title: Hyster/Historia: Women of Woe in Three Renaissance History Plays

contributor:
Gough, Melinda
English

abstract: This thesis focuses generally on the critically neglected area of stock characterisation in Renaissance history plays. Specifically, it examines the role of stock women characters in these plays, particularly the "wailing woman" type. My readings of three plays - John Bale's King Johan, Thomas Preston's Cambises, and William Shakespeare's King John - challenge typical twentieth-century approaches to them. In addition, I prove that feminist critics in general, though they often refute the assertions of other twentieth-century critics, tend to make the same mistakes as their non-feminist contemporaries in their analyses of female characterisation. While feminist criticisms purport to reassert the importance of female dramatic characterisation, they often discredit female characters' power, even during their identification of it. My thesis redresses these issues, emphasising the essential power of stock characterisation in Renaissance histories and arguing the centrality of "women of woe" in these three plays.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Studies on Tumor Antigens of Adenovirus Type 5

contributor:
Bayley, S.T.
Biology

subject: Biology Biology

abstract:
The polypeptides specified by the transforming region of the Adenovirus 5 (Ad 5) genome have been studied by immunoprecipitating antigens (using the double antibody and protein A-Sepharose methods) from cells transformed by Ad 5 and from cells infected with Ad 5 wild type (wt) or host range mutants. Three different antisera were used: P antiserum specific for early viral products (Russel et al, 1967) and two hamster tumor antisera. With both the double antibody and protein A-Sepharose methods, all three antisera immunoprecipitated a 58,000 dalton polypeptide from wt-infected KB cells, while P antiserum precipitated additional polypeptides of molecular weight 72,000, 67,000 and 44,000. When the double antibody method was used, P antiserum and the hamster tumor antisera also immunoprecipitated a 10,500 dalton protein which was not observed with the protein A-Sepharose method. The Ad 5 hr mutants fall into two complementation groups designated I and II, both of which exhibit defective transformation activity (Harrison et al, 1977; Graham et al, 1979). In group I mutant infected cells, little 10,500 dalton protein was observed relative to that found with wt infected cells, whereas very little or no 58,000 dalton polypeptide was immunoprecipitated from cells infected with mutants from complementation group II. Since a 58,000 dalton antigen was also found in a number of Ad 5 transformed cell lines, but was not detected in the cells infected with transformation defective group II mutants, it was concluded that the 58,000 dalton protein may be involved in the induction and/or maintenance of transformation.

Collett and Erikson (1978) have reported that the transformation gene product of Rous sarcoma virus is associated with protein kinase activity. Studies were undertaken to determine whether similar activity was also associated with the tumor antigens of Ad 5. The products immunoprecipitated from wt Ad 5 infected cells using tumor antisera were found to catalyse the transfer of ³²P from (γ-³²P) ATP into protein. Very little of this activity was observed with extracts from mock infected cells or when non-immune sera were used. The Ad 5 hr mutants were found to induce less protein kinase activity than wt virus. Evidence is presented suggesting that this activity is associated with early viral functions. Protein kinase activity was also detected in immunoprecipitates from Ad 5-transformed rat cells.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Gender Matrix in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)

contributor:
Walmsley, Peter
English

subject:
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: This thesis examines discursive constructions of the subject in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Demmark (1796) and how the gendering of cultural discourses impacts the narrator's identity. Frequently read as a proto-Romantic text, the Scandinavian Letters actually narrativize the clash between the dominant rationalism of modem capitalist society and the aesthetic and moral philosophies of the eighteenth-century 'cult of sensibility.' The intersection of discourses generates a gender matrix out of which emerges a fragmented writing subject who moves between a masculine observing 'self' and a feminine objectified 'other,' focusing alternately on outward gazing eyes and inwardly contemplative I's. This vacillation coincides with the narrator's ambivalence, produced by ideologies of sexual and cultural difference and, in tum, producing the dialectical movement between desire and disavowal manifest in the Letters' melancholy form and content. Sites of intertextuality reflect the melancholic subject's divided psychology, which, despite being constituted in and by 'naturalized' discourses of difference, reveals the constructedness of gender/sex and the limitations of compulsory heterosexuality.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Artifice and Signification in South African English Poetry

contributor:
Dale, James
English

abstract: This thesis examines contemporary South African Poetry In English. South African post-Sharpeville poetry is fraught with peculiarities of style, form and subject-matter, and the thesis primarily focusses on revealing how the poets' techniques bring out the messages. The approach will in the main be both centripetal and centrifugal, and depth of coverage may in some instances compromise breadth of coverage, or vice versa. Special attention is given to the poetry of Oswald Mtshali, Sipho Sepamla, Wopko Jensma and Peter Horn. Space and time constraints have imposed some limitations as to the inclusion or non-inclusion of poets' works, and consequence has not been the sole consideration.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Account and Accountability: Patrol Constables' Perceptions of Wife Assault Sensitivity Training, A Qualitative Evaluation

contributor:
Haas, J.
Sociology

subject: Sociology Sociology

abstract: This study is a qualitative evaluation of in-service wife assault sensitivity training provided to patrol constables. The stakeholder group from which the perspective is sought is patrol constables. In applying a contextual constructionist analysis to the study, I demonstrate that constables' rejection of the training largely stemmed from organizational factors (in particular, workplace accountability concerns) as well as constables' claims to define their own account of the violence. In addition, the feminist account of wife assault (which informs the training) is revealed to contain inconsistencies, contradictions, dramatizations, and oversimplifications. Overall, this study challenges the popular view of sensitivity training as a panacea for attitude change in the workplace.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Island and the Word: The Nature of Language in Robinson Crusoe

abstract:
Robinson Crusoe bears signs of an uneasy reconciliation of two contradictory notions of language. The first of these is the idea, current in Defoe's day, that language has retained something of the divinely-granted power it had for Adam in the Garden of Eden and that, between names and things, there a relationship guaranteed by God. The second not ion is to be found in John LocKe's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. There, LocKe argues that the relationship between words and things is arbitrary and purely a matter of convention.

This thesis seeks to demonstrate how in Robinson Crysoe Defoe attempts to reclaim for language the sacred power it had possessed for Adam by subsuming the desacralized conception of language we find in LocKe within a larger, essentially Adamic In the f irE.t chapter, it is argued that, to date, the criticism of Robinson Crusoe haehas failed to acKnowledge fully the depth of anxiety the novel displays towards language. The possible sources of this tension are traced in the second chapter and, in the third, I examine how the Adamic and LocKean theories manifest themselves in the novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Characterization of ERK2 as a Transcriptional Repressor of Growth Arrest Specific Genes

contributor:
Bedard, Andre
Cameron, Robin
Elliot, Marie
Biology

subject:
ERK2
p20K
Quiescence
Growth Arrest
C/EBP-B
Transcription
Cell Biology
Cell Biology

abstract:
The study of growth arrest specific (GAS) genes is critical for our understanding of quiescence cell states. C/EBP-β is a transcriptional activator which is central to the expression of GAS genes in growth arrested cells. C/EBP-β is involved in the activation of numerous pathways, including mitogenesis, cytokine signaling, stress response, etc. Thus, it requires signaling cues which confer specificity in terms of gene expression.

Here we used the p20K gene in chicken embryonic fibroblasts as a model system to study the control mechanisms of GAS genes. p20K is expressed in conditions such as contact inhibition mediated growth arrest and mild hypoxia. Here we explored the control mechanism mediated by ERK2 at the p20K promoter (QRU), as a mode of regulation which confers C/EBP-β binding specificity.

In this study we demonstrate that ERK2 is recruited to the QRU in proliferative cells, i.e. where p20K is repressed. Using ChIP analysis we show that ERK2 binds directly to the QRU in proliferative cell states, but not in growth arrested cell conditions. Using a similar approach we demonstrate that ERK2 binding to the QRU is lost in states of hypoxia, where p20K is strongly induced. Furthermore, we show that this interaction is specific to ERK2 and is not observed with the related ERK1 kinase. Lastly, we employed transient expression assays to illustrate that ERK2 acts as a transcriptional repressor of the QRU. Through these experiments we have illustrated that ERK2 mediated transcriptional repression is a novel control mechanism at the QRU which skews C/EBP-β mediated signaling networks in proliferating cells.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Newly Emerging Environmental Health Risks in a Risk Society: A case study of the public perception of food allergies

contributor:
Elliott, Susan J.
Newbold, Bruce K.
Clarke, Ann
Geography and Earth Sciences

subject: Environmental Health Risks; Emerging Risks; Food Allergies

subject: Human Geography

subject: Human Geography

abstract:
Pre-modern societies were subjected to risks attributed to fate, and human-made hazards that were considered manageable. Late-modern society is increasingly exposed to emerging environmental health risks that are products of the modernization process itself (e.g. genetically modified organisms). These risks result from broad changes in the environment and/or human activity. Some of these provoke high public perceptions of risk, and often institutions and communities must respond to these in the absence of scientific knowledge.

This dissertation explores the determinants of the perception of food allergies – a recent addition to the environmental risk landscape. A recently assembled national database on food allergies was analyzed using multivariate logistic regression (n=3,462). In parallel, a media analysis of nine years of Canadian newspaper coverage of food allergy issues (n = 598 articles) explored the role of a primary source of risk communication.

