Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Writing Left: The Emergence of Modernism in English Canadian Literature
(2011-08-18)This dissertation complicates conventional understandings of the emergence of modernism in Canadian cultural production, proposing instead a multiplicity of modernist practices that emerge through direct engagement with ... -
Writing Palestine: Personal and National Identity Construction in Exile
(2011-09-13)This thesis examines representations of nationhood, exile, belonging and nostalgia in three Palestinian memoirs: Ghada Karmi’s In Search of Fatima (2002), Mourid Barghouti’s I Saw Ramallah (1997) and Aziz Shihab’s Does the ... -
Writing the Ethics of Water in Michael Ondaatje, Thomas King, and Anne Michaels
(2010-09-09)In July 2010, the United Nations declared access to water and sanitation a human right. Certainly a success for water rights advocates worldwide, this resolution also poses a number of questions, such as how to find and ... -
Writing to Women: Aemilia Lanyer and the Rhetoric of Equality
(2015)Over the course of the last few decades, much has been written on the subject of Aemilia Lanyer’s relationship to the all-female dedicatees of her major 1611 publication, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. While some critics read ... -
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Metal and Metal-Oxide Nanocatalysts
(2020-11-18)Nanoparticles have received much attention due to their unique structure and physical and chemical properties compared to their bulk material counterparts, which allow them to be used in a variety of applications, such as ... -
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Thiolate-protected Gold Nanoclusters with FCC-, HCP- and BCC-like Core Geometry
(2019-01-15)Research on thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters (AuSR NCs) has recently attracted a great deal of interests due to their intriguing atomic structure and promising applications in catalysis, nanoelectronics, bio-detection, ...