title: A Nightingale Between Two Worlds of Dust": Art and Imagination in E. M. Forster's Italian Novels

contributor:
Ross, M. L.
English

abstract: E. M. Forster's critical conception of art as "the one orderly product which our muddling race has produced" and his notion of the imagination as a redeeming power find expression in his "Italian" novels where he includes within these fictions aesthetic objects and aesthetic analogues which draw attention to the nature of artistic representation (including Forster's own), and which also thematize his concern with the function of the imagination in relation to external reality. An account of his aesthetics, particularly as they relate to the function of the artistic imagination in relation to external reality, is offered in the Introduction. This account of Forster's ideas about the nature of art and artists constitutes a framework of preoccupations in light of which the Italian novels are discussed in the succeeding two chapters. Both Chapters I and II discuss the implications of the oppositions which develop in the novels between art and life, the imagined and the real, aestheticism and naturalness, detachment and involvement, but more importantly, they discuss these conflicts in light of the tension, apparent in Forster's own critical views, between his endorsement of involvement in personal relations on the one hand and his valuation of art and the imagination (and consequent endorsement of a withdrawal from life) on the other. In the novels. art both opposes and inspires life, and although the search for a reconciliation of the claims of art and life is their motive power. their burden is the demonstration of uninspiring discord and complexity in existence and a related undertone of sympathy for withdrawal into the unified world of art.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Journalism. Fiction. and the First World War: AStudy of Charles Yale Harrison's Generals Die In Bed and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms

contributor:
Roebuck, Graham
English

subject:
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract: As early as the sixteenth century, journalism and realist fiction were beginning to emerge as distinct categories of prose. The line that divided se prose forms was often drawn as a means for maintaining a distinction between writings that were factual and true. hence journalism. and writings that were creative and invented. hence fiction. However, as writers sought to find the most effective form of prose that could sustain fact and fiction together within either a journalistic publication or a literary genre, the e between journalism and literature, fact and fiction. often became almost invisible. In the twentieth century, with the emergence of literary journalism. writers and critics alike have become increasingly aware that stylistic and thematic concerns of journalism and literature have been. and continue to be, combined. As a result, both journalistic and literary publications continue to manipulate the two forms of prose to depict various aspects of our world's events. If we look to one particular world event, First World War, and two novels that came out of this event, Generals In Bed and A Farewell To Arms. we shall see how journalistic and fictive es of representation affect the depiction. both stylistically and climatically. of fact and reality within the genre of the novel.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Learning to Balance an Inverted Pendulum at the Fingertip: A Window Into the Task and Context-Dependent Control of Unstable Dynamical Objects

contributor:
Lee, Timothy D.
Balasubramaniam, Ramesh
Daniel Goldreich, Thia Kirubarajan
Neuroscience

subject:
Intermittent control
multipoint error compensation
statistical mechanics
coordination dynamics
motor variability
focus of attention
motor learning
Computational Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Computational Neuroscience

abstract:
Our ability to control unstable objects highlights the sophistication of voluntary motor behaviour. In this thesis, we used an inverted pendulum (i.e., stick) balancing paradigm to investigate the task, learning and context-dependent attributes of unstable object control. We hypothesized that learning would mediate the functional integration of posture and upper limb dynamics and expected changes in the task demand and context to be reflected in the control of posture and the upper limb. We found that training increased the average length of balancing trials and applied this result to further investigate the circumstantial properties of unstable object control.

We investigated the temporal structure of posture and upper limb dynamics using statistical and nonlinear time series analysis. We demonstrated that subjects used an intermittent strategy to control the inverted pendulum (Chapters 3 and 5) and found that motor learning modulated the statistical and spatiotemporal attributes of posture (Chapter 5) and upper limb displacements (Chapters 2, 3 and 5). We confirmed the balance control strategy was intermittent by showing that posture and upper limb time series are composed of two independent timescale components: a fast component linked to small stochastic displacements and a slow component related to feedback control (Chapters 3, 4 and 5). The interplay between timescale components was affected by the balancing context (Chapter 3) and task demand (Chapter 4).

Chapter 5 investigated the acquisition of individual and coupled posture-upper limb control mechanisms. We found that motor learning involved two independent adaptation processes. The first process modified the timescale composition of posture and upper limb displacements and was followed by incremental changes in the occurrence and duration of correlated posture-upper limb trajectories. In Chapter 6, we investigated learning-mediated changes in multijoint coordination and control. Motor learning led to the flexible, error-compensating recruitment of individual joints and we showed that the preferential constraint of destabilizing joint angle variance was the putative mechanism underlying performance.

This thesis performed a detailed examination of unstable object control mechanisms. The undertaken studies have provided knowledge about the acquisition and adaptation of control mechanisms at multiple levels of the motor system. Our data provide convergent evidence that the control mechanisms governing complex human balancing tasks are intermittent and modulated by the task and context.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Identification of Linear Multivariable Discrete-Time Systems

contributor:
Sinha, Naresh K.
Electrical Engineering

subject:
Electrical and Electronics
Electrical and Electronics

abstract: The problem of on-line identification of linear multivariable discrete-time systems from input-output data is considered. A study has been made of the relative effectiveness of the four different models used in the area of identification of linear multivariable systems (transfer-function matrix, impulse response matrix, input-output difference equation and state space). The features of each model and its effect on the complexity of the identification algorithm as well as the bias of the paramter estimates while using the ordinary least-squares method have been studied. Different on-line algorithms have been proposed for the identification of the given system directly in each of the four different model representations. These algorithms estimate the parameters of the system from noisy measurements and no knowledge of the noise characteristics is required. The identification of a given multivariable system has been deccomposed into the identification of m subsystems (where m is the number of outputs) and the parameters of each subsystem are estmated independently from each other. The problem of structure determination has been considered, and algorithms have been proposed for the estimation of the structural parameters of the transfer-function matrix and the state space representations from noise-free as well as noisy measurements. Also, a two-stage bootstrap algorithm has been derived for combined parameter and state estimation of linear multivariable systems.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN PERFORMERS WITHIN A CANADIAN, FEMINIST CONTEXT

contributor:
Hartwell, Hugh
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
This thesis, A Critical Examination ofWomen Performers Within a Canadian, Feminist Context, is based upon the premise that in order to re-discover the women of the past we must develop a new methodology, a fresh approach, to thinking about history.

In order to understand the past we must begin with the present. By examining the context within which a woman can successfully pursue a career in the 1990s, with a consideration of the obstacles she bas had to overcome, we can perhaps formulate a series of questions to ask our sisters of history in order that we might write their "herstory".

This approach is being undertaken by several fine scholars as they re-visit the women composers of the past and bring their music once again to life. However, performers appear thus far to have heen neglected. This study presupposes that the women who perform music play an important role in the musical life of society. By allowing these women to tell their own story in their own way we may in tum he able to gain a glimpse through the window of history.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: PRIMA LA MUSlCA?: A CRITICAL PORTFOLIO

contributor:
Rapoport, Paul
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
This portfolio contains documented interviews, reviews, profiles and programme notes written during an internship in music criticism. The internship was undertaken primarily in Europe, but also in North America. A specific focus on opera criticism has been a primary objective.

Section I contains an introduction, which offers an overview of the critical internship project, its organization and execution. A subsequent essay explores my perspectives on opera criticism, as developed throughout the internship. Section IT comprises a series of interviews which were conducted during the internship period in Europe. Sections III and IV contain music criticism written between September 1992 and March 1994.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: THE JOURNEY OF THE YOUNG AMERICAN: PATHWAYS TO VIETNAM

contributor:
Brasch, J. D.
English

abstract:
This investigation of four novels, spanning two centuries of American literature, traces recurrent motifs in the American novel of initiation. Repeatedly, a sojourning American child-Adam follows a circular path, moving from his childhood innocence into an underworld where confrontation with the machine leads to introspection and altered perceptions. The American novelist's fascination with the adolescent initiate shifts focus in the twentieth century, reflecting the increasing dominance of technology.

A brief introduction is followed by three chapters examining the four novels. To define the predominant concerns of nineteenth-century America with the maturational excursion, Melville's novel, Redburn, is the subject of the second chapter. Redburn is a fine example of the more traditional fall into the knowledge of good and evil, and the young Wellingborough proves more a witness than an active participant on his voyage to Liverpool. Lucius Priest, in Faulkner's The Reivers, the subject of the third chapter, is a "doer" on his trip to Memphis. Lucius is a twentieth-century Huck Finn who initiates his own fall from innocence by reiving an automobile, the symbol of modern American technological prowess. The more serious journey into maturity during the Vietnam War is the subject of the fourth chapter. Herein, the first section, examining Michael Herr's Dispatches, evidence~ the experience of the arch-seer, the reporter in Vietnam whose self-knowledge is painfully laid bare by the violence through which he travels. This section is augmented by the study of A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo, who recounts his year-long journey as an officer, a "doer," through Vietnam.

In all four novels, the sojourner is a child-Adam, initially innocent, naive, idealistic, and in all four the machine enters the garden, thrusting the child into a world of harsh experience. The journeys share a familiar pattern, but the physical process and the concomitant introspection are strikingly more intense and penetrating in the more contemporary novels of initiation.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931

subject:
Political Economy
Political Economy

abstract:
In In recent times, such phrases as, "Standard of Living" and "Purchasing Power", are on everybody's lips. And yet these everyday expressions have no intelligible meaning for many people. We find that in trying to clarify the concept of real wages, we soon get into enough statistical difficulties, to render the conclusion less positive than we had hoped, would result.

