Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses

Fit over Function: Explaining the Differences in US Strategic Approaches Towards China and Russia in the Post-Cold War Era

MacDonald, Adam Perry (2023-09-19)

Fostering cooperative relations with Russia and China were major goals of the US in the post-Cold War era, but these relationships proceeded down very different trajectories. Russia was largely excluded from the predominant ...

A Home Within the City : Transitional Housing for Homeless Individuals in Toronto

Araujo, Fatima M. (2009-07)

This thesis explores the idea of home for the homeless individual who has made the decision to seek assistance for issues of addiction or mental illness and wants to transition to permanent housing in the future through ...

Novel Approaches to Seafloor Mapping in the Northwest Atlantic

Troup, Meghan (2023-09-18)

Although oceans cover nearly three-quarters of the earth, studies estimate that only a fraction of the seafloor has been mapped at a resolution higher than 1km2. On the continental shelf and in nearshore regions, there ...

Adsorption of Lead (Pb) in Water Using Biochar & Biochar-Alginate Composite Beads

Parent, Charlie (2023-08-29)

The current study investigates whether biochar and biochar-alginate composite (BAC), spiked with lead (Pb2+), has the potential to be released into soil. The study assesses the sorption capacity and kinetics of Pb2+ between ...

Neurobiological and Epigenetic Substrates of Learning, Memory, and Behavioural Flexibility in Three Songbird Species: the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia castanotis), and European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Aitken, Sean (2023-08-29)

Songbirds rely on learning, perceiving, and producing complex vocalizations to perform critical functions such as conspecific identification, mate selection, and territory defence These cognitive processes are influenced ...

Canada’s Adoption of Prison Needle Exchange Programs: To What Extent Does Canada Uphold International Commitments for Prisoner Care?

Dennis, Jaclynn (2023-09-08)

This thesis examines the opportunities and challenges for implementing substance-related harm reduction techniques within Canadian federal prisons. The thesis investigates how harm reduction strategies in Canadian federal ...

Small Cell-Cell Fusogens Activate a PI3K-mTORC2-Akt Signalling Axis and Macropinocytosis for Efficient Cell Fusion

MacKenzie, Duncan (2023-08-18)

Cell-cell fusion is mediated by distinct types of protein fusogens. Class I, II and III enveloped virus fusogens facilitate fusion through interaction with receptors on an apposing membrane that trigger conformational ...

Multilevel evaluation of prebiotic and probiotic supplementations, heat stress, and genetic strain effects on blood and intestinal epithelial cells of chicken

Borzouie, Shima (2023-08-24)

There is a need to assess how dietary strategies might effectively benefit bird health, performance, and the ability to deal with environmental variability. Metabolomics is suggested as a useful approach for assessing ...

The Beginning of the AI-Enabled Preventative PAP Therapy Era

Sinclair, Meagan (2023-08-30)

Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) therapy is the most common and efficacious treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). However, it suffers from poor patient adherence due to discomfort and may not fully alleviate all ...

Validating a Meditation-based Mind Wandering BCI: A Pilot Study

Beresford, Jenna (2023-09-06)

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have become a burgeoning field of research as computers become embedded in everyday life. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the preferred brain measurement device used in BCIs, though research- ...

A NOVEL AND EFFICIENT METHOD FOR DIGITAL MICROSCOPY OF CELLS IN CULTURE

Rankaduwa, Madhuranga (2023-08-31)

Common implementations of standard microscopy suffer from several disadvantages. The apparatus required is often inconveniently large and expensive, requires trained operators, provides only a limited field of view (FOV) ...

An Inquiry of Early Childhood Development in a First Nation Community: Exploring how Families Experience Accessing Services

Francis, Julie (2023-08-31)

Healthy wholistic development of Indigenous children in Canada is important to families and communities. Early Childhood Development has been identified by a First Nation community as a priority area that requires research. ...

MUNICIPAL MUSSELS: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MUTUAL BENEFITS OF FRESHWATER MUSSEL PRESENCE IN A MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY

Penney, Alicia (2023-08-30)

Freshwater mussels are a keystone group in lake ecosystems, including some surface water supply sources utilized by Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) Water Utility. My research aims to establish the value of ecosystem ...

The Early Reign of Oleg: Catherine the Great's Grand Ambition Towards Russia

Ang, Ai Lynn (2023-08-30)

This thesis explores the eighteenth-century Russian Enlightenment, cosmopolitism, culture and humanities, and Russian music, under the reign of Catherine the Great (1762-1796). Petrine and pre-Petrine Russia was known for ...

Evaluating foliar fungicide efficacy, sensitivty and persistence to improve management of wild blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) foliar diseases

Cornel, Alex (2023-08-31)

Wild blueberry foliar pathogens Thekopsora minima and Sphaerulina vaccinii, indirectly reduce wild blueberry yields. Determining alternative fungicide options for wild blueberry growers is required due to deregistration ...

WHITE KNIGHTS AND THE PENTECOSTAL OATH: THE LINEAGE OF ALT-RIGHT AND INCEL MASCULINITIES IN SIR THOMAS MALORY’S LE MORTE DARTHUR

King, Griffin D (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 ...