Roman singulier mais pluriel par ses cent soixante-dix-neuf histoires répertoriées dans le compendium, La Vie mode d’emploi invite le lecteur à pénétrer dans un monde hybride. Ancré dans l’imaginaire de Georges Perec, ...

The main focus of this dissertation is to investigate to what extent Japanese English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners have mastered default grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) patterns of North American English ...

The development of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has influenced all aspects of communication and representation, altering the ways in which humans interact on a daily basis. Within politics and ...

The reception of the works written by Roland Barthes in North America can be appreciated by examining editions, rééditions, collections of papers, commentaries and critical approaches. The thesis presents a bibliography ...

This thesis examines the representation of the Polytechnique massacre in Canadian theatre. Utilizing a corpus of four Canadian plays, this study analyzes how trauma, feminism and commemoration intertwine in theatrical ...

Lithodid crabs present intriguing questions about evolution of reproductive strategies and developmental evolution of asymmetry. Lopholithodes foraminatus (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from British Columbia have a biennial ...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) through adequate damage detection and prediction of the remaining useful life of structures is a major area of interest in the aerospace community, where the growing maintenance costs can ...

This study undertakes an analysis of Rosario Castellanos' 1953 feminist poem "Lamentación de Dido". It takes into account the influence of Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf and Simone Well, the classical foreground of ...

This thesis explores the role of terrestrial vegetation in the global climate system in a series of modelling studies using the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model (UVic ESCM). The ways that vegetation affects ...