title: Where the Truth Lies: Narrative Ambiguity in Postmodern Fiction

contributor:
King, James
English

subject:
unreliable narration
postmodern novel
historical biographies
psychological truth
authority
self-reflexivity

abstract:
This thesis attempts to address the notion of unreliable narration
and its treatment tn the postmodern novel. More specifically, it seeks to
identify a number of characteristics shared by novels which offer fictional
treatments of historical biographies and autobiographies. These characteristics include the use of dual ontological narrative structures,
self-reflexivity, the deconstruction of authority and the genre in
question, and finally, the existence of psychological truth in the
narrators.

Chapter One briefly addresses the historical development of
unreliable narration, examining works from Henry Fielding through to
postmoderntsm. Chapter Two begins the Inquiry into specific works by
examining Michael Ondaatje's autobiographical novel, Running in the
Family, and the way that the narrator fabricates a relationship with the
father he has barely known in order to cope with the experience of loss.
Chapter Three concerns Timothy Findley's The Wars, and the
deconstruction of authority in the portrayal of history through a
narrator who, because of emotional involvement with his/her subject,
actively fictionalizes what ts ostensibly intended to be a faithful
historical account. Finally, Chapter Four examines Carol Shields' The
Stone Diaries, and its narrator's active invention of emotional experience
in order to impose meaning on what she perceives as a meaningless
existence.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Legitimacy and Multilevel Governance in the European Union: Challenges for Integration in the 21st Century

contributor:
O'Brien, R.
Political Science

subject:
state level
institutions
individual citizens
Europe
integration theory
European Union

abstract:
Placed within the context of the dynamic relationship that exists between state-level actors, supranational institutions, and individual citizens in Europe, this analysis endeavours to examine some of the main issues surrounding European integration theory, the institutionalisation of the European Union, and the so-called 'democratic deficit'. While recognising that much of the debate surrounding multilevel governance in Europe has traditionally focused upon the effects convergence has and will continue to have on predominantly state-level variables, it is my contention that centralised political institutions in European are bound to endure perpetual mismanagement and a lack of majority individual support should the integration process continue down the path of political
integration and 'polity'-building without first resolving inherent legitimacy
problems. Furthermore, without entrenching the necessary foundations of
legitimate governance within the integration process, political allegiance to the European Union will never be able to achieve the same level of tacit support amongst individuals as primary allegiance to the nation-state.
The analysis thus focuses on how European integration and
'supranationalism' has affected the relationship that exists between individual citizens and decision-makers at the 'European' level, vis-a-vis democracy, accountability, transparency and accessibility. An assumption is first made that legitimacy' in governance flows from the existence of strong democratic linkages between individual citizens and their decision-makers (vis-a-vis output, input and social legitimacy). Building heavily upon the work of Held, Schmitter and Dahl, the thesis compares the institutional structure of the EU to a model of 'legitimate' democratic governance. It also raised questions concerning the transferability, to
the supranational level, of state-centred theories of democracy and
representation, and challenges several approaches to understanding the place of 'identity' and Putnam's 'social capital' and 'trust' in polity-building. To accomplish this task, a normative and functional evaluation is conducted on the 'nature' of the European Union and its institutions (intergovernmentalism vs. supranationalism). Milward's definition of 'allegiance' is also particularly helpful in describing the multi-layered characteristic of individual identification towards different levels of national and supranational governance, especially in a European context.

Following the theoretical portion of the analysis, a closer examination is made of the institutions of the European Union and their respective levels of transparency and accountability. As a case study, the Report of the Committee of Independent Experts to the European Parliament (March 1999) is used to show how ineffective some of the institutions, namely the European Commission, have been at resolving perceived accountability problems. The thesis suggests how core institutions may be reformed, as well as alternatives to the current structure of the Union's activities. The analysis then concludes by focusing on how legitimate structures of governance have been jeopardised in Europe, and
how the integration process has, and continues to, place the advantages accrued through economic harmonisation and policy convergence ahead of the need for political stability and the entrenchment of strong, democratic institutions at the supranational level.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Changing the Way for Modern Legal Positivism Through the Charter

contributor:
Waluchow, Wil
Philosophy

subject:
legal systems
Canada and U.S.A
legal positivists

abstract:
Legal systems such as those in the United States and Canada, which include fundamental rights of political morality in their constitutions, present an interesting and difficult problem for legal positivists. Are such moral standards to count among the existence or validity conditions of laws, or are they better understood as fundamental objectives or justification conditions which laws may or may not achieve or respect in practice? The first option, known as inclusive legal positivism, expands the traditional positivist separation thesis to mean that although there is no necessary connection between law and morality in general, it is possible that in some systems it is a necessary truth that laws
reproduce or satisfy certain demands of morality. The second option, known as exclusive legal positivism, denies this possibility, and maintains instead that it is never a necessary condition that laws reproduce or satisfy certain demands of morality, even if such demands are constitutionally recognized. On the exclusive account, in the context of
constitutional states such as the U.S. and Canada, the separation thesis is expanded to mean that there is no necessary connection between the existence and content of laws and the demands of political morality typically included in constitutions. In this thesis I defend exclusive positivism and argue that it best follows from the traditional positivist
commitment to separate existence conditions oflaw from justification conditions of law, and further, avoids what I take to be decisive problems with inclusive positivism. Specifically, I argue that Joseph Raz's notion of a directed power, and not reliance on an inclusive rule of recognition, best explains the duty of judicial review in Charter cases. The fundamental rights of political morality recognized in the Charter are best understood
as constitutional objectives which all subordinate laws in Canada ought to respect, yet may fail to do so in practice. Finally, I argue that the concepts, distinctions, and arguments deployed in the internal positivist debate are also of value in the wider and ongoing debate between H.L.A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin over the nature of law.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Figures of Mind in the Poetry ofW.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens

contributor:
John, Dr. Brian
English

subject:
Poetry
Wallace Stevens

abstract:
This study examines representations of thinking and consciousness in the poetry of
W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. In discussing the processes of thinking in poetry, I have borrowed Ian Fletcher's term "noetics" which "names the field and the precise activity occurring when the poet introduces thought as a discriminable dimension of the form and meaning of the poem" (3-4). I have further sub-divided Fletcher's term into "noetics of form" and "noetics of figure" the first exploring the dominant modes of thinking which the poems imitate, the latter examining the images which are consistently used to represent consciousness and/or processes of thinking. In many ways, this study takes as its premise Stevens' theory of the poetic imagination as either ''marginal" or "central." I explore this theory of poetry in relation to a noetics of form and figure in the poetry of the "marginal"thinking Yeats and the "central" -thinking Stevens in order to consider the idea of consciousness as a container and of poetry as a process of containment. By understanding consciousness as a container of thinking, we come to see that human consciousness-and our ability to think metaphorically-virtually creates reality.
This thesis is divided into two sections, "The Noetics of Form" and "The Noetics of Figure". Each section contains two chapters each on the poetry of Yeats and Stevens respectively. In the first section, I argue that the poetry of both Yeats and Stevens imitates a meditative mode of thinking. In Chapter One I explore Yeats's poetry as a dialectical mode of meditation. For Yeats, the process of containment is repeatedly undermined or postponed through an imitation of internal argument. His dialogues imitate an ongoing process of differentiation--a splitting of the objective and the subjective modes of thinking--in a struggle to enact containment through a transcendence or reconciliation of opposing lines of thought. In Chapter Two, I illustrate how Stevens's meditative poetry often imitates a process of thinking which is less determined and more observational than Yeats's. While there is still an implicit split between subjective and objective thought in Stevens' poetry, he more often imitates modes of thinking which recognize the co-dependency of human consciousness and objective reality, resulting in the imagined objective.
Section II concerns the Noetics of Figure in the poetry of Yeats and Stevens, examining how their most dominant imagery represents a paradigm of human consciousness. In Chapter Three, I illustrate how Yeats's images suggest transcendence, a movement towards and beyond the margins of consciousness. I ground this discussion in Northrop Frye's view of images of ascent as being connected with an intensifying consciousness. Yeats's figures of mountains, trees, towers, and ladders represent consciousness, while his images of birds represent various forms of thinking within-and in an attempt to transcend--its limits. In Chapter Four, I look at Stevens's images of colour and shape as major noetic figures. These figures represent a movement towards the centre ofhuman consciousness, and a model ofconsciousness as an ever-expanding container of reality. In my concluding chapter, I look at two late poems from each ofthe poets in order to illustrate the contrasts and comparisons between these paradigms ofhuman consciousness. Though both Yeats and Stevens are concerned with a creating and created consciousness, Stevens' noetics offigure provide us with a theory ofpoetry that is a theory oflife, through which we come to see both poets as imitating a process of containment through the act of poetic composition.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Education, Fertility, and Remittances in the Traditional Sector of a Developing Economy

contributor:
Spencer, B.G.
Denton, F.T.
Economics

subject:
Social Economics
Developing

abstract: The determinants of fertility behavior vary considerably from country to country. An oft-cited motivation for childbearing in developing countries is the economic returns parents expect to receive fro. their children. The demand for children as security assets is important in areas where insecurity is rife, alternative assets are risky or absent, and the support provided by children lacks market substitutes. An overlapping generations model in which fertility, children's education and migration are jointly determined by rural agricultural households is formulated. The effects on family size of changes in education costs, urban wages, child altruism towards parents, and rural living conditions are derived from the model. Same policy implications c-f the theoretical results are examined. The findings appear ta support the notion that as long as a traditional family-based system of obligations is retained and urban-rural wage differentials remain large, the security native will continue ta be significant as an explanation fer the high level of fertility in traditional rural societies.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Studies in the Iconography of Blacks in Roman Art

