Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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What Works, Why, and How? The Effect of Educational Interventions on Health Professional Learners’ Causal Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Indigenous Peoples’ Experiences with Historical and Ongoing Colonialism
(2023-03-20)Racism towards Indigenous Peoples continues to exist in the Canadian healthcare system, with potentially fatal outcomes. Given the historical and ongoing effects of colonialism in Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation ... -
What's in a word? An fMRI investigation of silent single word reading in children in grades 2 and 3
(2023-08-11)Amidst a large body of research investigating reading development, a lack of information remains concerning the brain regions engaged during word reading in developing readers. Thus, the present study aims to validate ... -
WHAT’S AT STEAK? ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ETHICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
(2010-05-14)Achieving environmental s¬ustainability in human organization is the defining challenge of the modern era. In light of the inability of the existing economic paradigm to provide for sustainability objectives, novel approaches ... -
WHAT’S YOUR NEXT MOVE? MULTIPLE SPATIALLY DEFINED RESPONSE BIASES AFFECT CONSECUTIVE EYE AND ARM MOVEMENTS.
(2018-07-18)Inhibition of return (IOR) is an orienting phenomenon thought to promote efficient visual search by biasing attention, eye movements, or both, toward novel locations. When IOR is present, reaction times (RTs) are slowest ... -
When Hyper-visibility, Invisibility, Ableism and the (dis)Abled Body Collide
(2024-04-16)This thesis explores the historical and contemporary scrutiny of the (dis)Abled body, emphasizing the pervasive ableism manifesting in everyday interactions across various societal sectors, including higher education, the ... -
When the Messiah Comes: The Postsecular Messianic in Contemporary Literature
(2021-05-05)Despite proclamations about the death of God and the decline of religious institutions throughout the twentieth century, questions of secularism and religion are currently being re-thought through the lens of postsecularism. ... -
When Worlds Elide: Mughal Texts on Iranian Kingship, Religion, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century
(2020-12-17)Mughal texts demonstrate a fundamental shift in official attitudes towards contemporaneous Iran from 1526 to 1605. While these texts initially presented a submissive imperial position, they later depicted the Mughals as ... -
Where the Sacred Meets the Everyday: A Pilgrimage in the City
(2016-04-08)This thesis seeks to provide a sacred space in the city; a pilgrimage for the body, mind and soul. As contemporary life causes a constant search for meaning, identity and authenticity, it is through sacred architecture ... -
Where to Start? Developing Injury Prevention Priority Scores for Traumatic Injury Resulting in Hospitalization or Death Among Canadians
(2021-09-14)Background: Given limited resources, it is essential to determine which mechanisms of injury (MOI) should be prioritized for injury prevention. We developed objective, Injury Prevention Priority Scores (IPPS) for the ... -
Which Factors? International Evidence
(2021-04-13)This thesis investigates five major asset-pricing models recently proposed in the literature. Those models are Fama and French’s (2015) five-factor model and its six-factor extension adding a momentum factor (Carhart, ... -
WHITE KNIGHTS AND THE PENTECOSTAL OATH: THE LINEAGE OF ALT-RIGHT AND INCEL MASCULINITIES IN SIR THOMAS MALORY’S LE MORTE DARTHUR
(2023-08-22)Addressing the lacuna in academic scholarship on the rhetoric used by the alt-right Incel subgroup, this thesis consider how (and perhaps why) the “Incel” movement has misappropriated medievalisms. Drawing on existing ... -
Whither the Regulator: Food and Drug Law, the Natural Health Product Regulations and the Erosion of Safety, Efficacy and Quality
(2023-12-20)The following thesis considers whether the regime established by the Natural Health Product Regulations (NHPR) is a suboptimal framework. It explores the effects that the creation and implementation of the NHPR have had ... -
Who says I?: The self-creation of self-expression and the singular case of Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(2014-10-17)This dissertation sets to explore three major concepts: the self, literary style and the author. This exploration is performed by finding out how the self of a person converges with the literary style ... -
Whole building model predictive control with optimization for HVAC systems utilizing surface level weather forecasts
(2017-08-29)The commercial and institutional sector of the building stock present a significant portion of energy consumption within Canada, and of that the majority is used for space conditioning. In order to meet reduction in ... -
Whole Farm Nutrient Budgets of Two Dairy Farms in Atlantic Canada
(2011-12-05)Whole farm nutrient budgets (WFNB) enable producers to link dairy herd management with traditional field nutrient management plans. The objective of this study was to calculate WFNBs of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium ... -
Whose Reality Counts? Valuing Dalitbahujan Knowledge in a Technocratic India
(2021-01-07)Indian society is being reconfigured by the mobilization of people who had historically been marginalized in economic, social and cultural life. These people are referred to the constitution as Scheduled Tribes (ST), ... -
Why Architecture: The Intersection of Architectural Education and the City
(2018-07-31)This thesis questions the potential relationship between a school of architecture and the public. Redefining the role of architecture education as advocacy for better designed cities, a new dialogue between the public ... -
Why is Most Neurotransmitter Release Synaptic
(2024-04-30)Small-molecule neurotransmitter release is largely confined to synaptic active zones, but the spatially restrictive mechanism is unidentified. In this study, we investigate whether spatial restriction occurs during synaptic ... -
WIDE-BAND CHANNEL MODEL FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO KALMAN FILTER BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATOR
(2020-03-05)Underwater acoustics communication system design is a challenging endeavor due to several technical as well as environmental parameters such as salinity of water, temperature, frequency and time selectivity of the channel, ... -
WILD BLUEBERRY (Vaccinium spp.) - MICROBE INTERACTIONS AND BOTRYTIS BLIGHT MANAGEMENT
(2022-09-01)Botrytis blight is an important disease and a major constraint to wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. myrtilloides) production. The aim of this research was to address the goals of improving yields, improving ...