Results revealed a number of important determinants at the individual-level , as well as a number of experiential (e.g. exposure to food allergy-related information) and attitudinal covariates . The policy environment, was also implicated as an important modifying factor for risk perceptions. The media analysis revealed how food allergies are being constructed by different social actors through the news media, with substantial implications for public understanding. The dissertation concludes with a description of a conceptual framework for characterizing public response to emerging environmental health. This tool may prove crucial for increasing the understanding of the links between people, perceptions, and places as new environmental risks continue to emerge on the landscape.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: EVOLUTION OF ALLERGEN RESPONSIVENESS DURING DEVELOPMENT

contributor:
Jordana, Manel
Dawn Bowdish, Martin Stampfli
Dawn Bowdish, Martin Stampfli
Health Sciences

subject:
allergic asthma
immunology
development
Medical Immunology
Medical Immunology

abstract:
Background: Early infancy is a critical period during which the interplay between host and environmental factors influences susceptibility to allergic sensitization, a process that can also be construed as a failure to induce tolerance. Indeed, allergic asthma emerges, in most instances, in early childhood although the specific intervals of protection or susceptibility remain to be elucidated. We found that exposure to a concentration of allergen, house dust mite (HDM), that normally induces robust airway inflammation in adult mice elicits negligible immune-inflammatory responses in infant mice.

Methods: We investigated immune-inflammatory responses in mice exposed to 25 μg of HDM intranasally for 10 consecutive days at different points in development (3, 4, 5 and 7 weeks of age). We delineated the immune cell profile in the lungs of naïve mice from birth to adulthood, focusing on markers of immune maturation and immunosuppression. Moreover, we studied the impact of T-regulatory cell (Treg) depletion with the use of α-CD25 antibodies administered intraperitoneally one day prior to the start of HDM exposures, and then again on day 6 of the above protocol.

Results: Our data show that there is a progressive acquisition of immune-inflammatory responsiveness to HDM in BALB/c mice as exposures are initiated later in development, evidenced by total cell number and eosinophilia in the BAL and serum HDM-specific IgG1 levels. Additionally, there is an immunological shift that occurs in the infant lung during development in that the early immunosuppressive environment, defined by T-regulatory cells and immunosuppressive alveolar macrophages, subsides as the capacity to respond to ensuing immune challenges, defined by natural killer (NK) cell, dendritic cell (DC) and alveolar macrophage (AM) maturation, increases. Specifically, in regards to the immunosuppressive lung environment during infancy, we identified higher baseline levels of CD25+Foxp3+CD101+ and CD25+Foxp3high Tregs, i.e. those with more potent suppressive ability. These populations also expand following HDM exposure in both adult and infant mice. Interestingly, 2 week-old infant mice depleted of Tregs or exposed to a very high dose of HDM (125 μg) overcome the natural immunosuppressive environment resulting in the acquisition of HDM responsiveness, as manifested by robust Th2 immune-inflammatory responses, comparable to that observed in 8 week-old adult mice.

Conclusion/Implications: Together, our data suggest that the hyporesponsiveness to HDM very early in life may be explained by two connected events: a) the inherent immunosuppressive environment in the lung, and b) the immaturity of the machinery for effective immune responses. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a disruption in the homeostatic immune balance in infancy, Treg depletion in this case, may lead to the imprinting of aberrant immune-inflammatory responses, like allergen sensitization. Thus, the inherent immunosuppressive environment in infancy may have long-term implications on allergen responsiveness.

abstract: Master of Science in Medical Sciences (MSMS)


title: The Emerging Political Party System in Russia: 1986-1992

contributor:
Potichnyj, Peter J.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This thesis investigates the emerging political party system in Russia, from the beginnings of pluralism in 1986 through 1992. It does so in the context of the theoretical and methodological implications of the literature on transitions to democracy, and with reference to literature on political party systems. This thesis examines the beginnings of independent group activity, the groups' formation into movements and blocs and their participation in elections, and their evolution into proto-parties as the USSR collapsed and the Russian state gained independence and its own identity.

The literature on transitions to democracy is agency-oriented, in that it places an emphasis on political parties in the transition process. While it is unclear at this point in time whether Russia is indeed undergoing a transition to democracy, proto-parties in Russia have played - and will continue to play - a key role in the transformation of Russia from Communism to post-Communism. The future shape and structure of the Russian multi-party system is, however, difficult to predict, because of the nascent and immature nature of the system in the time period this paper examines.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Orientations Toward the Past in the Environment of the Present: Retrospect in Metropolitan Toronto

contributor:
Gentilcore, R.L.
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract:
This study explores the nature of human retrospection. Emphasis is placed on defining underlying orientations toward the past, examining the relationships between retropective dispositions and attitudes and behaviour, establishing socio-demographic and geographic variations in past orientation, and evaluating interest group differences in retrospection. Attention is focused on the past in the environment of the present.

Four basic dispositions are defined and measured in an extensive survey of Metropolitan Toronto residents' retrospective orientations. Residents maintain foremost, a broadly based and largely undifferentiated interest in the past. More specific and restricted are dispositions toward direct experience with the past environment, appreciation of heritage, and conservation of prehistorical and historical resources. Involvement with the past assumes a wide variety of forms. Although few residents join historical societies, many participate in visiting old places and seeking out vestiges. Greater numbers choose passive involvements like reading or reminiscing about the past. Whereas past appreciation largely demands involvement for Torontonians, it is personal and casual rather than formal. Residents maintain highly favourable attitudes toward the past. Responses to statements of belief and behavioural intentions regarding utilization of the past indicate strong sensitivity toward the historical environment. The Toronto research confirms that dispositions toward the past align the development of retrospective attitudes and focus involvement with the past.

Peoples' retrospective views and reactions to the past vary. In Toronto, city dwellers are generally more positively disposed toward it than their suburban counterparts and accordingly demonstrate greater involvemnet with and more affirmative attitudes toward the past in the present. Social class group affirmation of the past in dispositions, attitudes and involvement declines from the upper through the lower classes. Toronto experience, and urban experience in general, enhance positive sentiments. Older people maintain stronger feelings for cultural heritage whereas younger residents tend to exhibit more positive feelings for conserving the past and engaging in direct experience with it. Although heritage appreciation is culture specific to Toronto, historical conservation and a popularized communion with survivals transcend culture group ties. Striking, however, are the strong positive sentiment toward the past, the substantial involvment with it, and the uniformity in retrospective attitudes among the respondents as a whole.

Toronto residents, Ontario Archaeological Society members and professionals maintain largely identical retrospective dispositions. However, the relative strength of these dispositions and the effects they have on attitudes and behaviour vary among the groups. For both the O.A.S. and the professionals, adherence to group ideals, objectives and policies tend to align dispositions and prescribe attitudes and behaviour. Since professionals, and interest groups like the O.A.S., initiate and develop preservation and presentation policies, variations among groups suggest that current policies require reappraisal. The strong positive sentiment toward the past and the substantial involvement with it among Toronto residents also carry policy implications.

The major contributions of this research, however, are conceptual and substantive advances in understanding human retrospection in the urban environment. The study clarifies relationships among the past which persists, that which is recognized, and that which elicits attitudinal and behavioural responses. The idea that distinct, enduring dispositions underlie retrospective cognition, attitudes and behaviour substantially furthers understanding of past orientations and advances the theory of environmental cognition. Since these dimension are not place specific, they enhance understanding of human views of the past environment in general. The affective nature of retrospective dispositions facilitates prediction of human orientations toward the past. Although Toronto's history is unique, the way Torontonians view the past is not necessarily so. The kinds of past recognized have relevance in other Canadian urban settings; the dimensions of past recognized have an even broader significance.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Characterizing the Role of Bmi1 in Human Brain Tumour Initiating Cells

contributor:
Singh, Sheila
Neuroscience

subject:
Bmi1
Cancer
Glioblastoma
Brain Tumour Initiating Cell
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences

abstract: Bmi1 is a member of the Polycomb Group proteins and has been demonstrated as being vital in stem cell regulation. Bmi1 is overexpressed in many cancers, including glioblastoma, and has been shown to regulate cancer cell self-renewal and proliferation both in vitro and in vivo. This study aimed to determine if Bmi1 modulates brain tumour initiating cell properties using a spontaneous primary glioblastoma cell line and a commercial glioblastoma cell line. To determine the role of Bmi1 in glioblastoma cells, stem cell assays and in vivo analysis of tumour formation was performed on both control cells and Bmi1 knockdown cells. In both cell lines, Bmi1 was found to play a positive regulatory role in stem cell properties. When Bmi1 was knocked down in brain tumour initiating cells, properties such as self-renewal, proliferation and tumour formation were impaired compared to control cells. This study supports recent literature which shows that Bmi1 regulates stem cell properties in glioblastoma cells and supports the potential use of Bmi1 as a therapeutic target in glioblastoma brain tumours.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: IMPACT OF SCALING ON NOISE BEHAVIOR OF SUB-100NM MOSFETS

contributor:
Chen, Chih-Hung
N. Nikolova, M. Bakr
N. Nikolova, M. Bakr
Electrical and Computer Engineering

subject:
impact of scaling
noise modeling
MOSFETs
thermal noise
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering

abstract:
This thesis presents the noise characterization, modeling, and simulation of deep sub-100nm bulk MOSFETs and predicts the noise behavior for future technology nodes. There are two main subjects discussed in this thesis. First, we present the impact of scaling of MOSFETs on channel thermal noise. Second, we investigate how the technology development can affect noise performance of a single transistor.