contributor:
Dunbabin, Katherine
Classics

subject:
Roman Art
Iconography

abstract:
The post-Homeric literary sources of the Greek period mention Aioiorec. inhabitants of a distant land, whose physical appearance differs from the Mediterranean somatic norm, but approximates that of peoples referred to in modem times as Black Africans. In the Roman era Aethiopes appear in the literary sources, perceived not only as distant strangers but also as persons familiar to the Roman experience. The sources also mention other peoples: Mauri, Libyes, and Indi, who are distinguished from Aethiopes, but are perceived as having some of the physical characteristics of Aethiopes. An evaluation of the archaeological evidence reveals the methods by which Roman artists conveyed difference from their somatic norm, and the problems they faced in their attempt to portray difference. An INTRODUCTION explains the aims of the thesis and reviews the modem literature. CHAPTER 1 sets out the methodological approach and summarizes ancient literary testimony concerning Greek and Roman perceptions of Blacks. CHAPTER 2 provides an overview of relevant archaeological material of the Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman periods not included in the catalog. CHAPTERS 3, 4, 5, and 6 deal with the iconography of the Black in the Roman period focussing on their appearance in thematic contexts (baths, spectacle, domestic service, and mythology). Following theCONCLUSION, a CATALOGUE lists and describes 56 objects with museum, inventory
number, provenience and bibliography. The selected representations date from the Late Hellenistic to the sixth century A.C. They appear in mosaics, sarcophagi, in sculpture, and in paintings from the Mediterranean, Egypt, North Africa, and continental Europe.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Keeping to the Private Market: The Evolution of Canadian Housing Policy, 1900 -1949

contributor:
Weaver, Dr. John
History

subject: Private Markets

subject: 1900-1949

abstract: This dissertation traces the evolution of Canadian housing policy from 1935 to 1949 and examines the background to the origins of the housing problems which promoted the creation of these programs from the beginning of the 20th century. The basic housing problem, viewed as a disparity between what families needed in terms of acceptable shelter and what they could afford to pay without sacrificing other necessities of life, is shown to have reached major proportions in rapidly expanding Canadian cities in the boom period from 1900 -1913. Such gaps were exacerbated by later war induced movements of population and slowing down of new residential construction as ·a result of the inflation of building supplies. The ensuing shelter shortage and 1 abour unrest encouraged the passage of the first federal housing legislation in 1919. This program refused to accept the principle of subsidized housing. It attempted to provide low cost housing through maximum price ceilings on the cost of homes sold under the program. Consequently the homes built under the scheme were frequently of poor construction and many returned to the ownership of municipalities after the home price deflation, which took place in 1923. The program was discontinued and the revival of prosperity to the residential construction industry ended the interest of unions, architects, business groups, planners and many social work professionals in social housing. The great depression of the 1930's brought a renewal of public interest in housing problems and of federal housing programs. This new concern of professionals, unions and certain business groups in the housing problem created a backbench revolt of Conservative MP 1 S in Bennett•s government. The unanimous endorsation of the reformers• approach by the all party parliamentary housing committee led to the passage of the Dominion Housing act of 1935 by Bennett • s government. This new DHA 1egis1 a tion, however, ignored the basic request of reform opinion for subsidized low rental housing and instead provided for joint government private lender mortgage loans which could only be afforded by the top twenty per cent of Canadian fami 1 i es in terms of income. Low rental housing was assigned by the DHA to an Economic Council of Canada which never met as it was abolished by King•s government before any of its members could be appointed. Social housing was also shunted aside by the National Housing Acts of 1938 and 1944. These provided unworkable legislation which promised, but could not produce, limited dividend, low rental housing. As a result of the necessities of the Second World War,opposition of the Department of Finance to publicly constructed rental housing was briefly set aside by the federal government. The protests of tenants kept such construction, first for munitions workers and later directed to returning veterans, as an important factor in the immediate post-war years. However this large scale program of social housing, would be replaced by a very low volume public housing effort in the NHA amendments of 1949. This legislation )which finally committed the federal government to the controversial principle of subsidized housing )would provide only a trickle of units until it was amended after 1964. Federal policy had discouraged social housing while encouraging the development of a housing industry dominated by large scale residential builders. It was these large scale developers, fostered by federal interventions such as the Integrated Housing Program, that would largely shape future Canadian urban residential development.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING IN MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN DISORDERS

title: QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING

contributor:
MacDermid, Joy
Rehabilitation Science

abstract:
Altered nociceptive processing can give rise to an array of sensory findings that can be assessed non-invasively using Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST). Due to the diverse etiopathogenetic basis of musculoskeletal pain disorders, a broad range of reliable and valid QST tests may be needed to analyze the various disease entities. QST evaluated in thesis included different modalities (electrical, vibration, touch, pressure), protocols and test devices. This thesis includes five studies and has evaluated measurement issues of QST (such as reliability and validity) in clinical context and purposes were targeting discrimination, evaluation and prediction in deferent musculoskeletal pain conditions.
Study 1 demonstrated that Current Perception Threshold (CPT) is reliable (consistent across occasions) and valid (associated with neck disability) for assessment of sensory detection threshold in patients with Mechanical Neck Disorder (MND). Study 2 demonstrated that CPT testing has moderate discriminatory accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity for classification of MND categories into neck pain with or without neurological signs. CPT might be useful for screening to classify patients with MND into clinically relevant subgroups. It may play a role in establishing different prognostic or diagnostic subgroups and specifically in assessing prognosis or mechanistic studies that target neurological focused therapy interventions.
Study 3 found that more than 90% of the tests with healthy young participants were reliable and valid in relation to their ability to detect a normal Weinstein Enhanced Sensory Test (WEST) or Pressure Specified Sensory Device (PSSD) within a normal force range. This study supports the reliability and specificity of these 2 QSTs (WEST and PSSD).
Study 4 demonstrated that psychophysical dimensions (QSTs) and patient factors (gender, age and comorbidity) affect self-reported and performance-based outcome measures in shoulder disorder. Study 5 suggests that pressure pain sensitivity may play a role in the self-reported outcome measures (e.g. pain and disability) of neck pain. Study 4 and 5 also indicated that gender and comorbidity were covariants in the relationship between pain detection threshold based QST and disability.
Future research should focus on longitudinal prospective studies with a large cohort of patients are required to justify the prognostic and evaluative properties of different sensory modalities, and to compare different sensory modalities, assessment protocols, indicators, and decision rules.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Science  (PhD)


title: Growth and Characterization of Sr2RuO4 and Sr2RhO4

title: Growth and Characterization of Strontium Ruthenate (214) and Strontium Rhodate (214)

contributor:
Timusk, Thomas
Physics

subject:
crystal growth
characterization
optical spectroscopy
sr2ruo4
sr2rho4
powder diffraction
single crystal diffraction
squid
ellipsometry
optical floating zone

abstract: With reference to some figures reproduced in this thesis: "Readers may view, browse, and/or download material for temporary copying purposes only, provided these uses are for noncommercial personal purposes. Except as provided by law, this material may not be further reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, adapted, performed, displayed, published, or sold in whole or part, without prior written permission from the American Physical Society."

abstract: We report on the growth and characterization of strontium ruthenate (214) (Sr2RuO4) and strontium rhodate (214) (Sr2RhO4) in efforts to test their agreement with Landau-Fermi liquid theory using optical measurements. We begin by reviewing the theory of Landau-Fermi liquids and the frequency and temperature dependent conductivities. We review existing work on both Sr2RuO4 and Sr2RhO4 including evidence of agreement with Landau-Fermi liquid theory. We also describe optical floating zone crystal growth and the exact procedures we used to prepare samples of both Sr2RuO4 and Sr2RhO4 via optical floating zone. The resulting Sr2RuO4 crystals were characterized using AC susceptibility measurements and Sr2RhO4 by powder diffraction, single crystal diffraction, and SQUID magnetization measurements. Finally, early optical reflectivity measurements at low temperatures are presented.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)

abstract: Crystals of Sr2RuO4 and Sr2Rho4 were grown by the author in an effort to study changes of their resistivity with varying temperature and frequency at low temperatures. The crystals were characterized using a variety of x-ray and other techniques, so as to measure their purity. Past work on these materials is discussed and analyzed. Preliminary measurements of the resistivity are presented.