We have attempted our study in the following order. First: An historical review of real wages in Canada, obtained from wage rates, weighted with the cost of living and adjusted for unemployment. Second: An analysis of "Earnings Among Wage-Earners in Canada", as published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Bulletin No. 33 of the census of 1931. Third: An attempt is made to relate these earnings to representative budgets for that year.

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: A Northern Hemisphere Musical Emprise: an Omnibus of Reviews and Interviews

contributor:
Rapoport, Paul
Music

subject: Music Music

abstract:
This portfolio is divided into four sections:

1. Introductory Essay This essay is an examination of reviewers' critical function and responsibility not only to the readers, but also to the artist, and the art form they are writing about. It is a personal account of the processes 1 adhered to in writing the interviews and reviews that follow, but from the perspective of an outsider.

2. Interviews with Critics and Artists

This section contains interviews with three critics currently writing reviews for Canadian newspapers, concerning their approaches to reviewing, particularly the difference in their approach to reviewing live concerts and studio recordings. In addition, to provide context for the reviewing process, there are interviews with two Canadian pianists regarding their opinions toward performing live and recording in a studio.

3. Concert Reviews

This section comprises original concert reviews, written during my two years in the Northern Hemisphere.

4. CD Reviews

This section comprises original CD reviews, written during my two years in the Northem Hemisphere.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: THE CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN NEWSPAPER MUSIC CRITIC

contributor:
Walker, Alan
Music

subject: Music Music

abstract: [missing page: 52]

abstract: This study focuses on the contemporary newspaper music critic. Much of the information it contains was gathered through a series of live interviews and written correspondence with critics. This material was then cross-referenced with material derived from other critical readings listed in the bibliography. The preliminary chapters provide a brief history of North American criticism. The second chapter is two-fold; the first part examining critics' responses to the questionnaire and the second part examining their critical writings. Subsequent chapters look at the critics' approaches to reviewing new music, and possible future directions for music criticism. The final chapter also touches on the sociological position of the media in the classical music world. During the course of the study my perceptions on the validity and nature of music newspaper criticism changed drastically. I did not embark on the study with the same scepticism of opinion with which I finished it. The formation of the questionnaire and the live interviews were therefore carried out as objectively as is possible and without the sceptical frame of mind with which I concluded this study.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: THE MUSICAL UNIVERSE: NUMBER, COLOR AND THE SOUL

contributor:
Kinder, Keith
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract: Rooted in the historical philosophy of the ancient Greeks such as Pythagoras and Plato, and including later sources like medieval theorist Boethius, the idea of a sacred musical mysticism abound. Referred to by the ancients as the "music of the spheres," this idea is centered on cosmic music governed by proportional structures in the universe. Modem day thinkers such as Joscelyn Godwin, James Hurtak, Robert Lawlor and Manly Hall embrace the mystical traditions of non-linear thought (the realm of the spirit beyond the world of form), linking the corporeal and incorporea1 natures of man with the sacred nature of music. After an in-depth historical overview, ideologies will be presented by Pythagoras, Robert Fludd, Plato, the Cabbalists and Johannes Kepler, revealing their ,- visions of the Universe in connection to music, number, astrology, astronomy and theosophy. It will then be shown how the physical body in alliance with the spirit are linked harmoniously to music, with further study revealing the inherent presence of such mathematical systems known as the Golden Proportion and the Fibonacci series. Finally, an association between the orders of color and sound will be explored. Music is one of the most powerful ways of entering into the domain of the spirit (the macrocosm) where we experience a transcendence beyond our physical forms (microcosm) allowing us to experience and express the divinity and universality within us.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Scoring The Body: Psychoanalysis, Image Schemata, and the Syntax of the Narrative Film Score

contributor:
Deaville, James
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
Despite centuries of debate, the issue of meaning in music remains one of the most important and contested issues in the discourse of musicology. The integration of music and narrative film would seem to provide a rich source of material for those interested in this argument; however, despite the extraordinary success the medium has enjoyed, clearly suggesting that the musical/narrative associations constructed within a large number of films resonate within the consciousness of the general public, the film score has received little attention from world of musical scholarship.

Through an application of the theories of post-Freudien French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and American philosopher Mark Johnson's theory of "image schemata," this thesis will construct a methodology for the analysis of narrative film music. An overview of the relevant theoretical concepts is followed by illustrative musical examples. The views of film music composers, followed by a discussion of the interaction of visual and musical stimuli, will then serve as a foundation for the consideration of the role of a culturally dependent system of musical syntax in the construction of meaning within a film score. Finally, the interaction of these three concepts (psychoanalysis, image schemata and cultural syntax), is demonstrated in an analysis of the musical scores of two films: Star Trek 11: The Wrath ofKhan (music by James Homer) and The Piano (music by Michael Nyman).

These analyses will support conclusions which position the various approaches to film scoring on a continuum located between the extremes of integration based on psychoanalysis and cultural syntax, both of which operate in a process informed by the structure of image schemata. This continuum offers a system by which a variety of film scores may be analyzed and discussed in a rigorous and consistent manner, as well as offering a methodology by which the construction of meaning in music as a whole may be better understood.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: KASCHNITZ INTO ENGLISH : SIX SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS

contributor:
Chapple, Gerald
German

subject:
German Language and Literature
German Language and Literature

abstract:
Marie Luise Kaschnitz continues to be almost unknown in North America despite her status in Germany as an important poet and writer. Writing through and after the worst years of modern German history, the political depravity of the thirties and forties and the physical devastation of t he war years and their aftermath, Kaschnitz told stories involving characters in various states of denial, isolation and alienation. Her characters are awakened by some cathartic event and then react to that awakening in different ways. In "The Sleepwalker" a woman made aware of the ugliness around herself throws herself before a truck. In "Life After Death" a near-death experience transforms two girls in opposite ways . A listening audience, in "The Violinist, " is unable, or refuses to hear the healing message in a musician's performance . The husband and wife, in "Polar Bears, " attempt to communicate across a gulf symbolized by his death. The essays "On the Nature of the ' l' " and "On Journeying Through the Depths" examine the effect of the Nazi regime on the German psyche and the best route to healing . Through these stories and essays we can see Kaschnitz's fascination with "das Unheimliche," myth, and her tendency to draw her stories from her own life experiences.

Translating Kaschnitz presents many challenges arising from her lyrical style of writing. Kaschnitz's writing does not only speak to the conscious mind but also seeks to reach the reader at an emotional and intuitive level. l have attempted to make consistent choices and have explained those choices in the two introductory essays referring. l have also illustrated the effects of such choices by discussing two translators of Kaschnitz who have differing approaches, Donald MacRae and Lisel Mueller. To add a critical perspective to the translations , l have prefaced each story or essay with a discussion of the themes present and the context in which it was written. The select i on of stories and essays have been arranged in chronological order to show the development of her writing style and thematic concerns.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD AND THE DISCOURSE OF WASHlNG

contributor:
Clark, David L.
Literature

subject:
English Language and Literature
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
English Language and Literature

abstract: This study treats the "feminism" of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), a middle class English woman who is notably responsible for refashioning children's literature and for advocating the teaching of conformity in childhood education. Though her work has been relatively unexplored, Barbauld was one of the most versatile and prolific writers of her time. This thesis explores what proves to be her most pivotal text, "Washing-Day" (1797), a poem that is particularly indicative of Barbauld's "feminist" and poetic ingenuity. I begin with an introductory chapter that discusses the exclusion of Barbauld and her female Romantic counterparts from public discourse. In this discussion, I consider strategies for integrating these "new" poets into literary studies, and suggest that we must read their texts closely-which entails isolating the ambivalences and self-differences wherein the breath of the poetry subsists. I then turn to a tropological manoeuver inherent in Barbauld's poetry, which I have called "interruption," and examine how this manoeuver operates within and without "Washing-Day." In Chapter One, I theorize the "breath" of "Washing-Day"-that is, how Barbauld performs and occupies the texts of her forefathers in the process of authorizing herself to write. The second chapter circles back to the poem's beginning and analyzes Barbauld's "interruption" of patriarchal texts and discourses. Having worked through the poem in two close analyses, I arrive at the conclusion that Barbauld's feminism is performative, that it tacitly operates at the level-or movement-of difference.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Random Response of Articulated Road Vehicles

contributor:
Dokainish, M.A.
Mechanical Engineering

subject:
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

abstract:
A method for determining and analyzing the linear dynamic response of the complex articulated vehicle structures to road surface undulations, represented as stationary Gaussian random excitations, is formulated. The procedure is used to estimate the influence of various parameters on the dynamic behviour of the articulated vehicle. In particular; the influence of vehicle suspension systems, load patterns, speed, and road characteristics on the ride comfort and ride safety is evaluated.

An analytical method based on the equivalent linearization technique is developed in order to study the effect of the system nonlinearities on the ride behaviour of the articulated vehicle. The nonlinearties include dry friction, bump stops and wheel hop. The vehicle is treated as a discrete, nonlinear, time-variant, multi-degree-of-freedom dynamic system subjected to random road irregularities.