In the first topic, analytical MOSFET channel thermal noise expressions are presented and verified. We calibrate our model using experimental data from devices in 60 nm technology node. The technology scaling issue of MOSFETs on noise performance is also examined by applying the parameters predicted in the International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductor (ITRS).

In the second topic, a new figure of merit, namely equivalent noise sheet resistance, is defined for the first time to demonstrate the impact of scaling. This new figure of merit represents the intrinsic part of the equivalent noise resistance that excludes the geometry information of the device, which captures the technology related parameters of transistors. By defining equivalent noise sheet resistance, we can provide process information not only for IC designers but also for process engineers.

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: Cross-Cultural Musical Diversity and Implications for its Use in Studying Human Migration

contributor:
Brown, Steven
Psychology

subject:
AMOVA
musical diversity
migration
Austronesian
population structure
genetics
Biological and Physical Anthropology
Biological and Physical Anthropology

abstract: Music is greatly underappreciated in the scope of cross-cultural analysis. This is due in part to methodological problems plaguing recent comparative approaches, and modern ethnomusicology’s stance against cross-cultural analysis. Language, on the other hand, has a long history of cross-cultural study and recent advances in quantitative techniques, borrowed mostly from biology, have put language at the forefront of studying population prehistory from a cultural perspective. Chapter 2 of this thesis presents a novel quantitative approach to studying cross-cultural musical diversity based on the AMOVA methodology borrowed from population genetics. This method allows researchers to quantify the amount of variability found between as well as within populations, and gives us a measure of population-level divergence that accounts for intra-population variability. Our major finding is that the vast majority of musical variability (~98%) is found within populations rather than between. This approach solves many of the quantitative issues with the original Cantometrics approach, and is widely applicable to the analysis of many domains of culture. Aside from methodological issues a major open question is whether music has the requisite time-depth to answer questions about recent human pre-history. Chapter 3 focuses on addressing this question generally, and more specifically investigating which musical features trace population history most effectively. Using a corpus of songs from 9 Taiwanese aboriginal tribes and quantitative methods from chapter 2, we show that features related to song structure are correlated with mitochondrial DNA data from the same populations, while features of singing style are not. Both the quantitative methods and provisional support for music’s time depth presented here will hopefully usher in a new era of comparative musicology and provide scholars of pre-history with an additional tool to answer unresolved questions.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: TEACHING SCIENCE TO THE BLIND

contributor:
Humphreys, D. A.
Richardson, R. J.
Teaching

subject: Biology

subject: Teacher Education and Professional Development

subject: Biology

abstract:
This project is intended to be of assistance to all teachers of science. Teaching strategies that were developed for this project and used at the Ontario School for the Blind can prove valuable in other areas of teaching. For example, students with low motivation can benefit from a very concrete curriculum. Even teachers at the OAC level will find that tactile diagrams and models are useful in presenting abstract theories. Whether students are blind or sighted, the use of specialized operational tactile definitions can enrich their understanding of concepts and theories and encourage a multisensory approach to gathering information.

The process of teaching science to a visually handicapped student is presented and teaching strategies and adaptations are provided to enhance concept development for high school biology, chemistry and physics. Laboratory procedures and safety considerations are also examined and an outline of the use of microcomputers for educating the visually handicapped is included.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: The Subject and Consensus: A Critique of Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Defense of Liberalism

contributor:
Allen, Barry
Philosophy

subject: Philosophy Philosophy

abstract: Richard Rorty's pragmatic defense of liberalism rests on the claim that liberals should be loyal to the liberal consensus because they can only work by the values and beliefs they have been acculturated in. I argue that if liberals work by their own lights, then it does not follow that they should be loyal to liberalism. Instead, liberals should be loyal only to their complete stock of beliefs and values, as this, rather than the liberal consensus, fully represents the beliefs and values the liberal has been acculturated in. Two false premises lead to Rorty's erroneous conclusion. The first is that liberals are mono cultural, meaning they are acculturated only in one community - the liberal community. The second is that liberals are unreflective followers of the liberal consensus. Against the first claim, I show that liberals typically belong to a variety of communities and this allows the liberal to rationally reject liberal beliefs and values and even liberalism outright. Against the second claim, I show that liberals have a more subject-centered rationality than Rorty accounts for in his description of reason. This subject-centered reason allows liberals to take a critically reflective attitude towards the liberal consensus. Without the assumptions I criticize, Rorty's pragmatic defense of liberalism falters and fails.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Hannah Arendt: Re-Thinking "The Social"

contributor:
Planinc, Zdravko
Religious Sciences

subject: Religion Religion

abstract: This work connects two central texts by Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition and Thinking, volume one of The Life of the Mind. My approach will be to examine the rise of "the social" as outlined in The Human Condition, followed by a consideration of Arendt's response to this rise in Thinking. In doing so we will observe that both action and thought are grounded in the human condition of plurality.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "A Christ-Like, All-Embracing" Method: From Tragic to Compassionate in Selected Novels of Arnold Bennett

contributor:
Ferns, John
English

abstract: Arnold Bennett is best known for the realistic description in his work; few critics examine his success as a technician, and the general opinion of Bennett has been formed by essays written by famous critics who were unable to see what Bennett had achieved in his work. This thesis will show how Bennett's novels progressed from a tragic method in Anna of the Five Towns (1902) to an entirely non-tragic method in the Clayhanger trilogy (1910-16). Bennett's novels show a progression away from a tragic method, and towards a method that emerges from Bennett's developing idea that a great novelist must possess a "Christ-like, all embracing compassion" (Journal, 15 October 1896). Compassion is the defining characteristic of the method of Bennett's serious novels in this period. This understanding of Bennett's novels not only accounts for the structure of the novels themselves, but also helps to illuminate the nature of Bennett's place in the Edwardian period and in English fiction as a whole.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Politics of Envy: Envy in Aristotle's Political Thought

contributor:
Lewis, Thomas J.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract: Political theorists have identified envy to be of political concern. While it is generally agreed that certain forms of envy are socially disruptive, there is relatively little agreement as to the nature of this threat, and how to address it. This difference seems to stem from different understandings of the nature of the emotion itself. This thesis examines the place of envy within the context of Aristotle's political philosophy. Aristotle, it is argued, has an accurate understanding of the nature of envy and he offers a political arrangement that seems to successfully undermine the most socially dangerous forms of envy, without compromising the potential for social progress. Aristotle recognizes that envy arises when one is insecure or anxious with respect to their own self-worth. He presents a political arrangement that is designed to engender a more secure basis for individual self-worth, which is also feasible among those who lack this security.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Monsters at Home and Abroad: The Crisis of White Male Identity in Four British Novels of lmperial Terror

contributor:
Smith, Melissa
English

abstract: This thesis employs a postcolonial perspective to explore the construction of white English male identity in four supernatural novels by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker: A Strange Story (1862); She (1887); Dracula (1897); and Lair of the White Worm (1911). The examination of this privileged subject position in late Victorian and Edwardian culture enables a new understanding of the techniques of imperialism. The thesis focusses in particular on two of imperialism's most pervasive supporting discourses: empiricism and science. In this critical context, the expression of imperial anxieties in the supernatural fiction of these eras might be understood as strategies of retrenchment and the call to vigilance for empire's privileged subjects. The sub-genre in which these four novels participate, which Patrick Brantlinger has called "imperiai Gothic," both expresses and attempts to supress the fear of foreign forces, manifesting in the texts as foreign monsters, which not only attack the protagonists, but threaten to subvert the foundations of their scientific and philosophical systems. The shift in the construction of science as an individual pursuit to its deployment as a means to guarantee the purity of the British "race" is revealed as a partial response to increasing concern over imperial security.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Famous Violinists and their Critics: New York City, 1900 to 1930

contributor:
Koníček, Zdeněk
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticsm
Music
Music

abstract: This thesis examines a number of significant violin performances which took place in New York City between the years 1900 and 1930, as seen through the writings of five prominent American reviewers. In so doing, it illustrates, not only the developing trends in violin playing at that time, but also critical reaction to those trends and, as well, exposes the individual characteristics, both musical and literary, of the critics themselves. Short biographical sketches on the violinists and critics have been included. An analysis of early recordings has been added at the end of each chapter as a means of comparing critical statements with examples of actual recorded sound.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Radiation enhanced reactivation of irradiated human adenovirus type 2 in human cells

contributor:
Rainbow, A.J.
Biology

subject: Biology Biology

abstract:
Radiation-enhanced reactivation (ER) of a radiation-damaged mammalian virus is the term given to the observation that the survival of irradiated virus can be enhanced by irradiation of an appropriate host cell prior to infection. In this work, both UV enhanced reactivation (UVER) and gamma-ray-enhanced reactivation (γRER) of irradiated human adenovirus type 2 (Ad 2) were studied in a variety of normal and DNA repair-deficient human fibroblast host cell strains. In order to examine the lesion specificity of ER in human cells, experiments were performed using UV-irradiated and γ-irradiated virus. The investigation was carried out using a sensitive technique of indirect immunofluorescence, according to which irradiated and unirradiated cell cultures were infected with irradiated or unirradiated Ad 2 and were subsequently examined for the presence of viral structural antigens ('V' Ag) at a fixed time after infection.