title: HYDROGEL BASED MEMBRANES FOR BIOPHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

contributor:
GHOSH, RAJA
Chemical Engineering

subject:
HYDROGEL BASED MEMBRANES
BIOSEPARATION
MEMBRANE CHROMATOGRAPHY

abstract:
Membrane technology has been actively used as a separation tool in the chemical, environmental, and biopharmaceutical industries for several decades. As membrane quality requirement in the industry has increased, efforts have been directed towards enhancement in mechanical strength, chemical durability and functionality of membranes. One of the approaches for membrane quality enhancement is based on the combination of hydrogel technology with membrane technology. This thesis focused on the application and development of hydrogel based membranes, notably hydrophilized PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) membrane for hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography; the fabrication of paper-hydrogel composite membranes for membrane chromatography; development of a technique for coating alginate (a natural hydrogel) on the outer surface of a hollow fiber membrane for potential application in bioreactors and the use of hollow fiber membranes as mold for fabrication calcium alginate fibers for biomedical and tissue engineering applications.
A membrane chromatography-based polishing technique was developed for removing leached protein-A and aggregates from monoclonal antibody (mAb). A commercial synthetic membrane that is known to be hydrophilized by hydrogel grafting was employed to develop this polishing process that resulted in highly pure mAb, free from aggregates and protein-A. This mAb polishing technique could easily be integrated with a hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography based mAb purification process.
A paper-hydrogel composite membrane was developed as an inexpensive alternative to commercial synthetic membranes used for carrying hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography. Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) or PVCL hydrogel was coated on Whatman filter paper to prepare these membranes. These environment responsive membrane which responded to changes in salt concentration, gave excellent fractionation of multi-component protein mixtures. As case study, a mixture of immunoglobulin G, human serum albumin and insulin was fractionated.
A technique for modifying the surface of synthetic hollow fiber membranes with alginate (a natural hydrogel) was developed. This manner of surface modification led to the improvement in membrane mass transport. The alginate was cross-linked on the outer surface of the membrane by diffusion of the cross-linker (calcium ions) through the membrane pores. The calcium alginate coating layer was characterized by optical and transmission electron microscopy, contact angle measurement, hydraulic permeability measurement and by examining solute transport.
Hollow and solid calcium alginate fibers were fabricated using a novel hollow fiber membrane based moulding technique. The pore present on the hollow fiber membrane served as the reservoir for the calcium chloride solution with cross-linked the alginate within the lumen. The calcium alginate fibers produced were characterized by optical, transmission electron, and scanning electron microscopy. Cell immobilization experiments were carried out to demonstrate biocompatibility and potential for tissue engineering applications.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Designating Deviance: Championing Definitions of the Appropriate and the Inappropriate Through a Christian Political Voice

title: Designating Deviance

contributor:
Shaffir, William B.
Sociology

subject:
social life
deviance
championing

abstract:
This dissertation begins from one central claim about the understanding of social life - that the unit of analysis most appropriate for the task of sociology is the joint act (Blumer, 1969). If we are to understand social life, then we must take our social science to people and their accomplishments.

My research attends to one specific set of accomplishments: the designation of the objects of our worlds as appropriate or inappropriate. This, I argue, is the essential quality of the social dramas which accompany the designation of deviance. promoting definitions of
This extended process of the appropriate and the inappropriate, I refer to as the process of championing. Championing is built upon the accomplishments of Becker's (1973) labeling theory, yet carries with it a critique of this tradition. Championing is my attempt to examine the
generic dimensions of deviance designation.

My theoretical claims find their empirical application in a study of one group of champions - the actors who comprise the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. Within this group we find those who promote their religious based definitions of the way the world ought to be within
the setting of Canadian electoral politics. My research
examines the activities and perspectives of these actors. Attending to deviance designation as accomplished action, my work examines the perspectives of actors, their careers of involvements, the symbolic relevances of political policy, and the sales dimensions of political recruitment.

My work is derived from a phenomenological interactionism. It confronts the social world with a methodology of participant observation and interview and a naturalistic respect for an understanding of life as it is
lived. The sociology of deviance is a sociology of everyday life.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Impact of Mental Workload on Rater Performance and Behaviour in the Assessment of Clinical Competence

contributor: Clinical Health Sciences (Health Research Methodology)

subject:
Rater Cognition
Clinical Competence
Assessment
Mental Workload
Cognitive Load

abstract:
The complexity and broadening of competencies have led to a number of assessment frameworks that advocate for the use of rater judgment in direct observation of clinical performance. The degree to which these assessment processes produce scores that are valid, are therefore vitally dependent on a rater’s cognitive ability.  A number of theories suggest that many of the cognitive structures needed to complete rating tasks are capacity limited and may therefore become a source of difficulty when rating demands exceed resources. This thesis explores the role of rating demands on the performance and behaviour of raters in the assessment of clinical competence and asks: in what way do rating demands associated with rating clinical performance affect rater performance and behaviour? I hypothesized that as rating demands increase, rating performance declines and raters engage in cognitive avoidance strategies in order to complete the task.
I tested this hypothesis by manipulating intrinsic and extraneous sources of load for raters in the assessment of clinical performance.  Results consistently demonstrated that intrinsic load, specifically broadening raters’ focus by increasing the number of dimensions to be considered simultaneously, negatively affected indicators of rating quality.  However, extraneous demands failed to result in the same effect in 2 of 3 experiments. When we explored the cognitive strategies raters engage under high load conditions we learned of a number of strategies to reduce cognitive work, including idiosyncratically minimizing intrinsic demands (leading to poor inter-rater reliability) and active elimination of sources of extraneous load, explaining both findings.  When we induced extraneous load in manner that could not be easily minimized by raters, we also found impairments in rater performance, specifically the provision of feedback.
I conclude that rating demands, whether induced intrinsically or by extraneous sources, impair rater performance affecting both the utility of scores and the opportunity for learner development. Implications for health professions education and future directions are discussed.

abstract: Dissertation

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: MECHANISM OF ACTIVATION OF THE QUIESCENCE-SPECIFIC p20K GENE

contributor:
Bedard, Andre
Biology

subject: quiescence-specific p20K gene activation

abstract: Growth arrest specific (GAS) genes are highly inducible at quiescence (G0) and repressed rapidly in response to mitogens. Aberrant disruption of quiescence can lead to abnormal development and diseases such as cancer, thus, it is important to study the signals and mechanisms responsible for expressions of quiescent specific genes. p20K, a GAS gene whose expression is highly induced in conditions of contact inhibition & hypoxia in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), is studied in this thesis. Preliminary studies demonstrate that p20K activation is dependent on its Quiescence Responsive Unit (QRU), a 48bp promoter region. In addition, the binding sites of a CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBPβ) and ERK2 on the QRU of p20K promoter overlap with each other regulating the competition between activating (C/EBPβ) and inhibiting (ERK2) of the p20K gene. After culturing CEF with media rich in growth factors (10%FBS), p20K induction is delayed in hypoxia. Moreover, it is the decrease of Phospho-ERK not CHOP level that correlates with p20K inhibition in hypoxia in both 5%CCS and 10%FBS. Western blotting analysis of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1α (HIF1α) expression indicated that this hypoxia-response factor is induced rapidly and with the same kinetics in CEF subjected to hypoxia cultured in 5%CCS or 10%FBS, indicating that they sense and respond similarly to low oxygen concentrations. These results suggest that p20K induction in hypoxia is caused by growth arrest induced by hypoxia. To further document this process, hypoxia mimicking reagent DMOG, a prolyl-hydroxylase inhibitor that can stabilize HIF in normoxia, was used. Interestingly, p20K expression was highly induced after DMOG treatment in CEF, even if CHOP, an inhibitor of C/EBPβ, was induced in these conditions. Co-Immunoprecipitation results showed that the accumulation of CHOP-C/EBPβ heterodimers was induced during DMOG treatment. Additionally, Proliferation Assay suggested that DMOG treatment significantly inhibited CEF proliferation. Finally, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Analysis indicated that ERK-2 did not bind to the QRU after DMOG treatment, indicating that ERK-2 dissociation correlates with p20K induction in response to DMOG in CEF. Collectively, these results demonstrate that growth arrest induced by hypoxia or DMOG treatment plays a determinant role in p20K induction. In contrast, CHOP level or CHOP-C/EBPβ heterodimer reduction did not correlate with the induction of p20K.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: TRANSLATING THEORY TO PRACTICE: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF THEORY IN REAL-WORLD BEHAVIOUR CHANGE INTERVENTIONS IN THE PHYSICAL DISABILITY COMMUNITY

title: THEORY TO PRACTICE IN THE PHYSICAL DISABILITY COMMUNITY

contributor:
Martin Ginis, Kathleen A.
Kinesiology

subject:
behaviour change
knowledge translation
real-world research
physical disability
leisure-time physical activity
health care professionals

abstract:
The purpose of this dissertation was to test the utility of theories across the development, implementation, and evaluation of three nationwide knowledge translation (KT) interventions in the physical disability community.  Using a theory-based evaluation guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Study 1 evaluates the effectiveness of an evidence-based, continuing education module designed to increase emergency health care professionals’ (HCPs) knowledge and use of clinical practice guidelines for managing patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) who present with autonomic dysrefexia. Findings suggest that behaviour change theory should be integrated into the intervention to change theory-based determinants of behaviour, and that information about intervention implementation may help explain observed outcomes.
Study 2 examined the use of theory across three phases of research in the Canadian Paralympic Committee’s Changing Minds, Changing Lives (CMCL) intervention.  Study 2.1 describes the restructuring of the CMCL curriculum to include research evidence and theory. Study 2.2 evaluates the short- and long-term effects of the CMCL intervention on HCPs’ social cognitions for discussing leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), and explores key implementation variables that predict changes in HCPs’ social cognitions.  Overall Study 2 results suggest that: (1) using a KT framework and integrating stakeholders throughout intervention development increases the likelihood that interventionists will adopt and implement the intervention, and (2) real-world implementation is important to understanding intervention effectiveness.
Study 3 examines the effectiveness, and its implementation correlates, of Get in Motion (GIM), a nationwide, LTPA-enhancing telephone counseling service for adults with SCI.  Study 3 furthers our understanding of the relationship between implementation and effectiveness, and suggests key implementation ingredients that could be targeted in future refinements of GIM. Together, the dissertation studies contribute to our understanding of how to use theory when developing, implementing, and evaluating behaviour change interventions targeting HCPs and other end-users in the physical disability community.

abstract: Dissertation

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: THE ADHESION OF POLY(DIMETHYL SILOXANE) TO SILICA SUBSTRATES

contributor:
Pelton, Robert
Chemical Engineering

subject:
Adhesion
POLY(DIMETHYL SILOXANE)
SILICA SUBSTRATES

abstract:
The adhesion of poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) to silica substrates was measured by 90 degree peel testing of PDMS strips cast on silica substrates.  The objective of this work was to investigate the effects of silica surface chemistry on the adhesion between PDMS and silica substrate.

