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Faculty of Graduate Studies: Recent submissions
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(2017-09-19)My doctoral dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of music and literature and stems from my M.A. thesis (U.N.B., 1992) which examined musical form and dramatic theme in three of Shakespeare's comedies. As the survey ...
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(2017-09-18)According to the current cosmological paradigm, ``Lambda Cold Dark Matter'' (LambdaCDM), only ~20% of the gravitating matter in the universe is made up of ordinary (i.e. baryonic) matter, while the rest consists of ...
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(2017-09-14)The primary objective of this thesis is to queerly analyze the Planning 10 curriculum of British Columbia, Canada. ‘Queer’ in this case means the destabilization of identities that are traditionally understood in terms of ...
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(2017-09-14)Southern Vancouver Island, situated on Canada’s West Coast, is exposed to many natural and human-made threats due to its physical geography and demography. Perceptions of these disaster risks and of seismic hazard, in ...
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(2017-09-12)The purpose of this thesis is to put forth a summary of principles that reflect the local knowledge of the people within the Saulteau First Nations Community. This summary of principles is a tool of compiled oral knowledge ...
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(2017-09-12)Charged lepton flavour violating processes are highly suppressed in the standard model, but they are predicted to be enhanced in several new physics extensions including supersymmetry and models with leptoquarks or ...
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(2017-09-12)Medical mistakes made during the fatigue state result in the spread of infection, diagnostic error, psychological distress, poor patient outcomes, and ultimately, loss of life. Alarmingly, the fatigue-management systems ...
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(2017-09-11)The Restoration of Charles 11 to the throne of England in 1660 gave rise to a new form of composition. The “Ode,” loosely patterned on the poetry of Pindar and cast in the form of an address, was written for royal occasions ...
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(2017-09-11)The adsorption of iodine on a platinum(111) single-crystal surface has been investigated using LEED, Auger spectroscopy, and work function measurements. The phase transformations and work function changes have also been ...
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(2017-09-08)This one-semester pretest-posttest case study of 3rd and 5th year female preservice teachers at the University of Victoria in British Columbia (N = 8) involved teaching for critical thinking and an evaluative view of ...
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Probabilistic timing verification and timing analysis for synthesis of digital interface controllers (2017-09-08)In this dissertation we present two techniques on the topic of digital interface design: a probabilistic timing verification and a timing analysis for synthesis, both rooted in a formal specification. Interface design ...
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(2017-09-08)Advances in computer technology such as faster processors, better data compression schemes, and cheaper audio and video devices have made it possible to integrate multimedia into the computing environment. Desktop conferencing ...
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(2017-09-08)Hand gesture recognition is an expansive and evolving field. Previous work addresses methods for tracking hand gestures primarily with specialty gaming/desktop environments in real time. The method proposed here focuses ...
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(2017-09-08)In this thesis, I explore the dynamics of German Swiss folk music today in relation to the emerging musicians who have been involved in a folk music post-secondary program in recent years. Approaching the field as a community ...
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(2017-09-08)This thesis considers the differences in the political relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples as established in Treaty Six (1876) by Alexander Morris and that of the Indian Act (1876) as driven by David Laird ...
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(2017-09-08)In the first part of the thesis, the need for physics beyond the Standard Model, as attested to by the evidence of dark matter, motivates us to study the effects of introducing into the standard theory of Leptogenesis ...
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(2017-09-07)The conversion of the native monomeric cellular prion protein (PrPC) into an aggregated pathological β-oligomeric (PrPβ) and an infectious form (PrPSc) is the central element in the development of prion diseases. The ...
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(2017-09-06)Students of colonialism know well that the stories we tell have the capacity to make, maintain, or transform our relationships as well as our material futures. As earlier work has shown, Indigenous and settler peoples ...
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(2017-09-05)Evelyn Jephson Cameron (1868-1928) was born to a wealthy merchant family outside London. At the age of twenty-five, she moved to Terry, Montana to raise horses and homestead with her husband, Ewen Cameron. Evelyn Cameron ...
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(2017-09-01)This thesis explores the possibility of urban citizenship, focusing on the relation between the ‘urban’ and ‘citizenship’ as an expression of the problem of sovereignty. It highlights a key aspect that prevailing accounts ...
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