An extensive review of the available literature is presented as background to the present work. The review provides details of various proposed methods of modelling the road surface undulations, and vehicle components as well as methods of performing the analysis necessary to obtain the vehicle vibrational response and assessing the ride quality.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: THE ROLE OF DETECTION IN RULE ENFORCEMENT

contributor:
Vorobej, Mark
Philosophy

subject: Philosophy Philosophy

abstract: All rules or laws depend for their enforcement upon some means of detecting infractions. In this paper I argue that, particularly in the liberal state, the most appropriate and effective means of detection is the complaint of the victim, and I discuss the perils associated with legislation that fails to take this simple principle into account. My arguments are illustrated with examples both from my personal experience in designing rules for a live roleplaying game system (which I claim is a microcosm for the liberal state) and from such real-world cases as the War on Drugs, the exploitation of illegal immigrant labour, and the zina laws of Pakistan.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Erwartung as Other: Schoenberg. Lacan, and Psychoanalytic Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
Arnold Schoenberg's opera Erwartung op. 17 present.s it.self as an enigmatic object for musical analysis, due to its so-called "athematic" and "atonal" character. Given the opera's mix of nineteenth century romanticism and early twentieth century expressionism, its emphasis on the exploration of subjectivity. and its ostensibly psychoanalytic program, Erwartung is a particularly fecund subject for psychoanalytic music criticism, and in particular a Lacanian music criticism.

Though Erwartung was composed at the height of the psychoanalytic revolution in "Freud's Vienna," it is post-Freudian French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's theory of the nature of the unconscious that offers a compelling psychoanalytic perspective on the opera. In order to use Lacanian theory to analyze Enwartung, an overview of Lacan's major psychoanalytic concepts, followed by critiques of his theory are offered. Remarks on the history of psychoanalysis as applied in critical practice, and on Lacan's own critical work, preface a discussion of examples of psychoanalytic music criticism. Schoenberg's opera is then conSidered in its historical context, taking into account. the influence of psychoanalysis on Schoenberg, his librettist, and his contemporaries. Finally, Lacanian theory is used in ail analysis of Erwartung's music and text, revealing the psychoanalytic principles of Otherness aIld alienation at work in the opera's structure.

The analysis of Erwartung results in conclusions that address not only this opera, but music as a whole questioning the role of the Unconscious in the production of musical texts, and also the role of music in the psychical constitution of the human subject.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Naturalism and the Individual in The Grapes of Wrath, As I Lay Dying, and Old Man.

abstract:
Naturalism considers human beings to be determined by their heredity and environment. The individual is at the mercy of determining social and economic forces. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a naturalistic novel that examines the natural laws and social conditions that confront the Joad family in their struggle to survive the Dust Bowl Depression. Steinbeck notes the consequences that the "shining red earth" has on the "weary and discontent" people (The Grapes of Wrath,1939:124 and 211). The attempt to escape the harsh natural and economic determinism of their homeland also worsens their social condition. The strength of the naturalistic forces transcends the physical state of the characters to penetrate their very "souls [where] the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy" (Grapes 477).

In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Addie Bundren is also subject to the determining natural and social forces. The hot, "dead air", combined with the misfortune of marrying an unloving husband, has rendered both communication and love impossible for Addie (As I Lay Dying,1957:58). She cannot derive strength from her husband since he contributes to her despair. Addie Bundren cannot project herself into a lasting communion with another person and represents an isolated, alienated individual.

The tall convict, in Faulkner's novella Old Man, also retreats into a regressive condition of alienation from women and life outside the womb-like security of the Parchman Penitentiary. Determined by the natural forces of the flooding waters and the presence of the pregnant female that leaves him "impotent", the tall convict cannot discover the redemptive strength that Jim easy's human spirit provides (Old Man,1939:111).

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF CLASSICAL MUSIC IN HAMILTON

subject: Music Music

abstract:
Many people consider Hamilton a slightly distant suburb of Toronto, as well a city reliant on a struggling steel industry. Those interested in the arts may question what kind of classical music scene could exist in such a locale.

This critical portfolio strives to answer this question, demonstrating that Hamilton possesses a rich classical music scene. The focus on seven local organizations supports this conclusion. These are Opera Ontario, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, chamberWORKS!, Symphony Hamilton, the John Laing Singers, the Bach Elgar Choir, and the Canadian Orpheus Male Choir.

Through detailed background articles on each of these organizations, including examinations of their past, present and future, the issues affecting each are brought to the forefront, as are the attempts to find solutions. Reviews of concerts by each ofthe musical institutions reveal how well each is succeeding in producing high-quality events.

An introductory essay sets the economic and demographic scene of Hamilton, with emphasis on how its characteristics affect the organizations. Parallels are drawn among issues affecting the seven groups, such as declining government grants and aging audiences.

A portfolio focusing specifically on the classical music scene in Hamilton has never been produced by a Master of Arts student in the Music Criticism program. This work will hopefully serve as a reference for those new to the area as well as those deeply involved in the city's classical musical scene.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: DECONSTRUCTION, MUSICOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS: A PREFACE TO DECONSTRUCTIVE MUSICAL HERMENEUTICS

subject: Music Music

abstract:
The very mention of the word deconstruction is sometimes enough to throw its opponents into deep depression, its supporters into a state of intellectual overload, and almost everyone into varying degrees of confusion. The concept of deconstruction has not been examined by musicology in great depth. It is the purpose of this thesis to demonstrate that deconstruction can offer important new perspectives to the study of music in general, and to hermeneutics in particular.

The first chapter of my investigation examines what deconstruction is (and is not). This begins with a survey of the origins and history of deconstruction, as well as a description of the major characteristics which help to define deconstruction's goals. The second chapter concerns itself with how deconstruction has been applied to musical scholarship. This includes a brief consideration of various sources which make limited use of deconstruction, and then focuses more intensely on works by Steve Sweeney-Turner, Lawrence Kramer, and Rose Rosengard Subotnik. The final chapter concerns musical hermeneutics and deconstruction. This chapter examines how deconstruction, specifically the concept of misinterpretation, affects musical interpretation. In order to provide a framework which can cope with deconstruction, while taking into account postmodern concerns (particularly the body), I use philosopher Mark Johnson's theory of embodied meaning.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: TACTICAL ORGANISATION OF THE EARLY IMPERIAL LEGION

contributor:
Haley, E.
Classics

subject: Classics Classics

abstract:
The Roman any of the early Empire is well-documented as a successful instrument of Roman political and military strategy. Josephus commented in the first century AD that "for them, victory is more certain than fortune" (BJ 3.107). The legions were moved about like chess pieces in order to satisfy the territorial aspirations of Rome's leaders and safeguard the frontiers of a vast empire; however, the legions were more than an amorphous mass safeguarding the Empire. The early Imperial legion was a well-disciplined collection of professional soldiers organised and led in a fashion that was consistent throughout the Empire. Unfortunately, much of modern literature dealing with the legions does so in a generalised fashion. Few authors deal with the mechanics of the cohorts that comprised the legion.

Several questions and controversies surround the tactical organisation of the early Imperial legions. The strength of the legion and its sub-units are far from certain in this period. In addition, the organisation of the cohorts, how they deployed and moved about the battlefield, is questionable. The officers who commanded these units formed a distinct class in Roman society, yet their functions and duties in the legion are uncertain at best.

This thesis alms to consider the evidence surrounding these questions to determine if any reasonable answers are possible. Syntheses of existing theories will be coupled with the extant evidence to produce a coherent answer for each question.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: "Unmitigated Hell" in Wonderland: Depictions of Childhood in Timothy Findley's Early Fiction

contributor:
York, Lorraine M.
English

abstract: Timothy Findley and Findley scholars and critics have by and large promoted the idea that the Findleyan world is one littered with innocent children forced into a dark, adult reality. In his effort to assign significance to the loss of childhood innocence, Findley attempts to construct epiphanal, or "atomic" moments that cause a sudden shift from innocence to post-innocence - a sudden awareness in the child of life's inherent suffering and mortality. However, a close examination of Findley's early novels reveals that, in fact, Findley often contradicts the supposed sequential paradigm of innocence, loss of innocence, and adulthood, even raising the question as to whether innocence exists at all. Findleyan childhoods are highly complex and conflicted phenomena, collapsing traditional "storybook" ideals of childhood.. This "collapse" is perhaps better understood when studied with an eye on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which place a very adult little girl (fixated on mortality, reason, and power) in the supposedly child-like world of Wonderland. Though Alice possesses the ability to dream Wonderland, her cynicism prevents her from really enjoying its wonder. Such is the case for Findley's fictional children, who may be young, but are hardly unaware of life's more cutting realities ... are hardly innocent.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: ROMANCING UTOPIA: THE PLACE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE IN UTOPIAN THOUGHT

contributor:
Silcox, M.
English

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: THEMES AND TECHNIQUES OF SUBVERSION IN THE CHILDREN'S FANTASY NOVEL FROM THE VICTORIAN TO THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

contributor:
Ferns, John
English

abstract:
Fantasy stories have their roots in oral storytelling and fairy tales, but it was in the Victorian era that fantasy flourished and developed into a distinctive genre for children in the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, and E. Nesbit. Fantasy's coincidence with Romantic perceptions of the child helped to secure its acceptance by the public.