Silica substrates with different surface chemistry were prepared by both chemical modification and physical adsorption. Silane coupling agents were used to provide octyl chains and primary amino groups on the silica surfaces. Also silica surfaces were coated with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), polyvinylamine (PVAm) or poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) by  physical adsorption. The adhesion samples were prepared by casting Sylgard® 184 silicone elastomers on silica surfaces followed by thermal curing.

Water contact angle measurements, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared microscopy (FTIR) were performed to measure the surface properties of the peel test samples. It is believed that hydrogen bonding between siloxane bonds in PDMS and silanol groups on silica substrate contributes to the strong adhesion of PDMS and silica surface. The adhesion forces significantly reduced by the adsorption of PVAm and PNIPAM onto silica surfaces. In addition, the introduction of primary amino groups on silica surface would poison the catalyst during the curing of PDMS, which causes the formation of low crosslinking PDMS in the outer surface and is expected to decline the adhesion force. Lastly, the slightly reduce of adsorbed PVAm (340 kDa) on the silica substrate after peel test is considered to be useful for long-term lubrication.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: ON ASSEMBLE-TO-ORDER SYSTEMS

contributor:
Deza, Antoine
Computing and Software

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subject:
assemble-to-order systems
stochastic programming

abstract: Since the 1990s, facing increasing competition and mass customization, many companies including Dell have chosen to adopt the assemble-to-order (ATO) model in order to increase products offering and reduce the life cycles of products. Inventory management is a key challenge for ATO systems, in particular determination of inventory replenishment levels without full demand information, component allocations based on available component inventories, and realizations of product demands. ATO systems are usually modeled as a two-stage stochastic integer program. However, such programs are typically hard to solve, especially for stochastic integer nonlinear programs used for the joint optimization. In this thesis, we describe two ATO models proposed by Ackay and Xu (2004) and by Huang (2014). Both models include a nonlinear term in the right hand side of the inventory availability constraints. We discuss the techniques used to linearize the original problem and to estimate the impact of the linearization. In addition, we investigate another key element of ATO systems called component commonality used to reduce inventory costs. An extensive literature review regarding component commonality is provided.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Testament of a Minority in Wartime: The Peace Pledge Union and Vera Brittain, 1939-1945

contributor:
Rempel, R. A.
History

subject:
Wartime 1939-1945
Peace Union

abstract:
The Peace Pledge Union was Britain's premier pacifist organization during the years of the Second World War, and Vera Brittain one of its most influential leaders. Neither has been the subject of close historical examination.
The Union, founded fifty years ago by Canon 'Dick' Sheppard, was a direct product of the "never again" mood so pervasive in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, although its sources of inspiration and principles resulted from deeper traditions. The heritage of the Peace Pledge Union was Christian, Radical, Liberal, Dissenting, Humanitarian and Socialist. It was also peculiarly English because the experience of relatively stable parliamentary government made generous allowance for the expression of dissent. But the Second World War placed British democracy and its associated traditions in a crucible. Yet the vitality of these values was sustained by the Peace Pledge Union and other voices of dissent.
Until recent years radical groups and their leaders have tended to be relegated to the sidelines of history as the "also rans", a tendency that has arguably distorted the historical balance. The present study seeks to contribute to a partial redressing of this balance by exploring the inspiration, background and work of the wartime Peace Pledge Union. By its continued existence, and determination to express its minority view, the Peace Pledge Union made an important contribution to the maintenance of the democratic right of dissent and the privileges of English parliamentary democracy.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Strange Burdens: AIDS Memoirs and the Politics of lnconsolability

contributor:
Clark, David
English

subject:
AIDS
Politics
English Language and Literature

abstract: This study investigates the significance of unresolved grief in memoirs written in the context of the AIDS pandemic during the 1990s. While many recent memoirs are characterized by guilt, anger, despair, and self-beratement, by no means should this affective inflection lead us to categorize them as incomplete or inferior works of mourning. Rather, this melancholic orientation gives rise to questions about the ethics of a rush to consolation, and, correspondingly, contests the ways in which such hasty closure may collaborate in the proliferation of voyeuristic, objectifying images and narratives of HIV/AIDS in the media. Attending closely to the rhetorical and structural dimensions of three memorializing texts in particular, this study considers how, through their melancholic embrace of the "abject" body of HIV/AIDS, they address-and intervene in-the pandemic's continuing crises of representation, ethics, and social justice. Chapter 1 ("Queering the Kaddish'') explores Amy Hoffinan's concern in Hospital Time about what would constitute a faithful memorial for her friend Mike Riegle; the practice of critical memory, occurring across gender and sexuality, initiates the renovation of seemingly inhospitable institutions (specifically, familial and religious traditions). Chapter 2 ("Angels in Antigua") demonstrates how the power of melancholy roughens Jamaica Kincaid's writing about her brother Devon, with the result of bringing My Brother (however ambivalently on Kincaid's part) into the realm of the political; Devon is a ghost Kincaid cannot exorcise, and his suffering persists in her memory, corning to stand, ultimately, as a metonym for Antigua's (and America's) social inequities. Finally, Chapter 3, "Flowers, Boys, and Childhood Memories," considers Derek Jarman'sModern Nature, arguing that Jarman's revised journals respond to the experience of despair and the temptation of selfhatred by modeling a stylistics of existence motivated by what we may call (following Eve Sedgwick) an ethics of reparation.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Epistemic Uncertainty & Legal Theory

contributor:
Waluchow, Wilfrid
Philosophy

subject:
Epistemic
Legal Theory

abstract:
Some legal theorists argue that legal determinations apparently based on moral arguments actually involve an appeal to extra-legal standards because legal reasoning and the conceptual structure of a legal system necessarily excludes morality (Exclusive Legal Positivism). Others argue that moral principles can be _incorporated into legal systems (Inclusive Legal Positivism), or must be so incorporated (Dworkinian Interpretivism), where they operate as legal rules. Does Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms actually incorporate the moral principle of equality, or does it merely authorize judges to appeal to that extra-legal principle as a legitimate reason for invalidating those laws which violate it? To answer that question the philosophical legal theorist must evaluate and develop an account of juridical law in the face of epistemic uncertainty about the relation between law and morality
(i.e. whether it is necessary or contingent). In this work I first consider the meta-theoretical characteristics of legal theories, particularly their methodologies and the evaluative criteria applied to them, so as to identify and make explicit the source of legal-theoretical epistemic uncertainty. I then argue for an approach to describing and explaining law whereby we neither ignore epistemic uncertainty nor dispense with it by means of a stipulative definition. This inclusive positivist approach, however, also requires that we abandon the ideal of a presuppositionless inquiry. Accordingly, I demonstrate how a descriptive-explanatory philosophical account of law can make use of a presupposition and, ultimately, offer a sound defense for it. Finally, through an analysis of some aspects of Canadian constitutional adjudication, I show that inclusive positivism is most able to describe and explain the legal-moral uncertainty exhibited by participants in legal systems of a certain type, and so offers the best philosophical account of legal practices as they are understood by those who instantiate them.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Five Programs in Search of Policy: An Analysis the Programs of the Job Creation Branch and Community Employment Strategy, Department of Manpower and Immigration

contributor:
Aster, H.
Political Science

subject: Policy Community

abstract:
The thesis seeks to make a novel contribution to the field of public policy analysis in Canada, through a detailed examination of the origins, development and operation of the programs of the Job Creation Branch, and Community Employment Strategy, of the Department of Manpower and Immigration. A case study of the direct job creation programs provides the basis for the development of a new perspective, one in which policy is treated as the subject, rather than the object of inquiry, and policy is seen as a process rather than as a series of instantaneous states, each somehow implying the next.
It is argued that program activity has in part replaced policy activity in government, for political and structural reasons. As a consequence, it is su9gested that policy analysts must begin to deal with "quasi -policy" or "residual policy" areas, characterized by programmatic activity. Contemporary analysis would suggest that programmatic activity is severely limited. The thesis suggests, based upon direct investigation, that while programs may be seen as retrospective, reactive and incremental, they may also be seen as active, partial, provisional, incomplete and prospective. The prospective aspect of existing programs suggests the possibility of movement toward the development of creative policy firmly rooted in contemporary Canadian experience.
It is argued that if policy analysts are to deal realistically with Canadian policy processes, then they must begin to deal with programmatic activity as a major and continuing concern. A shift in perspective
of this kind, it is suggested, will initiate further major developments in theory, particularly with reference to our contemporary understanding of the "welfare" and "service" states. Similarly, it is suggested that government itself must become aware of its own activity from a new perspective, or face continuing problems in the area of policy development and program administration.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Charles Leslie and Theological Politics in Post-Revolutionary England

