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(2009-12-16)Although the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has compiled an unprecedented amount of photometric data on stellar populations in the Milky Way, it is not presently possible to accurately and consistently interpret these ...
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(2013-12-17)The evolution of galaxy populations is dependent upon the environment in which they are located, from low mass galaxy groups to rich galaxy clusters. However, what remains unclear is which physical process(es) dominate ...
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(2008-04-10)Research shows that low levels of social acceptance, body satisfaction, and athletic competence increase risks for depressive symptoms among both girls and boys (Harter, Marold, & Whitesell, 1992). Little is known, however, ...
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(2011-12-22)Communities in the vicinity of the Mico River, located in Chontales, Nicaragua, suffer from periodic dry season water shortages. The Mico River is impacted by artisanal and industrial mining, cattle ranching, effluent from ...
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(2014-04-29)A galaxy’s evolution is quite sensitive to the impact of external influences. In this thesis, the impact of external environment from both large and small scale effects is investigated, along with a study of how the HI gas ...
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(2010-04-13)This thesis is devoted to the study and application of gas-liquid segmented flow microfluidic reactors. In the most common configuration, these devices facilitate mixing and reaction of liquid-phase constituents by the ...
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(2016-04-25)The Canadian astrophysics program rapidly developed between 1903 and 1914, leading to the wartime construction of what was hoped to be the world’s largest research telescope. The institution opened in Victoria British ...
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(2008-06-05)This study examines science teachers' beliefs and ideas about science prior to and following a one and a half day workshop on Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Witsuwit'en knowledge of science. It is part of a wider ...
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(2018-01-02)The purpose of this dissertation is to enact and poetically story the nonlinear emergence of an a/r/tographic practice called gathering—a situated art practice of storying, doing, and making as researching and thinking—in ...
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(2008-05-20)Les deux personnages dont nous faisons l'analyse sont Gavroche dans Les Misérables de Victor Hugo (1862) et Jacquou dans Jacquou le Croquant d'Eugène Le Roy (1899). Gavroche, scion l'expression de Jacques Neefs, est considéré ...
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(2017-06-16)cn.MOPS is a model-based algorithm used to quantitatively detect copy-number variations in next-generation, DNA-sequencing data. The algorithm is implemented as an R package and can speed up processing with multi-CPU ...
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(2012-04-26)We examine the gender gap in school attendance of children aged 7-14 in India using National Family Health Survey Three (NFHS-3). We demonstrate that the choice of the sample examined has important implications for policy. ...
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(2011-05-05)This project explores the gender relations among a group of recyclers belonging to a consortium of nine recycling cooperatives in the ABC region of São Paulo, Brazil. Employing a feminist geographical lens and participatory ...
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(2014-05-01)Truth and reconciliation commissions vary across geo-political context, depending on the social, economic, and political landscapes. In this thesis I compare how the truth and reconciliation commissions in Canada and South ...
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(2012-08-29)This dissertation examines the discursive, political, and legal context of the European Union’s (EU) Working Time Directive, beginning with the history of its adoption and ending with its unsuccessful revision attempt in ...
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(2019-11-13)This dissertation examines the intersection of nationalism and gender in theatrical and para-theatrical practices by Canadian women artists between 1880-1930, including the works of Madge Macbeth, Mazo de la Roche, Sarah ...
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(2017-01-03)Resiliency has become common in child welfare parlance in recent decades and producing resilient youth is touted as the panacea to improving notoriously poor outcomes for youth in care, when compared to youth not in the ...
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(2006-09-06)In SCUBA diving, the propulsive efficiency of a diver regulates, in part, his autonomy. An inefficient method of propulsion will increase the power output required and, therefore, the intake of oxygen and increase fatigue. ...
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(2018-10-26)The concept of personal agency in clinician-patient interactions is problematized by the development of societally legitimated power differentials in medical practices. The abrogation of patient perceptions of agency is ...
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