This thesis examines four works of children's fantasy through textual analysis situated within a socio-historical context, and argues that these four works criticize the society of their time and offer their own visions of better societies. The works examined are as follows: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (1961), and Paul Stewart's The Thought Domain (1988). Using similar literary techniques, these novels express concerns about and perceptions of the child, the educational system and its goals for teaching the child, and other social problems arising from modernization in their respective socio-historical time periods.

Through their novels' fantasy worlds, Carroll, Juster, and Stewart offer alternatives to the societies in which their children live. They desire societies that are less egotistical and rigid in their thinking, and that have people in them who are more conscious of social problems, especially as they affect children. These three authors also desire societies that value children and their abilities more highly, and that are conducive to children's development.

To my knowledge, there have not been any previous, extended studies of luster's or Stewart's novels, nor comparisons between them and Carroll's Alice novels, so this study hopes to offers an original contribution, and also show how earlier fantasy works can influence those that come after.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MARANGONI FLOW ON SLAG-LINE DISSOLUTION OF REFRACTORY

contributor:
Coley, Ken
Hamed, Mohamed
Irons, Gordon
Materials Science and Engineering

subject:
Slag
Refractory
Marangoni
Dissolution
Numerical Model
Metallurgy
Metallurgy

abstract:
The local corrosion of refractories at the slag/gas interface is a serious problem that limits the life of the refractories. Although, there have been several studies focused on understanding the Marangoni effect on the refractory dissolution process, there is little quantifiable analysis available. The aim of this study is to establish a better fundamental understanding of refractory dissolution mechanisms, and develop appropriate models for predicting the extent and rate of slag-line dissolution.

In the first part of this research, experimental studies using a high temperature dip technique were performed: MgO refractory in SiO2-CaO-FeOx-MgO slag and Al2O3- SiO2-CaO-FeOx-MgO. The experiments were conducted at varies temperature. There was significant evidence of a spinel phase formed at the slag/refractory interface for slags containing 20wt.% Al2O3. This existence of the spinel seems to have retarded the dissolution of the refractory. The decrease in erosion rate in the presence of spinel is in proportion to the decrease in the equilibrium MgO concentration at the slag/solid interface. The activation energy is calculated from the relationship of effective mass transfer coefficient vs. temperature and found in the range of mass transfer activation energy.

The second part of this search is developing a numerical model to predict the slag-line dissolution. An effective algorithm for analysis of unsteady Marangoni convection in refractory slag line dissolution has been developed. The results show that the Marangoni effect plays a very important role in slag-line erosion at this condition; both the moving boundary condition and curved surface condition have significant effects on the slag-line erosion rate. The comparison of experimental and numerical results shows that the model can predict the refractory maximum corrosion distance caused by Marangoni flow at the slag line. However, the eroded material volume was predicted within 20~30% deviation

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Behaviour of Composite Beams with Ribbed Metal Deck

contributor:
Robinson, H.
Civil Engineering

subject:
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

abstract:
This dissertation presents an inelastic analysis of the behaviour of composite beams with ribbed metal deck.

A layered finite element model is used to allow for any variation in material properties through the thickness. An incremental and iterative technique is adopted using the tangent modulus stiffness approach.

The dependability of the model is checked by means of comparison with some experimental results, obtained from testing composite beams with solid and ribbed slabs.

A study of the effect of the type of loading and the transverse moment in the slab on the deformation and the ultimate capacity of composite beams with ribbed metal deck, is presented.

The effective width of composite beams with ribbed metal deck, subjected to uniformly distributed load, is investigated. The effective width in the inelastic stage and at the ultimate load are also studied.

Finally, a study of the longitudinal cracking of composite beams with ribbed metal deck, is presented. Some design recommendations are presented to account for the longitudinal cracking of composite beams with ribbed metal deck, subjected to a uniformly distributed load over the entire slab.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Fluidelastic Instability in Heat Exchanger Tube Arrays

contributor:
Weaver, David
Ziada, Samir
Mechanical Engineering

subject:
Fluidelastic Instability
Tube Arrays
Heat Exchanger
Phase lag
Single flexible tube
Applied Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
Applied Mechanics

abstract:
Of the various excitation mechanisms causing excessive tube vibrations in tube and shell heat exchangers, fluidelastic instability is the most dangerous, and therefore has received the most attention. The objective of this research is to advance the current understanding of the fluidelastic instability in tube arrays through a fundamental investigation of the phenomenon experimentally, numerically and analytically. The concept of using a single flexible tube in a rigid array to investigate fluidelastic instability has been critically reviewed. It was found that the fluidelastic instability threshold in tube arrays is significantly affected by array geometry, pitch ratio, mass ratio and tube row location in the array. The results showed that, in general, fluidelastic instability in tube arrays is caused by a combination of the damping and the stiffness mechanisms. It was concluded that while the use of a single flexible tube in a rigid array provided a useful model for fundamental research and physical insights, it must be cautioned that it is not generally adequate for determining the experimental stability limits of tube arrays. The outcomes of this critical review helped in the design of a new experiment which facilitated precise control of the system parameters, and provided more comprehensive measurements.

Experimental investigation of the interaction between tube vibrations and fluid forces was conducted using surface pressure measurements at the tube surface. The results showed that, there is a finite time delay between tube vibration and the associated fluid forces acting on the tube. The resulting phase lag was found to increase as the mean gap velocity increased, and ultimately the fluid forces became in phase with the tube velocity during the onset of instability. Velocity measurements of the interstitial flow perturbations associated with tube vibrations were carried out along the flow path in the array. It was found that the flow perturbation amplitude is most pronounced at the flow separation point from the vibrating tube, and that the flow perturbation amplitude decays continuously to a negligible amplitude at about one and a half rows upstream. This suggests that the flow perturbations are caused by the flow separation from the tube and the associated vorticity shedding and convection. The phase lag measurements between tube vibrations and flow perturbations support this conclusion, and show that the flow perturbations propagate upstream and downstream at different rates. Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling of the tube array was developed to assist in understanding the experimental results. The CFD models were validated using experimental data from both the literature and from the present research. It was found that there are two propagation mechanisms for the flow perturbations associated with tube vibrations. The first mechanism is caused by the pressure pulsation due to tube vibrations. This mechanism is dominant at lower reduced velocities, and propagates at the speed of sound. The second mechanism is caused by the flow separation and the associated vorticity shedding, and this mechanism is dominant at higher reduced velocities. The transition between the two mechanisms occurs at a reduced velocity of about (Ur≈2). Mathematical models of the flow perturbation phase lag and amplitude decay were developed. The new models were coupled with the semi-analytical model after modifying its geometrical parameters according to the flow visualizations in the literature. The resulting stability maps show a significant improvement to the current prediction of the fluidelastic instability data in the literature. The outcomes of the present work can contribute to improve the future design guidelines for tube and shell heat exchangers to achieve extended service time with higher efficiency.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: NANOMATERIALS: FROM INTERFACIAL CHARACTERISTICS TO DEVICE APPLICATIONS

contributor:
Xu, Gu
Hany Aziz, Richard A. Klenkler
Tony Petric, Igor Zhitomirsky
Materials Science and Engineering

subject:
Nanomaterials
Nanocomposites
Organic solar cells
Polymer and Organic Materials
Semiconductor and Optical Materials
Polymer and Organic Materials

abstract:
Nanomaterials have been heavily studied in the past two decades. Previous findings have demonstrated that the characteristics of nanocomposites and the performance of nanomaterial-based devices are both determined by the interfacial characteristics of the nanomaterials. However, there are still some remaining challenges from interfacial characteristics to device applications, which are specified as follows: the difficulty in identifying the interfacial contacts of nanostructured surfaces, the instability of nanocomposite surfaces, and the under-researched mechanism of the correlation between interfacial characteristics and the performance of devices.

Therefore, the main theme of this thesis is to investigate the interfacial contacts of nanostructured solid-liquid interfaces by direct observation, and to develop a stable nanocomposite based on which the direct observation of the interfacial contact can be better conducted, and to eventually investigate the effect of interfacial contacts on the performance of organic solar cells.

As the previous identification of the solid-liquid interface is limited to a microscale range, a direct method of tracing the different wetting states of water was developed, on nanostructured surfaces. This method provided an answer to a long standing question of, whether there is a transition from Wenzel to Cassie states in the sliding angle drop on nanocomposite thin films. In order to complete the observation of the wetting states of water, a stable superhydrophobic nanocomposite thin film with hierarchical structure was developed.