contributor:
Daly, J. W.
History

subject:
Theological Politics
Post-Revolution England

abstract:
This dissertation presents the first thorough study of Charles Leslie's political and theological writings. During his career as a pamphleteer and journalist, Leslie wrote against whigs, disserters, freethinkers and latitudinarians. These groups, he believed, had conspired to bring about England's rebellion against legitimate authority in both church and state. Leslie attempted to demonstrate the veracity of the scriptual record and to argue that legitimate government must be deduced from the divine model set down there. In the process, he become his generation's most vigorous opponent of whig political thought and offered the first detailed criticism of John Locke's theory of government.
Throughout the thesis the theological aspect of post-revolutionary politics and political thought has been emphasised. Leslie derived his theory of monarchical government from his theory of episcopal government. Freeing the church of England from secular control was his fundamental goal, and a restoration of the Stuarts--who had promised to give up certain prerogatives in the area of ecclesiastical affairs--was a first step towards such a reform of the church. None of the scholars who have noticed Leslie's writings in the past few years have been concerned with his emphasis upon theological questions and the proper relationship of church and state. Historians of jacobitism have not considered what a Stuart restoration would have meant for the church of England. A close examination of Charles Leslie's career and writings helps to clarify both the motives and the goals of that small group of English churchmen of which he was a leading member.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Characterization of Ananda in the Pali Canon of the Theravada: A Hagiographic Study

contributor:
Younger, Dr. Paul
Yun-hua, Dr. Jan
Religion

subject:
Ananda, Pali
Theravada

abstract:
This study concerns itself with the characterization of Ananda, the Buddha's personal attendant, in the Pali Canon of the Theravada. Its purpose is to describe and analyze Ananda's characterization in this literature from an hagiographical perspective.
Our study undertakes for the first time a thorough analysis of every instance in which Ananda's name appears in the sources we have utilized. This approach enables us to see how even seemingly insignificant events have often contributed to Ananda's characterization. While the study is centered in the Pali sources, we have also utilized Buddhist sources from the Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan where these have contributed to our understanding of Ananda's place in the Theravada.
The result of our study is to cast important light on such problems as Ananda's late arahanthood, his characterization as bahussuta, his attendance on the Buddha, his relationship to Sariputta and his place at the Council of Rajagaha.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Imagining Nature: Blake's Vision of Materiality

subject:
Imagining Nature
Blakes Vision

abstract:
This dissertation is the first full-length study to examine William Blake's poetry and designs in light of the eighteenth-century concept of "nature's economy," a view of nature that prefigures twentieth-century ecological discourse by describing all earthly entities as integral parts of a dynamic, interactive system or whole. On the one hand, Blake celebrates the positive ethical potential of this model of existence, for "nature's economy" emphasizes the communal interdependence of all things. On the other hand, Blake is often highly suspicious of this paradigm of nature, for its logic tends reductively to consider individual entities in terms of the functions they perform within larger systemic wholes. In Blake's view, I argue, such instrumentalism raises the problem of interpretive practice. since the scientific or religious "Priesthoods" claiming special knowledge of "whole" systems may invoke holistic views of nature in ways that naturalize culturally constructed modes of political authority. By clarifying Blake's imaginative critique of the relationship between nature (as a cultural concept) and particular modes of governmental ideology. this dissertation challenges the common argument that Blake was unequivocally hostile toward material existence.
Chapter One contextualizes Blake's general views of nature in light of his response to the politics of Enlightenment Deism, English industrialism, antinomian and Miltonic theories of creation, and contemporary debates on animal rights. Building on this historical context, Chapter Two examines the relationship between Blake's anthropomorphic symbolism and the instrumentalist politics of pastoralism and gender in The Book ofThe!. By shifting focus to the epic poetry and designs of Milton, Chapter Three argues that Blake's famous critique ofNewtonian science involves not a rejection of materiality per se, but Blake's antinomian opposition to a physical "legalism" that enslaYes both nature and humanity. Chapter Four synthesizes the major concerns of the preceding chapters by analyzing the relationship between the fall of humanity and the fall of nature in Jerusalem's radical Christian mythology, emphasizing the adverse social and enYironmental implications of anthropomorphism, "Patriarchal Religion," and primitiYist modes of identification with nature.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Philosophical Assumptions in Legal Philosophy: A Critique of Contemporary Philosophy of Law

contributor:
Waluchow, W.J.
Philosophy

subject:
Legal
Contemporary Law

abstract: In this dissertation, I argue that the debate between contemporary legal positivism and contemporary natural law philosophy must be understood in terms of underlying assumptions about the nature of philosophy. Despite differing conclusions about the nature of law and legal theory, contemporary legal theorists generally approach the study of law in a similar way. Generally speaking, contemporary legal theorists attempt to provide general accounts of law which are theoretically valuable. They believe that a general and theoretically valuable account oflaw can be achieved by bracketing-off metaphysical questions and focusing on the analysis of concepts. However, it is ultimately because contemporary legal theorists share assumptions about the nature of philosophy that they share similar problems. Because of these share assumptions, contemporary philosophers of law must choose between two alternatives which have limited theoretical value, namely, an overly formal account of law or a relativistic account of law. Thus, this dissertation is not only a critique of specific contemporary legal theories (those of Dworkin, Hart, Raz and Finnis), but also a more general critique of contemporary legal philosophy as a whole. Only by changing the basic assumptions which underlie contemporary legal philosophy can we hope to provide accounts of law which are both general and theoretically valuable.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Early Influence of Second Wave Psychology on British Prose Fiction

contributor:
Brink, Andrew
English

subject:
Second wave psychology
British Fictino

abstract: This thesis argues that literary historians and critics have tended to simplify psychological influence on twentieth-century British literature by magnifying Freud's influence and neglecting earlier dynamic psychologies, including those of William James and William McDougall. Similarly, the earliest novelists to explore these "new" psychologies in their fiction have been ignored. An examination of dynamic psychologies in proportion to their impact on writers serves to place Freud's reception in Britain into perspective. The thesis then locates a major source of distortion about this influence in the tenaciousness of the modernists' claim to the "new" and their denigration of the previous generation of writers. Several of these writers actually became most knowledgeable about dynamic psychology and were the earliest to incorporate it into their fiction. Following an assessment of two of them, the Edwardian novelist, May Sinclair, and the Georgian, J.D. Beresford, the thesis shows that one of the most outspoken champions of modernism, Virginia Woolf, drew on similar ideas of pre-Freudian psychology in her earliest fiction. These ideas carry through into her modernist works. The thesis thus represents a methodological hybrid since it draws on cultural history, biography, psychology, and several genres, in order to rediscover and re-interpret literature both within and outside the canon.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Representations of the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Religious Melodrama

contributor:
Hutcheon, Dr. Linda
English

subject:
English Canadian
Melodrama

abstract: This study develops a theory of melodrama based on Foucaldian concepts of power/resistance relations in discourse. This theoretical framework is tested by means of an analysis of five nineteenth-century English-Canadian texts: Elizabeth Lanesford Cushing's Esther (1840), Charles Heavysege's Saul (1859), Archibald Lampman's "David and Abigail" (1882), Oliver J. Booth's Jael, The Wife of Heber the Kenite (1901), and George Arthur Hammond's The Crowning Test (1901). The central premise posed in the study's Introduction is that melodrama's protestant aesthetic of the feminine deliberately counters the secular aesthetic of tragedy. Chapter One demonstrates that this premise reveals challenges and insights concerning melodrama not previously found in the critical literature. By means of the analysis of the texts given Chapters Two, Three, and Four, the study demonstrates the interpretive strategies made possible by this re-evaluation of the genre and its gender politics. The theoretical framework developed here contributes to an understanding of melodrama both as a trans-national genre and as central feature of nineteenth-century English-Canadian culture.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Identity and Its Maintenance in Later Life: A Social Network Approach

contributor:
Marshall, Dr. V
French, Dr. S
Sociology

subject:
Social Network
Identity

abstract: This study examines what growing old names for the older women's sense of self-identity. Some gerontological argue that old age constitutes a period of role loss with detrimental impact on identity. A sizable body of data do not support this assumption. The underlying assumption of this study is that identity emerges and is sustained through social interaction. Thus the research focuses on (1) the meaning of 'being old' as defined by older women and (2) the extent to which a positive identity can be retained through social network involvement with family, friends and community leisure activities. Instead of focusing on what is lost, the emphasis was on determining what role relationships are retained and established in old age, and the extent to which these serve to maintain a positive self-image. The research is based on interviews with 142 women over age 65 living in the town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. The principle component of this sample comprised 101 women living in their own home or apartments (i.e. community dwelling). Most of the analysis is based on this sample. However, where comparative analysis is useful, these data are supplemented with information from interviews with 31 residents of senior citizens apartment complexes and 10 residents of nursing homes. The findings indicate that the elderly women studied here generally do not view themselves as 'elderly' or 'old'. Age identity is found to be largely situational and more relevant to some interactions than others. The majority have managed to retain a positive identity which is deeply embedded within their informal role involvements and social network ties. As a result, the loss of more formal role relationships had only limited impact on identity. The findings also indicate that a relatively stable small community appears to offer advantages for identity management in old age.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Shifting Boundaries of Gender Politics and Laicite: An Ethnography of First-generation Muslim Maghrebian Women in a Parisian banlieue

