This thesis examines the role nineteenth-century women's literary journals, specifically Ladies' Journal (1823--1833), played in the development of Russian literature. The longest-lived and most-circulated of the pre-Soviet women's literary journals, Ladies' Journal was well-positioned to have contributed to the on-going…

The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of how music education students come to think of themselves as music educators. Guided by the thematic framework, "learning from experience", which draws upon research relating to constructivist theory and…

Procedures for the selection of subjects for participation in randomized clinical trials--usually formalized as eligibility criteria in the study protocol--have both scientific and ethical implications. In this thesis, I undertake an examination of eligibility criteria at three stages in the…

Abstract: This experiment was conducted to address the issue of spectral integrity of pelleted feces exposed to environmental conditions at different times of the year in near infrared reflectance spectroscopy analysis, using goats as the representative herbivore. Both dietary crude…

/Justice Weekly/ was a tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Canada, from 1946 to 1972. Like other postwar English-language tabloids, it contained police and court news, horse racing information, and an oppositional orientation to the mainstream press. However, under publisher-editor Philip…

Background:Transitions in clinical care are often associated with changes in services and with care goals (Davidson, Dracup, Phillips, Padilla and Daly, 2007; Naylor, 2000). Although the transition from curative care to palliative care is recognized as a critical moment in…

"There is growing international interest in space exploration. Going back to the moon where we will build a sustainable long-term human presence with new spacecraft, robotics and life-sustaining technologies, will prepare humans for future exploration of other planets in our…

Modeling soil-structure interaction problems involving granular material and large deformation is a challenging task particularly for geotechnical engineering. Using standard finite element methods has been found to be inefficient to model soil-structure interaction at the soil particle scale. Soil-structure interactions…

The purpose of this multiple case study was to describe and understand Chinese graduate students’ emotional experiences, and to explore the possible relationships between their emotional experiences and their epistemic change in their first semester in a Canadian research-intensive university.…

Communication complexity studies how many bits a certain number of parties need to communicate with each other in order to compute a function whose input is distributed among those parties. Although it is a natural area of investigation based on…