title: Mercy Angels: The Joint Church Aid and the Humanitarian Response in Biafra, 1967-1970

contributor:
Ibhawoh, Bonny
History

subject: Biafra, Nigeria, War, Starvation, Aid, Church

abstract: International humanitarian organizations played a prominent role in the Nigeria-Biafra War, but scholars have paid little or no attention to the humanitarian crisis in the war and the global humanitarian intervention that followed it. This thesis aims to fill a gap in the historiography of international humanitarian aid in the Nigeria-Biafra War by focusing on the Joint Church Aid (JCA), a consortium of Catholic and Protestant Churches that provided relief aid for the starving civilians in Biafra. This study of the JCA is broken down into three parts: the humanitarian impulse in the Nigeria-Biafra conflict, the formation of the JCA and its relief organization, and the challenges of relief operation in Biafra. The research provides a window into understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian aid in political conflicts. This dissertation argues that the JCA’s humanitarian operation, though relatively successful, had unintended consequences. While the JCA aimed to provide relief for the starving Biafran population, it was interpreted by the Nigerian government as political support for a “rebellion.” Convinced that the humanitarian organizations engaged in arms dealings with the Biafran government, the Nigerian government intensified military counter-action against the relief operation. The Nigerian government refused to separate international humanitarian aid from the political objectives of the war hence starvation came to be seen as a legitimate instrument of warfare. On the Biafran side, however, there was an effort to separate international humanitarian aid from the politics and hostilities of the war.  Consequently, humanitarianism became a deeply contested issue that brought the humanitarian agencies into direct conflict with the Nigerian government. This study contributes to the scholarship on international humanitarianism and the internationalization of armed conflicts in postcolonial Africa.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Middle and Late Iroquoian Occupations in the Middle Trent Valley Region

contributor:
Ramsden, Peter G.
Anthropology

subject: analysis, middle, late, iroquoian, middle trent valley, culture, region, inhabitated, bark site, Huron groups,

abstract:
This thesis consists of an analysis of Middle and Late Iroquoian sites located within the Middle Trent Valley region of south-central Ontario.
Comparsions between the assemblages from these sites suggests that Iroquoian culture developed in situ in this area, and was not the result of migrations from the south. Several interrelated Middle to Late Iroquoian foci inhabited the interior areas of this region . until atleast the end of the fifteenth century, when the Middle Trent Valley was abandoned.
Two sites in particular, the late Middleport Wilson site and the early Late Iroquoian Bark site, are discussed in detail. The Bark site is a small mid-fifteenth century Huron village with close socio-cultural ties to contemporary Huron groups in the Upper Trent Valley. The Wilson site is a large Middleport village dating to the end of the fourteenth century. It is suggested that the Bark site inhabitants represent a portion of the earlier Wilson site occupants, who returned to the area of the Wilson site to take advantage of their abandoned fields.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Simone Weil and the Indian Religious Tradition

contributor:
Grant, G.P.
Arapura, J. G.
Younger, P.

subject: Simone Weil, Indian, Religious, Tradition

abstract:
Abstract Not Provided
Thesis
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: An Account of James' Pragmatic View of Truth

contributor:
Najm, Sami
Philosophy

subject: pragmatic, truth, misinterpretations, reality, connection, philosophical project, traditional, concepts, consciousness, perception, subjectivity, objectivity, theory

abstract:
Misinterpretations of William James' pragmatic account of truth are due to three main factors. First, the failure to see the connection between James' account of truth and his account of reality (that is, the connection between pragmatism and radical empiricism). Second, the failure to see James' philosophical project as essentially involving the reinterpretation of traditional philosophical concepts. Third, the mistaken belief that pragmatism provides a formula or rule for determining the truth or falsity of beliefs. In this thesis, these three factors provided a framework for my own interpretation of James' account of truth. In the introduction, I briefly discuss the connection between pragmatism and radical empiricism. In the first chapter, I show that philosophical notions like 'consciousness',
'perception', 'subjectivity' and 'objectivity' are reinterpreted in James' account of reality. In the second chapter, I show how his reinterpretations of 'correspondence', 'coherence', and 'utility' lead to what is better called an 'account' of truth instead of a 'theory' of truth. The third chapter provides further elaboration on his account of truth by examining conceptual systems and 'necessary' truths. In the conclusion, I examine the emphasis which separates James' pragmatic account of truth from other versions, namely, the emphasis on individual experience in determining and constituting truth.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: L-Hydroxyproline and D-Proline Catabolism in Sinorhizobium meliloti

contributor:
Finan, Turlough
Chemical Biology

subject: L-Hydroxyproline, D-Proline

abstract: Hydroxyproline as a modified amino acid can serve as a carbon and nitrogen source for certain microorganisms. Its primary isomer trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline is found in the root nodule of legume plants. Hydroxyproline (Hyp) catabolism has been characterized in bacteria and animal cells. In bacteria, trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline (trans-4-L-proline) is converted to the central metabolite α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) by four reactions. The Hyp catabolism pathway has been identified in the nitrogen-fixing legume endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. hypS is one of the transcripts in the 14 hyp gene cluster on the pSymB megaplasmid, and was annotated to encode a putative malate/L-lactate dehydrogenase. In this study, purified HypS was assayed on different substrates and the reaction products were characterized. It was demonstrated that HypS can oxidize L-proline and reduce Δ1-pyrroline-2-carboxylate, but not on L-malate. Noticeably unlike the wild type strain, a hypS- mutant strain failed to grow on D-proline. The ability of D-proline to support grow of an L-proline auxotroph, together with the substrate specificity of HypS, strongly suggests that hypS is involved in the metabolism of D-proline to L-proline in S. meliloti. The possible role of HypS in the catabolism of Hyp or related compounds remains to be determined.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Rural-Urban Interactions in Economic Development: A Two-Sector Model for Bangladesh

contributor:
Mestelman, Stuart
Economics

subject: neoclassical, equilibrium model, dualisitc, economic development, agrarian, Bangladesh, strategies, framework, empirical analysis, relations, microeconomic, structural parameters, growth

abstract:
In the present study, a neoclassical general equilibrium model is developed to study the dualistic economic development of a predominantly agrarian economy, Bangladesh. Quantitative analysis is undertaken in order to make assessments of several development strategies within the framework of the model. The linkages between the agricultural (rural) and the manufacturing (urban) sectors via the output and labour markets are incorporated in the model and empirical analysis.
In specifying the aggregate relations in the model especially those of the rural sector, the analysis is based on the microeconomic relations of a 'representative peasant household'.
The approach is to first estimate the structural parameters of the model (simultaneous system) and then to perform simulation exercises. These simulations permit us to move beyond the restrictions of growth theory, since the direction of influences on different variables and their quantitative dimensions may be assessed.
The aim is to determine the differential impact of exogenous investments and related public policy measares on the two sectors, especially on the level of employment, output and wages. Within a disequilibrium growth process which allows for differences in wages in the two sectors, the impact of rural-urban migration of people on the economy of Bangladesh and its policy implications are assessed.
The policy simulations suggest that strategies which favour agricultural rather than industrial development have a more positive impact on output, employment, and the reduction of rural-to-urban migration of people.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Modeling HUD Layouts for Selection Based Video Games

contributor:
Carette, Jacques
Computing and Software

abstract:
Display technology continues to become increasingly varied, with new combinations of screen sizes and resolutions introduced every year. In order to design or adapt Heads Up Displays (HUDs) to these screens, manual design processes are preferred, since they afford designers modeling flexibility. However, there are aspects of this process that can be automated to reduce the burden on the designers.

In order to help designers, this thesis presents a semi-automated approach to model, optimize and prototype HUDs for selection based video games. Specifically, this solution produces HUD layout prototypes that are ideal for tower defense games. This approach consists of an algorithm operating with a task efficiency model, which enables flexible modeling capabilities with automated evaluation. The result helps reduce the development time and cost of creating these HUDs. In addition, this work demonstrates the viability of using semi-automated techniques in the design process of video game HUDs.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: Foreign Direct Investment and its Spatial Economic Impacts in Canada: Some Further Evidence

contributor:
Papageorgiou, Yogos Y.
Anderson, William P.
Geography

subject: foreign, spatial employment effects, firms, characterisitcs, manufacturing, license fees, economy, employment

abstract: Thesis states there are 128 pages. However, only 126 pages provided. (chronological from 1-126)

