Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Women's Empowerment in Technical Vocational Education and Training. Exploring perspectives of females from vocational institutes: A case study of Nakawa Vocational Training Institute (NVTI)
(2022-04-13)In Uganda, women have achieved significant progress in technical vocational education and training (TVET), both in institutions and in the workplace. However, entry and retention rates remain low, and women continue to ... -
Women, class and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1930-1965.
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Womens Changing Attitude Toward Their Body Image During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
(1983-03-30)The purpose of this study was to describe women's attitudes to their body image during the postpartum period and to compare them to their attitudes to their body image prior to and during pregnancy. A non-random, ... -
Women’s Contextual Online Social Identity Formation Model: A Case Study from the Saudi Twittersphere
(2021-01-05)Online Social Networks (OSNs) are widely accessible, and they produce a wealth of information on their user's behaviour. Previous research has shown that the user identity experiences a dynamic shift through self-presentation ... -
Women’s Medicine and Female Embodiment in the Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula Treatise, and The Mists of Avalon
(2016-08-31)This thesis compares the representation of women’s medicine in Malory’s Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula treatise, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. Specifically, it uses the portrayal of women healers ... -
Woolscapes: Re-Connecting Nova Scotian Agriculture and Craft
(2016-04-08)Wool is a natural, renewable and biodegradable resource. It is used by the sheep to protect them from the elements; a natural form of architecture. Its properties as a thermally and acoustically insulating, water resistant, ... -
Word Embeddings for Domain Specific Semantic Relatedness
(2018-11-01)Word embeddings are becoming pervasive in natural language processing (NLP), with one of their main strengths being their ability to capture semantic relationships between words. Rather than training their own embeddings ... -
Word, Image, and Vision: Cardiosensory Sight and Cognition in the Work of the Pearl-poet
(2017-02-02)This thesis examines vision and visuality in the poems of MS. British Library Cotton Nero A.x art. 3 (Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight). These Middle English poems of the late fourteenth century, ... -
Working Nomads: The Relocation of the Individual in a Transient, Industrial Environment
(2015-04-06)The lucrative development of the Alberta oil sands has created a unique settlement condition. Current resource developers have proposed an alternative to permanent settlement: remote, temporary, and mono-functional housing ... -
WORKING THROUGH STIGMA: A CONSTRUCTIVIST GROUNDED THEORY OF DELIVERING HEALTH SERVICES TO 2SLGBTQ POPULATIONS IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2022-04-26)This study was designed to generate theory that works to further understandings of the processes and factors influencing the conditions under which primary care services are delivered to diverse 2SLGBTQ populations in Nova ... -
WORKING TOWARDS HEALTH EQUITY IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
(2020-11-23)This study describes how health equity approaches are currently enacted in occupational therapy practice and documents barriers and needs to foster the integration of these approaches. Over 360 Canadian occupational ... -
Working with men to prevent and address violence against women: South African perspectives
(2014-08-22)With one of the highest prevalence rates in the world, violence against women is a critical issue in South Africa. Though efforts to respond to violence against women have traditionally focused on women’s behaviour, rights ... -
Workload and Physician Accumulation Across Canadian Health Regions
(2014-08-15)Primary care physicians serve an important role in the Canadian health care system, and the recruitment of primary care physicians is often an important policy and political goal. Wide disparities in both physician workload ... -
The Workplace Experiences, Practice, and Practice Knowledge of Mental Health Wounded Healers: A Collective Learning
(2016-08-31)Mental health workers who draw upon their own lived experiences of mental health challenges in their work (Mental Health Wounded Healers) often face stigma, discrimination, and oppression (Sanism) in the workplace. This ... -
The Works of Jürgen Habermas: A Tool for Further Understanding the Theory and Practice of Restorative Justice
(2011-12-19)The theory of restorative justice has always lagged behind practice. As such, gaps in theory have existed over time and continue to exist today, particularly in terms of explaining “the magic” that occurs within the ... -
World Culture & the United Nations
(2024-04-30)This thesis analyzes a United Nations (UN) sponsored policy report prepared by two research institutions titled Unlocking a Better Future, which sought to guide leaders on sustainable development and centers the idea that ... -
THE WRITERS IN THE ALLEY: STATE LEGITIMACY AND LITERATURE IN NASSER’S EGYPT, 1952-1967
(2011-09-06)In 1952 Gamal Abdel Nasser and his clique of disaffected young officers launched ‘the Free Officer’s Coup,’ deposing the monarchy, overturning the parliamentary system, and launching a durable regime that defined the face ... -
Writing Justice In The School System: An Integrative Review Of Handwriting Using The Framework Of Occupational Justice
(2011-04-12)Handwriting is a complex occupation; it is an intricately coordinated symphony of skills and interactions. The success of a child’s handwriting is dependent on many factors and conditions. The concept of occupational justice ...