Furthermore, with the knowledge of identifying the wetting states and the preparing procedures of the nanocomposites, a surfactant-free small-molecule nanoparticle organic solar cell with a much improved fill factor was developed by spin coating. The inverse correlation of series resistance and parallel resistance was discovered, due to the morphology change and the variation of the charge carrier concentration near the donor-acceptor interface in small-molecule organic solar cells.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: A BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR, AGGRESSION, SOCIAL STATUS, AND HORMONES

contributor:
Vaillancourt, Tracy
Louis Schmidt; Aaron Schat
Psychology

subject:
aggression
sexual behaviour
social status
hormones
Personality and Social Contexts
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social Psychology
Personality and Social Contexts

abstract: Sex differences, hormones and intrasexual competition and their relation to social status and romantic partner attraction were examined, uniting two bodies of literature: status-striving and romantic attraction. In Chapter 2 different forms of social status, (i.e., dominance, power, popularity, prestige) were examined as they relate to testosterone levels in men and women. Factor analysis revealed that dominance was a separate psychological construct from power, popularity and prestige. Furthermore, a positive association was shown between dominance and testosterone levels whereas lower testosterone levels were associated with the power, popularity and prestige composite. In Chapter 3 psychopathy and indirect aggression were examined in relation to cortisol levels, again in men and women. Results indicated that lower cortisol levels were associated with primary psychopathy and higher cortisol levels were associated with secondary psychopathy, in women only. Results also showed that primary psychopathy but not secondary psychopathy was positively correlated with indirect aggression. In Chapter 4, romantic attraction was examined from an evolutionary perspective to predict the characteristics of people who invade an existing romantic relationship as well as those characteristics that predict people who are targets for defection away from their primary romantic relationship. In men, successful mate poaching was best predicted by high self-esteem, cold affect, and criminal tendencies. These men also showed lower levels of testosterone and higher levels of cortisol. In women, physical attractiveness best predicted success in mate poaching. For both sexes, physical attractiveness also determined the frequency of being a target for a poach. Collectively, these studies provide evidence to support behavioural patterns that are consistent with evolutionary ideas relating to social status acquisition and romantic attraction.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Genetic Investigations into the Black Death

contributor:
Poinar, H. N.
Herring, D. Ann
Anthropology

subject:
palaeopathology
ancient DNA
infectious disease
genomics
Black Death
Yersinia pestis
Bacteria
Biological and Physical Anthropology
European History
Medical Microbiology
Medieval History
Bacteria

abstract: This dissertation discusses molecular analyses of dental and skeletal material from victims of the Black Death with the goal of both identifying and describing the evolutionary history of the causative agent of the pandemic. Through this work, Yersinia pestis DNA was successfully identified in skeletal material from a well-documented Black Death burial ground, the East Smithfield cemetery of London, England (1348 -1350). The thesis presents two major methodological advancements in the field of ancient pathogen research: 1) it describes a protocol to confirm the authenticity of ancient pathogen DNA, thus circumventing tenuous issues relating to modern contaminants, and 2) it demonstrates the applicability of DNA capture methods to isolate ancient pathogen DNA from its complex metagenomic background common to ancient DNA extracts. The dissertation is comprised of three publications. The first, submitted to the journal BMC Systems Biology, describes a computational software program for oligo design that has applications to PCR, and capture techniques such as primer extension capture (PEC) and array-based capture. The second manuscript, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a novel capture technique for retrieval of the pestis-specific pPCP (9.6kb) plasmid which can be used as a simple screening tool for the presence of Y. pestis DNA in ancient remains, and describes a method for authenticating ancient pathogen DNA. The third paper, published in the journal Nature, presents a draft genome of Yersinia pestis isolated from the individuals of the East Smithfield collection, thus presenting the first ancient pathogen genome in published literature. Evolutionary changes as they relate to phylogenetic placement and the evolution of virulence are discussed within an anthropological framework.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Theory of Mind and Empathic Responding in Patients with Mood Disorders

contributor:
McKinnon, Margaret C.
Neuroscience

subject:
theory of mind
empathy
depression
major depressive disorder
bipolar disorder
social function
Psychology
Psychology

abstract: Theory of mind (ToM) and empathic responding are thought to rely on the joint contribution of cognitive and affective processes, and the corresponding complex neural networks involved in these diverse cognitive and affective functions. Individuals with mood disorders demonstrate deficits in many of the same cognitive and affective processes thought to mediate ToM and empathy, and demonstrate structural and functional changes in the neural regions that subserve these social cognitive domains. We examined ToM and empathic responding in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) using standardized measures of social cognitive responding. Patients with BD and MDD with sub-syndromal depressive symptoms showed deficits on a cognitively challenging task that required them to integrate two perspectives simultaneously (second-order ToM stimuli). Sub-syndromal patients with BD also showed a trend toward poor performance on a less demanding first-order ToM task; no such deficit was observed for sub-syndromal MDD patients. Patients with BD were also impaired at discriminating mental states from pictures of eyes and in making complex social judgments. Both patient groups reported reduced levels of cognitive empathy, but differed in response on affective empathy domains. Specifically, whereas the BD group reported higher levels of distress in response to others' negative experiences, the MDD group reported less feelings of care and concern in response to another’s emotional experience. Across the BD studies, impaired ToM and empathic responding were found to be associated with poor social functioning and increased depressive symptoms, but the influence of illness burden variables on performance was variable. Across the MDD studies, the associations between social cognitive performance, illness variables, and social functioning were inconsistent. Taken together, our findings indicate that patients with mood disorders demonstrate altered ToM and empathic responding that may contribute to the difficulties in social communication observed in these patient populations.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Surface-Plasmon-Polariton-Waveguide Superluminescent Diode: Design, Modeling and Simulation

contributor:
Li, X.
Electrical and Computer Engineering

subject:
Plasmonics
Superluminescent diode
Optical waveguides
Numerical simulation
Photonic devices
Optical sources
Electromagnetics and photonics
Electromagnetics and photonics

abstract:
Since the inception of integrated electronic circuits there has been a trend of miniaturizing as many electronic, optical and even mechanical circuits and systems as possible. For optical applications this naturally led to the invention of semiconductor optical sources such as the laser diode (LD) and the light emitting diode (LED). A third device, the superluminescent diode was later invented to offer an output with a power similar to that of an LD and spectral width similar to that of an LED. However, there is usually a trade off between the output power and spectral width of the generated beam. The main challenge in the development of SLD is, therefore, finding ways to mitigate the power-spectral linewidth trade off.

Previous work has two major directions. In the first one the goal is to eliminate facet reflections thus preventing lasing from happening. The detrimental effect of lasing is that even before it starts the spectral width quickly narrows down. In the second research direction the goal is to make the material gain spectrum wider by playing with different parameters of quantum well active regions.

This research work explores yet another way of broadening output spectrum of SLD while allowing the power to increase at the same time. The surface-plasmon waveguide (SPWG) has been proposed to replace the dielectric waveguide, for the first time. A novel SPWG structure is introduced and designed to optimize the device performance in terms of the output power, spectral width and their product known as the power-linewidth product. The effect of different parameters of the new structure on the output light is investigated and attention is given to the high power, high spectral width and high power-linewidth product regimes.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Modeling the traffic related pollution reduction through increased use of Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (HEVs) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

contributor:
Kanaroglou, Pavlos S.
Geography and Earth Sciences

subject:
Traffic emission
Hybrid-Electric Vehicles
Modeling
alternative fuel vehicles
Geographic Information Sciences
Human Geography
Other Geography
Geographic Information Sciences

abstract:
In this study, the effect of HEVs on traffic related pollution was assessed in the Hamilton CMA. This thesis aimed to combine findings from these two fields in a traffic simulation procedure. By introducing the HEVs in incremental levels to the vehicle travel pattern of more than 700,000 people in the study area, changes occurring in traffic related pollution at different levels were modeled.

The hypothetical HEV spatial distribution patterns models were derived through negative binomial regression modeling based on 2006 census data and 2008 vehicle registration data. The distribution of predetermined number of HEVs throughout the Hamilton CMA was completed through these models and results were used to modify input OD matrices for the TRAFFIC program. The link-based emissions were calculated in combination with traffic emission factors for HEV.

The results indicated that converting 10% of the total fleet into HEVs was needed to make significant reductions to the HC and CO aggregate emissions in all five models. An important finding with the incremental HEV penetration levels was the approximately linear trend between the percent reduction in the traffic emissions and the percent of HEVs in the total fleet. This trend allows calculations of approximate traffic emission reduction expected with any HEV level. The results illustrating links with more than 10% reduction in traffic emissions indicated that HEV technology as an effective method in dealing with environmental concerns.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: CARBON NANOTUBE/GRAPHENE COMPOSITE SEMICONDUCTORS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYTHIOPHENE ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS

contributor:
Zhu, Shiping
Wu, Yiliang
Materials Science and Engineering

subject:
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Semiconductor and Optical Materials
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

abstract: Incorporating nanoparticles within a polymer to improve the mobility of the filmis one promising way of creating organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) with large mobilities that could be applicable in real world applications. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)and graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) are extensively studied for this application. In order to overcome their tendency to aggregate, a method for creating a stable dispersion within both the solution phase and the film is needed. Here an easy method is established for creating a stable dispersion of CNTs or GNPs within a polymer solution which results in excellent OTFT mobility.A non-percolating network of non-covalently functionalized single walled carbon nanotubes was embedded within poly[5,5’-bis(3-dodecyl-2-thienyl)-2,2’bithiophene](PQT-12) thin films for the purpose of enhancing field effect mobility in thin film transistors. The host polymer was used to stabilize the nanotubes in suspension by π orbital overlap caused by simple application of ultrasonication. The stable nanotube suspension was cast into two different device architectures both with excellent mobilities and on/off ratios. The effect of nanotube content on polymer interaction within suspension, film morphology and electrical properties are discussed. A CNT nanocomposite OTFT with enhanced mobility was also tested for applications in vapour sensing. A method is also presented for the creation of graphene nano-platelets (GNPs) for implementation in nano-composite films. Heat treatment of expandable graphite within a vacuum evaporation chamber yielded chemically pure GNPs of a few nanometer thickness. Exfoliating expandable graphite without heat treatment resulted in even higher concentrations but chemically impure GNPs. The material was non-covalently stabilizedwith PQT-12 in a similar method to CNTs and used to create OTFTs with enhanced mobility. The effect of heat treatment parameters and exfoliation conditions on GNP thickness, size and chemical purity are discussed, as well as effect of GNP content on mobility and on/off ratio.

abstract: Master of Applied Science (MASc)


title: MATERIAL DESIGN AND INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS

contributor:
Zhu, Shiping
Wu, Yiliang
Filipe, Carlos
Chemical Engineering

subject:
Organic thin film transistors
Semiconductor and Optical Materials
Structural Materials
Semiconductor and Optical Materials

abstract:
Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) have attracted great attention in the last couple of decades due to their potential of cost reductions in manufacturing low-end electronic devices through solution processes. Currently, one of the major challenges facing the field of OTFTs is lack of high performance functional organic materials including both organic semiconductors and gate dielectrics for effective device integrations by solution deposition technologies. This thesis focuses on material designs, interfacial compatibilities, and device integrations for high performance OTFTs.