abstract:
The purpose of this thesis is to examine foreign firms' spatial economic impacts on Canada with particular emphasis on the industrial linkage and spatial employment effects. The thesis focuses on the recent characteristics and strategies of foreign firms, which include rationalization and restructuring, in Canada.
FDI in Canada is decreasing in a relative sense, while the share of foreign control and ownership in Canadian industry have remained almost constant for last twenty years: about sixty per cent and fifty per cent in the manufacturing sector, respectively. Furthermore, foreign firms recently increases acquisitions of Canadian firms, disinvestment from Canada, and remittance to the home countries in the form of royalties and license fees. Foreign firms seem to have contributed to the deficit of international balance of payments in Canada. Also foreign control over the Canadian economy is increasing without a corresponding increase in new capacity, income and employment.
The linkage analysis and Spearman's rank correlation analysis reveal that foreign investments in Canada prefer to concentrate in industries with lower backward linkages and higher forward linkages. Foreign firms in Canada heavily depend upon foreign sources of material inputs and are directed to Canadian market for their outputs. This indicates that foreign firms' role in Canadian international balance could be negative.
Along with decreasing rate of growth of FDI in Canada the employment of foreign firms has decreased rapidly, while their spatial concentration has increased. In addition, the rapid decrease in foreign employment in Canada's lagging regions since 1970 also contributed to regional disparity. For the locational change over the last two decades, domestic firms have been more dispersed out of Ontario and Quebec than foreign firms. Foreign firms were more stable then domestic firms implying that they specialized themselves in the plant level to cope with the changes in economic climates while domestic firms might have adjusted themselves possibly by relocation and plant closures and new set ups.
Foreign firms have positively influenced some parts of Canada's competitiveness through rapid specialization and productivity growth and have negatively influenced some parts of Canada's competitiveness, including the tendency toward importing, weak development in high-technology industries, less R & D activity and employment. The rapid specialization and productivity growth of foreign firms can contribute to enhance Canada's competitiveness at the expense of employment loss and regional disparity. In addition, considering Canada's poor performance in high-technologysectors and R&D activity in spite of the fact that foreign firms show rapid specialization, productivity growth, and growth in high-technology sectors, the spillover effects of foreign firms are not so satisfactory as expected in Canada.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Religionsgeschichtliche and Exegetical Study of Baptism in the Epistle to the Ephesians

contributor:
Sanders, E. P
Religion

subject:
baptism
ethics
Jewish rites
Hellenistic rites
language

abstract: This thesis is primarily a study of the doctrine and role of baptism in the Epistle to the Ephesians. The central argument is that the Epistle is a treatise on the unity between Jew and Gentile in the Church and that the author utilizes the language and teaching of baptism to develop this theme. Careful attention, therefore, is given to an exegesis of the text in order to determine how the teaching of baptism contributes toward this purpose. Consideration is also given to the catechetical, liturgical, ethical and eschatological aspects of baptism as they emerge in the Epistle. Jewish and Hellenistic rites are examined within the context of their possible influence upon the teaching of baptism in Ephesians.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Clash between La Via Vecchia e la Via Nuova in Franco Paci's Novels

subject:
Italian immigrants
Canada
experience
labour

abstract:
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his anxious desire to know everything, to think, to write everything, his anxious desire to be heard.¹

The most significant influx of Italian immigrants  to Canada began at the end of the last century, and their number increased substantially just after the Second World War. Those immigrants were preoccupied with survival and had neither the time nor the education to document their immigrant experience. By the 1970's however, some of their children had a university education. This generation had the opportunity to cultivate their minds and the inclination to understand their parents' pasts. They have become the spokespersons of a generation of silent labourers. While many of them are now pursuing professional careers, they still remember that their fathers blasted rocks, worked in mines, hauled ties and did construction, while their mothers worked in factories. The sounds of this labour reverberate in their literature.

 Franco Paci took his place in this group of writers when he produced his novels, The Italians, the first full length book on Italian immigrant themes, Black Madonna and The Father. The author's main theme is the clash between la via vecchia (the old way) and la via nuova (the new way}.He sets up a series of tensions, including the ambivalence of the Italian-Canadian duality, the home as protection and prison, the generation schism and the language barrier as a means of illustrating his theme. He recalls the immigrant struggle and questions its price with compassion and iron-fair judgement. Using characters from the Italian immigrant milieu, he gives sound and structure to the mixed emotions and psychological dualities of the ethnic and the exiled. An Italian immigrant himself, Franco Paci draws from two cultures and examines the immigrant past in the context of the present. Novelist Robert Kraetsch explains the importance of writing about one's background: "In a sense, we haven't got an identity until somebody tells our story. The fiction makes us real."² Paci's works speak to the conflicts and resolutions repeated in countless Italian families across Canada.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Literary Theory of John Stuart Mill

contributor:
Ross, M.
English

subject: mental crisis, meaningful, integration, analytical, feelings, poetry, relation, dissociated, sensibility

abstract: It is the contention of this paper that, contrary to his own belief, John Stuart Mill did not, after his "mental crisis" of 1826, succeed in his attempt to achieve a meaningful integration of the analytical and the affective, through his cultivation of the feelings by poetry. On the contrary, through his subsequent detemination to place these two attributes (the analytic and the affective) in a clearly proscribed xelation to each other (by virtue of his postulation of the exclusive presence of the former in science or logic and the latter in poetry), Mill only succeeded in creating, in this codification, what we can describe as an image of his {to use T. S. Eliot's somewhat unfashionable phrase) "dissociated sensibility."

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Metamorphosis: Some Aspects of this Motif in Ovid's Metamorphoses

contributor:
Kingston, P.
Roman Studies

subject: Ovid metamorphosis human animal water stone tree

abstract:
 This thesis is about Ovid's descriptions of the change of the human form into another form, e.g., an animal, stone, body of water or a tree, in his poem, Metamorphoses. The title indicates the importance of this phenomenon, metamorphosis, in that work.

 There are about 250 examples of metamorphosis in the poem. Of these, Ovid describes approximately twenty per cent. To describe more might have been boring; to describe less might have left an open question for his audience: how does a metamorphosis work?

 Previous work on this subject has been confined to either an attempt at analysis of all examples, or of so few, that Ovid's method of description for these important examples has never been explored.

 It has been found that Ovid's purpose was to explain the phenomenon in credible terms, which is his basic method of description generally. His use of previous sources shows that he explained the animal metamorphoses more in terms of prior tradition than the other groups. He seems to have provided a real impetus for change in the portrayal of persons metamorphosing into trees which appear particularly in the post Ovidian sources in art. Ovid appears to have been the most inventive in those descriptions of persons changing into stone.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Three Essays in Corporate Governance

contributor:
Qiu, Dr. Jiaping
Business Administration

subject: hedge fund activism, executive compensation, perks, financial crisis, public scrutiny

abstract:
This thesis examines three important topics in corporate governance: the relationship between activist hedge funds and other institutional investors, the role of perks in the market for CEO talent, and public scrutiny and the changing nature of perks.
First, I provide an in depth study of the interaction between activist hedge funds and other institutional investors. Hedge funds are more likely to target firms with high levels of institutional ownership, and demonstrate a preference for short term focused institutional investors. Hedge fund activism generates short run and long run abnormal returns without increasing stock return volatility. Regardless of investment horizon, volatility is inversely related to prior period institutional ownership. The trading behavior of institutional owners with different investment horizons is consistent with hedge fund activism creating value. These findings hold regardless of whether investment horizon is based on portfolio churn rate or type of institution. Overall, the results suggest a mutually beneficial relationship between activist hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Second, in a coauthored paper with Drs. Seungijn Han and Jiaping Qiu, I provide the first comprehensive analysis on how CEOs’ wage and perks are jointly determined in a competitive CEO market. The underlying theory shows that in equilibrium, firm size, wage, perks and talent are all positively related. Perks are more sensitive than wage to changes in firm size. The more perks enhance the CEO’s productivity, the faster perks increase in firm size. Closed form solutions allow the recovery of the cost function of providing perks. I examine the determinants of CEO perquisite compensation using hand-collected information for S&P 500 companies and find consistent empirical evidence.
Third, I examine the impact of public scrutiny on CEO compensation using the unique opportunity provided by the 2008 financial crisis, government support, and legislated compensation restrictions. I introduce novel data on executive perks at S&P 500 firms from 2006 to 2012. Overall, my results are consistent with increased public scrutiny having lasting impact on perks and temporary impact on wage, and with legislated compensation restrictions having temporary impact on wage. Changes in specific perks items provide evidence on which perks firms perceive as excessive and which provide common value.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: A Simulation Study of a Disequilibrium Macro Model with Special Reference to the Theory of Credit Rationing

contributor:
Scarth, William M.
Economics

subject: implications, government, stabilization, policies, credit, rationing, expenditure, multiplier, equilibrium, money-financed, deficit, bonds

abstract:
The purpose of this study is to explore the implications for various government stabilization policies of explicit consideration of market disequilibrium, especially credit rationing in the commercial bank loan market. The analysis centers in each case on the value of the government expenditure multiplier.
First, a control or equilibrium version of the model is developed which is consistent with standard macrotheory and which contains a welldescribed banking sector. The results of the simulations with this version of the model confirm that the impact multiplier is larger when the deficit is financed by printing money than when bonds are issued to meet the requirement for funds. However, it is shown that in the long run the bond-financed multiplier is greater than the money-financed multiplier. This version of the model also confirms the possibility raised in the current literature that the bondfinanced case may be unstable. Since the current model has a well developed banking sector, the theory of the government finance restraint is extended to consider the case in which the deficit is financed by transferring the ownership of government bank deposits to the private sector. This case closely resembles the bond-financed case in the short run but it is statically stable. The deposit-financed case is limited, of course, by the initial size of the government deposits. Therefore, the restoration of the level of government deposits by one of the other means of financing is considered.
Next, a disequilibrium version of the control model is developed consistent with current literature on disequilibrium phenomena. This version of the model contains a feedback mechanism by which a disequilibrium in one market will affect the decisions in all other markets.
The results of the simulations with the disequilibrium model show that the government expenditure impact multiplier may be increased by the presence of credit rationing. In fact the bond-financed case which is unstable in the control version becomes stable under "equilibrium" credit rationing, where the loan rate does not adjust at all.
Since the model used in this study is ad hoe, sensitivity analysis is used to investigate the importance of the exact values of the key parameters of the system. The policy implications of the study do appear to hing on the values of the feedback coefficients. If the force of credit rationing is mainly felt in the real sector, the government expenditure impact multiplier will be smaller in the disequilibrium version than in the control model. -on the other hand, if the impact of credit rationing is mainly felt in the financial sector, the opposite result will occur. However, the range of values that the multiplier may take on, depending on the impact of the credit rationing, is quite small.
Thus, given the size of the error of prediction of standard models, this study concludes that it is unlikely that the inclusion of credit rationing will allow a better evaluation of government stabilization policies. This is especially true if the impact of credit rationing is believed to be in roughly the same proportion as normal expenditures in the various markets.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Understanding The Spread of Evidence-Informed Decision Making in a Government Health Department in Canada

