• The Impact of COVID-19 Psychological Distress on Academic Challenges in University Students 

  Shostak, Kate (2021-08-10)

  Regular online learning is challenging for students, and remote learning is no different and may even create more challenges. Students are now living and learning in the same environment; this adjustment may compound ...
• Turkish Impersonal Passives 

  Zhaksybek, Aliya (2021-08-10)

  Previous literature emphasizes that impersonal passives are not able to form with unaccusative verbs (Perlmutter, 1978). However, languages such as Turkish, demonstrate that such constructions are, in fact, possible (Baker ...
• Religion and Attitudes towards Intimate Partner Violence: A Cross-National Study 

  Yang, Yang (2021-08-10)

  In a world where violence against women remains pervasive and serious, intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most common and harmful forms of violence against women. Since religion and religiosity have been found ...
• The Evolution of Ukrainian Canadian Dance Over the Twentieth Century 

  Ward, Alicia (2021-08-10)

  Ukrainian Canadian folk dance has undergone several transformations since the arrival of the first Ukrainian immigrants in the 1890s. Throughout the twentieth century, Ukrainian territory was divided among great powers, ...
• Does the Community Balance and Mobility Scale improve retrospective classification of falls in community dwelling older adults? 

  Smith, Veda (2021-08-10)

  Background: This research is intended to extend on previous research where the Motion and Mobility Lab explored clinical and gait measures to identify a model with the highest sensitivity for retrospectively classifying ...
• Cost-Effectiveness & Labour Market Outcomes in In-Vitro Fertilization 

  Seshadri, Samuel K.C. (2021-08-10)

  This work uses two techniques to explore cost-effectiveness and labour market outcomes of provincial IVF funding policy. First, I conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of IVF using a commonly accepted framework of Canadian ...
• Diversifying Trumpet Pedagogy Through Traditional Filipino and Indian Melodies 

  Parmar, Abha-Marie (2021-08-10)

  Trumpet is an instrument that appears in a wide variety of music, in hundreds of cultures around the world. However, the teaching of fundamental concepts for Western Classical trumpet players is almost exclusively from ...
• Do Friends Help or Hurt? The Dyadic Effects of Friendships on Perceived Partner Relationship Maintenance and Relationship Satisfaction 

  Zhou, Sandra (2021-08-10)

  While romantic relationships are often examined in isolation, the emotional and tangible resources that friendships provide may influence couples. This study explores the impact that friendship networks have on romantic ...
• Extraction, Indigenous Dispossession and State Power: Lessons from Standing Rock and Wet’suwet’en Resistance 

  Mittal, Paarth (2021-08-10)

  One way settler-colonialism operates in North America is through the extraction of resource wealth, facilitated by the dispossession of Indigenous lands. When Indigenous-led resistance to land- and water-killing projects ...
• “Finding a Ditch, He Wanted to Jump Over It”: Sex Change Stories in Ambroise Paré’s Monster and Marvels 

  Dunn-Krahn, Soph (2021-08-10)

  The political instability in Early Modern France lead to a proliferation of texts on so-called ‘monsters’ including the intersex person, whom the early moderns called ‘hermaphrodites’. The story of Marie Germaine appears ...
• Behind the scenes of COVID-19: The ‘hidden pandemic’ of Anti-Asian Racism 

  MacNab, Brooke (2021-08-10)

  The xenophobia and racism that have followed in the wake of COVID-19 have impacted the lives of many, marking “anyone who can be perceived and mistaken to be Chinese” as targets (Ho, 2021, p. 149). This purpose of this ...
• Assessing spatial change of the Kaskawulsh Glacier using historical and repeat oblique photographs 

  Lang, Kristyn (2021-08-10)

  Glaciers offer scientists valuable insights into past, present, and future climates. However, these insights are currently limited by the time depth from which the record of spatial data exists. Methods to track glacial ...
• Who was Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Wolves in the Culture, Mythology, and Religion of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia 

  Montgomery, Luke (2021-08-10)

  My JCURA project is an analysis of wolves in European folklore and religion, namely wolves in Ancient Greek, Roman, and Scandinavian Sources. The work begins analyzing the reception of the wolf as the animal itself, then ...
• Understanding and Positioning the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in History, Memory and Politics 

  Kovács, Zoltán (2021-08-10)

  In October 1956, Hungary descended into turmoil as demonstrations by university students attracted the population at large transforming them in a reaction against the cruel Stalinist system that had been forced upon ...
• Development of a Pipeline for the Creation of Finite Element Models from a Statistical Intensity Model 

  Kaur, Asees (2021-08-10)

  Anatomical variability in the scapula is inherently present; it can influence biomechanics and clinical decision-making. Characterizing variation in bone morphology and material properties in the population can support ...
• Hale Whales: Target reproduction numbers and sensitivity analysis for Resident Killer Whales 

  Hobson, Bronwyn (2021-08-10)

  We used two existing population projection matrix models of female resident killer whales (Orcinus orca), the target reproduction number framework developed by Lewis et al.in 2019, and sensitivity analysis to determine ...
• The Italian Masculine Protectorate of the Nation’s Symbolic Boundaries: An Intersectional Analysis of Italy’s Right Wing Anti-Immigrant Discourse 

  Gagliano, Giulia (2021-08-10)

  In an era of growing nationalist xenophobia and disaffection against incoming racialized migrants in Europe, my research tackles the ways in which global trends of migration disrupt the stability of ‘nationhood’ and the ...
• Democratic Backsliding and COVID-19: A Constitutional Pandemic? 

  Dean, Carleigh (2021-08-10)

  As of February 2021, the novel coronavirus has created the greatest public health emergency of the century, infecting over 100 million people and killing more than two million people across the globe (World Health Organization, ...
• Be- (and Re-) heading the Buddha: Understanding the artistic and social trauma of looting, and exploring methods of healing 

  Brandfors, Anna (2021-08-10)

  This project looks at the destruction of Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia through the looting of statues and the consequences on the social community and the living heritage of the looted sites. By identifying trauma ...
• Critical, Ethical and Informed Poetic Observation: A Study on the Craft of Documentary Poetry 

  Bouillon, Carlee Anne (2021-08-10)

  I entered my research venture with the idea that I was going to synthesize a definition of documentary poetry. But because it is a young genre, documentary poetry is highly fluid and impressionable: each time an artist ...

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