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Faculty of Graduate Studies: Recent submissions
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(2020-07-06)How do we understand our encounter with ambivalent or visceral aesthetic feelings—textual environments, moods, and atmospheres—if they do not solely belong to the representation of individual or collective emotions? This ...
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(2020-07-06)Traditional cryptographic encryption techniques at higher layers require a certain form of information sharing between the transmitter and the legitimate user to achieve security. Besides, it also assumes that the eavesdropper ...
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(2020-06-30)Contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are but one of a variety of nanosystems that have incredible potential for the detection and diagnosis of cancer. Nanosystems share a common disadvantage: they are quickly ...
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(2020-06-28)Vibration Assisted Machining (VAM) refers to a non-conventional machining process where high-frequency micro-scale vibrations are deliberately superimposed on the motion of the cutting tool during the machining process. ...
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(2020-06-28)Given the ongoing biodiversity decline during a time of Indigenous resurgence, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are garnering interest from the academic community, Indigenous and state governments, and ...
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(2020-06-28)This thesis presents a case study of letters written by black South Africans to the Aborigines' Protection Society (APS) between 1879-1888. Recognizing that previous histories of the APS have been based primarily on British ...
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(2020-06-16)Habitat loss and climate change are major factors implicated in the decline of bumble bees worldwide. These factors may be particularly acute in regions subject to climatic extremes such as seasonal drought. Combining ...
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(2020-06-16)We present a partial implementation of King and Saia 2016’s expected polyno- mial time byzantine agreement algorithm, which which greatly speeds up Bracha’s Byzantine agreement algorithm by introducing a shared coin flip ...
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(2020-06-09)This research assesses changes in Canada’s national park system between the years 2000-2015 and places these changes within the broad social, political, and economic context in Canada, as well as within trends in international ...
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(2020-06-09)By 2050, mean annual temperature on Vancouver Island, British Columbia is expected to rise by 1.5°C and summer precipitation is expected to decrease 14% below pre-industrial levels. The purpose of this thesis was to extend ...
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(2020-06-09)The process of controlling executive and motor behaviours is central to one’s ability to self-regulate and accomplish day-to-day goals across the lifespan. Executive and motor control share a set of underlying neural ...
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(2020-06-05)As a life-limiting illness mediated by rapid advancements in biomedical technologies, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) now presents in increasingly unexpected ways where women are living longer. These women’s lives may not ...
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(2020-06-05)Systems chemistry is an emerging field of chemistry that studies complex mixtures of molecules that give rise to emergent properties that are not always predictable when studying the components of the mixtures in isolation. ...
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(2020-06-05)John A. Macdonald was not only Canada’s first Prime Minister; he played a significant role in framing much of Canada’s early “Indian policy” including legislation that was incorporated into the Indian Act (1876) which is ...
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(2020-06-04)There is much debate in the field of cognition on the nature of affordances; a concept originally invoked by Gibson (1986, as cited in Chong & Proctor, 2019) in reference to the possible actions furnished by a solid object ...
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(2020-06-04)There is a shortage of literature on culturally grounded Métis approaches to addressing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI). The goals of this research were two-fold: ...
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(2020-06-03)Gene duplication and functional diversification is a central driving force in the evolution of plant biochemical diversity. However, the latter process is not well understood. Here the diversification of the plant ...
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(2020-06-02)The purpose of this study was to explain how public health renewal has shaped public health nursing practice, how public health nurses have managed these changes, and the perceived impact of such changes on health outcomes. ...
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(2020-05-27)This dissertation comprises four main chapters that examine issues surrounding capital flows and capital controls. Chapter 1 outlines the dissertation. Chapter 2 discusses several key themes in the literature on capital ...
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(2020-05-27)Protecting location privacy in digital services could not be more important. This research aims to protect the location of people who suffer from opioid overdose while seeking help from public, emergency services and ...
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