contributor:
Dobbins, Maureen
Nursing

subject:
Knowledge Translation
Social Network Analysis
Evidence-informed decision making
Diffusion of Innovations

abstract: Background. In order to deliver effective and efficient public health services, the best available research evidence should be considered when making public health decisions. The process of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) involves searching for research evidence, appraising and synthesizing the high quality evidence, and adapting the evidence with consideration of local contextual factors and community preferences. For many public health departments achieving EIDM has been a challenge. Methods. This study aimed to learn how EIDM spread through interpersonal interactions within the health department of a provincial government in Canada. The health department was selected based on anecdotal evidence suggesting that ideas of EIDM had diffused within this department. Employees were invited to participate in an electronic survey about their interactions regarding EIDM. The data collected from this survey were analyzed using social network analysis methods. This helped to show how the interpersonal connections helped to spread the ideas of EIDM within the organization. Results. In this organization EIDM discussion occurred most often within the organizational divisions, whereas influence for EIDM often occurred both within and between divisions. The type of relationship that appeared most important in discussion of EIDM was colleague relationships, while supervisors were more important for encouraging use of EIDM. Furthermore, individuals in leadership positions within the organization were shown to have played an important role in the diffusion of EIDM. Limitations and Conclusions. Low participation resulted in a limited picture of the whole network of this organization. The use of social network analysis is a relatively novel approach for studying the diffusion of EIDM, and there are challenges to this approach that requires special consideration when working with organizations.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)


title: An Econometric Model of the Canadian Clothing and Textile Industry

subject: econometric, model, Canadian, clothing, structure, industry, market, scenarios, scale, competitiveness, imports, production, tariff

abstract:
This thesis develops an econometric model of the Canadian clothing and textile industry for the purpose of investigating its structure, the market it faces, linkages
between the market and the industry and the sensitivity of the industry to external factors. Using the model, several simulation experiments are conducted with the
primary focus centered on the issues of protection accorded the industry. The future prospects of the industry under various alternative scenarios are evaluated.
Empirical support is indicated for most of the hypotheses underlying the specification of the model. Some of the hypotheses are: the firms in the industry
engage in imperfect competition; the industry operates under constant return to scale; price competitiveness is a significant factor in explaining the level of imports;
domestic production capacity has an influence on imports.
It is found in the thesis that clothing imports respond with a relatively high elasticity to changes in price as well as income, revealing a source of instability inherent
in the clothing industry. As a system, the model is found to trace the history of the industry with reasonable accuracy. The model is also found to display a considerable
degree of consistency and stability in its responses throughout the simulation experiments. The thesis thus provides a dynamic, structural and simultaneous economic system that can be validly used either as a forecasting
tool or frame of reference in analyses.
An ex-ante simulation intended as a reference
forecast of the industry suggests that despite the present
quota protection, the past downward trend observed in the
clothing industry will likely continue in the future,
while the textile industry will maintain a status quo.
A simulation with a complete removal of tariff protection
appears to support the argument that consumer gains will
outweigh losses on the labour and production side.
Another simulation suggests that there are policy options
available that may be considered as effective means of
stimulating the industry.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Dilemma of Participation A Commentary on Plato's Parmenides 131A9-E3

contributor:
Hitchcock, David
Philosophy

subject: Plato, related, Form, particulars, Dilemma, participation, Parmenides, extensional, mereology, Proclus

abstract:
In separating the Form from its particulars, Plato is left with the task of describing the way in which they are related to one another. One possible way of construing this relation is to suppose that particulars receive a share ofthe Form. The discussion between Parmenides and Socrates, in the Parmenides 131 a9-e3, interprets this sharing in a material sense: either the whole of the Form is received by each particular, or part of the Form is received by each particular. This disjunction turns out to be a destructive dilemma -the socalled Dilemma of Participation.
The three main sections ofthis work study in detail the Dilemma of Participation, as it is presented in the Parmenides. The first section considers the disjunct that the whole of the Form is received by each particular (13 la9-b2). By using a system of classical extensional mereology, it is demonstrated that Parmenides' reductio ad absurdum of this disjunct is deductively valid. The second section deals with Socrates' objection to this argument (which he makes in the guise of the Day Analogy), and Parmenides' response to the objection (which he makes in the guise ofthe Sail Analogy) (131 b3-c4). The validity of Parmenides' response depends on the sense of"day" Socrates intends in the Day Analogy. It is argued (against S. Panagiotou) that there is a sense of "day" that makes Parmenides' response invalid. The third section considers the disjunct that part of the Form is received by each particular (131 c5-e3). Two current interpretations of this disjunct (that ofT. Scaltsas and R. E. Allen) are recounted and critiqued, and a new interpretation is proposed (an interpretation based partially on that of Proclus, and under which Parmenides' argument against this disjunct is valid).

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Emily Dickinson's Spectrum: An Analysis of the Significance of Colour Imagery in the Poems and Letters.

contributor:
Duncan, Douglas
English

subject:
Emily Dickinson
spectrum
manipulate
colour-imagery

abstract: The implication of the title of this thesis, Emily Dickinson's Spectrum, is that this poet had a highly individual attitude towards colour, an attitude which the analysis of colour-imagery in the poet's writings will illuminate. The first chapter of the thesis demonstrates how the poet's scientific background enabled her to set up a spectrum that differed from the "received" Newtonian spectrum in many ways. The second chapter shows how Dickinson's originality, a quality often noticed by critics, is to a large extent the product of her ability to manipulate the colours of her spectrum in a manner analogous to the practice of the pictorial artist. The third chapter explains, however, that though her use of colour was indeed original, her practice reflects the international anti-Newtonian "colour-revolution" of the era in which she lived, a revolution in which she had a significant role to play notwithstanding her apparent seclusion in Amherst. In the final chapter, Emily Dickinson's spectrum is set out, and each of its chief colours is shown to be a concise means of referring to a different complex or node of emotions that are at once personal and universal in their import.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Nietzsche: Style and Perspectivism

contributor:
Allen, Barry
Philosophy

subject: philosophical, tradition, stylistic, perspectivism, relativism, theory, language, logic,

abstract: Friedrich Nietzsche represents a radical departure from alroost all of the philosophical tradition which preceded him. His stylistic differences from the tradition in philosophy find their basis in his perspectivism1 a strong form of relativism. Perspectivism is the theory that there are an indefinite number of different perspectives on the world, none of which can legitimately claim to be the true definition of it. Nietzsche bases a number of interesting arguments about language, truth and logic on perspectivism. His perspectivism is problematic because it cannot be asserted as true without also encountering a paradox: if perspectivism is a definitive perspective on the world, then perspectivism is false. Nietzsche found a method of dealing with this paradox through his writing style itself, viz. through his style he exenplifies perspectivism without seriously asserting it. That means that his style constantly refers to and serves as an exanple of perspectivism, and yet he never plainly asserts that perspectivism is a true description of the world. Nietzsche's style is intended to distinguish him from the rest of the philosophical tradition because he thought that was the only way to have his ideas accepted: on his own terms standing in opposition to the rest of the tradition, especially Socrates.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Hume on Causation

contributor:
Noxon, James
Philosophy

subject: Hume, real connection, physical, causes, effects, ontological, casual necessity, epistemological, objects, priorinaturalistic, psychological

abstract:
In the first chapter of this thesis it is shown that Hume has not denied a "real connection" between physical causes and effects. It is argued that Hume is not mainly concerned with the ontological status of causal necessity. His main contention is epistemological; he aims to explain the grounds we have for asserting causal connections. When we look for the grounds of casual interference we find nothing but constant conjunction, which accounts for the mental determination to pass from an impression to the idea of its usual attendant. But it does not follow from this psychological theory that Hume denies "real connections" between physical objects and events. On the contrary, he is committed, as the texts reveal, to admitting that there is a "real connection", although he denies that we have any insight into the nature of that connection.
Chapter two is intended to settle the dispute over the status of Burne's two definitions of "cause". It is shown that thev are not incompatible, and it is only when both the definitions are taken together that Hume's analysis of causation is complete.
In chapter three a detailed defence is undertaken of Hume's claim that we do not know causal connections a priori and that the inference from past experience to future prediction is not rationally justifiable. Although predictions of future events can not be rationally defended, Hume does not reject them, but gives them a naturalistic, psychological explanation. By considering all relevant factors it is shown that Hume's analyses of causation are quite consistent and not subjectivist in the sense often attributed to them.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Morality in Legal Philosophy

contributor:
Waluchow, W.J.
Philosophy

subject: moral, concerns, legal, theoretical, social practices, law, rules, natural, disobedience, consequences, adjudication, perspective