In normal cells, γRER was found to operate on UV-irradiated as well as on γ-irradiated virus, and the efficiency of γRER for Ad 2 Vag was somewhat greater for γ-irradiated (E ~ 0.52) than for UV-irradiated (E ~ 0.39) virus. UVER was also found to operate on both UV-irradiated virus and γ-irradiated virus, although the efficiency of UVER for γ-irradiated virus (E ~ 0.18) was slightly less than that for UV-irradiated virus (E ~ 0.24). Although caffeine was found to inhibit both UVER and γRER in these cells under the conditions of the assay used, the results of time course experiments indicated that UVER and γRER operate via different mechanisms, at least in part.

Cockayne's syndrome (CS) fibroblasts, as well as excision repair-deficient Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) fibroblasts from complementation groups A and D, were generally proficient in γRER of irradiated Ad 2, although there were intrinsic differences in the levels of γRER expressed in different cell strains. These strains also expressed UVER at levels comparable to those observed in normal fibroblasts, for UV-irradiated as well as for ϒ-irradiated virus. In these strains, however, the UVER profiles exhibited peaks whose positions were shifted to lower UV doses to the cells, relative to that for normal cells. Although the level of UVER for γ-irradiated virus was consistently lower than that for UV-irradiated virus in these cells, the peak UVER positions for UV-irradiated virus and γ-irradiated virus were very similar, if not identical, and these UV doses corresponded to approximately the same UV survival of the host cells themselves. Excision repair-proficient XP variant cells expressed only low levels of γRER and UVER, suggesting a possible role for cellular postreplication repair in the mechanism responsible for ER in human cells. An excision-deficient XP fibroblast strain belonging to complementation groupA, but derived from a patient afflicted with the severe De Sanctis-Cacchione form of XP, was found to express no γRER of UV-irradiated Ad 2, and was absolutely deficient in UVER of either UV-irradiated or γ-irradiated virus.

The results are discussed in terms of the hypersensitivity of CS and XP cells to certain DNA-damaging agents, their UV-hypermutability, as well as the DNA repair deficiencies known or thought to be harboured by these cells. Enhanced virus reactivation in mammalian cells is believed to be analogous to Weigle reactivation (WR) of irradiated phage in E. coli. WR is one of a number of so-called "SOS" functions which are induced in E.coli by various mutagens and which include error-prone repair of phage and bacterial DNA.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Towards an Authentic Interpretation of Mendelssohn's Organ Works

contributor:
Hall, Frederick A.
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticsm
Music
Music

abstract:
A steady decline in the quality of organ literature began around the time of J. S. Bach's death (1750) , and continued into the early decades o f the nineteenth century. Through the publication of his Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 37 (1837) and the Six Sonatas, Op. 65 (1845), Mendelssohn brought an end to the most decadent period in the history of German organ music. It may justly be said that he founded the modern school of organ composition.

Performers, teachers and critics frequently approach Mendelssohn's organ works from the perspective of the late nineteenth-century "symphonie" tradition, thus presenting a complete distortion of the composer's intentions. It is the purpose of this thesis to establish an historically accurate performance practice for Mendelssohn's important and unique contribution to the organ repertoire.

Many sources and documents from the period are available. Mendelssohn's performing career as a virtuoso organist (an area largely ignored by his biographers and music historians) is documented in his own letters and contemporary critique s of his concerts. These sources preserve considerable information on the subject of Mendelssohn's organ playing. It has been possible, through a study of the instruments on which he is known to have played, together with research into contemporary treatises on performance practice and organ building, to establish guidelines for a valid and accurate approach to the performance of Mendelssohn's organ works. Using these guidelines as criteria for evaluation, all presently available performing editions and recordings of his organ works have been critically examined from the perspective of historical accuracy.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Study of Reinhold Schneider through Biography and Translation

contributor:
Widmaier, F. T.
German

subject:
German
German Language and Literature
German Language and Literature

abstract:
This thesis consists of a biography of Reinhold Schneider and a translation of two stories which appeared in his 1943 collection of short stories entitled Die Dunkle Nacht. Each story is followed by notes which give explanations concerning historical background, biblical concepts and expressions, and problems in translation. The Bibliography is divided into "Works Cited" and "Works Consulted" for the reader who wishes to do further research on this author.

The purpose of this thesis is to provide the English-speaking reader with an introduction to Reinhold Schneider, one of the few people who both wrote and published anti-Nazi literature within Germany during the Second World War. This courageous writer, who saw his role as giving his people "a helping word", sought to direct them back to the Absolute, revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. He also reminded them that the conscience is an indestructible part of man. The emphasis of this thesis presents itself equally in both Parts One and Two to show that Schneider deserved such names as "a voice in the wilderness" and "Germany's conscience" during this difficult period of history.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Shandean Matrices

contributor:
Blewett, David L.
English

subject:
English
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract:
The purpose of this inquiry is to examine Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy in the light of certain modern considerations of language, and according to models derived from Arthur Koestler's Act of Creation. Koeslter's fundemental concept, the bisociation of matrices, can be used to analyse various aspects of a text: I have chosen primarily to examine Sterne's depiction of the human mind in his most famous work.

The introduction explains the basic concepts of bisociation and the matrix. The notion that the psychological matrix is an artificial and therefore significantly limited construct is implicit in Act of creation. My particular consideration has been influenced by a variety of contemporary considerations of language and structural models, or, matrices, as Koestler calls them. The writings of Jacques Derrida, post-structuralist questionings of models as asolutes, the feminist critiques of objective thinking (found in the writings of Mary Daley, and Julie Kristeva, among others), and the use of models to explain human psychology all present-- in highly varied ways-- the notion that human-constructed models are selective and require the suppression of many elements which the constructor deems irrelevant. The introduction indicates that related notions may be found in past critical examinations of Sterne's works.

The first chapter briefly examines the psychology of Sterne's day, and attempts to show the affinity those concepts have with more recent examinations of the mind.

The second chapter examines the character of Walter Shandy, a representation of a mind which regards its organizational matrices as absolutes, and the comic frustration which this character encounters. The relationship between organizational matrices and the forces which disrupt them is further investigated in a consideration of Walter Shandy's theory of noses. The third chapter examines the link between Walter and those characters who percieve the frangibility of matrices and the limits of human thought. Tobias Shandy represents a mind which is monomaniacal, but can nonetheless play with those forces which inevitably disrupt human organization.

Those minds which have some understanding of what Koestler terms bisociation and the limits of human understanding, are examined in the fourth and fifth chapters. One of the essential differences which exists between these characters-- Parson Yorick and Tristram Shandy-- is the former's apparent belief ln an absolute, though imperfectly understood matrix.

The final chapter considers the chaos of Sterne's narrative in the light of the implication, clearly present in tristram Shandy, that all human organization is inherently limited. Sterne, like many contemporary writers, perceives human matrices as necessary, but imperfect and therefore inclined to failure.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Musical Evolution and Human Migration: Classification, Quantification, and Application

contributor:
Brown, Steven
Laurel Trainor, Jonathan Stone
Laurel Trainor, Jonathan Stone
Psychology

subject:
Music
cultural evolution
migration
genetics
Taiwan
Cantometrics
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology

abstract: The cross-cultural study of music is important to our understanding of the evolution of human biological and cultural diversity. Early comparative musicologists failed to develop rigorous scientific methods for studying this, and the modern-day fields of music cognition and ethnomusicology still lack such methods. In this thesis, I describe our attempts to design new methods for classifying and quantifying cross-cultural musical diversity and to apply these methods to the study of musical evolution and migration. Using a new method of classifying songs, we analyzed 421 songs from 16 indigenous tribes in Taiwan and the Philippines. We found striking parallels between musical and genetic diversity, both in the degree of diversity found within each culture and in the patterns of similarities between cultures. These findings suggest that music may be subject to similar processes of evolution and migration as are genes. A new, multidisciplinary, and scientifically-grounded comparative musicology may thus provide a new line of evidence to complement and integrate existing research into the complex relationship between music, biology, and culture.

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: On the Margins of the Mainstream: Queen, the Rock Press, and Gender

contributor:
Fast, Susan
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticsm
Music
Music

abstract:
This thesis aims to account for the marginalization of the British rock band Queen by the press and in scholarly writing, despite their enormous popular appeal and commercial success. Why have they not been critically acclaimed as part of "mainstream" rock? This thesis proposes that gender issues lie at the center of the band's marginalization. Lead singer Freddie Mercury's stage persona, the types of music on which Queen drew, and Brian May's guitar playing all serve to "feminize" the band and, as such, provoked their critical dismissal.