contributor:
Badone, Ellen E.F.
Religious Studies

subject: Muslim Women

abstract:
Muslim women in France are at the center of public debates about religion in the public
sphere, gender politics and immigration. The hijab or Islamic headscarf has become emblematic of these issues. Based on ethnographic research in Petit Nanterre, a suburb 15 kilometres northwest of Paris, this dissertation examines various actors who seek to compartmentalize or shape Muslim women's identities. I begin with academic anthropological approaches to Islam and women, and with changing legal and popular definitions in France of laicite (French secularism) and its relationship to Islam. I then argue that the continued marriage-partner preference for "traditional"
North African women expressed by male North African immigrants constrains the identity politics of local women, while a "cultural freezing" phenomena instils greater social pressure to enact and renegotiate certain cultural and religious mores in the banlieue. These cultural preferences are fortified by local gossip focused on women's religious and sexual propriety and by the Panopticonlike architecture of the housing projects. French feminist organizations like Femmes Solidaires ("Women in Solidarity") of ten hold neo-Orientalist positions, seeking to "save" Muslim women in the banlieue, and ultimately reinforcing negative stereotypes about the headscarf and gender politics
in Muslim communities. I conclude that the women of Petit Nanterre themselves move within and without these categories as postcolonial "hybrids". While French social scientists and journalists have focused on the adaptational difficulties
Muslims face in a nation legally and philosophically committed to secularism, there have been few academic studies undertaken from an ethnographic perspective focused on first-generation Muslim Maghrebian women living in the banlieue. My research emphasizes their voices and migratory experiences. I demonstrate that French Muslim women are key actors in promoting the visibility of Muslims in the West and in contemporary linkages between gender politics and religion in the public sphere.

abstract: Dissertation

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: "The Signs of Heaven to Ken": Astrological Lore and Spenser's

title: The Shepheardes Calender

subject:
Shepheards Calender
Astrological Lore

abstract: This thesis argues that Spenser•s handling of character, situation, and theme throughout The Shepheardes Calender corresponds to the traditional significations of the planetary and zodiacal governors of the twelve eclogues. The introductory chapter outlines some fundamental principles of the two astrological traditions relevant to the present study, traditions that I have loosely called Ptolemaic or "Scientific" and Neoplatonic, and explains that the lack of horoscopal information about the characters constitutes no serious barrier to my approach. To avoid the repetition that would result from organizing the study around zodiacal signs, I have used a planet-by-planet approach. Chapter I analyses Colin Clouts past achievements and his present predicament in terms of two distinct but related conceptions of Saturn and melancholy: its main argument is that Colin's early accomplishments align him with a benevolent Saturn and with what Yates calls inspired melancholy (based ultimately on the "Aristotelian" Physical Problems XXX), the earthly Venus leads him in a contrary direction, and the frustration of this Venerean impulse makes him a victim of the malevolent Saturn of popular astrology. Chapter II argues that in "Februarie", ruled by Jupiter, a mean between Saturn and Venus, the conflict between the malevolent Saturn and the earthly Venus reappears in the debate between a Saturnian Thenot and a Venerean Cuddie, and that since all figures in the debate and the tale are "failed Jupiters" , the conflict ends in a deadlock aptly corresponding to the fact that the fish of Pisces move in opposite directions, but within the same element, and are bound by a common cord. In "November", however, Dido is a true Jovial figure, and the Jovial aspects of the eclogue's context temporarily dispel Colin's Saturnian gloom and cooperate with the benevolent Saturn to lift Colin's mind "above the starry skie", a movement appropriate to the significations of the centaur figure Sagittarius. Chapter III shows that Spenser accommodates Mars in his Calender: by parodic reduction in "March" and by evoking Mars in "October" to point beyond the pastoral to his projected epic. The Venus inherited by the Renaissance represents a vast range of ideas about love and beauty, from the basest carnality through to the principles of cosmic harmony and the most mystical expressions of love for God. Chapter IV discusses the correspondences between several of these significations and the eel ogues for Venus' two signs, Taurus ("April") and Libra ("September"): in addition to discussing Colin's misadventure in love, this chapter demonstrates "April's" suitability for a celebration of the encomiastic poet; discusses the manifestations of Venus that are in harmony with the benevolent Saturn; examines Eliza's role as a Venus figure presiding over an idyllic natural, political, and poetic environment in contrast to the iron age of the framing dialogue; and shows that although the world Diggon describes in "September" is the antithesis of that depicted in the "April" ode, Roffyn in actuality, and Hobbinoll and Diggon in potentiality, represent the forces (seen as another Saturn-Venus combination) that can effectively reconstruct the world in imitation of the peace, harmony, justice, mercy, friendship, and liberality of the "April" ode. Chapter V examines Mercurial motifs in "Maye., and August": the stress in "Maye's", debate on the duties and responsibilities of the clergy, particularly with respect to worldly wealth and to preaching ability and debating skills, is suitable to Mercury's rulership, as is the emphasis on fraud, deceit, and wealth in Piers' tale; Mercury's gift of verbal skill and dexterity is manifested in both the roundelay and the sestina in "August" Since the sun signifies things spiritual, while the moon is an age-old symbol of material mutability, "Julye" appropriately deals with ecclesiastical matters and "June" with secular; the two eclogues are complementary discussions of the moral and practical problems for the poet and priest of prominence or aspiration. Chapter VI shows that Spenser handles the themes of prominence and aspiration in ways suitable to the celestial governors of these eclogues: the sun and Leo are consistently associated with the ambitious or pre-eminent and with the perils and temptations besetting them, so "Julye's " debate covers these subjects and provides a catalogue of notable men; the most wellknown properties of the moon and Cancer (e.g., the moon's inconstancy and its shining by borrowed light and the sun's reversal of direction in Cancer) do not augur well for any ambitious impulse, so in "June" neither speaker is ambitious and Colin provides a bewildering series of rationalizations to justify his loss of aspiration. The concluding chapter suggests some possibilities for further study.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Crucified and Exalted King of lsrael: The Metaphor of Kingship in John's Gospel

contributor:
Porter, Dr. S
Boda, Mark J.
Christian Theology

subject:
Theology
John's gospel

abstract: The goal of this dissertation is to provide a framework for examining the metaphor of Jesus as king throughout the Fourth Gospel. This dissertation argues that the theme of Jesus as king provides one of the unifying themes of John's overall message, blending familial, pastoral, sensory, and judicial metaphors with the metaphor of Jesus as king. This allows for a cohesive depiction of Jesus' kingship that begins in John 1 as Jesus is introduced as king and leads to the climactic vision of Jesus' "exaltation" as king on the cross. This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary theory of metaphor that incorporates elements of cognitive and systemic functional linguistic approaches with literary approaches. This examination assesses the place of the Old Testament metaphors of Messiah, "eternal life/life of the age," shepherd, and exaltation in the conceptual metaphorical network of the kingship metaphor and addresses how these metaphors function in John's Gospel to provide a cohesive and dynamic depiction of Jesus' identity as king, the just character of his kingship, the subversion of power implicit in his crucified form of kingship, and the necessity of response to Jesus as king and his reign.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Design of a Low Voltage Active Electric Accumulator with integrated dc-dc converters for control and protection

contributor:
Emadi, Ali
Kojori, Hassan Kojori
Electrical and Computer Engineering

abstract:
Emerging batteries based on Lithium ion (Li-ion) cells are of significant interest for aerospace, automotive and utility energy storage systems in terms of high energy density, reducing overall weight, volume, and maintenance but suffer from safety concerns such as fire, smoke and toxic emissions. Major issues with these batteries include: a) single point failure, b) complex and costly battery management system (BMS), c) varying output voltage, d) no self-protection, e) costly and ineffective cell balancing, and f) poor energy  efficiency.
The main objective of this thesis is to investigate a 'Self-Regulated Low Voltage Active Electric Accumulator (LV-AEA)' as an alternative approach for the design of a Li-ion batteries and compare its benefits and limitations to the existing battery technologies. The analysis and design of LV-AEA for a 7kW Auxiliary Power Unit start application in a starter/generator system of a typical aircraft is presented. Computer simulation results using PSIM have been presented to help understand various working principles of the proposed approach and validate its feasibility. Finally, a small scale technology demonstrator using commercial off- the shelf dc-dc converters
is tested to verify the presented approach and get experimental results.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MSECE)


title: The Greek Article: A Functional Grammar of Ho-items in the Greek New Testament with special emphasis on the Greek Article

contributor:
Westfall, Cynthia
Porter, Stanley
Christian Theology

subject:
Greek
New testament

abstract: Grammatical treatments of the Greek article have historically operated from an orientation that views the article as, essentially, a demonstrative pronoun and more or less analogous to the English definite article. In certain circumstances, an association between the Greek article and the relative pronoun has been acknowledged. However, this association does not generally inform the grammatical description of the article's function. It is the conviction of the following thesis that this orientation is in error and has resulted in an inaccurate understanding of the function of the Greek article. The grammatical descriptions that are the result of this perspective are often internally inconsistent and, in some instances, contradictory. When the aforementioned assumptions are discarded and the article and relative pronoun are examined in terms of morphology and function, the results reveal a considerable degree of functional overlap between the two parts of speech. Both parts of speech are often employed to produce structures that may fill the same syntactical slot. Both parts of speech are used by the speaker to indicate that he or she is providing information that the recipient is to use for the purpose of identification. Both orient the identification ofthe referent to the speaker. Categorically, the two may be identified by a designation based on their common morphological features: Ho-items.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Cyclical Unity of Catullus 61 to 68

