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 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 Masters thesis deals with the quest for legitimation, for authority - which can take on many forms depending on the individual who is searching. For Martin Winckler, physician and writer, writing becomes the context ...

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 ...

Repeat photography, the process of retaking an existing photograph from the same vantage point, can give insight into long-term land cover dynamics. I advance the use of repeat photography to quantify landscape change in ...

The landslides, stratigraphy, and surficial geology of the Hydraulic map sheet (NTS 93A/12), located in the interior of British Columbia, were examined. The research centred on landslide processes within the upper Quesnel ...

As families immigrate to a new country, adolescents often acculturate and learn the host-language more quickly than do their parents. As a result, many adolescents engage in language brokering (i.e., providing translation, ...