Research progresses in the following areas are presented in this thesis. First, novel liquid-crystalline organic semiconductors, 2,5‟-bis-[2-(4-pentylphenyl)vinyl]-thieno(3,2-

b) thiophene and 2,5‟-bis-[2-(4-pentylphenyl)vinyl]-(2,2‟)bithiophene for OTFT applications were developed. Mobilities of the OTFTs fabricated from these semiconductors reached 0.15 cm2/V.s with high environmental stability. Such high performance is attributed to their ability to form highly ordered molecular structures. Second, a simple effective approach was developed for tuning solubility of a high mobility polythiophene system through engineering its molecular structure. OTFTs fabricated with the newly developed copolythiophenes from an environmentally benign non-chlorinated solvent showed excellent performance with mobility up to 0.18 cm2/V.s. Third, an effective approach to a solution processed gate dielectric Ph.D. Thesis – P. Liu, McMaster University, Chemical Engineering iv

design was developed for all solution-processed flexible OTFTs. This was achieved through a dual-layer dielectric structure design comprised of a bottom layer with a UV-crosslinked poly(4-vinyl phenol-co-methyl methacrylate), (PVP-PMMA), and a top layer with a thermally crosslinked polysiloxane. This solution-processed dual-layer dielectric structure enabled all solution-processed high performance flexible OTFTs. Finally, flexible OTFTs were successfully integrated on plastic substrates (PET) from non-chlorinated solvents by using the copolythiophenes and the dual-layer dielectric. The integrated flexible devices showed good OTFT characteristics with mobility up to about 0.1 cm2/V.s.,

well defined linear and saturated regions, and a close to zero turn-on voltage.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: Effects of Extreme Temperature on Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Death

contributor: Medical Sciences (Division of Physiology/Pharmacology)

subject:
Asthma
Airway Smooth Muscle
Bronchial Thermoplasty
Heat
Cell Death
Medical Molecular Biology
Medical Molecular Biology

abstract: Bronchial thermoplasty has recently been FDA approved as a novel therapy for use on adults suffering from severe asthma. The procedure uses radiofrequency energy to heat the airways to 65°C for 10 s. This has been shown in dogs to lead to a reduction of airway smooth muscle mass and in humans to improve quality of life and asthma control. Early cellular reactions to this treatment are unclear; as well, there is limited information regarding thermal sensitivity of airway smooth muscle when exposed to extreme temperatures (50-65°C). We examined the cellular impact of bronchial thermoplasty by investigating the response of airway smooth muscle to heat by immersing bovine tracheal strips and bronchial segments in heated Krebs. We confirmed dramatically decreased functionality over the temperature range 50-60°C at 1 h and 24 h in all tissues. TUNEL analysis noted significant cell death in all tissues heated to 65°C and limited cell death in bronchial tissues treated with <55°C. Immunohistochemical analysis showed an effect of temperature on caspase 3 activation in bronchi; tracheal strips demonstrated co-localization of caspase 3 and TUNEL at 55°C but not 65°C. These data suggests that cell death of airway smooth muscle contributes to the cellular effects observed following heating to 65°C; at lower temperatures, cell death may be limited. We conclude that bronchial thermoplasty (heat treatment to 65°C for ~30 seconds) leads to a number of structural and functional changes in the airway smooth muscle, which culminate in marked loss of function and cell death.

abstract: Master of Health Sciences (MSc)


title: Digital Transmission Through Satellite Channels: Performance Analysis and Receiver Synthesis

contributor:
Taylor, D.P.
Electrical Engineering

abstract:
This thesis examines the transmission and reception of coherent phase shift keyed signals (CPSK) over band-limited nonlinear satellite channels in a noisy environment. First, we analyzed the performance of M-ary CPSK signals transmitted over band-limited nonlinear satellite channels in the presence of uplink additive Gaussian noise and down-link additive Gaussian noise. An expression for evaluating the exact probability of error is derived for the case of a general satellite transponder model and then this expression is applied to specific transponder models to obtain numerical results.

Secondly, we have derived bounds on the symbol error probability for binary CPSK signals transmitted over band-limited satellite channels in the presence of uplink and downlink thermal noise. These bounds can be evaluated using previously known error probabilities for wideband channels. Numerical results are evaluated and compared with those results computed using the exact error probability expressions. The advantage of these bounds is that they can be evaluated knowing only the peak value and variance of the intersymbol interference (ISI), and the bounds appear to yield reasonably accurate approximations to the exact error probabilities when ISI is not too large. Also, a computationally efficient technique is derived to evaluate the error probabilities for binary CPSK signals transmitted over a wideband piece-wise smooth saturating channels.

Finally, the optimal reception of binary CPSK signals over band-limited nonlinear satellite channels is investigated. A receiver structure, similar to a decision feedback receiver for linear channels, is derived to combat the ISI effect. The performance is evaluated by computer simulation techniques and it is shown that the receiver performs significantly better than the single sample sign detector. Also, it is shown that the single sample sign detector yields optimum decisions for wideband hard-limited channels.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: AGRICULTURE AND THE CANADIAN ECONOMY

subject:
Political Economy
Political Economy

abstract:
It readers derive half as much pleasure from reading this thesis as I have had in writing it, then it is possessive of some worth in spite of its superficial treatment of agriculture and the Canadian ecnomy. Time, space and training have placed a severe limitation on the treatment of a topic, which, if adequately developed, would encompass a goodly portion of the economic history of Canada and contemporary aspects and problems of the Canadian economy.

In this thesis I have little more than traced in outline form the place of agriculture in the economy with the aim of providing a background to some of the long run problems of the Canadian economy posed by agriculture in order to suggest an agricultural policy which, in my humble opinion, could prove corrective of the fundamental maladjustments responsible for those problems.

My thanks to Dr. R.G. McIvor for his patient supervision and expert guidance; to Miss Laura Freeman for her courteous assistance in the pursuit of periodicals and public documents; and to Miss Dorothy Tomlinson for her cheerful perseverance in putting this manuscript into readable form.

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANADA

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Joseph Conrad's A Set of Six: A Study

contributor:
Aziz, Maqbool
English

subject:
English
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature

abstract:
Although much has been written on Joseph Conrad's major novels, novellas and short stories, very little has been done on his collection of tales and novellas entitled A Set of Six. This study attempts to elucidate the significance of these tales in the light of recent yet limited criticism on them. Avrom Fleishman, Addison C. Bross, and Daniel R. Schwarz have written short studies of the collection as a whole, and this thesis endeavours to extend and expand upon the works of these critics.

The approach taken is to provide a moral and political context for the interpretation of the work as a whole by summarizing Conrad's political thought and convictions as found in his writings generally. To this end, I rely upon Fleishman's excellent study, Conrad's Politics: Community and Anarchy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad. From there I establish a fundamental "conflict" between Conrad's commitment to the values of the organic or traditional community as the repository of the moral grounds for human action, and the attempts in modern society to establish utopian or radical solutions to problems of a political nature. Indeed, the thesis is an attempt to show that for Conrad the grounds of all moral action and human goodness are threatened by these various modern "experiments" because they imply the creation of new and artificial grounds for human mortality, grounds which ultimately are based upon the worst sort of material selfishness.

Furthermore, because the deepest moral values inhere in the organic community, the destruction of the values it represents by the forces of history necessarily results in the moral isolation and tragic alienation of the Conradian hero. Only the spiritual reaffirmation of those fundamental communal values--fidelity, trust, loyalty--can lead to spiritual victory and new life for the alienated hero. The tales and novellas of A Set of Six all treat this theme of tragic alienation and the possibility of a victorious return to life. As such, they treat in a lesser yet equally significant key the central themes of Conrad's greatest works. Any study of these stories, therefore, helps to illuminate our understanding not only of Conrad's greatest novels but of his work as a Whole.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Visionary Ideology and the Visual Image: The "Living Form" of Blake's Pictorial Style

contributor:
John, Brian
English

abstract:
This thesis explores the relationship between William Blake's pictorial style and the rational, empirical values that characterized the age in which he lived. Blake revolted against the systematization of art in eighteenth century England and rejected the scientific principles that supported linear perspective and the illusionist aesthetic. He held that visual art should produce conceptual images rather than emulate fallen, corporeal perception of the material world. This conviction came in response to the scientific reasoning that influenced art during the Enlightenment and threatened to turn artists into mechanical labourers governed by the laws of optics.