abstract: Moral concerns should be relevant to the choice of the best legal theory on both theoretical and moral grounds because social practices such as law can change due to the theorizing activity. Hart's concept of law provides grounds for claiming that rules of social morality can constrain law in more ways than he admits in his minimum content of natural law. The belief that social morality constrains valid law allows one to treat the question of civil disobedience as sensitively as a legal positivist and leads to neither anarchism nor passivism. At the other extreme, Dworkin's law as integrity interpretation, which claims law is concerned with political morality through and through, leads to morally regrettable consequences when adopted as a normative theory of adjudication. Theoretical difficulties also flow from Dworkin's identification of the role of judge and legal theorist: that a legal theorist must be a participant in any legal system she interprets does not mean she should adopt or exclusively focus on a judge's perspective on that system.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Augustine and the Vision of God: The Evolution of Augustine's Conception of the Attainment of the Vision of God in De Quantitate Animae, Confessiones, and De Trinitate

contributor:
Widdicombe, Peter
Religious Studies

subject: Augustine, vision, God, signs, symbols, Christianity, divine, believers, literature, evolution, thought

abstract:
Throughout his career Augustine wrote often about the attainment of the vision of God, in which God would be seen face-to-face without the need of signs and symbols. He understood this vision to be the ultimate goal of Christianity, for in this contemplation of the divine believers attain true happiness through the enjoyment ofGod. Given the centrality ofthe vision of God in Augustine's writings, one would expect the secondary literature to be replete with references to this facet of his thought. However, this is not the case. While minor studies have been produced on the vision of God and Augustine, no major study exists. This thesis is an attempt to address, at least in some measure, this scholarly lacuna.
In this thesis I attempt to examine Augustine's conception of the attainment of the vision of God as formulated at different points of his career in order to analyse the evolution of his thought. To accomplish this task I chose three principal writings from his corpus in which the vision of God plays an especially prominent role, each of which provides a window into the mindset of Augustine at a particular period of his life; they are De Quantitate Animae (The Greatness ofthe Soul), written c. 387; Confessiones, completed between 397 and 401; and De Trinitate (On the Trinity), completed c. 420.
Through an analysis of Augustine's conception ofthe vision of God in each of these writings, I argue that his understanding ofthe means by which the vision is attained evolves as his career progresses. For example, in De Quantitate Animae Augustine posits that the soul can attain the vision of God in this life through a Plotinian-style interior withdrawal, and while he suggests that the church and the incarnate Son of God play a role in the soul's ascent to God, precisely what role they play is ambiguously formulated. Later writings, however, indicate that Augustine's conception of the vision of God evolved and I argue that the development of Augustine's conception of the attainment of the vision of God is a development which sees him moving steadily away from a positive understanding ofhuman potentiality toward a conception ofthe drastic consequences of human fallenness which is directly related to wrongly-ordered love, and away from an emphasis on interiority as a means of purification and toward an understanding of God as purifier in and through the Holy Spirit, whereby the individual is purified through the collective purification of  the community manifesting the love that is the Holy Spirit. A more pronounced and nuanced conception ofthe role of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and ofthe community ofthe church in the attainment ofthe vision of God eschatologically thus characterises the evolution of Augustine's conception of humanity's ascent to the divine. This development also finds Augustine placing progressively less emphasis on the attainment of the vision of God in this life.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Plato's Response to the Sophists' Rejection of Falsity

contributor:
Hitchcock, D.
Philosophy

subject: Sophist, falsity, ontological, being, epistemological, truth, historical, Parmenides

abstract:
In this paper I examine Plato's response in the Sophist to the problem of falsity as
it had developed in ancient Greek philosophy. The problem of falsity has its origins in
Parmenides' absolute ontological distinction between being and not-being. This
ontological distinction was translated by the sophists into an epistemological distinction
between truth and falsity: a true statement says what is; a false statement says what is not. Because the problem of falsity has its roots in the views of these earlier thinkers, Plato's approach to this problem in the Sophist is historical. In this paper I attempt to trace out the ways in which Plato's response to the problem of falsity is a response to those thinkers who had made falsity so problematic, viz. Parmenides and the sophists. It has long been recognized that the first part ofPlato's Sophist is a response, indeed a challenge, to Parmenides. What has not been recognized is that the second part of the Sophist is also a challenge--to the sophists. The role the sophists played in the development of Plato's later period epistemological views has been, I think, quite underrated. Though Plato's middle period views on truth and falsity were not quite the same as those of Parmenides, they were certainly Parmenidean in spirit. In the Sophist we see a change. The Parmenides-inspired views on falsity have been quietly dropped. It is the sophists' definition of falsity-a false statement says that which is not--which is adopted, though with significant modifications. I believe it is the purpose of the second part of the Sophist to challenge the sophists by showing that they didn't understand their own definition. Though the sophists were right in holding that a false statement says that which is not, the implications they drew from this were entirely incorrect. A statement
which says that which is not is no more problematic than a statement which says that
which is.
In this paper I examine the Sophist as a challenge directed towards Plato's
predecessors. I believe this dialogue can only be properly understood against the
historical backdrop ofthe problem ofnot-being and falsity as it developed out of the
philosophies of Parmenides and the sophists. It is only by looking at the Sophist against this backdrop that Plato's accomplishment in this dialogue can truly be appreciated.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Growth Prospects of a Developing Economy: A Macroeconometric Study of Pakistan

contributor:
Denton, F.T.
Economics

subject:
Pakistan
growth
endogenous variables

abstract:
 This study analyses the growth prospects of Pakistan over the period 1978 to 1990. The framework used for the analysis is a macroeconometric model of the economy which is constructed and estimated based on data for the period 1956 to 1978. The predictive ability of the model is evaluated in terms of its ability to forecast values of the endogenous variables in an historic simulation context. The model is then used initially to forecast values of major endogenous variables over the period 1978 to 1990, based on a-benchmark set of assumptions about growth in the exogenous variables. The results of the benchmark forecast are compared with results of six other forecasts in which the assumptions about the future course of key domestic and international factors are varied.

 The macroeconometric model consists of a system of nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations. An input-output block composed of ten production sectors is incorporated. The final demand side is disaggregated into private and public expenditures, including exports and imports by economic categories. The revenue structure and role of the government in the development of the economy are treated as endogenously determined. The influence of bank credit on capital formation and the effect of government deficits on the money supply are explicitly incorporated.

 The results of the initial benchmark forecast with the model are compared with targets set by the Pakistan Planning Commission in the context of the Fifth Five-Year Plan (1978-83). It is found that the plan was consistent but was not feasible with regard to the amount of non-inflationary resources required to carry it out. For these reasons, the plan was aborted in 1981.

 In the other experiments it is found that a higher international growth rate, though raising the growth path of the Pakistan economy, does not translate into an equivalent increase in growth in the domestic economy. The economy's growth path is found to be very sensitive to the course of agricultural development. A harvest failure in one year would permanently lower the growth path for subsequent years. The economy is found to be flexible enough to withstand a surge in imports in one year without its long-run growth path being affected. Finally, on the basis of the last experiment, a feasible course of action for government policy is suggested. This would require development expenditures to increase by half the amount suggested in the plan. Under this policy, gross domestic product and related aggregates would have annual real growth of 4.1 percent in the long-run accompanied by yearly increases in employment of 3.3 percent. Government and balance of payments deficits would be cut to manageable size, resulting in reduced inflationary tendencies in the economy.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: A Metabolic Approach to Examining the Potential Role of the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway in Diabetes-associated Atherosclerosis

contributor:
Werstuck, Geoff
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

subject:
diabetes
atherosclerosis
hexosamine biosynthetic pathway
ER stress
GFAT

abstract: The number of people living with diabetes worldwide is continually increasing. The majority of these people will eventually die of cardiovascular disease, the major underlying cause of which is atherosclerosis. Despite the efforts of many researchers, gaps in our knowledge still exist regarding the molecular mechanism(s) linking the two conditions. Current data suggests that the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) may have a role in the development of hyperglycemia-accelerated atherosclerosis. About 2-3% of glucose entering a cell is diverted into this pathway where it is modified through a series of reactions to yield the end product, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc); a substrate for both N- and O-linked glycosylation of various molecules.  N-linked glycosylation occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and is an important process in the maintenance of ER homeostasis. We hypothesized that a dysregulation in the HBP can ultimately trigger ER stress – an event associated with the development of atherosclerosis. We have established a method that allows us to monitor levels of UDP-GlcNAc both in cultured cells and mouse tissues through high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). Using this technique, we’ve shown that both glucosamine supplementation and overexpression of the rate limiting enzyme of the HBP, GFAT, in cultured cells results in elevated UDP-GlcNAc levels. Furthermore, glucosamine was shown to trigger ER stress. In contrast, three GFAT inhibitors that were previously identified in a high throughput screen were shown to decrease UDP-GlcNAc levels and one inhibitor, dehydroiso-β-lapachone, appears to prevent ER stress induction. Finally, we use complementary methods to show that the HBP is augmented in the livers of hyperglycemic mice. This process may play a role in the accelerated development of atherosclerosis. Together, these results provide further insight into the role of the HBP in diabetic atherosclerosis and the established methods provide a platform for the further investigation of this mechanism.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Language, Rhetoric, and Reality in Elizabethan Prose Friction

contributor:
Blewett, David L.
English

subject: prose, fiction, rhetoric, aspect, stylistic, analysis, isolated, passages, schemes, tropes, grammar, ornamentation, deception, distortion, manipulation, logic, dishonesty, ,