Chapter One surveys American and British journalistic writing spanning Queen's twenty year career, revealing a consistently negative reception of the band by the press, despite Queen's acceptance by audiences worldwide. This lack of critical acclaim may in part account for Queen's continued absence from the rock canon as it is currently being constructed in historical surveys of rock and in scholarly writings. Chapters Two and Three investigate Queen's challenge to accepted gender conventions in rock music. An analysis of Mercury's costumes, physical gestures, and demeanor in performance, and of the classical music appropriations in the bands' music which, it is argued, worked to feminize their sound, will reveal how Queen resisted the common codes of masculinity that dominate hard rock music. In so doing, they challenged the foundations of rock which privilege masculine constructions, resulting in their marginalization.

This exploration of Queen's marginalization hinges on the larger issue of what is and is not accepted as mainstream in popular music culture. This is a dubious labeling process, as it devalues the listening experiences of many musical subcultures, situating them as Other in relation to the mainstream. Given that this process can be viewed as an initial step towards the construction of a popular music canon, it becomes vital to scrutinize the ideologies upon which exclusion from the mainstream is being based.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Creation of a Socially Shared Past: Romanian Adoption

contributor:
Miall, Charlene E.
Sociology

subject: Sociology Sociology

abstract:
Using an exploratory, qualitative approach, 30 in-depth interviews were conducted with adoptive mothers of Romanian children. interest focused on whether Mead's theory of the past was viable for exploring how these mothers create socially shared pasts for their children within the family. In addition, Kirk's adoptive kinship theory and Goffman's theory of social stigma were used to explore whether (a) an adoptive mother's acknowledgement or rejection of the difference between adoptive and biological parenthood; and (b) her perceptions of social stigma around Romanian adoption shaped the content of her construction of this past.

All four dimensions of Mead's theory of the past were evident in this study - the implied objective· past, the social structural past, he symbolically reconstructed past, and the mythical past. substantively, respondents made use of three types of strategies in constructing a socially shared past: (1) verbal personal adoption stories created for their children; (2) lifebooks to document their children's histories; and (3) affiliation with self-help support groups or with other adoptive parents.

In this study, KIrk's categories of acknowledgment and rejection of difference between adoptive and biological kinship were not mutually exclusive as respondents showed a pattern of high to low acknowledgment of difference only. This acknowledgment focused on the formation of the family rather than on its functioning. All respondents showed open disclosure patterns with their children and others, a trend in adoption as an institution.

Although respondents provided detailed descriptions of perceived stigmatizing beliefs about adoption in general and Romanian adoption in particular; they showed low levels of personal internalization of these beliefs. It was also demonstrated empirically that stigma can we responded to in positive ways. Specifically, self-help support groups offered positive social and emotional support, and provided individuals with a strong sense of belonging not experienced in "normal" interaction.

It is argued that the task of adoptive parents is not only to inform adopted children of their birth and cultural histories. parents must also try to understand how the children experience adoption. Allowing the children to take the lead in discovering and understanding their unique histories will aid their mothers in treating socially shared pasts for their families.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Laurence Sterne and Salman Rushdie: The Function of Whatsitsname

contributor:
Roebuck, Graham
English

abstract: This thesis examines the function of memory in both Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. I establish two applications of memory to writing, the first being a linear recording of events while the second is more digressive. The narrator in each of the novels professes the first approach but he is continually frustrated in his attempts to capture reality. The implications of memory for writing and reading are a link between the two works. By examining the techniques both Sterne and Rushdie use to apply memory to the writing of their novels, I will provide new perspectives on each novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Shock Packs": Audience Responses to Health Canada's Graphic-Image Health-Warning Labels on Tobacco Product Packaging

contributor:
Rodman, William
Anthropology

subject: Anthropology Anthropology

abstract: Canada, the first country to implement graphic-image health-warning labels on tobacco-product packaging, has been hailed as a world leader in tobacco-reduction strategies. Health Canada's intention with the warning labels is to encourage smokers to reduce the amount of tobacco they use or altogether quit smoking, and to prevent non-smokers from starting to smoke. Using semiotics, a multi-sited ethnographic approach and media ethnography, I analysed the responses of members of the target audience to look at how their interpretations of the labels affect their everyday lives. I found that all the smokers I interviewed have been feeling stigmatised as a result of this warning label campaign and the anti-smoking environment in which they reside. Established smokers and those long-time smokers who have recently quit smoking feel this stigma to a much higher degree than do younger people who have smoked for less than a decade. Looking at the "preferred readings" of the labels in conjunction with the context in which individuals interpret and internalise the meaning they derive from the intended messages, I found that some older individuals have been able to reduce, downplay, or contest the stigma by relocating themselves into locales and identities where they can be accepted as smokers. Younger smokers have been able to apply the "preferred reading" of a few labels to the entire campaign, thus dismissing the warnings entirely and avoiding the full weight of the stigma. I conclude with a discussion of the ways Health Canada can look towards tobacco company marketing practices and the efforts of other health promoters to produce tobacco-reduction strategies, including labelling campaigns, that do not generate feelings of fear, guilt and stigmatisation in smokers, but instead offer positive encouragement and alternatives to tobacco-use.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Planning and Development of the Mississauga city Centre

contributor:
Eyles, John
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract:
The Mississauga city Centre is a suburban downtown west of Metropolitan Toronto that is being actively planned to become an urban centre with in the City of Mississauga. The City Centre is in competition with other suburban centres surrounding Toronto and the City of Toronto itself. In order to compete, Mississauga must promote itself as an ideal investment opportunity. Although it currently displays many of the qualities of suburban areas such as a dispersed, automobile-oriented pattern of development, plans for the Mississauga city Centre show it as becoming a dense, mixed-use urban core that is capable of supporting its own public transit system and is conducive to pedestrian activity.

Insight on the planning and development process is important as attempts are made to create environments that are functional and pleasing and which do not exhibit any of the negative qualities associated with old city centres (ie. congestion). Further, as competition between centres increases, it is important that these new centres offer amenities and infrastructure that will make them marketable.

This thesis examines and evaluates the issues that have been raised during the planning and development of the Mississauga City Centre. These include the challenge of creating a mixed-use urban centre in a typically suburban environment, the role of the community in the planning process, the inclusion of affordable housing and the location of various land uses within the city Centre. The ideas on which the plans for the future of the city Centre have been based are also explored. possibilities for future research include conducting comparative studies with other suburban downtowns and researching the success or failure of the City Centre Secondary Plan based on how precisely development that occurs meets with the current goals and objectives of the Plan.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Jungle Fever: The Social Construction of White Women in Interracial Relationships with Black Men

contributor:
Satzewich, Victor
Sociology

subject: Sociology Sociology

abstract: This thesis explores the experiences of six White women in interracial unions with Black men. It explores these experiences through the lens of two organizing frameworks. The first framework explores how the socially constructed hegemonic representations of whiteness and gender impinge and determine the life experiences of these women. Within this framework, the theory of whiteness and the concept of "spoiled identities (Goffman,1963) will be utilized to illustrate how White women's intimate association with Black men spoil their social identity. The second framework explores how and what these women do to negotiate and manage their spoiled identities. While class, ethnicity and age assume an important role in the context of their interracial relationships, race and gender appear to be the prim$try variables which affect their experiences.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Aerodynamic Loading on the Blades of a Helicopter Rotor in Steady Translational Flight

contributor:
Wade, J.H.T.
Mechanical Engineering

subject:
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

abstract: One of the most important and complex problems in the design of helicopters is the estimation of aerodynamic loading on the blades of the lifting rotor in steady translation flight. It is essential for the designer to have a fairly good knowledge of this blade loading, especially its harmonic content. Such information is necessary in order to successfully evaluate and solve problems such as: the structural integrity of the rotor hub and the blades; the oscillatory forces in the control systems; and the vibrations of the entire aircraft. Many analytical and computational methods have been developed to predict the blade loading in forward flight. These methods invariably demand a knowledge of the rotor wake details and the sectional airfoil data. The trailing wake of the rotor is extremely complex and it has not yet been possible to include in the analysis all its details. Nor has it yet been possible to obtain the sectional airfoil data in a manner which is compatible with the unsteady three dimensional and compressible aerodynamic environment of the rotating blades. We are presenting, in this thesis, a new technique to calculate the blade loading in forward flight. The proposed technique does not require a knowledge of the rotor wake or the sectional airfoil data. We have used our proposed model to calculate the blade loading for a full scale NASA model rotor at an advance ratio of 0.29. Our results compare very well with those obtained experimentally by NASA. In fact, our results show better agreement with the experimental results that those obtained by using currently available computational models for rotor blade loading in forward flight.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: "Temporal and Spatial Constraints on the Recovery of Mechanosensory Function in Denervated Skin"

contributor:
Diamond, Jack
Neuroscience

subject:
Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Neuroscience and Neurobiology

abstract:
One approach to the study of how nerves can establish appropriate connections, and of possible "plasticity" intrinsic to the connections themselves, is to partially denervate a target tissue and examine the reestablishment of functional connections by nerves. Cells or tissues whose normal nerve supply has been lesioned can become reinnervated by two means: the sprouting of new collaterals from nearby intact nerves, or the regeneration of the damaged fibres. Both mechanisms have been reported as involved in the recovery of function after nerve lesions in mammals.

In the course of experiments on the reinnervation of skin in rabbits, however, evidence was obtained suggesting that intact low-threshold mechanosensory nerves in adult mammals may not sprout into denervated skin. The investigations described in this thesis were undertaken to examine this possibility further, and in particular to use the rat to study the ability of such nerves to establish functional connections in denervated skin.

