Browsing by Subject "Memory"
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Appetitive Learning Paradigm for Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in their Home Tanks Utilising Visual or Olfactory Cues
(2017-08-21)A visual or olfactory stimulus (green light or phenylethyl alcohol) was presented to groups of adult zebrafish in their home tanks. An automatic feeder dispensed food immediately after the conditioned stimuli (CS), or at ... -
The Architecture of Memory: Creating Personal Memory Within the Collective
(2012-08-13)This thesis explores the theoretical, psychological, and phenomenological notions of the singular personal memory and the collective memory through civic architecture. The main design guidelines are inspired by the ancient ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
Citizenship, Memory, Identity: Life Histories of Palestinian Migrants to Canada
(2019-11-28)My thesis describes the significance of refugee camp experiences on Palestinian migrants to Canada. I portray the ways in which political solidarity and individual aspirations relate though life history interviews with ... -
Connecting Water and Memory: Reshaping the Poetic Space of Canals in Amsterdam
(2020-08-21)Amsterdam is a poem about water, it sings in people’s mouths, and flows in the canals. Language and people are the carriers of memory and the symbolic composition of poetry. Travellers to Amsterdam end their journeys with ... -
A Different Kind of Memory: Examining the Effect of Technology through the Ages
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)The effect of new technologies on human memory is a subject of interest for educators, technology developers, and information specialists. However, such a preoccupation is not new to contemporary society. The current ... -
Enhancing the production effect in memory: Singing, underlying mechanisms, and applications
(2018-02-05)The production effect is the finding that memory performance is better for words that are produced (i.e., read aloud) compared to words that are not produced (i.e., read silently). This dissertation aimed to expand previous ... -
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ... -
“Imagined Rendering”: Photography, Memory, and Autobiography in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and The Cat’s Table
(2014-08-21)This thesis examines the idea of memory as a creative and aesthetic process in Running in the Family and The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje’s most autobiographical texts. By paying particular attention to the invocation ... -
Landscapes of Memory: A Study of Memorialization in Northern Uganda
(2016-04-08)In the Western world today, memorialization typically occurs at ‘sites of memory’, such as monuments and museums, where people go to remember or learn about the events being commemorated. This approach to memorialization ... -
Memories of the Border War: An Interpretive Analysis of White South African Defence Force Veteran Perspectives, 1966-1989
(2012-08-28)Through their stories, South African Defence Force (SADF) veterans of the Border War participate in the historical revival of South Africa’s involvement in the Angolan conflict, 1966-1989. Their engagement in the Border ... -
Re: Settlement (or The Story of a House): Architecture and the Resilience of Cultural Narrative
(2017-04-10)On the Island of Newfoundland, the story of resettlement parallels the formation of the national and provincial parks: as coastal communities were abandoned through a governmental top-down redistribution of the island ... -
Scar Tissue: Stitching the Divide - Reintegrating Beirut's Central District Into Public Life
(2016-08-22)This thesis examines the role of ruins and memory in triggering public ownership, and using them as a setting for programs that encourage inclusion, reconciliation, and interaction between different sectarian and social ... -
A Search for Memory: The Spirit of the Canadian Rural West Homestead
(2019-04-05)A Search for Memory: The Spirit of the Canadian Rural West Homestead questions the tension between memory and historical preservation within the discourse of architecture. This thesis looks at how the memory of the early ... -
A simple automated system for appetitive conditioning of zebrafish in their home tanks and studying underlying neural activation
(2016-08-26)Zebrafish are emerging as a novel model for studying learning and memory. However, the number of behavioural paradigms which minimize handling stress and are suited to their social nature is limited. We developed an automated ... -
Stitching the Divide: Reconnecting the Segregated Neighbourhood of Red Hook Back Into the City Fabric of Brooklyn, New York City
(2019-08-23)Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a neighbourhood characterized by the urban disconnection and urban decay caused by the Gowanus Expressway and Hamilton Avenue expansion. During the 20th century, federally funded highway expansion ...