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abstract: Elizabethan prose fiction has been virtually ignored for a long time. The question of rhetoric in this fiction is an extremely complex issue, and studies which have examined this aspect are usually stylistic analyses that fragment the works by dissecting isolated passages for stylistic data concerning an author's manipulation of particular schemes and tropes. This approach has often tended to ignore the possibility that larger ideals and attitudes may underlie the use of rhetorical figures (i.e. elocutio) in particular passages. While this dissertation does not attempt to resolve the problems of the relationship between rhetorical training in the grammar schools and Elizabethan fiction, or between the English vernacular rhetorics and Elizabethan fiction, it offers some idea about what these writers thought about rhetoric beyond its status as ornamentation. This thesis tries to discover what these writers thought about the possibilities of rhetorical training --that is, about its moral status as an art of persuasion. In my view, the major writers of Elizabethan prose fiction dramatize the abuses of verbal skills; they explore some of the techniques of deception, distortion and manipulation that are afforded by rhetorical training. The subject-matter of this fiction is largely concerned with verbal methods of persuasion that manipulate and distort, that rely on false logic and dishonesty; these writers are concerned with rhetorical attempts to change the face of the "real" world in order to justify a particular idea, action, or belief. My thesis explicates the prose fictional works of Gascoigne, Lyly, Sidney, Nashe and Deloney with this theory in mind. As well as suggesting the ways in which rhetoric is handled as a subject in a variety of fictional contexts, my thesis also explicates the rhetorical strategies which these authors themselves use to involve their reader in evaluating rhetoric.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: A Foundation for Freedom in Whitehead's Cosmology

contributor:
Najm, S.
Philosophy

subject: notions, conspiracy, cosmology, process, reality, irrelevancy

abstract:
Abstract Not Provided
Thesis
Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Study of Manual Workers' Attitudes Toward Social Class in Four Ontario Communities

contributor:
Pineo, P.C.
Sociology

subject:
Social Class
Onatrio workers

abstract:
This study was concerned with the sources of variation in the attitudes of manual workers toward social class and related matters. A review of the literature suggested that, for workers to adopt a perspective that challenges the existing distribution of rewards and privileges in society, they have to be involved in a series of relationships, in work and in the wider community, that create barriers to the influence of the values of dominant groups in society. Evidence from
studies in several societies suggests that involvement in predominantly working-class milieux, at work, in the community, and in kinship and friendship networks, leads to the worker adopting a perspective that is "deviant" from the dominant value system. Exposure to the influence )
of people from other classes, on the other hand, 'Would weaken the'
barriers and increase the likelihood that the worker would adopt a
perspective akin to that of groups higher in the social hierarchy.
This study involved the application of the perspective outlined above to differences in the attitudes of manual workers in four Ontario communities. A questionnaire survey was administered in the four
committees, which were selected because, in terms of class structure, they differed from each other in ways that were believed to be associated -with differences in working-class attitudes. The indicators of class
attitudes examined in this thesis are class identification, choice of models describing the bases of the stratification system, an index of
militancy, and support for the New Democratic Party. Residence in a predominantly working-class community was expected to influence the worker to adopt a "deviant" set of attitudes. But
community differences in class identification and choice of class models
among workers did not follow the expected pattern. Militancy and support for the NDP were found to be related to differences in the class compositions of the conm.mities studied, but, over-all, community differences were not as large as evidence from studies in other societies would lead one to expect. It was argued that the extensive geographical mobility among workers, and the ethnic diversity in three of the comm.mities, attenuated sanewhat the effect that differences in canmunity class stnicture were expected to have on workers' attitudes. Elements in the work situation did, however, show a more substantial
relationship with differences in workers' attitudes. Membership in a trade union was found to be the most consistently strong influence on the workers' adoption of "deviant" attitudes. White-collar kinship and friendship affiliations, on the other hand, particularly marriage to a woman who had, at one time or another, been employed in white-collar
work, were found to be related to the worker adopting attitudes more similar to those held by people higher in the social hierarchy. It was argued that the barriers to the influence of the dominant culture are nrutua.lly reinforcing, so that removal of one weakens the power of the others. Geographical mobility among workers, combined with ethnic and religious diversity, were seen as weakening even the solidarity ties that might exist in a community predominantly working-class in social composition. And the large number of workers who-were married to women with experience of non-manual work was seen as a further factor weakening the barriers to the influence of the dominant atlture. It was argued that, even though the trade union appears to be the most effective barrier to the dominant culture, the absence of other strung barriers lessens the power the union has to provide a set of alternative definitions of social reality for workers.
It was concluded that the weakness of the barriers to the influence of the dominant culture may be suggested as one reason why Ontario workers do not provide the kind of support to the New Detoocratic Party that is provided to parties of the left by workers in other western societies.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: "History Revisited:" Narrative and History in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family and Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues

contributor:
Hyman, Dr. Roger
English

subject:
Michael Ondaatje's
Volkswagon Blues

abstract:
This study explores the interrelations between
narrative and history in two Canadian and Quebecois novels.
Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family (1982) . Tracing narrative techniques
in general and intertextuality in particular, the thesis
reveals postmodern concerns in re-writing history. Both
Ondaatje's and Poulin's novel refract the master narrative of
History and its closed linear nature into multiple
discontinuous histories. In accordance with recent
historiography. they further unmask the textuality. and hence
ideological embeddedness, of our knowledge about the past.
Both exploiting and contesting historical authority, Poulin
and Ondaatje inquire into the relations between art, history.
and the structure of social and cultural power.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Market Structure and Economic Modeling: A Case Study of the World Zinc Industry

contributor:
Williams, J.R.
Economics

subject: Zinc manufacturing production consumption

abstract:
 Zinc, a non-ferrous metal, is consumed as an intermediate input in construction and a wide variety of manufacturing industries. Canada, Australia, Peru and Mexico together produce about 55 percent of the total output but absorb only about 8 percent of the total zinc consumed in the free market world. On the other hand, U.S.A., Japan and the E.E.C. countries together share in about 72 percent of the total consumption but produce only 25 percent of the total zinc ores produced in the free market world. These large imbalances in production and consumption of zinc place it in the group of important international primary commodities. The major aims of this study are to provide a systematic understanding of the institutional and behavioral characteristics of the world zinc industry, and to analyse its performance properties in the framework of a formal model of the international market.

 A detailed study of the organisational structure of the industry reveals that as many as 24 corporate groups (including their multinational operations) share in about 65 percent of the raw zinc produced in the free market world. In the absence of any other information to the contrary, this low degree of concentration in terms of market control is taken as an evidence for the absence of non-competitive behavior on the sellers' side. However, the working of the free market forces has, often, been influenced by the intervention of the U.S. Government through its stockpile program, tariffs, quotas, and other measures for the protection of the domestic industry. This environment, in turn, has enabled the major U.S. producers to exercise some degree of control on the domestic market through the variations in their stocks of zinc and capacity utilisation ratio. However, the world market on the buyers' side consists of a large number of small consumers of zinc providing a competitive environment.

 A fairly detailed market form of econometric model is built, based on the above institutional framework and relevant technological and behavioral features. An estimated version of the model indicates different systems of lag responses in the structures of demand and supply to the price of zinc, a very poor substitutability on the demand side, free market price as a long-run equilibrator for the U.S. producers' price, and an important influence of the U.S. interventions on the world market. The model meets reasonably well the predictability criterion based on the technique of dynamic simulation. The performance properties of the world zinc industry, analysed through dynamic multiplier simulation technique, show that the industry exhibits a reasonably stable market environment to the exogenous disturbances such as an increase in the activity levels of consumers and variations in the prices of substitutes. It is, however, quite ·sensitive to technological changes in the consumer industries. The stockpile policy of the U.S. Government does not seem to be properly geared to its objectives, and, in general, it seems to have restricted the development of the industry as a whole.

