Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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OF CRYMSEN TISSUE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A QUEEN. IDENTITY, LEGITIMACY AND THE WARDROBE OF MARY TUDOR
(2011-12-15)Clothing, together with other bodily adornments, is a valuable tool for communicating loyalty, identity and status. The coded messages inherent in the interplay between garments, bodies and society play a fundamental role ... -
Of Factory Girls and Servings Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain
(2009-12-17)My dissertation examines the political and formal aspects of poetry written by working-class women in England and Scotland between 1830 and 1880. I analyse a poetic corpus that I have gathered from existing publications ... -
Of Suffering and Social Norms: Social Workers' Conceptions of Trauma in Canadian Children and Youth
(2021-08-04)Social workers have long been involved in moral regulation projects. Historically and currently, children and families are frequently acted upon by social workers to govern and shape a morally desirable population. With ... -
...of the Dead: The Rhizombie, An Indigenous-Informed Approach to Contagion
(2024-04-11)Contagion increasingly overlays other social concerns infecting our world, such as racial oppression and climate crises, and thus threatens to render all other issues invisible. This project, however, argues that contagion ... -
OFDM Transmission for Doubly Dispersive Underwater Acoustic Channels
(2015-04-06)In this thesis, an OFDM simulator is designed based on the theory presented, and tested with a real underwater acoustic (UWA) channel. The UWA channel is analyzed and a simplified model is presented that holds under ... -
Office-Based Virtual Surgical Planning for Dental Implant Surgery
(2024-03-04)The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of office-based virtual surgical planning for dental implant surgery using tooth-supported surgical guides. Secondary outcomes included determining risk factors ... -
Offshore Power System Micro-Grid Design
(2017-08-25)Micro-grid based power systems will have a significant roll in the development of the modern renewable energy power grid. A subset of this distributed generation system involves offshore micro-grid systems. These offshore ... -
'Oh My Pen Drops From Me Here' Bliss, Pleasure and Sexual Encounter in the Erotic Novel
(2011-09-06)This thesis explores three accounts of male erotic fantasy. In my second chapter, I apply Roland Barthes’ conceptions of bliss and pleasure to John Cleland’s 18th century erotic novel, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman ... -
“Ohnmöglich können wir ihm hierin recht geben…” – DAS ANTIARISTOTELISCHE IN DER DRAMENTHEORIE VON J.M.R. LENZ. PROBLEMATIK DES DICHTUNGS-UND GESCHICHTSBEGRIFFS IN DEN WERKEN VON ARISTOTELES UND LENZ.
(2014-08-29)Based on Aristotle’s Poetics and J.M.R. Lenz‘ Anmerkungen übers Theater, this thesis deals with the problematic concept of historians and poets and Lenz’ anti-Aristotelian views. As sources of inspiration for his work, ... -
The Old Order Changeth: Rediscovering Place Through a Usable Past
(2023-04-13)On the west coast of Newfoundland is the city of Corner Brook, site of the province’s sole pulp and paper mill. During the 1920s, a planned, industrial company town grew around the mill site, introducing company housing ... -
Older Adults' Perspectives on Behaviour Change Elements in Sleepwell, an Insomnia Management Intervention: an Interpretive Descriptive Study
(2023-08-26)Background: Benzodiazepine receptor agonists (BZRA) are commonly used for insomnia in adults aged 65 years and older against current guidelines and evidence recommendations. The harms of these medications in older adults ... -
THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM OF THE EMBRYONIC COMMON CUTTLEFISH, SEPIA OFFICINALIS
(2017-08-23)Olfactory systems across the animal kingdom have several inter-phyletic similarities, such as glomeruli, which have been well studied in some vertebrates and arthropods. Comparisons in a third taxon, such as the large-brained ... -
On a Categorically Sound Quantum Programming Language for Circuit Description
(2021-08-31)This thesis contains contributions to the mathematical foundations of quantum programming languages. The likely arrival of scalable quantum computers in the not-so-distant future has resulted in a flurry of activity in the ... -
ON A NOVEL METHOD OF INCORPORATING AN INTERNAL STRUCTURE INTO GREEN POWDER METALLURGY COMPACTS USING DIE COMPACTION
(2012-08-09)A novel method of producing die compacted powder metallurgy components with fully en-closed internal structures was developed. The physical characteristics of the compacts were evaluated by measuring bulk density, internal ... -
On Connectedness and Graph Polynomials
(2016-04-08)Given a graph G whose nodes are perfectly reliable and whose edges fail independently with probability q in [0,1], the all-terminal reliability of G is the probability that all vertices of G can communicate with one ... -
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 ... -
On Demand: Digital Platforms & Class Conflict in the Gig Economy
(2022-08-29)The gig economy represents an ongoing shift in the world of work and can be understood as the most recent attempt by Capital as a class to dominate and undermine the power of workers, collectively known as Labour. Since ... -
ON DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION IN HIERARCHICAL SYMBIOTIC POLICY SEARCH
(2012-08-27)A hierarchical symbiotic framework for policy search with genetic programming (GP) is evaluated in two control-style temporal sequence learning domains. The symbiotic formulation assumes each policy takes the form of a ...