic type, which are first-order in tempo-spatial variables, and quasi-linear. Chapters ... -
Hamster Oviductin Enhances Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Sperm Proteins During Capacitation
(2009-02-02)Capacitation is essential for fertilization of ovulated oocytes. Capacitation is correlated with activation of a signal transduction pathway leading to protein tyrosine phosphorylation, an essential prerequisite for ... -
Hamstring Activity and Lower Extremity Loading in Knee Osteoarthritis: The Effect of Foot Rotation
(2007-10-02)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) causes more disability in community dwelling older adults than any other condition. The high costs associated with treating this disability suggest that research needs to focus on ways of preventing ... -
Handling Disconnection in Synchronous Groupware
(2013-04-29)Synchronous distributed groupware is a class of software applications allowing a geographically distributed group of people to collaborate in real time. There are different types of groupware, e.g., collaborative editing ... -
A HARD PUSH FOR SOFT SKILLS: AN EXAMINATION OF POLICY AND RESEARCH ON NON-COGNITIVE SKILLS IN CANADIAN K-12 SCHOOLING
(2016-10-27)Non-cognitive skills have caught the attention of current education policy writers in Canada. Within the last 10 years, almost every province has produced a document including the importance of supporting non-cognitive ... -
Hard Rocks Under High Strain-Rate Loading
(2013-11-20)Understanding the behavior of geomaterials under explosive loading is essential for several applications in the mining and oil industry. To date, the design of these applications is based almost solely on empirical equations ... -
A Hardware Architecture for GPS/INS-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks
(2012-01-13)Wireless sensor network technology has now been widely adopted. In many applications, distributed sensor nodes collect data at different locations and the location information of each node is required. The Global Positioning ... -
Harvesting Consciousness: The Impact of Seasonal Labour on the Transnational Political Identity of Guatemalan Migrants to Canada
(2012-01-16)The Temporary Agricultural Worker to Canada (TAWC) project was introduced in 2003 with the purpose of recruiting Guatemalan migrants to fill seasonal labour voids in Canada. Workers contracted through TAWC directives have ... -
Harvesting Consciousness: The Impact of Seasonal Labour on the Transnational Political Identity of Guatemalan Migrants to Canada
(2012-01-16)The Temporary Agricultural Worker to Canada (TAWC) project was introduced in 2003 with the purpose of recruiting Guatemalan migrants to fill seasonal labour voids in Canada. Workers contracted through TAWC directives have ... -
Hays Gone By: The Proto-Feminism of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Films of Mae West
Pre-Code Hollywood has famously been described as an alternative universe of American cinema, as looser censorship restrictions allowed filmmakers to explore adult themes of violence and sexuality far more openly than would ... -
Hayton of Korykos and La Flor des Estoires: Cilician Armenian Mediation in Crusader-Mongol Politics, c.1250-1350
(2015-02-05)Hayton’s La Flor des estoires de la terre d’Orient (1307) is typically viewed by scholars as a propagandistic piece of literature, which focuses on promoting the Ilkhanid Mongols as suitable allies for a western crusade. ... -
Head Roll Influences on Multi-Sensory Integration for Perception and Action
(2011-07-21)The representation of ourselves and our environment is based on the combination of information from multiple sensory systems. Each sensory modality is represented within a different frame of reference, in other words each ... -
Health and Medicine as “the Rallying Points of Unity:” Physicians, Activism and International Efforts in the Early Cold War
(2015-07-23)This thesis is an exploration of different manifestations of the struggle to determine the place of health and medicine in the international diplomatic and institutional landscape during early years of the Cold War. Relying ... -
Health Education In The Practice of Development: Afghanistan, Child Participation and the Child-to-Child Approach
(2009-07-08)For over thirty years Afghanistan has been challenged by war, political and civil instability, mass displacement, human rights abuses, drought, and famine. It is not surprising that health and quality of life of vulnerable ... -
The Health Experience of Low-Income Church-Going Black Women: The Importance of Spirituality
(2007-11-16)Health research and services are dominated by a biomedical model which understands health as the absence of disease in the physical body. The dominance of this approach has resulted in the absence, silence and refutation ... -
Health Inequalities of Older People in China
China is facing serious population aging issues because of unintended consequences of the economic reforms and social policies which began in the 1980s. Despite the remarkable progress in health status (e.g., the increasing ...