 Despite the usual limitations of a first systematic study, it is hoped that this work will contribute towards a better understanding of the salient features of the industry, provide a reasonably sufficient scope for broad policy evaluations, and facilitate the forecasting of the behaviour of major market variables.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Indians of the Eastern Canadian Parklands: An Economic Ethnohistory, 1800-1930

contributor:
Slobodin, Richard
Anthropology

subject:
Indians of Eastern Canada
Ethnohistory 1800-1930

abstract:
This thesis traces changes in economic livelihood among Canadian Parkland Indians during 1800-1930, primarily to analyze the Indians' transition from a relative economic independence to membership in an economically disadvantaged population sector.
Concepts of opportunity and constraint are utilized. The growth of settlement in Western Canada in the nineteenth century generated novel economic opportunities for Indians; however, constraints were also imposed, and these gathered strength in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indians are seen in this study as economic agents, who took an active role in seizing opportunities and responding to constraints. It is suggested this approach contrasts with many which assume post-contact Indian peoples to be relatively passive objects of Euro-Canadian or Euro-American action.
Economic opportunities discussed are those associated, successively, with equestrian living and bison-hunting on the Plains; the growth of the transport trade, the pemmican trade; adoption of Christianity and aspects of Western civilization; subsistence and commercial agriculture; and, more recently, wage labour. A primary constraint developed out of government policy. A special body of legislation had been created for Indians, and after 1879 a new policy was implemented in the West to exert comprehensive control over numerous sectors of Indian life. It affected livelihood by discouraging economic enterprise and imposing difficulties in obtaining financial credit. It also drastically reduced the scope for initiative on the part of native leaders.
When Indians left their home reserves in later years to seek wage labour, their lack of skills and inability to remedy social disadvantages trapped them in a poorly-paid employment.
A "culture of poverty" explanation, emphasizing Indians as 'patients', has frequently been advanced to explain Indian poverty. In this study that approach is criticized. It is argued that Indian poverty developed not through failure of Indians to adjust to the growth of settlement. Rather it was a consequence of constraints imposed upon them by (a) government policy and (b) impediments to social mobility.
The study has utilized both archival and field data. Archival research was carried out in Winnipeg and Ottawa, and field research at Indian reserves in the eastern Parklands.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: CAPSAZEPINE ATTENUATES CANCER-INDUCED BONE PAIN BY INHIBITING GLUTAMATE RELEASE

title: GLUTAMATE IN CANCER-INDUCED BONE PAIN

contributor:
Singh, Gurmit
Health Sciences

subject:
Glutamate
Cancer
Pain
TRPV1
Capsazepine
in vivo

abstract: Breast cancer has the highest incidence rate in women, accounting for more than 22% of all cancers and possessing a strong disposition to metastasize to bone. These skeletal metastases become a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with the primary symptom being pain. Pain is a major concern in determining a patient’s quality of life and there have been many attempts to understand and control bone pain with little success. Previous studies have shown that glutamate plays a role in bone cancer pain, with an excess in free glutamate able to cause pain either directly through excitotoxic pathways or indirectly though the dysregulation of osteoclasts and osteoblasts, causing bone dysregulation. TRPV-1 receptors have also has been implicated in the mechanisms of bone cancer pain, as osteoclasts release protons during bone remodeling which can elicit a TRPV-1-related nociceptive response from neurons in the surrounding periosteum. Capsazepine was identified during a high throughput screen of 30,000 compounds to be a potent inhibitor of breast cancer cell-mediated glutamate release, a neurotransmitter with known associations in neural signaling, bone homeostasis, and pain. Capsazepine also has antagonistic effects on transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV-1) receptors which act as key players in both heat and vanilloid-induced nociception. These findings suggest that Capsazepine may provide a multi-site effect for the treatment of cancer-induced bone pain. An animal model of breast cancer-induced bone pain involved intrafemorally injecting MDA-MB-231 cancer cells to measure pain. Behavioural tests are then performed measuring dynamic weight bearing and paw withdrawal thresholds. These measurements are used to demonstrate both movement-evoked and spontaneous pain-related behaviour of the affected limb. Using Capsazepine, we demonstrate a dose-dependent attenuation of pain behaviour in vivo, while confirming tumour presence using immunohistochemistry (IHC). We show that TRPV-1 and glutamate play an important role in the onset and severity of bone cancer pain and blocking these pain pathways provide relief from pain commonly associated with cancer in the bone.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Health Sciences (MSc)


title: Eros and the Good: The Portrayal of Erotic Experience in Plato and Bataille

contributor:
Planinc, Zdravko
Kroeker, Travis P.
Religious Studies

subject:
erotic experience
Plato
Bataille
ancient versus modern

abstract:
 This thesis is a study of the portrayal of erotic experience given by Plato in the Symposium, and by Georges Bataille in his later theoretical writings, particularly Erotism and The Accursed Share. As such, this work is a comparison between an ancient and a modern understanding of eros in order to see which provides a more adequate account of erotic experience.

 Though Bataille does not directly critique Plato's understanding of eros, there are several passages within the Symposium that bear a striking resemblance to the erotic account given by Bataille. This is especially evident in the speech of Aristophanes, where Plato, through one of his characters, provides an erotic understanding that contains many of the same elements that are found in Bataille. The Aristophanic account of eros is directly criticized by Plato through Socrates' erotic speech in the same dialogue. By illuminating the Platonic critique of Aristophanes' erotic understanding, I will extend the critique to Bataille, thus demonstrating the crucial deficiencies within Bataille's account.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Seneca's De Banefficiis, Book One: A Commentary on Chapters One to Ten

contributor:
Jones, H.
Roman Studies

subject:
Seneca
benefits
elucidation
Roman philosophy

abstract: The purpose of this study is to provide a commentary on part of Seneca's lengthy treatise on benefits. An attempt is made to provide an understanding of the meaning of the text. This involves, at times, consideration of the continuity of thought, of textual problems and lacunae (although by no means all difficulties of that order have been discussed). The statements which Seneca makes in his other philosophical works, whether in agreement or contradictory, are adduced for purposes of elucidation. It is apparent that some of the expressions and statements which seem innocuous in their context are sometimes coloured by their appearing elsewhere in doctrines of considerable complexity. Some of the works of Cicero, another valuable source of Roman philosophy, particularly Stoicism, are introduced for purposes of comparison. The ethical works of Aristotle likewise prove to be a valuable source of comparative statements. In general the background provided illustrates that Seneca did not provide the reader with much original thought but that he presented his material with the skill of an effective instructor.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Exploring the Prevalence and Perception of Vision Impairment and Disability among Canada's Immigrant Population

contributor:
Newbold, Bruce K.
Geography and Earth Sciences

subject:
Immigrants
Disability
Ontario
Vision Impairment
Perception
Prevalence
Human Geography

abstract:
Immigrants are an important part of Canada and Canadian culture. Despite a large number of immigrants in Canada relatively few studies have focused on disability and immigrants. Even less research has been conducted on immigrants with visual impairments.
	The first paper uses the Participation Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) from 2006 to examine the prevalence of vision impairment in immigrants compared to non-immigrants, 50 years of age and over. First, descriptive statistics were used to determine the prevalence rate of vision impairment. Then, multivariate logistic regression was utilized to examine differences in providers of support and characteristics of individuals who receive support. Results disclosed that there was no difference in the prevalence rates of adult immigrants and non-immigrants over 50 years of age when controlling for age and gender. Results confirmed that there is a relationship between having a vision impairment and living in a low income household. Results also showed that receiving support is linked to severity of impairment.
The second paper used qualitative analysis to examine visually impaired immigrants’ perception of vision impairment and disability and if perception influenced utilization of care. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 8 clients of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). Results showed that immigrants’ employ three different views when explaining their impairment, these were; the medical view, social view and theological/ traditional view. All participants used two or more views interchangeably demonstrating that all views are important in understanding how immigrants perceive and navigate their impairment on an everyday basis. Results also suggested that negative perceptions did not keep most immigrants from accessing services; however, traditional barriers such as not being eligible to receive services and transportation were main barriers.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Developing new paleoenvironmental approaches for Caribbean coastal systems - case studies from Punta de Cartas and Playa Bailen, Cuba, and Little Salt Spring, Florida

contributor:
Reinhardt, Eduard
Earth and Environmental Sciences

subject: Foraminifera, X-ray Fluorescence, Sinkhole, C/N, Carbon Isotopes, Grain Size, Caribbean, Cuba, Florida, Paleoclimate, Holocene

abstract:
Tropical latitudes play an important role in global climate as they export moisture and energy pole-ward. Recent tests of predictive climate models against Holocene paleoclimate data show discrepancies between predicted and observed values in Tropical regions. Terrestrial paleoclimate records could help resolve these discrepancies by all allowing for better understand of the sensitive ocean-atmosphere climate dynamics in the tropics and by providing additional information from a diverse source of proxies.

	The Caribbean is an ideal location for study as its climate is influenced by both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. However, there are relatively few sources of paleoclimate proxies in this region due to its archipelagic nature. If Caribbean climate is to be thoroughly investigated, additional environments and climate proxies need to be investigated.

	As coastal systems are ubiquitous throughout the Caribbean, they are ideal for investigation of Holocene paleoclimate in this region. However, they can be ephemeral on millennial timescales making them challenging to use in paleoclimate analysis. This dissertation discusses new methods and basins that facilitate the study of these systems. Several important contributions have been made by this thesis. (1) Core scanning XRF data, when examined with additional proxies such as foraminifera, can be used to infer shifts in regional precipitation patterns in a coastal setting. Though these methods have been used before in deep basins, this represents the first use of core scanning XRF in a littoral setting. (2) The evolution of sinkhole sedimentation is reliant on both the morphology of the sinkhole and water level within the feature. This thesis shows that coastal systems are a viable source of paleoclimate information and which can hold valuable information for reconstructing climate.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Master of Science (MSc)


title: Unfixing the Rosebud as a Fixture of the Female Sex in Guillaume de Lorris's and Jean de Meun's the Romance of the Rose