contributor:
McKay, A.G.
Roman Studies

subject:
Catullus
61 to 68

abstract:
Catullus 61 to 68 have not received the attention they deserve. Critics have either analyzed the poems in isolation or attempted superficial and selective examinations of the group as a whole. By scrutinizing the poet's use of recurrent vocabulary in poems 61 to 68, it is possible to see a definite cyclic progression throughout the poems, and a clear development of the various themes relating to love and marriage.
Poem 61 presents, on the surface at least, a positive view of marriage. Certain negative elements are subtly introduced (the bride's hesitation, the potential infidelity of the groom, the role of the gods) which create some tension in the poem; but at the end, the marriage is consummated. Poem 62 brings the underlying tensions of poem 61 into the open. The boys' legalistic view of marriage overcomes the girls' emotional outcry against it; but it is the intensity and imagery of the girls' stanzas that remain in the reader's mind.
Poem 63 plunges the reader into the world of mythology; but the presentation of Attis' relationship with Cybele in terms of a marriage follows logically from poems 61 and 62. The violence associated with Attis' negative "marriage" with Cybele causes the vox poetae to condemn such a relationship and wish it away from his experience.
Poem 64 is a lengthy reflection on every aspect of love and marriage presented so far in the cycle. The apparently positive marriage of Peleus and Thetis is contrasted with the negative non-marriage of Theseus and Ariadne. Imagery found in the three previous poems is recalled here; the connotations associated with it eventually alter the reader's (and the poet's) perception of the outer story from positive to negative. The vox poetae returns to condemn all ages, all relationships.
The vox poetae also opens poem 65, in which the poet begins to rework the material and themes from the previous poems. The death of his brother, following logically on the deaths caused by Achilles in poem 64, colours the poet's ability to write; but his devotion to his friend overcomes his inability and a glimmer of hope emerges in .the cycle.
Poems 66 and 67 present the opposite extremes of love: the ideally happy marriage of Ptolemy and Berenice, and the scandal-ridden relationships mentioned by the door-bride.
Poem 68 stands as a coda or summary of the entire cycle. As in poems 65 and 66, the poet is able to overcome his inability to write through the influence of his friend. He recalls the happy days of his relationship with his goddess-bride; but the allusion to the Laodamia myth is unfortunate, as it reminds the poet for the third time of his brother's death. Moreover, the details of the myth underscore how dangerous and potentially disastrous is his own relationship with his beloved.
Poems 61 to 67 show that no relationship, no marriage can be truly happy. As poem 68 concludes, the poet reassesses his attempts to idealize his relationship with his beloved. He finally accepts her faults and resolves to love her on her terms.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Canadian Women in Radical Politics and Labour, 1920-1950

contributor:
Allen, Richard
History

subject:
Politics and Labour
1920-1950 Canada

abstract:
This thesis examines the role of women in Canadian socialist parties from the 1920's to the post-World War II period, by focusing on women involved in the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the primary manifestations of organized socialism during these years. Concentrating on two regions, Ontario and the West, the thesis explores three major themes: the distinct role women played within each Party, the Party's view of the woman question, and the construction of women's committees within each Party.
The thesis explains why women were drawn to the socialist movement, assesses the successes and failures of each Party's program for women's equality, and suggests how and when feminist and socialist ideas intersected within the Canadian Left.
The written history of the Canadian Left has largely neglected socialists' views of the woman question and women's role in the CPC and CCF. Although 'women were concentrated in less powerful positions, they did play an important, and distinctive, role in the making of Canadian socialism. Moreover, attention to women's social and economic inequality was a concern of Canadian socialists. Between 1920 and 1950, however, women's emancipation was never a priority for socialists. This thesis explains some of the reasons, both internal and external to the movement, for the secondary status of the woman question. Because the CCF and CPC emerged from different ideological traditions, their views of the woman question varied, and this thesis contrasts the two Parties' definition of women's issues and their commitment to women's emancipation. At the same time, there were some similarities between the two Parties, such as their attempts to link women's maternal and domestic roles with their political consciousness. The thesis also suggests ways on which socialists' ideas resembled the earlier ideology of womanhood and reform termed 'maternal feminism' and how their ideas, shaped by a different class perspective and social context, differed from the earlier feminists.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Lucy Countess of Bedford, Jonson, and Donne

subject:
English
Lucy Countess

abstract:
This study presents a biography of Lucy Harington Russell,
Countess of Bedford (1581-1627) and a study of her influence on
the poets for whom she was patron and friend.
The biography of Lady Bedford in Chapter I includes a character
study of her husband, a comment on Lady Bedford's supposed puritanism,
and a review of the Bedford finances. Although there is an unfortunate
scarcity of information about Lady Bedford's life in the years she
was most influential as a literary patron, her life after 1612 is
well documented. In particular, thirty-six surviving letters reveal
her interests and activities, and her mature character: these are
examined in the text of this study, and reproduced in full in Appendix II.
Chapter II presents a preliminary study of Lady Bedford as a
literar; patron. It begins with a brief general comment on patronage
in the Jacobean era and a sketch of Lady Bedford's education. Lady
Bedford's relationships with Drayton, Florio and Daniel are then
outlined, and important works examined. The chapter concludes with a
brief comment on Lady Bedford's life at Twickenham, and an outline
of the suggested composition of her Twickenham circle.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: An Impoverished Direction: Moral Arguments for Legal Theories

subject:
Improverished
Moral & Legal Theory

abstract: In this dissertation, I aim to demonstrate that the debate between legal positivism and natural law theory cannot be settled through moral argumentation. To demonstrate this point, I lay out three criteria that must be fulfilled if a moral argument for a given theory is to succeed. I then examine arguments that have been put forth in the past in reference to the behaviour of citizens as well as judges. By showing the difficulty these arguments have in satisfying the three criteria, I simultaneously cast doubt on the possibility that future arguments of this kind will be successful. My aim is to put an end to a current trend in jurisprudence--choosing a conceptual theory of law on moral grounds. By doing so, I hope to refocus the debate on descriptive jurisprudence.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Materialist Study of Canadian Literary Culture at a Time of Neoliberal Globalization

contributor:
Coleman, Dr. D.L.
English

subject:
Canadian Literary
Globalization

abstract:
In this dissertation I query a notion that is prevalent among contemporary literary critics, cultural policy-makers, and media representatives in Canada: the notion that Canadian literature is national "soul-stuff" and thus not an ordinary commodity. I argue that this notion obscures the crucial nexuses at which the literary, economic, and political spheres blur inside Canada. My analysis of Canada's literary conditions under contemporary globalization examines just these nexuses. It pries apart the discourses of national literature and national identity in order to investigate how they function and onto which economic, political, and social values they project themselves.
With this approach, I do not intimate that Canadian literature does not have any non-market value. Rather, I want to draw attention to the fact that the traditional focus on literature as a trope of non-material, national values masks what is really at stake at the present moment -namely questions of "value." What are the social and political values that structure contemporary Canadian society: its political organization, public sphere, cultural production, public policies? How are literary-cultural decisions made and by whom? These questions open to scrutiny nationalist narratives of globalization, which tend to reduce contemporary processes of globalization (such as global cultural commodification) to the totalizing force of U.S. neo-imperialism. Not only is Canada's relationship to cultural imperialism, capitalism, and globalizing forces more complicated than assumed in such reasoning, but globalization also is a more complicated phenomenon than the currently widespread notion of U.S. neo-imperialism suggests.
I show that this notion has in substantial ways distracted from the active and voluntary involvement of other parties and countries in the current neoliberal restructuring of global power, which asserts as inevitable the commercialization and privatization of cultural and social goods, policies, and public functions, and the deregulation of markets. In Canada, claims of cultural-national sovereignty and strategies of cultural protection have tended to omit the fact that the increasing conversion of Canada's "national literature" in economic terms is symptom of this neoliberal restructuring process in which the Canadian government actively participates by depoliticizing its functions and handing control over markets to multinational corporations, international trade agreements, and international judicial and political instruments.
Subsequently, I propose that we should not, at this point, study (and teach) Canadian literature in order to protect a national tradition and assert the image of an autonomous literature of multicultural "Canadianness," but in order to approach the question of globalization and the issue of neoliberalism from alternative perspectives. Hence, I also distance myself from postmodernist approaches to the literary study of globalization, which tend to read the latter in purely textual terms that emphasize transnational and transcultural images and narratives. While this postmodernist focus has in many ways countered the totalizing implications of the term globalization, it has run the risk of excluding the material realities of literary globalization from its inventory of study objects. So has the more recent North American discourse of "global literary study," which has been largely limited to postmodernist idealizations and transnational histories of globalization. As an alternative to these readings, I propose a materialist literary approach that emphasizes that an understanding of the contemporary literary conditions in Canada requires an understanding of neoliberal globalization as the context within which literary studies articulates itself as an academic discipline and within which the production and consumption of literature takes place today.
Materialist literary criticism engages in a process of critical interdisciplinarity -at the junction of the fields of English-Canadian literary studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies -that is non-nationalist and unsettling of the neoliberal power structures and values that increasingly pervade universities and cultural policies and markets. The dissertation chapters explore the possibility and emphasize the actual existence of alternative globalization processes and narratives. The first chapter does so by engaging in the more recent North American debate on the literary study of globalization. The second chapter discusses the neoliberal orientation in the present practice of modernrepresentative democracy in Canada in order to test the grounds for alternative methods of more inclusive cultural decision-making, especially as it relates to literary production. In opposition to the still-prevalent modernist ideal-purported most notably by Northrop Frye and A.J .M. Smith -of a globally vanguardist Canadian literature, the study of Aboriginal and ethnic minority writers undertaken in the third chapter brings forth an "allochronic" (or differently-timed) understanding of Canadian literature, globalization, and their interrelations. The fourth chapter complicates the cultural nationalist binary of Canadian-owned, government-funded publishing and foreign-owned, market-driven publishing. It explores the idea of alternative publishing by means of interviews with small-scale Aboriginal and EuroCanadian publishers and an analysis of radical Canadian writers that publish with big publishing conglomerates such as Random House and HarperCollins.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Peacock and the Idea of Progress: A Background to the Novels of Talk

