Browsing by Subject "culture"
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21st Century Monument Architecture: The Dialogue Between Local Place/Migrant Identity
(2017-04-10)21st Century Monument Architecture: The Dialogue Between Local Place and Migrant Identity confronts the loss of cultural identity in a global culture of increased mobility and migration. Growing nomadism and trans-border ... -
Causes and Consequences of Fission-Fusion Dynamics in Female Northern Long-Eared Bats, Myotis septentrionalis
(2012-07-13)Individual costs and benefits of living in groups vary with group size, stability, and composition. Investigations of these features of group living have lead to the recognition of a variety of social structures. Although ... -
Cemetery as a Place of Cultural Communication
(2012-04-10)Cemeteries serve as repositories of history and memories of the local community, as well as afford the living population an opportunity to connect and learn about a culture’s past. Accordingly, the cemetery as a place and ... -
Connecting Culture and Nature in Detroit's Downtown Core: The Design of a Technical College Campus
(2012-08-15)This thesis addresses the City of Detroit`s transformation from a thriving center of trade and commerce to its present abandoned state. Due to the decentralization of industry and massive suburbanization since the ... -
DIALECTS OVER SPACE AND TIME: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND EVOLUTION IN SPERM WHALE CODAS
(2021-12-20)The overarching goal of my thesis is to better understand how sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) dialects vary over space and time, and to quantify the implications of these dynamics on cultural identity and evolution ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Culture and Health on Nigerian Food Blogs
(2021-05-05)This study explores the relationship between culture and health on Nigerian food blogs through content and componential analysis. I sought to understand what elements constitute certain dishes, such as the staple of “soup” ... -
On cultural inheritance: Evolution, behaviour and social structure of Eastern Caribbean sperm whales
(2022-08-25)Cultural inheritance is a “second inheritance system” which can affect ecology and evolution in unexpected ways. However, although its implications in humans are recognized and extensively studied, cultural inheritance has ... -
Regionalism on the Celtic Fringe: How a Peripheral Community Resists, Negotiates, and Accommodates Political and Economic Integration
(2017-04-03)‘Informal’ peripheral regions have received limited scholarly attention in Canada. This political-economic history of Cape Breton Island analyses how institutional actors build, maintain, and reconstruct a peripheral region, ... -
Senghor's Contribution to Development: Culture, Cosmopolitanism and Earth Wisdom
(2011-09-06)This thesis is an exploration of how Senghorian thought can be useful for rethinking development. I argue that the criticisms provided by post-development are valid but that we need not reject development entirely. Rather ... -
Social Stressors, Community Belonging, And Culture-Related Protective Factors Among Youth And Adults In First Nations Communities: Links With Psychological Distress
(2020-09-03)Secondary analyses of the 2015/16 First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS) explored the pathways in which various social and cultural factors were related psychological distress in First Nations youth (Study One) and ... -
A STUDY OF THE CULTURAL IMAGINARY OF AFGHAN REFUGEES RESETTLED IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2010-12-17)This thesis presents a qualitative study of the experiences of a sample of Afghan refugees who have settled in Canada. The concepts of structure and agency, as articulated in Anthony Giddens’s structuration theory have ... -
What is the culture (i.e., values and beliefs) of a Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) in providing care to children/youth who arrive in the ED primarily for care regarding a mental health concern?
(2014-12-17)Children/youth with mental health concerns are presenting to Pediatric Emergency Departments (ED) at increasing rates. Staff in the ED feel ill equipped to provide care. The introduction of the Emergency Mental Health and ...