contributor:
Savage, A.
English

subject: Females Guillaume

abstract:
The following work investigates the critical history, and offers a rereading, of the symbol of the rosebud in Guillaume de Lorris's and Jean de Meun's thirteenth-century The Romance of the Rose. An interpretation of the rosebud as the female beloved, while invoked on the basis of convention and context, is continually undermined by the literal details of the symbol itself. The phallic shape and male owner of the rosebud cast it as an indeterminately gendered symbol. In the absence of a secure female object-mirror in which to view himself as verifiably masculine, the subjectivity of the Narrator-Lover undergoes a radical fragmentation such that it comes to resemble the indeterminacy of the rosebud. The relation of sameness between the speaking voice and rosebud situates it as a subversive copy, rather than feminized reflection or Other, of the Narrator-Lover figure. In addition to its imagery, a dynamic of sameness underwrites the structure of the poem, which progresses through a sophisticated interplay of repetition such that the distortions that accrue as a result of allusions and reiterated events stand as sites of irony and implication.
While an allegory, the poem is not necessarily interpretable as a conventional romance. Readings that posit it as such rely on a definition of allegory as a bilevel narrative in which a conventional, allegorical, message overrides the particularities of the literal text. Rather than beyond, however, the meaning of the poem's imagery inheres in the material construction of the figures themselves. As an allegory the Rose generates, not another level of meaning, but a complex set of interconnections that compels its readers to attend to and negotiate the text's surface dynamics. The subject matter of the Rose is not so much the politics of love as the politics of interpretation.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Ruin, Memory, and the Social Body in Augustan Literature

contributor:
Walmsley, Dr. Peter
English

subject:
Social body
Augustan literature

abstract:
This dissertation explores the ground of, and practices of self-reflexivity behind, the often polemical contemporary debates that surround research practices and methodology in humanities and social sciences historiography. I focus on the unexamined reciprocity between conceptions of history and the linguistic and imagistic practices of remembering that affect and produce historiography in the eighteenth century: despite the identity of their epistemological foundation, in the long eighteenth century, ''history'' and "memory" begin to function as diverging truth-claims. By the end of the seventeenth century, John Locke's well-known articulation of tabula rasa--itself a divergence from the remarkably stable medieval and renaissance conceptions of memory as "storehouse" and tabula rasa--signals an epistemological shift in forms of objectivity and, consequently, the subject's experiences of her his interiority.
I analyze aspects of the effects of this emerging epistemology on eighteenth century thinkers' reconstructions of the "social body." Across a number of authors' works and forms of representation--William Congreve's drama, Mary Wollstonecraft's political argumentation, picturesque theory and representation of nature, Locke, Hume, and Joseph Priestly's philosophical debates, and William Blake and Laurence Sterne's literary works--I attempt to trace significant shifts in the relation of, 'memory" and ''history.'' Throughout the chapters I focus on the relation of linguistic strategies of representation to shifts in various kinds of social and personal formations: from gender roles and political or cultural forms, to interpretations of causality, agency, and avenues for social change.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Doctrines and Nethods Used by Sahkara and Ramanuja to Elucidate the Relation Between Self-knowledge and Dharma with Special Reference to their Commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita

contributor:
Sivaraman, Dr. K
Whillier, Dr. W
Religion (Indian Philosophy)

subject: Sankara Ramanuja

abstract: Careful study of the commentaries of both Sankara and Ramanuja concerning the relationship between Self-knowledge and dharma confirmed the usual doctrinal differences between them which have been the focal point of scholarship on Vedanta but as well it also uncovered areas of structural convergence co-existing with the former. Accordingly this investigation proceeded on two levels: the first level was concerned with those differences in the ontologies; the second level was concerned with the "meaning-structures" common to both. Previous scholarship on Vedanta has not made reference to these areas of structural convergence. The objective of this work has been to verify how these areas of structural convergence throw light on their respective explicit positions.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Idealist Problematic of Marx's Early Works

contributor:
Goldstein, M.
Political Science

subject:
Political Science
Marx Early Work

abstract:
The question of Marx's Early Works over the past ten years has been invested with a renewed significance by a debate over the theoretical --and ultimately political -conclusions to be drawn from them. At the center of this debate is the problem of determining the point at which Marx formed his oistinctive position vis-a-vis the major philosophies which he had to traverse, namely those of Feuerbach and Hegel. A great number of works dedicated to the interpretation of Marx's theoretical formation, by recourse to a residual concept of 'transition', do not, it is true, raise this question, nor pose it as a problem. Over the past ten years, however, the problem has taken on a new urgency in the light of serious attempts to accomodate Marx to various avant garde philosophies such as Phenomenology and various forms of 'critical' sociology. Supported by a re-reading of Marx's Early Works, these attempts to 'resuscitate' Marx and Marxism via a return to its philosophical roots, have sharply raised the very question of Marx's 'philosophy'. The way that this question has been raised has posed in clear terms the problem of establishing the 'specific difference' between Marx's thought and that of his predecessors and contemporaries in theory, a problem that takes the form of locating the point at which a distinctive Marxist position emerged. The answer to the question that underlies this problem has taken various forms, each associated with a distinctive type of interpretation (historicism, humanism, structuralism). The 'break' between Marx and his predecessors in theory has been located variously in 1843, at the level of the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right; in 1844, at the level of either the Jahrbucher articles or the Paris Manuscripts; and in 1845, at the level of The German Ideolog.
Addressing myself to the problem which underlies these diverse and mutually conflicting interpretations, and to settle the questions of principle associated with it, I argue for the thesis that Marx's Early Works are all governed by a philosophy shaped by Feuerbach's revision of Hegel, and thus not distinctly his own, but that he forms the basis of his own theoretical position in 1845, ,at the level of The German Ideology. To argue for this thesis it is incumbent on me to demonstrate, first of all, that Marx's Early Works are all unified by the same philosophy, governed by its theoretical problematic and schemata. To set up a centre of reference for this philosophic problematic I reconstruct the opposed solutions of Kant and Hegel to the 'problem of knowledge', and firmly establish Marx's essential dependence on Feuerbach, whose philosophy is inversely-related to and bound by the principles of Hegel's dialectic. In order to trace out
this dependence I reconstruct the path of Marx's intellectual development, re-assessing the theoretical and political meaning of his texts. In the process it becomes the central burden of my study to show that there is no fundamental Break' in Marx's thought either in 1843, and that, in effect, the texts in question are not theoretically distinct vis-a-vis the 'philosophy of praxis' shared by the Left-Hegelian Movement in general. I also subject the renowned Jahrbiicher essays to a re-reading which radically revises the meaning assigned to them. The Paris Manuscripts are similarly read in the light of a previously unsettled
....; problem of Feuerbach's relation to Hegel, and of their en-counter within Marx's thought. A short, not too well known text is invested with a special significance in terms of my vcentral thesis viz Marx's dependence on Feuerbach's humanist
problematic. Several points of original interpretation are
thus introduced. Finally, I show how in The German Ideology . Marx breaks with the 'philosophy' that had to date governed lthe mode of his theoretical reflection, the structure of his critique. Although in The German Ideology Marx does no more than indicate the minimal conditions of his distinctive approach, we trace out the epistemological and methodological dimensions of his 'break' with Feuerbach and Hegel. ,From a phenomenological reduction of phenomena to their inner essence based on the principles of Hegel's dialectic, Marx shifts towards a class analysis based on the principles of Historical Materialism. The-·dissertation on our thesis not only settles the central problem of interpretation with which it is concerned, but it gives a coherent reading of Marx's Early Works within the framework of their underlying premises,-and it establishes as a point of principle that the search for Marx's philosophy should be directed at his later and not his early works.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: "Science" and Spiritual Vibrations: Contemporary Spiritualism and the Discourse of Science

contributor:
Badone, Ellen E.F.
Religious Studies

subject:
Spiritual Vibrations
Discourse of Science

abstract:
Spiritualism is a religious movement based on communication with the
spirits of the dead that originated in New York State in 1848. From its inception, members of the movement claimed that communication with the spirits of the dead was not only a possibility, but was in fact "scientifically" verifiable. Attempts were made throughout the nineteenth century to establish the "truth" of Spiritualist claims to scientific legitimacy. Although there are no longer any overt connections between Spiritualism and the scientific establishment, contemporary Spiritualists continue to insist that their beliefs are in accord with "science." Drawing upon fieldwork with contemporary Spiritualists in Hamilton, Ontario and Lily Dale, New York, this dissertation argues that scientific language and symbols have been incorporated into contemporary Spiritualist discourse to articulate and legitimate the claim that Spiritualist experiences are "true" in a "scientific," empirical sense. An examination of Spiritualist healing, mediumship and narrative practice reveals the extent to which the discourse of "science" has become the means by which the "reality" and "truth" of Spiritualist beliefs are affirmed. In articulating the "truth" of Spiritualist experience and the "reality" of the spirit hypothesis, the language and symbols of science are transformed into a sacred discourse that at once legitimates and affirms Spiritualist beliefs while simultaneously criticizing the "narrow" limits of orthodox science. For many contemporary Spiritualists, "science" has become the language in which religious truth claims are expressed.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Composing Themselves: Music, Morality, and Social Harmony in Women's Writing, 1740-1815

subject: Womens writings

subject: 1740-1815

abstract:
This interdisciplinary thesis examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical
texts written by women in latter eighteenth-century Britain for instances of and resistance
to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control.
The opening chapter defines and historicizes the term "social harmony," by
discussing neoclassical views of musical affect as productive of beneficial social
behaviours and gender definition. By delineating canonical aesthetic theorists' influence
upon women writers and musicians and assessing music's place in women's moral
education, this chapter complicates the idea of separate public and private spheres of
cultural achievement and introduces expanded views of women's agency as composers
and performers.
Next, the thesis appraises women's engagement with charity, musically enacted,
through formal musical and textual analysis of hymns, songs, and benefit performances and
publications. It marks the productive intersection of patronage and charity for women,
who could articulate divergent responses to such idealized or stereotyped objects of pity
as prostitutes and madwomen and benefit materially from so doing.
The third chapter considers women composers and writers' employment of
imitative and associative aesthetic practices in nature's musical representation, including
neoclassical and realist pastorals, the picturesque, and the sublime. It traces development
of a hybrid aesthetic of natural representation that enables performative and compositional
separation of femininity from nature in forms including the novel, song, and pastoral
drama.
The final chapter identifies contemporary anxieties concerning the depiction of
political, moral and gender-role stability within an increasingly international musical
discourse. It analyzes women's musical conceptions of cultural difference and national
identity in ballad operas and pastiches in light of these conflicts.
By crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national
order-or by re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social
harmony-women composers, lyricists and performers contributed significantly to the
formation of British cultural identity.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Types, Categories and Significance

