• Traces of (Un-) Sustainability: Towards a Materially Engaged Ecology of Mind 

  Graham, Peter

  Discussions of sustainability are usually framed within a dominant Cartesian dualistic paradigm as something that requires material changes in the world, for example, a new technological invention, or alternatively, new ...

• Painting a Portrait of Organizational Evaluation Capacity in the Canadian Art Museum sector 

  Chalas, Agnieszka

  Not only is research on program evaluation practice and capacity in art museums largely absent, but also the actual dimensions of evaluation capacity as they could be observed in these unique professional settings have ...

• AUGMENTED REALITY TRAINING PLATFORM FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSURGICAL BURR HOLES 

  Baum, Zac

  Augmented reality has been used in neurosurgery to aid in the visualization of lesions, though it has not been widely adopted for simulation-based neurosurgical training. This work aims to determine if augmented reality ...

• Automated Generation of Language Use Vector Extractors from TXL Grammars 

  Vishwambar, Karthik

  Software development continues to demand advanced features which current programming languages do not offer. Language developers constantly evolve their languages to simplify common tasks, make the language more natural ...

• Understanding and Supporting Student Thriving in the Ontario Kindergarten Classroom 

  Nesbitt, Heather

  Human thriving is often counterposed to survival and perceived as the ultimate achievable goal on a spectrum of human development and positive functioning. However, few researchers have attempted to directly tackle thriving ...

• Participation of Persons with Deafblindness in India 

  Jaiswal, Atul

  Worldwide research on deafblindness is sparse, particularly in low and middle-income countries such as India. Persons with deafblindness often experience participation barriers. Yet little is known about their lived ...

• Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Carotid Ultrasound Imaging as Biomarkers to Determine the Severity of Atherosclerosis 

  Li, Terry

  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the number one cause of death in the world for several decades and will continue to worsen as a global epidemic. The underlying cause of CVD is atherosclerosis: most myocardial infarctions ...

• Queer Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary 

  Abdou, Mohammed

  This Ph.D. is an ethnographic-activist-based project. It first examines the genealogy of popular nationalist-statist and religious enforcements of postcolonial cisheteronormativity in Egypt through the examination of two ...

• The Relationship Among Attachment, Empathy, and Caring in Baccalaureate Nursing Students 

  Burla de la Rocha, Arlene

  Empathy and caring are the foundations upon which the fundamentals and principles of nursing practice are grounded, and help to delicately balance scientific knowledge and humanistic behaviours. Three nursing organizations ...

• Degradation and Crystallization Studies of Branched PLA Prepared by Reactive Extrusion 

  Simmons, Heather

  This thesis proposes strategies to improve the crystallinity and mechanical properties of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and investigates the effects of these modifications on hydrolytic degradation. The effect of long-chain ...

• The BEST Trials: Examining Brief Executive Skills Training for Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders 

  Best, Mike

  Cognitive remediation is an efficacious treatment for schizophrenia that focuses on enhancing neurocognitive abilities and improving community functioning. However, there is currently no gold-standard cognitive remediation ...

• Three Essays in Corporate Finance 

  Ma, Xiaobing

  In this thesis I present three papers on the implications of corporate finance and credit markets. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the thesis. Chapter 2 presents the paper "Do investors value bond granularity?". It ...

• An Empirical Analysis of Java Language Use in Open Source Applications 

  Shahjamali, Fatemeh

  Java is one of the most popular programming languages currently in use, and many modern applications and websites are programmed using Java. In this work, we examine how Java language features are actually used by programmers ...

• An Evaluation of Spatial Lyme Disease Risk at Regional and Health Unit Scales Using Remotely Sensed Surface Temperature, GIS-Based Habitat Suitability Data and Population Modelling 

  Woodstock, Katie

  The spread of Lyme disease continues to be a severe public health concern in Ontario, Canada due to rising temperatures. Several previous studies have modelled the extent and rate of risk increase at provincial and national ...

• "Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston 

  Simard-Gagnon, Laurence

  This dissertation is about migrant Francophone mothers’ experiences of mothering in Kingston, Ontario. It exposes how elements of these women’s life-stories, namely mothering, migration, and minority language, intersect ...

• Application of Optical CT to Estimate the Mass of Macroalgae in a Tank of Water 

  Yamanaka, Mao

  This thesis develops and tests a mass estimation system for macroalgae using optical computed tomography. The system consists of a table with a fixed camera and backlighting, which rotates around a container of macroalgae ...

• Evolutionary Constraints: Phenology and elevational range limits in an annual plant 

  Ensing, David

  All species have limits to their geographic distributions and many range limits are stable over centuries, indicating a failure to adapt to conditions beyond the range edge. This simple observation contradicts copious ...

• Evaluating the Surficial Geochemical Expressions in Soil, and Tree Cores Surrounding an LCT Pegmatite at Pakeagama Lake, Ontario 

  Reith, Will

  The Pakeagama Lake Pegmatite is a complex type, petalite subtype Li-Cs-Ta (LCT) pegmatite, located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, at the border of the Berens River and Sachigo subprovinces of the Archean Superior ...

• High-performance Communication in MPI through Message Matching and Neighborhood Collective Design 

  Ghazimirsaeed, Seyedeh

  Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de facto standard for communication in High Performance Computing (HPC). MPI Processes compute on their local data while extensively communicating with each other. Communication is ...

• When and Where We Enter: Situating the Absented Presence of Black Canadian Art 

  Lacharite, Yaniya

  My thesis situates recent black visual arts practices in the context of exhibition practices and art history. I undertake a content analysis of 10 years of black visual arts reviews in FUSE Magazine and perform a close ...

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