Direct electrophysiological recording from cutaneous nerve bundles was used to detect impulses generated by tactile stimulation of the skin. The area of skin supplied by a nerve (its low-threshold mechanosensory receptive field) and in particular the number of touch domes (specific sensory structures in the skin) innervated by that nerve were determined after various manipulations; both the area of the field and the population of touch domes were used as measures of the distribution in the skin of functional endings. Intact low-threshold mechnosensory nerves in the rat were found to sprout into adjacent denervated skin only during a remarkably brief "critical period" that begins at about 15 days of age and ends at about 20; such sprouting could neither be evoked nor did it continue after this age. Moreover, during the critical period, the intact low-thershold mechanosensory nerves often failed to sprout into denervated skin except that available within the same ("parent") dermatome. These intact nerves therefore are under constraints both in time and space, which operate to limit the extent of functional sprouting and also the location of such newly established endings. Regenerating nerves however were found to be subject to neither of these constraints, and even in the adult they would freely grow across dermatomal borders to establish functional endings in denervated skin. Of special significance, when the regenerating nerves arrived at skin that during the critical period had been reinnervated by sprouts of intact nerves, the regenerating fibres replaced funtionally the earlier sprouted endings; those endings within the usual territory of the intact nerve that had sprouted were not displaced however.

It was concluded that intact and regenerating nerves are differentially regulated, intact nerves, but not regenerating ones, are subject to temporal and spatial constraints in their ability to establish functional endings in denervated skin. The endings which are established in response to denervation of skin during the critical period however incompletely suppress some quality of the target which allows regenerating nerves to recognize it, and to engage successfully in competition for its innervation.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Devotion and Piety of English Women, 1480-1620

contributor:
Alsop, J.D.
History

subject: History History

abstract: With the Reformation the female centres of worship, such as convents and beguine communities, disappeared in England; consequently focus was placed upon the household as an integral centre for the expression of early modem English women's devotion and piety. Primary sources categorize the manifestation of Tudor and early Stuart women's piety into public and private faces. Devotional, conduct, commemorative literature and their representations stress the inherent necessity of being pious. Employing examples of virtuous contemporary women and biblical figures, writers and clergy emphasised the necessary qualities for imitation. Diaries, autobiographical journals and godly correspondence underlined the virtues lauded in the prescriptive literature. Recording their godly regimes, women such as Lady Margaret Hoby stressed the inseparability between domestic/household responsibilities and acts of piety. A regime of piety furnished women with a legitimate means of expressing their religiosity. While personal meditations provided and individualised rendering of women's expressions of spirituality. These very personal invocations to God were self-reflective and pensive, capturing some early modem English women's desire and need to comprehend the intrinsic complexities of their intimate relationship with God. John Foxe's Act and Monuments, on the other side of the spectrum, affords a more active rendering of women's spirituality. His accounts portray obstinate, yet constant Protestant women willing to suffer the pains of martyrdom for their zealous devotion to God. Although sources are not representative of all early modem English women, they do allow historians a glimpse into the spiritual world of Tudor and early Stuart women, a growing field of interest.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Subcortical Processing of Auditory Stimuli in the Profoundly Deaf: Cultural and Educational Implications

contributor:
Glanville, Edward
Anthropology

subject: Anthropology Anthropology

abstract:
For the first time the equivalent of Blind sight has been demonstrated in the deaf This phenomenon of 'deaf hearing' was observed in a proportion of profoundly deaf 18-22 year olds. The implications for deaf education are discussed.

Appreciating a confluence of factors including biology, the cultural construction of knowledge, and relations of power facilitates an understanding of how hearing society's impressions of the deaf affect their education. Deaf culture, although believed to be constructed by the deaf, may be sub served by hearing society's misconceptions of deaf capabilities. Deaf acceptance of their disability (possibly a form of complacency) in the form of a distinct culture, is justified in the literature as appropriate adaptation to illness. The present research suggests that those deaf educated with some oral/aural instruction, contra mainstream society's and Deaf culture's beliefs, are better adapted to meet their expressed needs, reaching higher educational standards in reading/comprehension versus those educated with sign language only. Anatomical considerations of subcortical processing in some deaf individuals may aid in providing insight concerning deaf capability. It is suggested that Deaf cultural postulates should come to include other 'natural' communication and educational modalities, other than American Sign Language (ASL) alone. Multi-disciplinary considerations counter the position that anthropologists should be wary of causal analysis, and concentrate only on meaning and interpretation.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Caregiver-teen Conflict & the CAS: A Beneficial Relationship?

contributor:
Dumbrill, Gary
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
This thesis provided caregivers of teenagers exhibiting problematic behaviors, an opportunity to voice their feelings, and experiences in regards to working with the Children's Aid Society of London and Middlesex (CAS). Parents were asked if they viewed their relationship with the CAS as beneficial and what suggestions they had, if any, in regards to improving services in the future. In this study, parents indicated that changes in legislation were necessary to ensure best service to families experiencing conflict as described above. The findings in this study are not conclusive as only a small sample size was used, however, the study allowed an in-depth exploration of the way caregivers experience CAS service when having a teenage child. The participants and host agency are from London, Ontario, but the information discussed may be transferable to other agencies and cities.

Literature in regards to caregiver-teen conflict, how the conflict is caused, the services that help families through these problems and the caregivers' experience of these services were reviewed as a basis for the research. The findings suggested that caregivers were very frustrated with the CAS and did not view their interaction with this agency as beneficial. However, the CAS was not blamed for their lack of ability to help, instead, caregivers placed blame on the legislation that provides guidelines to support families. Caregivers in this study offered recommendations to improve supportive services in the community, some of which were changes to the age of consent to receive counseling, teenagers not being able to choose to leave school before the age of eighteen, and the government needing to help caregivers care for their children as opposed to undermining their authority.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: READER AND AUDIENCE IN COLERIDGE'S BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA

contributor:
Goellnicht, D.
English

abstract: The thesis concerns the question of Coleridge's readership as it pertains to Coleridge's prose and specifically to Biographia Literaria. The introduction presents the question of Coleridge's reader as it has been applied in recent scholarship, where, in relation to the problem of the Biographia's integrity, the Biographia's digressions and tropes have been construed as ironic gestures inviting participatory reading. Chapter one discusses Coleridge's views on readers and reading and introduces Coleridge's attacks on the reading public. The chapter points out that Coleridge's views on readers and reading are essentially authoritarian; there is no room in his view for participatory reading and the role of the reader is largely marginal. In the context of the conclusions of this chapter, Coleridge's treatment of the reader in the Biographia is a strategy for asserting the author's authority over the reader and for consolidating a suitable audience. Chapter two points out the overtly political authoritarianism of Coleridge's concern with readers and the reading public. Despite his insistence on the recognition of rational critical consensus, Coleridge's views function on behalf of established political power. In the context of the conclusions of this chapter, Coleridge's treatment of the reader in the Biographia is reactionary.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Institution of the Duel in Arthur Schnitzler's Dramas and Prose works with A Translation into English of the Novella Leutnant Gustl

contributor:
Teuscher, G.
German

abstract:
This thesis discusses the Institution of the Duel in the dramas and prose works of Arthur Schitzler, and presents a translation into English of the novella Leutnant Gustl.

A preliminary chapter provides short biographical details and outlines the general cultural, political and social atmosphere of the times.

The concluding chapter discusses the translation and points out certain specific problems.

All quotations from Schintzler's Dramas and Prose Works are from the following editions:

Arthur Schnitzler, Gesammelte Werke: Die dramatische Werke.

2 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1962.

Arthur Schnitzler, Gesammelte Werke: Die erzáhlenden Schriften.

2 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1962.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Illuminated Brand: Patrick White's The Vivisector

contributor:
Aziz, M.
English

abstract:
Through the written word, whether in the form of novel, short story, memoir, or letter, Patrick White has struggled to apprehend the experiential "Word", which is the ineffable name for God. The cabalistic focus of this calling has forced the author, both as poet and as artist, to wrestle with the angel of- his personal religious faith in many different guises and from many points of view, thereby creating the personas of a host of characters. As a result, he has developed a well-rounded vision of the human condition, at the centre of which may be seen, by those men and women initiated through suffering and love, the invisible-green burning bush of a profound spiritual life.

In addressing this concern, central to all of White's work, I have attempted to exprore the-precise nature and relevance of the religious experience as illuminated by the contemplative, apophatic "light" of the Christian mystical tradition, and as that "light", emerging out of darkness, corresponds to the creative spirit's sense of revelation. This study is composed of three parts. The introduction concentrates on White's personal religious bias qualified by Thomas Merton's belief and analysis of man's "fundamental religious instinct". The section entitled "Preliminaries" constitutes a brief survey of White's novels in so far as they help to substantiate the basic premise of my thesis. The third and final chapter examines in-depth The Vivisector, the role of the artist in relation to his art which reflects his relation with his God.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Singin' in the Reign: Participatory Song in the Catholic Liturgy

contributor:
Renwick, William
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticism
Music
Music

abstract:
Participation in the singing of sacred music is significant within the Roman Catholic liturgy, as it is in rituals of other religious groups and cultures. Liturgical practice places sacred song at the forefront of the Eucharistic Celebration, which in turn is itself at the centre of all communal celebrations within the Catholic Church. In studying this phenomenon, however, it is not enough to look only at the texts and the songs; rather, this study examines song within the context of the role of singing within the community.