contributor:
Wilson, N.L.
Philosophy

subject: Sorting Philsosphy

abstract:
In this dissertation, I confront a problem in the philosophy of language from an historical and systematic standpoint. The problem consists in explicating a concept of nonsignificance which can apply, inter alia, to the appraisal of philosophical assertions as category-mistaken or typeabsurd. Such appraisals often take the form:
"To say 'a is F' is non-significant, because a is not the
~of thing which can be For not-F."
Accordingly, the thesis begins in an examination of the historical and philosophical basis for Russell's theory of logical tvpes, with its concomitant classification of propositions into true, false or nonsignificant.
In Part I, I seek to remedy a failing in past exegeses of the development of Russell's type theory which ignore Russell's demand that his "proper" solution to the paradoxes--the ramified theory of types-not simply provide a consistent logicist system; but should also be recommended by his other philosophical doctrines. I remedy this failing by showing that:
(i)
the source of inconsistency in Frege's logicism lies in his underlying semantic doctrines: complete definition and the treatment of extensions as objects;
(ii)
the genesis of Russell's ramified theory lies in his logic, epistemology and theory of meaning--viz: the connections between his Vicious Circle Principle, his Multiple Relation Theory of judgement, and his doctrine of incomplete symbols.
(iii) in particular, the Multiple Relation Theory provided Russell with a foundation for the ramified theory which was undermined when Wittgenstein subjected it to two "paralysing" objections (hitherto, only partly reconstructed), within Wittgenstein's ongoing critique of the logical doctrines of PM. I reconstruct these criticisms and survey, in general, the critical background to the ramified theory resulting in the changes from the first to the second editions of PM.
In concluding Part I, I anticipate the constructive enterprise of
Part II in arguing that previous attempts to extend the application of type theory to meaningful predication as a whole have often failed through their insensitivity to contextual relativity and linguistic creativity. Nonetheless, I discuss two accounts--Wittgenstein's theory of formal concepts and Ryle's theory of categories--having features which I preserve in Part II. In addition, I argue against construing category-mistakes as ungrammatical or as false.
My general contention through Part II is that category-mistaken significance-failures are best explicated within a theory of linguistic acts (broadly Austinian) . I support this contention by considering the circumstances of an utterance failing to yield a statement in context through its failure to express 'content' to an audience. This notion of 'content' is developed by recourse to those techniques of formal semantics which provide an articulation of structural and algebraic features of contexts, utterances and speech-acts in the interaction of which significance is appraised. The interpreted formal languages I develop borrow features from significance and context logics given in Routley and Goddard's The Logic of Significance and Context, (1973); though my approach to the semantics diverges markedly from theirs.
The semantic structures I develop are recommended by their exhibiting systematic relations beaveen utterances, contexts and significance without demanding that category-mistaken predications be diagnosed on the basis of~ priori allocations to categories. They represent a category-mistaken predication in terms of a conflict between conditions for successfully talking about items of a type or sort, and for making a statement of such items, in context. Only in this way, it is argued, can a philosophical theory of meaning accommodate fully the richness, creativity and diversity of linguistic acts in context.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Logic in the Husserlian Context

contributor:
Amstutz, Jakob
Philosophy

subject: Husserlian Logic

abstract: The theme of logic runs through all of Husserl's writings, from his earliest Philosophy of Arithmetic, to his final Experience and Judgment. Husserl has even characterized phenomenology as a transcendental logic. I examine Husserl's notion of logic, and it turns out to be an interesting vehicle for bringing together two diverse aspects of Husserl's phenomenology. Which by many critics are thought to be incompatible with each other, namely the purely formal aspect of phenomenology, and the aspect of phenomenology when deals with life. I show how Husserl develops a transcendental logic by going through the tradition of formal logic. He argues that traditional formal logic is not a pure logic, but is one which presupposes the world. Husserl goes beyond this and develops a logic which is pure, one based on the pure transcendental ego in which no world is presupposed. This introduces a "subjective" factor into logic. I show that no logical psychologism is implied. At the same time I show that this pure ego is the centre of life, and that it can do justice to the speculative demands contained in the concept of life. This is done in three ways: by demonstrating that i) the notion of pure transcendental ego is compatible with and can do justice to the life related concepts contained in Freudian psychology, ii) the notion of pure transcendental ego can account of other selves, Also a notion found in the concept of life, and iii) Husserl's essentialist approach is compatible with a teleological-historical approach, the latter introducing a factual element. Finally I show that Husserl's transcendental logic, with its notion of the constituting subject, is compatible with the logic of Frege.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Petronius' Satyricon as Evidence for Doctrines of 'Taste' in the Age of Nero

contributor:
McKay, Dr. Alexander G.
Roman Studies

subject:
Petronius' satyricon
Age of nero

abstract:
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a critical analysis and evaluation of the Satyricon of Petronius, by placing it in its historical, literary, and artistic context. Neronian taste therefore becomes the unifying theme around which the chapters are organized. Chapter One immerses Petronius within the cultural pursuits of Nero's aula, while Chapter Two pursues the question of court literary taste. Chapter Three consists of a Campanian Commentary to the Cena Trimalchionis and thus explicates the Neronian arts of etiquette and leisure. The Appendix re-evaluates the strong evidence for a Neronian dating of the work and for the identification of the consular
T. Petronius Niger as both author of the Satyricon and Nero's elegantiae arbiter.
This dissertation reflects the position that the Satyricon is an example of literary nalyvLa, a non-serious court amusement, which takes as its central theme the "refer to document" motif so typical of ancient symposium literature and likewise appropriate to the emperor's own predilections. The work fits well within the tastes of Roman "refer to document", the unbroken line of aristocrats, who, from the period of the late Republic, left the Capitol to pursue pleasures both cultural and physical in the resort cities of campania. The thesis is advanced that Petronius came to
prominence as Seneca faded from favour, and that the Satyricon replaced Seneca's worthier tragedies and treatises as a court entertainment. Evidence from the Epistulae Morales of Seneca, written after his retirement, indicates that the former tutor of Nero made plaintive criticisms against the low habits both of language and lifestyle in which the aula indulged under the influence of Tigellinus and Petronius.
The nature of the Neronian literary Renaissance is surveyed with special emphasis upon the impact of Nero's personal taste upon letters. Neronian literature, regardless of the author or genre in question, strives to achieve the effect of pathos, nostalgie de la boue, theatrical exaggeration, and naturalism naive to the point of embarrassment. Petronius displays all of these characteristics as he narrates his tale of the graeculus, Encolpius, who, like the artist-emperor, finds himself trapped within the constraints of the Roman cultural climate. Petronius combines the genres of Roman Menippean satire and Greek prose fiction into a graphic melange of the foibles of his age.
Chapter three comprises a social commentary to the Cena Trimalchionis in which the Cena is qescribed against the backdrop of its Campanian locale. The many homely details of his life, his house and its furnishings, which Trimalchio relates, are compared to the extant archaeological evidence for life at Pompeii, Herculaneum, Puteoli, and the other towns of the Phlegraean Fields. The commentary is intended for use in the classroom at the university level.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: The Influence of Social Structure, Technology, and Background Factors on Supervisory Style in Industry

contributor:
Jones, Frank E.
Sociology

subject:
supervisoty style
superior-subordinate
role system

abstract:
 This study was concerned with investigating the causes of supervisory style. To interpret certain dimensions of supervisory style, the superior-subordinate relationship was viewed as a role system. Four dimensions, which are empirically identified but theoretically related to essential conditions of role systems, were investigated: production orientation, worker orientation, closeness, and time allocation. It was argued that while the way a supervisor performs his role may vary along these dimensions, the range of variability is constrained by the social structure and technology of the work place and the background characteristics of the supervisor himself. The general hypothesis of the study was that supervisory style is the product of the interaction of these three factors.

 Interviews were conducted with 114 first-line supervisors in seven industries to assess the effect of these factors. A "transitional model" that involved age as a significant variable influencing the closeness of supervision was developed. Three age groups (23-39, 40-49, 50-62) were considered as three periods - initial, transitional, and mature, in correspondence with each age group - which a foreman goes through. In each period the foreman responds to different influencing factors in his environment, so that his supervisory style changes. Two explanations were considered: a "maturational" and a "job security" explanation.

 It was also found that most supervisors tend to be almost equally production-oriented and worker-oriented. The nature of production in industry, preference of recruitment, and role conflict experienced by the supervisors were cited as explanations.

 Support was found for the hypothesis that time allocation is influenced by technological factors. Planning and the general increment of paper work caused by technological advancement were considered as reasons accounting for this finding.

abstract: Thesis

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)