contributor:
Coldwell, James
English

subject: english progress

abstract:
This thesis examines the idea of progress in
Peacock's "novels of talk," primarily against the intellectual
background of the early nineteenth century. Although
much of it is concerned with elucidating specific
sources and probable general influences, my aim throughout
has been to show how these sources and influences operate
in the novels. As Peacock is a highly eclectic writer,
critics have found it difficult to disentangle his own
views from the many others put forward in his fiction.
By examining Peacock's treatment of what was perhaps the
most widely diffused and variously applied idea of his
century, I attempt to find grounds for reconciliation of
the many seemingly opposed views on this idea presented
in the five novels of talk.
Using Peacock's "Four Ages of Poetry" as a startingpoint,
I suggest in my introduction that Peacock's early
transition from poetry to satire had an historical premise,
rooted as it was in an eighteenth-century intellectual
tradition which viewed man's progress from a savage to a
civilized state as an advance from "rude" passion to urbane
reason. Hence comedy and satire became for Peacock
the only feasible literary forms in a "polished" age.
Turning to Peacock's fiction, I devote a chapter to each of the five novels of talk, in which I examine Peacock's
treatment of such concepts as perfectibility,
reform, primitivism, political economy, millenarianism
and so on, all concerns of Peacock's age, and all in some
way bearing on the notion of progress. Against this broad
background I analyse the narrative level of the fiction
and attempt to show how it illustrates practically the
ideas set forth on the level of discourse. My conclusion,
essentially, is that Peacock professes an optimism
tempered by informed scepticism. Peacock is convinced,
to quote from Headlong Hall, that "an amelioration in
the state of the sensitive man" is eminently possible.
While he is less optimistic about society at large, some
few rays of hope are evident in the tentative syntheses
of opinion and theory which he effects on the level of
discourse in the novels.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Indirect Ethical Discourse: Fielding, Dialogue, and Dialectic

contributor:
Rcebuck, Dr. W.G.
English

subject:
Ethical discourse
Dialectic

abstract:
The primary purpose of this inquiry is to examine the techniques of indirect ethical communication which Fielding invented, adapted, and perfected, and which may be seen at work in his novels, developed to meet what he understood to be the special needs of his readers. His innovations in the fictional communication of ethical value are explained in the context of the widespread agreement in his own time that the direct communication of ethical and religious conviction was difficult, if not impossible, because real conviction depends upon a frank, reasonable, and voluntary assent to the terms of belief.
The enquiry examines two kinds of indirect ethical discourse, which have been termed dialogue and dialectic. Dialogue in fiction consists in the interchange of ideas in conversation, including series of conflicting or complementary examples or illustrations, implicit references to other texts, and encounters between rival definitions of evaluative terms. The focal points of Fielding's dialogues are matters of some moment, such as the duties of charity, temperance, the respect due to the clergy, marriage, prudence, and the origin and scope of law.
Because the reader of satire is invited to compare what is ridiculed with a social normative referent, satire is a kind of dialogue. But certain dialogic patterns are designed to entrap the reader, forcing him to reconsider the assumptions by which he interprets the novels. This process becomes dialectical when the program of reader-implication stimulates an inward turning. The philosophical context includes both the Platonic assumption that the Good is latent in each individual, and the Anglican doctrine of assent lpersonal rsponsibility for belief) . The reader is an appropriate target for the indirect stimulation of the potential faculty of Good Nature, beginning with the reduction of cormnon but erroneous opinion (elenchus), and reaching completion with the Socratic method of "intellectual midwifery" (maieusis), which assists the reader to bring latent ideas into active life.
The enquiry undertakes a close reading of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, considering questions of comedy and the admixture of jest and earnest, deliberate artificiality of form, narrative technique, irony, reader response, and ethical discourse.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Adam and Eve in Marriage and Ministry: A Christological and Irenaean Reappraisal

contributor:
Heath, Gordon
Studebaker, Steven
Christian Theology

subject:
Marriage
Adam and Ever

abstract:
Christian theology often determines the roles of women and men based on a particular interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis 1-3. The interest is to discover what roles God has assigned for men and women in the state before the fall, hence before the entrance of sin. This dissertation argues that Christian theology of roles of women and men should be founded on Christology that upholds Christ as a model and his teachings as a guide. The roles of women and men in the creation story cannot serve as an ideal for current relationships. This argument is based on two major themes: the knowledge of life before the fall, and the conceptual framework of the creation story. Positing that a problem is induced by a particular understanding of the creation story that was proposed primarily by St. Augustine, this dissertation is also a critique of his ideas of the state before the fall and sin.
The knowledge of life addresses four issues. First, God-assigned purposes for men and women are sometimes thought knowable. However, nature as a God-assigned purpose and nature as a current structure and tendency are often confused. Second, although there are various views regarding the genre of the creation account and also about who Adam and Eve are, the consideration and evaluation of these proposed views are often neglected in current discussions of roles of women and men. Third, the creation story is God's revelation that humans understand through special revelation (scripture) and general revelation (nature, history, reason, and conscience). Nonetheless,
the interpretation of the sinless, perfect state before the fall accompanies a methodological difficulty: the world after the fall cannot adequately provide materials necessary for the interpretation of the pre-fall state. Fourth, not only through special revelation of scripture, but also through general revelation, humans encounter a challenge in accessing the pre-fall state. To know the moral perfection of Adam and Eve through reason or conscience is as difficult as to know divine perfection through general revelation.
As to the conceptual framework of the creation story, mainly two views have been proposed: the Augustinian and Irenaean. Unlike the former that depicts the human state before the fall as perfect, the Irenaean view delineates the state as good but not perfect. The examination of human callings in the creation account shows that the latter view is more appropriate than the former. The Irenaean idea of the imperfect state before the fall not only allows contemporary readers to both interpret the story and understand it noetically-so a pedagogical purpose of the creation story is achievedbut also reveals that whatever the pre-fall state ofhuman roles may have been, it was more a starting-point than an ideal for all time.
Humans are not to look to the pre-fall state as the standard for the hierarchical or egalitarian role of women today. What God has revealed ofthe kingdom of God to come in the second Adam, the perfect bearer of God's image, Jesus Christ, is a clearer and more applicable standard.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Reformed Demonology: The Theology and Practice of Spiritual Warfare in English Puritanism

contributor:
Heath, Gordon
Christian Studies

subject:
Demonology
Spiritual Warfare

abstract: The Puritan theology and practice of spiritual warfare differed in significant ways from that of their medieval precursors and their Roman Catholic contemporaries. These differences are primarily attributable to the Puritan doctrines of divine sovereignty and human depravity. Puritan theology and practice is categorized under four systematic headings of demonology: the origin and nature of Satan and his demons; demonic operations in history; how Satan assaults believers today; and how Christians can defend themselves from those assaults. Each chapter draws together the teaching found in Puritan spiritual warfare literature about that heading and demonstrates how the doctrines of divine sovereignty and human depravity undergird that teaching. The thesis concludes by proposing some historically responsible applications for modern-day spiritual warfare practitioners from the Puritans.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: EXPLORING COMPETITION BETWEEN COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE CUES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

contributor:
Christensen, Bruce
Psychology

subject: schizophrenia cognition emotion

abstract: The primary goal of this thesis was to characterize the parameters under which faulty emotion-cognition interactions emerge in Schizophrenia (SCZ). Its theoretical basis rests on neurobiological models specifying two related, yet independent, brain systems that govern how cognitive versus emotional processing impacts behaviour, and related research indicating differential impairment of the cognitive system in SCZ. These models predict that the disruptive impact of emotional information may be greatest when it is actionable and signals a competing response. However, most previous research on patients with SCZ has focused on the influence of extraneous emotional interference on primary cognitive processing. Thus, the central hypothesis guiding these experiments was that patients with SCZ will have the most difficulty prioritizing goal-directed, cognitive response cues in the face of countermanding emotional cues which impel an alternative response. Several different experimental tasks were used to interrogate this hypothesis, at both the behavioural and neural level. Overall, the results confirm that SCZ patients have difficulty prioritizing cognitive determinants of behaviour when emotion-laden information serves as an actionable and opposing response cue. However, the data are not conclusive; effect sizes were generally modest and results were not entirely consistent across studies. Therefore, while these experiments support dual-system neurobiological models of SCZ-related brain pathology, and provide interesting tentative suggestions for novel clinical approaches to treatment and remediation, further research is needed to fully understand dysregulated emotion-cognition antagonism in this clinical population.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)