In observing and commenting on three communities in which I am active as music minister, I am able to compare and contrast the role, function and power of participatory sacred song in similar yet differing situations. I also engage in a theoretical discussion which will shed light on the many issues in the function and role of music within communal worship. I draw on a combination of theoretical writings on performance (such as the work of Charlotte Frisbie, Richard Schechner and Jeff Todd Titon), Bakhtinian theories of language and the discourse surrounding organizational theory and power (as proposed by Göran Ahrne). This provides a fruitful theoretical framework, from which further discussion regarding specific case studies can result, thus rendering a possible final application of the theoretical thought this frameworkn has provided me with the tools to be better able to discuss the issues of sacred song in its performative context.

By applying these theories to the Church's liturgical documents and practical observations on function, fresh insights can be developed about the function of song. By observing and commenting on what should occur according to the liturgical documents, on what does occur in these three case-studies, the theoretical applications provide a fruitful area for in-depth exploration of the role of participatory sacred song.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Kierkegaard's Apocalyptic Theology: Temporality, Epistemology and Politics in Practice in Christianity

contributor:
Kroeker, Travis P.
Widdicombe, Peter
Widdicombe, Peter
Religious Studies

subject: Christian theology

subject: 19th century philosophy

subject: Kierkegaard

subject: apocalypticism

subject: political theology

subject: Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

abstract:
This thesis argues for the presence of an apocalyptic theological perspective in Søren Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity (1848), one that is of a piece with the apocalypticism that a number of contemporary biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers have located in the letters of the Apostle Paul.

Though familiar motifs (such as the imminent eschaton or the idea of two ages) may be helpful indicators of an apocalyptic theological perspective in a given work, I take the position that apocalyptic theology is fundamentally a matter of settling the question of ultimate lordship or sovereignty. In a Christian context, therefore, where an author manifests a desire to declare the ultimate sovereignty of God (by way of the intervening act of his incarnation in Christ) over and against any worldly counter-claim to sovereignty, he or she partakes of an apocalyptic theology.

I demonstrate that Kierkegaard’s apocalyptic theological perspective is manifested in three ways in Practice in Christianity, namely, with respect to his thinking about temporality, epistemology and politics. The three chapters that make up this thesis take up these themes in turn. In each case, Kierkegaard’s position on these matters is compared with an apocalyptic reading of Paul’s letters. I argue that a concern to declare the ultimate sovereignty of God in these three fundamental areas of human experience is one that Kierkegaard shares with Paul. Insofar as Paul is therefore regarded by his scholarly readers as an apocalypticist, so too, I argue, should Kierkegaard be.

Furthermore, just as the identification of Paul’s apocalypticism is alleged to provide a coherent framework for his gospel, so too, I argue, should Kierkegaard’s apocalypticism be understood as the substratum that informs his theo-philosophical project in Practice in Christianity.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Full Diversity Noncoherent Space-Time Block Codes Designs via Unique Factorizations of Signals

contributor:
Zhang, Jian-Kang
Dumitrescu, Sorina
Kon Max Wong, Dongmei Zhao
Electrical and Computer Engineering

subject: unique identification

subject: full diversity

subject: non-coherent space-time block code

subject: uniquely factorizable constellation pair

subject: Alamouti-Toeplitz code

subject: QAM constellation and PSK constellation

subject: Signal Processing

subject: Systems and Communications

subject: Signal Processing

abstract: In this thesis, a MISO wireless communication system having even transmitter antennas and a single receiver antenna is considered, where neither the transmitter nor the receiver knows channel state information. Particularly when the number of transmitter antennas is two, a novel concept called a uniquely factorable constellation pair (UFCP) is first proposed for the systematic design of a noncoherent full diversity collaborative unitary space-time block code by normalizing two Alamouti codes. It is proved that such a unitary UFCP code assures the unique identification of both channel coefficients and transmitted signals in a noise-free case as well as full diversity for the noncoherent maximum likelihood (ML) receiver in a noise case. To further improve error performance, an optimal unitary UFCP code is designed by appropriately and uniquely factorizing a pair of energy-efficient cross quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations to maximize the coding gain subject to a transmission bit rate constraint. After a deep investigation of the fractional coding gain function, a technical approach developed in this thesis to maximizing the coding gain is to carefully design an energy scale to compress the first three largest energy points in the corner of the QAM constellations in the denominator of the objective as well as carefully design a constellation triple forming two UFCPs, with one collaborating with the other two so as to make the accumulated minimum Euclidean distance along the two transmitter antennas in the numerator of the objective as large as possible and at the same time, to avoid as many corner points of the QAM constellations with the largest energy as possible to achieve the minimum of the numerator. In other words, the optimal coding gain is attained by intelligent constellations collaboration and efficient energy compression. Another contribution of this thesis is to generalize the design for the two transmitter antennas into that of the noncoherent system with any even number of transmitter antennas. Using the Alamouti coding scheme and the Toeplitz matrix structure, a novel noncoherent nonunitary space-time block code, which is called an Alamoutibased Toeplitz space-time block code, is proposed. By the fundamentals of Galois theory and algebraic number theory, two important properties on the two Alamouti codes generated from a pair of coprime phase shift keying (PSK) constellations, i.e., the uniqueness of factorization itself and the shift-invariant uniqueness of factorization, are first revealed and rigorously proved. Then, it is further shown that it is these two kinds of the unique factorizations that enable the unique blind identification of both the channel coefficients and the transmitted signals by only processing two block received signals as well as noncoherent full diversity with a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) receiver. In addition, a full diversity unitary code design is also proposed by simply applying the QR decomposition to the full diversity nonunitary Alamoutibased Toeplitz space-time block code. Computer simulations demonstrate that error performance of both optimal unitary UFCP code and Alamouti-based Toeplitz code presented in this thesis outperform those of the differential code and the SNR-efficient training code, which is the best code in current literatures for the system.

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: Index Assignment for Robust Multiple Description Scalar Quantizer

contributor:
Dumitrescu, Sorina
J. K. Zhang, S. Shirani
J. K. Zhang, S. Shirani
Electrical and Computer Engineering

subject:
MDSQ
Index Assignment
Systems and Communications
Systems and Communications

abstract:
Conventional multiple description coding (MDC) is a source coding technique which provides resilience against packet loss. On the other hand, the correlation introduced between descriptions can be used to combat bit errors as well. While the latter feature of MDC has been attested and exploited in prior work, only few attempts have been made to design MDC with higher bit error resilience ability.

This thesis makes some progress in the latter direction by addressing the problem of robust (i.e., bit error resilient) index assignment (IA) design for two description scalar quantizers. Our approach is to start from an initial IA which is known to be good for the conventional two description problem, and then apply permutations to indices in each description to increase a minimum Hamming distance-like performance measure.

The criterion of increasing the minimum Hamming distance between valid index pairs (dmin), has been considered in prior work, however an efficient IA construction was presented only for the case of dmin = 2 and low redundancy.

The contribution of this thesis is the following. For the scenario when one description is known to be error free, a new measure for IA robustness is proposed, which is termed minimum side Hamming distance (dside,min). This quantity is defined as the minimum Hamming distance between valid indices of one description for fixed index of the other description. It is further shown that the problem of robust permutations design under the new criterion is closely connected to the anti-bandwidth problem in a certain graph derived from a hypercube. Leveraging this connection, permutations achieving dside,min = 2 are proposed for all redundancy levels. Furthermore, for general values of dside,min, a simple construction of permutations achieving dside,min is presented, based on channel codes of appropriate block length and rate, and with minimum distance dside,min + 1, respectively, dside,min, for two types of initial IA (diagonal, respectively, square-based). The application of this result to achieve IA with dside,min = 3 is further discussed for a wide range of redundancy levels.

Finally, for the scenario when both descriptions may carry bit errors, simple constructions of permutations achieving dmin = 3 are proposed for the high redundancy case.

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: Chromatography of Particle Suspensions

contributor:
Hamielec, A.E.
Vlachopoulos, J.
Chemical Engineering

subject:
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering

abstract:
In recent years, a number of chromatographic techniques have been reported to measure the size of submicron particles. Little of the published work has dealt with the quantitative estimation of particle size, efforts, largely, having been directed in demonstrating the capability to resolve colloid peaks. Ability to make quantitative measurements is a prime requirement for any analytical tool and this is the problem that is addressed in this work.

Common to all the chromatographic techniques is the phenomenon of axial dispersion which disperses a colloid over a finite interval centered around its mean residence time or retention volume. The response to a pulse of monodispersed colloid is a bell shaped chromatogram, the shape of which along with the peak separation capability of the instrument, determine for a given detector, the type of analysis by which raw measured data have to be processed. The analysis may be of two types. The first, applies correction factors to moments calculated directly from the measured chromatogram to account for axial dispersion, while, the second approach allows a calculation of the moments of the diameter distribution of particles which at any instant occupy the detector cell. Besides developing the various methods for treating chromatographic data in detail, the problem of determining the response to a pulse of monodispersed colloid has been attempted. Experimentally, such information can be determined only with some difficulty, owing to the unavailability of very narrow distribution standards.