After examining the influence of science and mathematics on visual art in the Age of Reason, this paper focuses on Blake's repudiation of linear perspective. This study concludes with a discussion of compositional schemata in Blake's designs, modifying the interpretations offered in W.J.T. Mitchell's Blake's Composite Art and Stewart Crehan's Blake in Context. The observations put forward in this final chapter are supported by a detailed analysis of The Ancient of Days.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN CANADIAN AGRICULTURE

subject: Political Economy

abstract: In the past, several writers have expressed, with a great deal of undue pessimism, their ideas on "Technological Unemployment"; too many believe that eventually the world will evolve into a system of robots. The specific aspect of "Technological Unemployment", dealt with in this thesis, is that found in connection with Canadian agriculture. An attempt has been made to study the effects of the introduction of machinery, first, on the economy as a whole, and then on agriculture in the provinces of Canada and to demonstrate that the evils of the machine have largely been over-emphasized. I would like to thank Professor H. Michell for his valuable suggestions and constructive criticisms.

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: Online Music Communities: Challenging Sexism, Capitalism, and Authority in Popular Music

contributor:
Baade, Christina
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticism
Music
Music

abstract:
With its almost exclusive focus on the economics of the music industry, the early-21st century debate over digital music piracy has obscured other vital areas of study in the relationship between popular music and the Internet. This thesis addresses some of these neglected areas, specifically issues of agency, representation, discipline, and authority; it examines each of these in relationship to the formation and maintenance different online music communities. I argue that contemporary online trends related to music promotion, consumption, and criticism are, in fact, part of a much larger socio-cultural re-envisioning of the relationships between artists and audiences, artists and the music industry, and among audience members themselves. The relationship between music and the Internet is not only subversive on the level of economics.

I examine these issues in three key areas. Independent women's music commnunities challenge patriarchal authority in the music industry as they use online discussion forums and web sites to advance their own careers. The tension that exists between the traditional for-profit music industry and the developing ethic of sharing in the filesharing community creates the conditions whereby we can imagine alternative ways that music can circulate in culture. "Citizen media," such as blogs and "open source" encyclopaedias, allows for those who otherwise had no avenue for presenting their thoughts and ideas to engage in public discourse. Traditional understandings of authority and expertise are subject to revision as new ways of assessing authority develop for online sources. This is also evident in the struggles of "old-media" groups in reconciling their established publishing and editorial practices with emergent online practices.

This thesis foregrounds the work of individuals by drawing extensively from interviews, personal blogs, and online discussion forums. In this way, the monolithic "grand narratives" of the Internet, such as the filesharing "battle" or the democratic potential of online discourse, are shown to be the product of many individual subjectivities, each of whom contribute to authoring the online environment.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: A Critic on the Edge

contributor:
Fast, Susan
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticism
Music
Music

abstract:
The music critic is usually portrayed as a lone wolf in the musical world - an independent and mysterious figure slipping silently in and out of concerts, and pronouncing judgement from afar. However, her work cannot occur in isolation, and the interactions of the critic with her publication, her readers, and her subjects create a network of relationships, each with their own dynamic effect on the critic and her writing. These relationships function as an exchange of capital, as described in Bourdieu's Field of Cultural Production. The publication is lent capital by having skilled writers, and the critic is given a powerful position from which to reach her readers. The readers, functioning as an imagined community built around a common subject interest, grant the critic capital, and therefore authority, by being influenced by her work.

The two imagined musical communities discussed here - classical and world music -share a position as marginalized musical genres. Their places within western culture could be portrayed as opposites, as classical music maintains a privileged position as a cultural achievement for the west, and world music is both a relatively young genre, and one that is separated and Othered simply from its label as a homogenizing and encompassing genre category. Within each of these genres, the critic is faced with different challenges - navigating the social issues which surround the categories, understanding how best to address their musical communities, and then further, how to write appropriately for the publications which support them. Each publication plays a different role in the discourse surrounding the music, and each also has a different set of requirements and opportunities for the critic.

Through a combination of practical work and academic analysis, this thesis seeks to demonstrate some of the challenges facing a young critic in the field, and the dynamic relationships that govern a critic's work and musical world.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Music Theory and Perception: An Experimental Comparison

contributor:
Renwick, W.
Trainor, L.
Music Criticism

subject:
Music Criticism
Music
Music

abstract: The purpose of this thesis was to conduct three experiments in order to ascertain a perceptual account of Schenker's analysis of a Handel Aria and to test Lerdahl's premise that listeners experienced in Western tonal music perceive tension globally rather than locally. Data were obtained by recording perceptual judgements of tension, phrase structure, and pitch space at 83 stopping points across the Aria and three Schenkerian levels of analysis (background, middleground, and foreground). Of particular interest is viewing this data in the light of Schenker's organicism philosophy. Listeners in all three experiments are experienced musicians and university music students. In experiment 1, tension ratings correlate among listeners at all levels of analysis and perceived tension varies with stopping point. Thus, the experience of tension and relaxation requires minimal harmonic and melodic information. The phrase structure data obtained from experiment 2 demonstrates that more surface material is required in order to make judgements of phrase structure. Experiment 3, using Krumhansl's probe tone method, shows that even with the minimal information of Schenker's background level, listeners experienced in Western tonal music consistently perceive a hierarchical pitch space similar to Krumhansl's probe tone profile. The application of Lerdahl's Tonal Pitch Space Theory demonstrates a reliance of the experienced listener on local tension rather than on inherited tension in this short, completely diatonic piece.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Shorter Working Day

subject: Political Economy

abstract: I would, at the outset, like to explain some of the peculiarities of this subject. In the first place, it is very broad and touches too many phases of modern life for theory to come to any other conclusion than to tangle itself hopelessly with ethics, religion, sociology, and economics. Secondly, since it deals with man, it therefore becomes directly associated with man's variability, which of course changes the character of the study from definite to indefinite. Finally, it is only too true that a critical judgement may arise from one source--individual practical experiments. And so I leave you with, a conflict of theories, too few industrial cases, and too indefinite a conclusion. I must add that these and other deficiencies would be exceedingly more numerous if it had not been for the patience and guidance of my teachers, Professor H. Michell, Professor K. W. Taylor, and Professor W. B. Hord. To these I feel a deep obligation, as I do to Mr. F. A. Sherman, and Mr. F. A. Looseley who have so kindly assisted me in the research work done at the Dominion Foundries and Steel Company.

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: The Philosophical Foundations of Marx's Conception of Man

contributor:
Shalom, A.
Philosophy

subject: Philosophy Philosophy

abstract:
Our work is an attempt to come to grips with the basic structure of Marx's philosophical anthropology. According to Marx, man is, in the most fundamental sense, a "species-being". We endeavour to unpack and examine carefully both its major presuppositions and implications.

Throughout our work, we expound fully two basic conceptions which, we contend, are implied in Marx's doctrine. According to him, "Human Nature" is distinct from "External Nature". Secondly, the "Nature" of man is distinct from his "Essence".

In order to substantiate the first contention, we submit Marx's doctrine on relations to a careful examination. We discover two main types, physical or immediate relations and species or mediated ones. The latter constitute the ultimate fabric of Marx's whole system -- the "material" or "substance" of what he habitually refers to as the "infra-structure". These relations, found only within the human species, are empirical in origin but Ideal or formal in nature. This fact leads us to the conclusion that, within his doctrine, Marx presupposes man to enjoy a measure of "freedom" from the "physis", a subjectively conscious existence vis-a-vis the natural environment. This subjective consciousness enables man to live a formal existence distinct from his physical existence. Further analysis shows that man's freedom and subjective consciousness express and realise themselves through the mediation of an Ideal Totality or Community. Man's formal or subjective existence, accordingly, is simultaneously, a Totality or Community existence. The Totality itself consists of an Ideal Hypostatization of man's productive and collective life.

The substantiate the distinction between the Nature and the Essence of man we continue our analysis of man's formal existence. Our study shows that Marx conceives of human existence as a dynamic relationship between three distinct "moments": 1)the individual himself with his "power" for subjective consciouness; 2)his formal existence in time and space and 3) the prevailing Ideal Totality or Community. This is the substance of what we refer to as man's "mediated existence". The relationship between the three "moments" follows the syllogistic formula P - U - I, where P stands for the particular Essence of the individual, for instance, as a "citizen", a "noble", a "bourgeois"; U stands for the prevailing Community, such as Ancient Classical, Feudal or Capitalist and I stands for human Nature epitomised by the individual person in his subjective existence. The individual (I) enjoys a particular formality (P) through the mediation of the Community (U). This Trinitarian formula, we argue, constitutes the metaphysical structure of Marx's whole system.

Our analysis helps up remove the ambiguity in which Marx couches his description of man as a "species-being". According to him, as far as Human Nature is concered, man was, is and remains a Species or Totality being. We regard this as a metaphysical presupposition regarding "Human Nature in general". As far as the Human Essence is concerned, man, as yet, is not a Species being. The historical Communities have, so far, been separatist, exclusive and inadequate in both a quantitative and a qualitative sense. The "principle" or "nexus rerum" holding people together has been "something" qualitatively different from the idealisation of man himself. This constitutes, in essence, Marx's doctrine on Alienation.

