Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Crustal subduction and the exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure terranes: contrasting modes with examples from the Alps and Caledonides
(2013-08-19)The widespread recognition of (ultra)high-pressure ((U)HP) metamorphic rocks in orogens worldwide suggests that subduction and exhumation of crustal rocks from mantle depths are normal processes at convergent plate margins. ... -
CRYSTALLIZATION OF TRISTEARIN FROM ITS SOLUTION IN DODECANE
(2017-12-18)A suspension of tristearin (SSS) crystals crystallized from 10% solution in dodecane (non-polar solvent), was studied using DSC (differential scanning calorimetry), Rheology, PLM (polarized light microscopy), and XRD (x-ray ... -
CRYSTALLIZATION ONSET AND POLYMORPHIC OCCURRENCE IN PURE SATURATED TRIACYLGLYCEROLS DURING COOLING FROM THE MELT
(2023-05-20)The effect of cooling rate on crystallization onset temperature and polymorphic occurrence in four pure saturated triacylglycerols, tridodecanoate (LLL), trimyristate (MMM), tripalmitate (PPP) and tristearate (SSS) has ... -
The Cuban Recipe for Food Sovereignty: Investigating the contextual variables that shape Cuba’s cuisine and food culture
(2020-12-18)This thesis investigates the linkages and contradictions between Food Sovereignty and Slow Food’s principles within Cuba. The Cuban food system is influenced by external factors including the US embargo, broader international ... -
Cultivating Contention: An Historical Inquiry into Agrarian Reform, Rural Oppression and Farm Attacks in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(2016-08-31)One of the most shocking post-apartheid developments for South Africa’s farming community has been the drastic increase in violent crime directed against white farmers – a phenomenon commonly known as farm attacks. ... -
Cultivating Landscape: A Demonstration Farm in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario
(2015)This thesis addresses the role of architecture in the design of large parks, and the role of landscape in the design of architecture. Given the scale and importance of national parks to identity and imagination, how might ... -
Cultivation of Tetraselmis suecica Under Various Nutrient Concentrations and the Characterization of the Algal Biomass
(2017-04-06)Tetraselmis suecica is a candidate for producing 3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid (KDO), a high-value sugar. In this work, a cultivation system was implemented to maintain cultivation conditions and to investigate the ... -
Cultural Competence in Mental Health Services: Learning from Client Experiences
(2015)Despite the introduction of cultural competence models in mental health services, individuals from marginalized backgrounds with severe mental health (dis)Abilities continue to face health and mental health inequities ... -
Cultural Constructionism and the Problem of White Sensibility
(2021-08-27)This thesis proposes that whiteness serves as a barrier to understanding the cultural constructionist theory of race. Cultural constructionism, a social constructionist theory of race put forward by Chike Jeffers, argues ... -
Cultural variation and usage of coda vocalisations by sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus.
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Culture and Cultivation: Self-Sustaining Landscapes in La Paz
(2019-04-04)The city of La Paz, in Bolivia, faces a series of food security challenges linked with the access to food during road blockings caused by protests. A promising solution to this issue is presented by a network of urban ... -
Culture and sexual health : exploring the experiences of young South Asian women in Nova Scotia
(2005-08)This qualitative exploratory study examined the experiences of a sample of young South Asian women living in Nova Scotia in relation to their sexuality and sexual health, while examining the influence of a bi-cultural ... -
Cupidine Caeci: The Ethics of Perception in Lucretius' De rerum natura IV
(2019-08-30)This thesis seeks to find a unity in the fourth book of Lucretius’ De rerum natura by considering the relationship between the book’s exposition of the Epicurean perceptual doctrine of simulacra and its concluding indictment ... -
Curiosity Driven Resource Allocation for 5G and Beyond Vehicular Networks
(2024-04-05)With the rapid advancement of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), there arises an increasing demand for efficient connectivity and communication mechanisms between vehicles and infrastructures, wherein resource allocation ... -
Current and future wildfire risk in the peri-urban Acadian Forest Region
(2013-08-21)The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and the peri-urban has grown simultaneously, creating new Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where development comes into contact – and intermingles with – ... -
Custom and Coverture in the Manor Courts: Women as Tenants in Early Modern England
(2020-08-27)England’s manor courts developed as a result of the tenurial agreements that structured the country’s medieval and early modern land market. Operated by the landlord’s steward and a jury of tenants, there courts were local ... -
Cuticle Proteins in Diverse Lines of Chickens
(2023-04-28)This study investigated variability of cuticle proteins on the eggshell surface from different chicken lines, as they aged. Proteins from 10 eggs were removed from two commercial lines every 30 days from 20 - 66 weeks-of-age. ... -
Cux2 regulates neurogenesis in the postnatal mouse hippocampus
(2012-08-15)Although once thought to be incapable of regeneration, the adult mammalian brain generates new neurons in two regions: the SVZ of the lateral ventricle and the DG of the hippocampus. While the cell types involved in adult ...