Background: Despite its low incidence, ovarian cancer is associated with very poor prognosis and this is common knowledge in the general population. There is limited knowledge about the levels of anxiety and depression in women who undergo diagnostic testing for…

The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…

Consensus on physical mechanisms linking work posture to discomfort and disorder risk has not been reached. The objective of this dissertation was to use a series of laboratory studies to identify measurements associated with discomfort and disorder risk in lower…

In 2008, a new course entitled Ethics and Religious Culture was introduced in Quebec for students from first grade to secondary five, with the exception of secondary three students. The implementation of the course was controversial and many parents and…

Situated in a Canadian multiethnic urban neighbourhood, this exploratory study examines the experiences of youth dancing Hip Hop. Critical and performance ethnographic research was conducted at a drop-in Hip Hop class at a community centre using participant observation and dyadic…

This thesis synthesizes different elements of Bourdieu’s writings on practice, politics, and charisma to provide a new interpretation of Egypt and Syria’s three-year merger into a unified state, the United Arab Republic (UAR). It begins with a theoretical chapter that…

This thesis examines variations in specific framing used by the Obama administration and New York Times journalists during the public legitimation process of armed unmanned aerial vehicles. It employs a theoretical framework that examines the socially thick agency created through…

This dissertation is centered on the Grande Bibliothèque (GB) which opened in Montreal in the spring of 2005, and was a library project of unprecedented scale in the city. The Grande Bibliothèque project unfolded during a significant moment in the…

A plant is a natural hierarchical structure, which exhibits remarkable mechanical properties. The macro (scale) mechanical properties of a plant are the cumulative outcome of the structural properties of its preceding level of structural hierarchy. To develop engineering structures inspired…

In the last few decades, the world of electric machine design, specifically induction machine design, has been reinvigorated by the introduction of power electronics. Where designers were once limited to a single alternating current waveform with constant voltage and frequency,…