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Self-realization in John Dewey and Confucius: its philosophical and educational features
(2009-09-02)
This thesis attempts to present John Dewey and Confucian views regarding self-realization and its implication for education. Although there is an increasing body of comparative literature examining the two schools of ...
Synthesis of photochemically active complexes for DNA recognition and binding
(2009-09-01)
The objective of this thesis is to synthesize and examine the photophysical and structural properties of 3-(pyridin-2-yl)imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine (P) and 3-(pyridin-2-yl)imidazo [1,5-a]pyridine (IQ) based cations and their ...
Influence of Caffeine on Exercising Muscle Blood Flow and Exercise Tolerance in Type II Diabetes
(2009-09-17)
BACKGROUND: Exercise is a critical treatment modality in persons with Type II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), however people with this disease experience chronic fatigue and a decreased exercise capacity, which affects their ...
Poésie de l'absence : le rapport à l'autre chez trois poètes haïtiennes
(2008-09-27)
Although many in the contemporary academic world would avoid themes such as solitude, love, and, in the context of “francophone” literature, exile, I have decided to give these all the attention they deserve based on the ...
Bullying in a Multicultural Context: The Influences of Race, Immigrant Status, and School Climate on the Incidence of Bullying in Canadian Children and Adolescents
(2009-09-16)
Strong group affiliations based on race have been found in children at a very young age (Aboud, 1988) and may lead to a higher risk of involvement in bullying for certain racial groups. Little research, however, has addressed ...
Aboriginal and Colonial Geographies of the File Hills Farm Colony
(2009-10-30)
Canadian government archives have primarily shaped scholars’ analysis of the File Hills farm colony on the Peepeekisis Reserve in south eastern Saskatchewan. While these colonial archives are valuable for research, they ...
Staff Nurses' Perceptions of Rapid Response Teams in Acute Care Hospitals
(2008-09-27)
The purpose of the present study were to (a) explore the relationship between the frequency of use of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) by hospital staff nurses and the support received from RRTs; (b) to investigate staff nurses’ ...
Seniors as Volunteers at the Kingston Region - Seniors Association
(2009-09-29)
The goals of this study are to examine why seniors volunteer and how where they volunteer affects their everyday lives. A group of volunteers from a seniors association in southeastern Ontario are used to investigate how ...
Valuing Distributive Equality
(2008-09-27)
Distributive equality can be valued in different ways, which can be rendered as definitions of ways to value distributive equality. Those definitions can be used to investigate the value, if any, that distributive equality ...
Reliability- and Variation-Aware Placement for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
(2009-09-26)
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have the potential to address scaling challenges in CMOS technology because of their regular structures and the flexibility they possess by being re-configurable after fabrication. ...