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Title Overcoming Barriers and Finding Strengths: The Lives of Single Mother Students in University

Excerpt The impetus for this study came from my own history of being a single mother while completing my undergraduate degree and the struggles that entailed. The research uncovers both the barriers and facilitators experienced by single mothers in undergraduate programs in a Canadian context and utilizes a framework of access and equity in education. The […]

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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education

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Title Criminal Law and the Development of the Assizes of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century

Excerpt The legal treatises of the Kingdom of Jerusalem were written in the thirteenth century, when most of the kingdom had been re-conquered by the Muslims. There are no treatises from the twelfth century, when the kingdom was at its height. The thirteenth-century jurists claimed that the kingdom had always had written laws, but they may […]

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Author Bishop, Adam Michael

Advisor Gervers, Michael ||Armstrong, Lawrin ||Meyerson, Mark ||Northrup, Linda

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Medieval Studies

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Keywords rights

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Title Conformal Heating of the Prostate for the Treatment of Localized Cancer using MRI-guided Transurethral Ultrasound

Excerpt Prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer and the third-leading cause of cancer-related death among men in the developed world, with the number of cases expected to double within the next 15 years. Conventional therapies offer good control of local disease but are associated with high complication rates reducing long-term health-related quality-of-life significantly. MRI-guided transurethral […]

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Author Burtnyk, Mathieu

Advisor Bronskill, Michael

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Medical Biophysics

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Title On Globalization and Civil Society: Mediating Spatial Practice in Twenty-first-century Latin America

Excerpt “On Globalization and Civil Society: Mediating Spatial Practice in Twenty-first-century Latin America” explores the tensions between globalization and civil society from a multi-geographical and multidisciplinary angle. The dissertation is informed by theories of space, power, identity, citizenship, and postmodernity, as well as mediatic and socio-political analyses of conditions that have consistently challenged democracy and the […]

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Author Cascante, Helena Isabel

Advisor Davidson, Robert A.

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Title Arctic Aerosol Sources and Continental Organic Aerosol Hygroscopicity

Excerpt Atmospheric particles can affect climate directly, by scattering solar radiation, or indirectly, by acting as the seed upon which cloud droplets form. These clouds can then cool the earth’s surface by reflecting incoming sunlight. In order to constrain the large uncertainties in predicting the ultimate effect of aerosol on climate, the sources of atmospheric particles […]

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Author Chang, Rachel Ying-Wen

Advisor Abbatt, Jonathan P. D.

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate ActionLife Below Water

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Departments Chemistry

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Keywords climate, ocean, solar

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Title Responses to Difference in Initial Teacher Education: A Case of Racial and Linguistic Minority Immigrant Teacher Candidates

Excerpt Despite recent rhetoric advocating the diversification of the teacher workforce, teachers in Canada continue to be disproportionately white and of northern European heritage. By investigating responses to difference experienced by racial and linguistic minority immigrant teacher candidates in an initial teacher education program, this thesis sheds light on dynamics that challenge or support the induction […]

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Author Chassels, Caroline June

Advisor Bascia, Nina

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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality EducationSustainable Cities and Communities

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Departments Theory and Policy Studies in Education

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Title The Loss of the ‘World-Soul’? Education, Culture and the Making of the Singapore Developmental State, 1955 – 2004

Excerpt This dissertation examines the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state, through a historical study of education for citizenship in Singapore (1955-2004), in which I explore the interconnections between changes in history, civics and social studies curricula, and the politics of nation-building. Building on existing scholarship on education and state formation, […]

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Author Chia, Yeow Tong

Advisor Sandwell, Ruth W.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Keywords economic growth

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Title Exploring Intersectionality, Unravelling Interlocking Opresssions: Feminist Non-credit Learning Processes

Excerpt The concepts of intersectionality and interlocking identities came out of needs raised by communities and then academics wrote about it. This dissertation examines these concepts and how these resonate with the ways that feminist educators conceptualize and facilitate non-credit learning processes with women. This research focuses on 10 differently-located feminist educators and the processes they […]

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Author Christine, McKenzie

Advisor Bonnie, Burstow

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Title When the Injured Nurse Returns to Work: An Institutional Ethnography

Excerpt Nursing is a high risk profession for injury. A Canadian survey reports many nurses are in poor physical and emotional health; they sustain more musculoskeletal and violence related injuries than other occupational groups. In Ontario, an injury management approach called Early Return to Work (RTW) requires injured workers, including nurses, to go back to work […]

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Author Clune, Laurel Ann

Advisor Nelson, Sioban

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGood Health and Well-Being

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Departments Nursing Science

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Title Deyughnyonkwarakda – “At the Wood’s Edge”: The Development of the Iroquoian Village in Southern Ontario, A.D. 900-1500

Excerpt This dissertation explores the origins and development of Northern Iroquoian village life in present-day southern Ontario, from the first appearance of durable domestic architecture in the 10th century A.D., to the formation of large villages and towns in the 15th century A.D. Twenty-five extensively excavated village sites are analyzed in terms of the configuration of […]

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Author Creese, John Laurence

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SDGs Climate ActionResponsible Consumption and Production

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Departments Anthropology

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Keywords environment, production

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