Experiments were conducted using a size exclusion chromatograph equipped with a turbidity detector. The performance of the turbidity detector was critically evaluated. A column calibration procedure has been attempted which minimises material loss, significantly reduces the extent of axial dispersion and improves peak separation. The theoretical analyses discussed earlier were applied to experimental chromatograms of polystyrene latices with very encouraging results.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Romancing the Wild, or, Sir Gawain, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, and How I Learned to Stop Being So Civilized

contributor:
Savage, Anne
English

abstract:
The mytho-philosophical figure of the wild man is one that Western thought has perpetuated, in various epistemological forms, as an abjected Other whose function has been to provide an imaginative exemplar against which the West defines itself as a civilization. He is invariably the hypothetical manifestation of a body as yet unmarked by codes that would regulate its behaviour within society and the discourses that would render it a productive body of thought. As a literary phenomenon, the wild man frequently finds expression in narratives that pit him in a violent struggle with a heroic representative of civility, from which the latter (with some exceptions) emerges as the victor. It is a narrative that, in part, allegorizes the violent work culture does on a body to render it an intelligible, human(e) subject, neither too wild nor too civilized. That subject is perhaps more specifically a masculine one, since the narrative, in its most radical form, is played out by characters undeniably male. As the narrative depicts their struggle, the most remote of man's ontological extremes are mapped out, the two figures appearing at the furthest reaches of the topology of male experience, the theoretical spaces they inhabit sharing a border they ceaselessly redefine and reassert in the delimitation of what constitutes the proper (hu)man.

But the very proliferation of the wild man in imaginative literature, the autonomy of his mythology, suggests the wildness he represents to be more than a simple negation of normative civilization; he is not merely man in a raw state of nature, having yet to undergo or having utterly lost or repudiated the processes by which he is cultivated/cultivates himself into an accepted member of civilized society. The wild is a product of the very "civilizing processes" that creates viable subjects. Productive in and of itself, the wild is a positive term that exerts its own formative power in opposition to civilization. Romancing the Wild attempts to exploit the power of the wild as expressed in literature inasmuch as those expressions constitute a philosophy critical of "civilized" codes and practices and, ultimately, of the very distinction between wildness and civility. In order to accomplish this, it intertwines a study of both medieval and contemporary texts, since the term "medieval" itself tends naïvely to connote a certain wildness in relation to the accepted civility of today.

In the Middle English romance tradition, there is arguably no knight so chivalric, so courteous, so "civilized" as Sir Gawain. In the body of Gawain romances, our knight is always pitted against adversaries in various states of wild "undress." Sir Gawain and the Green Knight especially offers one of the subtlest wild men in Middle English literature, the Green Knight himself. Using the violent conflict between the two knights as a catalyst, the poem performs a critique of the chivalric subject as depicted in romance narrative. Indeed, through an exploration of the violent exchanges between Gawain and the wild personages he encounters, the performances that constitute his particular brand of masculinity and civility are both revealed and contested. Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film, Apocalypse Now (re-released in 2001 as Apocalypse Now: Redux), and David Fincher's 1999 film, Fight Club each carry out an extraordinarily violent narrative dominated by male characters, depicting in its respective way those men interacting within an inhospitable wilderness (the jungle, the inner city). The action of each film, like that of the Gawain narratives, focuses especially on the opposition between a wild and a "civilized" man, an opposition that becomes less distinct as the action proceeds, ultimately dissolving the boundary between wildness and civility and troubling the coherence of either term.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Moral Purpose, Political Action, and Liberalism: An Attempt at a Philosophical and Political Inquiry

contributor:
Aster, H.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Political Science

abstract:
This thesis represents an attempt at a philosophical inquiry into the nature of political action and its place in liberal theory.

I begin by considering whether action must be explained teleologically and whether non-purposive accounts of behaviour can be generally adequate. In finding that purposive behaviour fundamentally characterizes action, I question the assumption in liberal political theory, beginning with Hobbes, that mechanistic laws of behaviour can provide man with a science of politics.

Hobbes , represents for me, the first stage in the revolt against teleological politics. I consider the important contributions that Immanuel Kant and finally John Rawls make to the liberalism of anti-telelogical politics.

I then consider the liberal critique of Hobbes' portrait of man. This is represented by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau's critique is undermined by his failure to reject market politics.

Finally, I consider the market-model of society, which is seen to be the ultimate embodiment of mechanistic, anti-teleological politics.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Richard Wagner's Parisian Writings: A Developing Critical Perspective

contributor:
Deaville, James A.
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticism
Music
Music

abstract:
The music criticism that Richard Wagner wrote in 1840 and 1841 represents the composer's most active involvement with music journalism. While attempting to establish himself as a composer of operas for the Parisian stage, he addressed issues of direct consequence to own artistic development and created lively portraits of a milieu that he ultimately judged to be incompatible with his ideals. He left Paris in poverty and failure, but the articles that he contributed to four different periodicals attest to the importance of his Parisian experiences as both a composer and an author. Wagner addressed issues of musical consequence with a variety of means, writing colorful narratives for the readers of La Gazette musicale in Paris, descriptions of cultural events for the fashion-conscious readers of Europa in Stuttgart, serious musical essays for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig, and feuilletons for the Dresden Abendzeitung.

For much of the success of his varied literary efforts, Wagner was indebted to influential predecessors, primarily E. T. A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine. By adopting the stylistic features of the German novella, Wagner permanently embraced Hoffmann's musical aesthetics. In a similar emulation of Heine's critical writing, Wagner rejected Heine's musical attitudes, although he found Heine's methods useful.

A systematic analysis of Wagner's Parisian criticism evaluates the longevity and importance of these influences and the worth of Wagner's writing for his development as a composer and musical author. Despite Wagner's attempts to emphasize or discount influences in the editing of his collected writings, examination of the Parisian writings reveals that the experiences of the 1840s significantly affected his musical aesthetics.

In addition to being indispensable to an evaluation of Wagner's developing opinions of Italian operatic style, the role of virtuosity in performance, and the meaning of emotion in music, the Parisian writings also provide insight into the issues, personalities, and institutions that were of consequence to the critical press of the cultural capital of the 1830s and 1840s. Wagner's youthful critical writing provides a penetrating analysis of its author and its time.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Employment: Making the Case for an ABI Survivor Community Economic Development

contributor:
Lee, Bill
Social Work

subject:
Social Work
Social Work

abstract:
Employment is highly valued in our society and is an important determinant for mental and physical health, and ultimately, self-determination, however acquired brain injury survivors (ABI) experience significant employment barriers.

Current Federal and Provincial government disability and mental health policies and programs promote the full social inclusion of disabled persons in Canadian society however, they do not address the disability-specific employment needs of many ABI survivors, particularly those with more serious disabilities. A non-government employment initiative that started within the mental health disability community and that has demonstrated notable success in assisting with the disability-specific employment needs of members of this group is the consumer/survivor community economic development approach (CED).

This study explored the gaps in our current disability and mental health employment policies and programs in meeting the employment goals of ABI survivors, and examined the viability of the consumers/survivors CED approach for members of this group. This study was consistent with critical social science methodology and was based on a qualitative study of 4 ABI/mental health service providers, 6 consumers/survivors, and 10 ABI survivors.

The interviews with these three groups combined with the literature reviewed in this paper, reveals the systemic, societal, and structural barriers that maintain the exclusion of people with disabilities. Conversely, an examination of the consumer/survivor CED approach reveals principles and a value proposition that facilitate the social inclusion of people with disabilities.

This exploratory study is intended to serve as a catalyst for the advocacy of government support for a CED designed for, with, and by ABI survivors. Correspondingly, this thesis argues that disability policy-makers must acknowledge the need for changes to our capitalist system of labour, and in our country's understanding of citizenship, because both are responsible for the continued restricted citizenship or non-citizenship of non-working marginalized groups.

abstract: Master of Social Work (MSW)


title: Anniversary Plates of the Later Roman Empire

contributor:
Dunbabin, K.M.D.
Classical Studies

subject:
Classical Studies
Classics
Classics

abstract:
Amongst the many pieces of silverware surviving from the later Roman Empire are the silver 'anniversary' plates commissioned by emperors and consuls in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., which were manufactured and given as gifts to celebrate imperial anniversaries or appointments to the consulship. The decoration and decorative techniques used on these plates vary widely, from simple punched inscriptions to elaborately cast figural scenes.

The presentation of these plates is closely related to other instances of largesse and the celebration of imperial anniversaries in the later empire, attested to both by the surviving literary sources and by the anniversary inscriptions found on other surviving artifacts of the period, such as coinage and statue bases. Unfortunately, some specific details concerning the production of these 'anniversary' plates are currently unknown.

Comparison of the many types of decoration used on these plates with other later Roman art indicates that they borrowed many of their motifs from a wide variety of both imperial and private art. There are also decorative similarities between these 'anniversary' plates and other contemporary pieces of art done in less expensive materials like glass, which suggest that the silversmiths producing these plates were free enough from strict official supervision to draw on whatever other artwork they wished for inspiration.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)