The rest of our work, occupying chapters four and five, deals mainly with the philosophical ramifications of the two-basic conceptions on Human Nature discussed earlier. The implications of the distinction between the Nature and the Essence of man are discussed in relation to Marx's doctrine on the Proletariat and the Bourgeois. We discover here a major inconsistency within Marx's analysis. In direct violation of his own doctrine, Marx treats an "ensemble of species-relations" as a totality of physical and immediate relations. To this extent, Marx institutionalises the proletariat and opens the way to a decadent "Marxism".

In the final chapter, we discuss the casual relationship between "man" and "nature" within the perspective of the vital distinction between the two. Marx implies the view that man has first to "colonise" external nature, the "physis" before he can relate to it actively and subjectively. This "colonization" consists in endowing the natural environment and "matter" with a "formality", an ideal dimension. Only in this way can man relate to nature as man and be influenced by it. We argue that Marx's dialectic applies only to the human species in its relationship to "external nature". Only man is capable of creating an Essence or Formaility, distinct from himself and subsequently negating it by means of its anti-thesis.

Our work emphasises the Ideal and Humanistic dimension of Marx's doctrine and the relevance of some of his major ideas to contemporary social problems.

abstract: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


title: ASPEKTE DER ZEIT IN IRRUNGEN WIRRUNGEN

contributor:
Van, R. L.
German

abstract: [missing pages 78 and 95]

abstract: Conceived as an attempt to view Fontane's masterpiece Irrungen Wirrungen as a Zeitroman, the first chapter of this thesis will present the current controversy surrounding the genre, while subsequent chapters will furnish proof of the novel as belonging to the outlined definition of the Zeitroman. The structure of time in the novel will be considered in the light of Bergson's concepts in the third chapter of the thesis, which will lead us to look at the need to fill time perceived as "empty", (Leere Zeit) by certain characters, hence the study of Zeitvertreib in the final chapter.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: The Conducting Body: The Gestural Vocabulary of Masculinity, Power, Transgression, and Metaphor

contributor:
Kinder, Keith
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract: The conductor is one of the most recognizable figures in modern music performance. His or her gestures elicit numerous different responses from those in the orchestra. If the premise that music is a cultural practice is accepted, it would follow that the bodily movements of the conductor reflect, intentionally or not the ways in which the body has been culturally theorized. In my opinion, analysis of conducting bodies has not been done to an adequate degree. I argue that this is a product of the long-standing mind/body split. In this thesis, I explore the ways in which the conducting body operates in culture, as well as in musical performance. I make use of standards of the orchestral repertoire by the composers Beethoven, Wagner, Shostakovich, Orff, and Strauss conducted by such figures as Claudio Abbado, Georg Solti, Seiji Ozawa, and Herbert von Karajan. Observing that orchestral conductors are overwhelmingly male, I examine critical discourse on gender to account for the ways in which conducting has been framed as a masculine practice, with the intent of arguing that the conducting body frequently problematizes constructions of manhood. I also examine how conducting gestures enact cultural tropes around power from the angles of discipline, surveillance and cultural prestige. I then move on to discussions of Mikhail Bakhtin's discourse on carnival and grotesque bodies in order to observe how conductors may be interpreted as transgressing "acceptable" constructions of the body. Finally, I examine how the body enacts metaphors that assist in our understanding of existence. By arguing that the body possesses linguistic capabilities, I argue that conducting disavows the mind/body split by placing the body in the mind, and the mind in the body.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Hanging Out and the Mall: The Production ofan Adolescent Social Space

contributor:
Knight, Graham
Sociology

subject: Sociology Sociology

abstract: The thesis uses the adolescent activity of hanging out at shopping malls to explore the social production of space. The mall is considered as a strategically constructed place, permeated by the imperative to purchase, and marketed as a (quasi) public space. Unlike the home, school and workplace, the mall affords teenagers a measure of freedom. However, in order to use the mall, adolescents must negotiate a number of obstacles which stem from their ambivalent relationship with the setting. Malls are simultaneously welcoming (providing a safe environment and targeting teenagers as a niche market) and hostile (regarding the group presence of teenagers as a threat to safety and order). Hanging out, comprising a range of meanings and pursuits, is examined as the tactical practice of movement--as shopping, loitering, watching the crowd--which is both facilitated and constrained by the strategies of the mall. Hanging out implicates teenagers in the (re)production of the mall and its attending structures and discourses. Yet at the same time, by taking advantage of the contradictions opened up by the setting's ambivalence, teenagers temporarily transform the official place of the mall, individually and collectively producing a space of their own. Thus, the thesis examines the intersection of the commercial, controlled and potentially public setting of the mall, with the interactive, consumptive and transgressive activities of teenagers, in order to capture how social structures converge with social practices to produce social space. As such, the work transcends the specificity of teenage social activities to address the underlying problem of public space in contemporary society, and the overarching issue of the intersection of spatial forms and social practices.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: TOWARDS A CRITICISM OF THE BODY IN MUSIC: RECOGNIZING AND REVERSING THE MIND-BODY SPLIT IN TRADITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP

contributor:
Hartwell, Hugh
Rapoport, Paul
Music Criticism

subject: Music Music

abstract:
Since antiquity, the study of Western classical music has been influenced by widespread beliefs in the mind-body split. Rational and idealistic philosophies, such as those expounded by Descartes and Plato, have led prominent music scholars throughout history, including Boethius, Rameau, Hoffmann and Hanslick, to focus almost exclusively on music's so-called relationship with the mind-music's abstract, theoretical, intellectual or left-brain qualities. With the development of the score and the musical work concept in the 19th century, the roles of the composer and performer have become increasingly divided in tennis of mind and body respectively. As a result, current musical studies (history, theory/analysis, aesthetics) continue to focus on the format aspects of the composer's score and the positivistic 'facts' surrounding the composer's career, systematically disregarding the role of the body and interpretation in music making.

Recently, however, some music scholars have taken an interest in studying classical music in terms of the body. Using the writings of 20th-century philosophers which convincingly challenge rationalism both within and outside the field of music, these scholars emphasize the relevance of subjectivity (perspectivism) and the body itself in the pursuit of musical 'knowledge.' Anthony Storr, for example, draws on Nietzsche's philosophies to demonstrate the importance of the physical body in the creation and appreciation of music. Richard Leppert similarly borrows Foucault's theory of the social body to uncover neglected political aspects of the body in musical experience (e.g. gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity) and discover the potential for traditional scholarship's fully rational perspective of music to maintain oppressive social stereotypes.

Consequently, the recent development of a criticism of the body in music has become especially important for feminist music scholars. Susan McClary and Suzanne Cusick have been particularly successful at demonstrating the need for scholarship to develop methods which reflect a deeper understanding of the effects of the mind-body problem on the study and practice of music.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Canadian Monopolies and Combinations

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: The Economic Aspects of Trusts, Combines and Cartels

subject:
Political Economy
Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION IN ONTARIO

subject: Political Economy

abstract: Bachelor of Arts (BA)


title: THE ICONOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF QUADRIGA SCENES ON LATE ETRUSCAN FUNERARY URNS

contributor:
Dunbabin, K.M.D.
Classics

subject: Classics Classics

abstract: The study of late Etruscan funerary urns has fascinated scholars for over a century. This topic has generated a large corpus of works, but much research remains to be done to better understand the meaning and place of these urns in Etruscan society. This thesis will examine the iconographic development of one motif, specifically those themes that employ a central quadriga. The study of the development of this motif, since it was adapted to mythological, exclusively funerary, and civic themes, is valuable because it reveals the artistic processes that Etruscan artisans may have employed when selecting and executing their works of art. An examination of the possible significance of each theme, furthermore, reveals that the selection of the individual themes, is, to some extent, influenced by the larger forces at play in the Mediterranean world between the third and first centuries BC. Consequently, a detailed iconographic analysis of this motif, and its changing role on the urns, can offer insight not only into the changing styles and tastes, but also into the deeper beliefs and mentalities of the society that produced them.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)


title: Duration Dependence in Longitudinal Consumer Panel Data: A Continuous-Time, Stochastic Modelling Approach

contributor:
Reader, Steven
Geography

subject: Geography Geography

abstract: Due to growing competition for market share, the retail environment is becoming increasingly specialized. Consequently, current retailing practices are concerned with targeting both spatially and aspatially defined population segments which, in turn, has led to the need to acquire detailed information on individual purchasing patterns. The collection of longitudinal data associated with the development of 'scanner panels' will result in a consumer behaviour data explosion, generating extensive, spatially disaggregate and detailed purchasing histories recorded at the individual level. A crucial element in the use of 'scanner panels' for retailing practices resides in the development of appropriate methodologies for analyzing this data and methods which exploit fully the information contained in these detailed records. This thesis considers the application of an event-history modelling approach to consumer shopping behaviour using longitudinal data from the Cardiff Consumer Panel, 1982. The focus of this research is duration dependencies involved in store switching behaviour. It is reasoned that the probability of choosing a particular type of retail outlet depends on both the type of store visited in the preceding trip and the time elapsed since that trip. Duration dependence between store switches can then be expressed in the distributional form of the hazard rate. Results indicate that an event-history approach provides a valuable methodology for examining consumer shopping behaviour. Duration dependence is found to be an important influence on store switching behaviour and the distributional form of duration dependence is seen to vary with different types of stores. Furthermore, measured sources of heterogeneity contained in such models indicate how different individual characteristics may be important in explaining the store choice behavioural process.

abstract: Master of Arts (MA)