• Institutional Feedback and Coalition Politics: The Case of School Choice Policies in Advanced Democracies 

  Lachance, Anne

  This dissertation seeks to identify the political forces that have driven the shift towards school choice in advanced democracies and to explain the variation in policy outcomes observable in these countries. To do so, it ...

• Time-Dependency and Long-Term Strength of Rocks - Limitations, Interpretation, and Application in Finite Difference Continuum Models 

  Innocente, Jamie

  Many constitutive models have been developed to aid the engineer or scientist in the analysis of material yielding and deformations in the field of rock mechanics. Many of the classical constitutive formulations used are ...

• Exploring measurement and ground thermal influences of snow depth in Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut and Nitassinan 

  Tutton, Rosamond

  Snow depth is an essential climate variable critical to global energy balance, basin scale hydrology, vegetation change and human livelihoods. It holds special significance in Indigenous northern communities such as those ...

• Towards a postneoliberal health promotion: A journey of reifying, resisting, and reimagining health promotion in and through sport 

  Dobrowolski, Sarah

  At its core, this dissertation is about confronting, and working toward dismantling the ideology of healthism as a key technology of neoliberalism, and specifically in how it manifests in and through behavioural forms of ...

• Deep Reinforcement Learning for Packaging Optimization 

  Dowdell, Emily

  Packing, packaging, and layout optimization is required for efficient systems design within a wide range of industries. The increasing demand for lighter, smaller, and more efficient designs to be rapidly produced has ...

• Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Water Temperature from 1985-2020 in Eastern Ontario 

  Senyshen, Matthew

  Land Cover Change (LCC) has been shown to significantly impact the magnitude and trend of Land Surface Temperature (LST), locally where it occurs. Waterbodies serve as local climate moderators where nearby LCC has the ...

• Security by Design: Reducing Information Exchange in Multi-Agent Search Tasks 

  Kulchyk, Jeremy

  Intrinsic to multi-agent systems is the trait of inter-agent dependency on information exchange. During safety-critical tasks, errors in information exchange between agents can lead to vulnerable system behaviour. Consequently, ...

• Neoliberal Pressures, Neoliberal Responses: The Strategic Utilization of Gender in the Canadian Settlement Sector and Implications for Immigrant Women’s Service Organizations 

  Beck, Marin

  This dissertation examines the effects of neoliberalism within immigrant women’s service organizations and the delivery of gender-specific programs in the Canadian settlement sector. The influence of neoliberalism within ...

• Population genetic differentiation and hybridization in the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) 

  Lachance Linklater, Emma

  Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of Arctic ecosystems. To effectively conserve Arctic species, genetically differentiated populations must be defined for adaptive and neutral genetic variation to be ...

• Detection of Antibiotic Resistance in Enterococcus spp. by Growth Kinetics Measurements in the Presence of Vancomycin Using the Detection System from TECTA-PDS 

  Sadeq, Nada

  The spread of antibiotic resistant organisms has increased in different water environments. This originates from the disposal of antibiotics from hospital wastes, irrigation from farms, domestic antibiotic drug disposal ...

• INVESTIGATION INTO POTENTIAL MAGMATIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS: METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR LA-ICP-MS ANALYSIS OF FLUID INCLUSIONS AND CRITICAL ASSESMENT OF THE WINDY CRAGGY DEPOSIT, NORTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 

  Schmidt, Madison

  In recent years, the existence of variable magmatic contributions to the mineralizing fluids in the formation of volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits has been gaining acceptance in the scientific community. The ...

• ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION, AND PRACTICAL DESIGN OF A SPLIT-PHASE DICKSON SWITCHED CAPACITOR CONVERTER FOR HIGH CURRENT APPLICATIONS 

  Sun, Richard

  The Switched-Capacitor Converter (SCC) topology has been gaining attention from researchers because of their advantages of higher power density, better switch utilization, and low component stress. However, SCCs have a ...

• Disturbing Silence: How the Student Movement Shaped Nixon’s Presidency and the Policies of America 

  Phillips-Smith, Meghan

  President Richard M. Nixon’s fear and hatred of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) resulted in the SDS having an undue influence on his foreign policies. The SDS was a small faction of the larger Anti-Vietnam War ...

• Interweaving Iiyiyiu (Cree) Ways of Knowing and Land-Based Learning with Science Curriculum at Waapinichikush Elementary School, Chisasibi, Quebec 

  Kunelius, Ilana

  This study is the result of work done in close collaboration and partnership with local Cree (Iiyiyiu) teachers, Elders and community members at Waapinichikush Elementary School in Chisasibi, Quebec, to identify approaches ...

• Beta-Band EEG Activity and False-Belief Reasoning in Adults 

  Payumo, Mark

  The ability to reason about other’s beliefs, and in particular their false beliefs, is a fundamental part of having a theory of mind (ToM) – an understanding of the role that mental states (i.e., beliefs, desires, and ...

• Childhood Maltreatment and the Association with Life Dissatisfaction 

  Mrazovac, Ana

  This study examined the association between childhood maltreatment (witnessing violence in the household, and experiences of physical and emotional abuse by an adult prior to the age of 16,) and dissatisfaction with later ...

• Spatial Voting Models: A Dynamical Systems Approach 

  Steverango, Luke

  Spatial voting models have been used extensively to study factors affecting candidate positioning in elections. Most previous research has fixed candidate positioning at one point in time to determine optimal candidate ...

• Investigating ubiquitin-mediated turnover of the key immune signaling protein kinase BOTRYTIS INDUCED KINASE1 

  Dunning, Katy

  Plants are susceptible to infection from bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases; although sessile, they are far from defenseless. Plants have evolved complex immune systems for the detection of pathogens and initiation of ...

• Security of Short-Range Wireless Technologies and an Authentication Protocol for IoT 

  Lounis, Karim

  The number of wireless IoT (Internet of Thing) infrastructures is considerably growing as thousands of new devices are being connected everyday. This has allowed the emergence of various smart applications that have changed ...

• Stray Gas Migration: Multicomponent Mass Transfer Effects on Dissolution and Persistence of Gas in the Subsurface 

  Ashmore, Nicholas

  As the development of deep geological gas reserves increases in the coming years, concern has been raised regarding potential environmental impacts including stray gas migration. The goal of this research was to improve ...

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