Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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DO IMMIGRANT NEW MOTHERS USE MATERNITY AND PARENTAL LEAVE BENEFIT DIFFERENTLY FROM NATIVE NEW MOTHERS? EVIDENCE FROM CANADA
(2013-12-16)The main research question in this thesis is do immigrant new mothers use maternity and parental leave benefit differently from native new mothers. I use Employment Insurance Coverage Survey micro data from 2000 to 2009 ... -
Do immigrants share the same life satisfaction profile in age as native-born Canadians?
(2011-07-14)This paper studies the difference of life satisfaction profiles between Canadian immigrants and native-born Canadians. In particular, the thesis asks how years of residence in Canada affect the immigrant life satisfaction ... -
Do individuals with knee osteoarthritis walk with distinct knee biomechanics and muscle activation characteristics? An investigation of knee osteoarthritis, hip osteoarthritis, and asymptomatic groups.
(2021-12-17)Knee osteoarthritis is a musculoskeletal condition affecting mobility and function. Hallmark biomechanical indicators have been linked knee OA severity and progression, yet it remains unknown whether these are exclusive ... -
Do Lower Extremity Biomechanics During Gait Predict Progression To Total Knee Arthroplasty?
(2013-12-23)Introduction: Gait biomechanics are associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA) structural progression, but no studies have included: i) all three lower extremity joints, ii) non-frontal plane factors, iii) temporal loading ... -
Do Socially Responsible Mutual Funds Outperform Non-Socially Responsible Mutual Funds under A Regime-Switching Model?
(2013-12-17)In this thesis, the regime dependent mean and abnormal returns are studied to examine whether socially responsible mutual funds have a different performance from traditional mutual funds, since there may be different ... -
DO WOMEN REALLY WANT PART-TIME JOBS? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON WHETHER FULL-TIME JOBS OR PART-TIME JOBS GIVE HIGHER SATISFACTION
(2014-07-09)The study explores the relationship between working status and the welling-being of prime-aged men and women with young children. By using the Canadian GSS cycle 19 dataset, I studied two aspects of well-being: “satisfaction ... -
Do Young Children Understand Anonymity & Does Anonymity Influence their Sharing?
(2017-01-26)Previous research has confirmed that numerous variables influence children’s sharing; however, little work has investigated whether children share differently in anonymous and non-anonymous contexts. Manipulating anonymity ... -
Doctors in Dialogue : Doctor-Patient Interactions in Villette and Middlemarch
(2005-03)Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch encourage the reader to consider the interactions among a plurality of voices and perspectives. This dialogic framework, I will argue, contributes to our understanding ... -
The Doctrine of Due Measure in Plato's Statesman
(2011-09-06)This thesis examines the extent to which the doctrine of due measure can be rightfully called the skopos of Plato’s Statesman. In order to determine the doctrine’s explanatory power, the thesis adopts the Neoplatonic method ... -
Document Clustering with Dual Supervision
(2012-07-06)Nowadays, academic researchers maintain a personal library of papers, which they would like to organize based on their needs, e.g., research, projects, or courseware. Clustering techniques are often employed to achieve ... -
DOES A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PORTFOLIO OUTPERFORM A CONVENTIONAL PORTFOLIO? (THE CASE OF THE JANTZI SOCIAL INDEX)
(2017-04-04)Socially responsible investment (SRI) takes financial return as well as environmental, social, and governance issues into consideration. Although SRI is becoming popular, a controversy exists among investors regarding its ... -
Does an aerobic exercise induced alteration in blood lactate concentration effect brain excitability?
(2023-12-09)Aerobic exercise (AE) is thought to increase corticospinal excitability (CSE), creating an optimal environment for motor learning to occur. During AE, metabolic by-products, including lactate, accumulate in the blood. ... -
Does Children’s Physical Literacy Mediate the Relationship Between Age and Sedentary Behaviour?
(2018-04-06)Sedentary behaviour (SB), refers to any waking behaviour that requires little to no energy expenditure. As children age, SBs are shown to increase, which can be linked to negative health outcomes (i.e. obesity). Although ... -
Does Continuity of Community Pharmacy Care Influence Adherence to Statins
(2013-12-18)Background: Improving adherence to medication is a persistent challenge within the health system. Adherence is influenced by many factors at the patient, provider, treatment and health system levels. Adherence may also be ... -
Does Democracy Die in Darkness? An Examination of the Relationship between Local Newspaper Health and Municipal Politics
(2020-08-28)Voter turnout, a key marker of democratic health, varies significantly between Canadian municipalities (Breux, Couture & Koop, 2017; Nakhaie, 2006). Few studies have examined municipal turnout in Canada, but those that ... -
Does development work for women, or do women work for development? Making sense of the language and logic of women's empowerment and gender equality programs at UNDP Zimbabwe
(2014-12-11)This thesis examines the internal factors that influence the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s approach to women’s empowerment and gender equality. Applying methods of content analysis and participant observation, ... -
Does Exposure to Simulated Microgravity Affect Cranial Neural Crest-Derived Tissues in Danio rerio?
(2011-09-06)To determine whether exposure to simulated microgravity (SMG) affects cranial neural crest (CNC)-derived tissues, zebrafish embryos were exposed to SMG starting at one of three developmental stages corresponding to CNC ... -
"Does Not Fempute": A Critique Of Liberal And Radical Feminism In Three Novels By Ursula K. Le Guin
(2013-08-22)Ursula K. Le Guin is often called a feminist science fiction author. Drawing on such theorists as bell hooks and R. W. Connell, I analyze three novels by Le Guin from a social constructivist feminist perspective. I discuss ... -
Does Occlusion Therapy Improve Control in Non-Diplopic Patients with Intermittent Exotropia?
(2011-12-14)The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate the effectiveness of occlusion therapy in the control of intermittent exotropia (IXT) in children between 4 and 10 years in Saudi Arabia. A clinical, prospective cohort pilot study ... -
Does Quantum Mechanics Establish the Final Failure of Causality?
(2017-05-03)In the wake of relativistic field theories in physics, all of our most fundamental physical theories shared three properties regarding the way that they described the world. First, properties of objects were always determined. ...