This feminist postmodern praxis oriented research investigates the journey and discourses of women living with breast cancer. This study explores the ways in which discourses and health care practices are implicated in ...

An extensive suite of hydrothermally altered basalts, gabbros, and plagiogranites, was recovered from the trench-facing slope of the Tonga forearc. The tectonic setting, lithology, and geochemistry of these samples make ...

Domain-specific, “little” languages are commonplace in computing. So too is the need to implement such languages; to meet this need, we have created SPARK (Scanning, Parsing, And Rewriting Kit), a toolkit for little language ...

The study of well-being has a long history of investigation from a nomothetic (between-person) perspective that aimed to understand characteristic levels of well-being and individual difference variables that account for ...

This thesis first presents a new cooperative wireless communication network strategy that incorporates energy cooperation and data cooperation. The model establishment, design goal formulations, and algorithms for throughput ...

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is a critical nearshore marine habitat for juvenile Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) as they depart from their natal streams. Given the poor marine survival of Coho (O. kisutch) and Chinook (O. ...

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to better understand the differences in the way older, male workers perceived themselves as they aged, particularly with reference to work and aspects of the work environment. ...

The challenges facing resource management, including transboundary river basins, have become increasingly complex, requiring more holistic readings of governance processes that encompass a range of formal and informal ...

A multi-proxy paleoecological study that included pollen, microfossil, carbon (C), and nitrogen (N) analyses was conducted at a central Vancouver Island wetland near Courtenay British Columbia to reconstruct the site’s ...

In this dissertation, we study certain types of linear mappings on triangular algebras. Triangular algebras are algebras whose elements can be written in the form of 2 x 2 matrices [special characters omitted]where a ∈ A, ...