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The dissertation examines how image-making, a common pastime, was made common. It investigates the ways in which the production and consumption of images in the context of the North American family contributed to the development of a distinctly domestic and privatized visual culture, and the transformation of the home into a site for privatized spectatorship. Four cultural forms (No. 1 Kodak, Box Brownie, Cine Kodak and Cine Kodak 8) are specified in this development, all pioneered by the Eastman Kodak Company. The dissertation traces Eastman Kodak's direct involvement in the popularization of image practices. It analyzes strategies used by them …  Lire la suite

The thesis examines the problems of the "observer" and "objectivity." I review Thomas Kuhn's concept of "paradigm shift" in order to access wider debates in the history and philosophy of science concerning epistemological development. I argue against traditional notions of "objectivity" and "rationality" that proceed to "naturalize" the binary opposition between the natural sciences and other intellectual pursuits. To make this argument I draw from feminist critics of science, including Sandra Harding, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Donna Haraway, who reconsider more palpable conceptions of "objectivity" and "rationality" for a feminist science project. Jonathan Crary's revisionist, and non-linear approach to a …  Lire la suite

With Hecate Nocturne, I set out to create a unified piece of substantial length. The piece features certain sounds of British Columbia---birds, animals, wind, water, machinery, and folksong; their musical depictions represent a growing interest of mine, one which was expanded significantly in this piece. The primary goal of the thesis is a close interconnection of all musical material, at all levels; that a limited pool of material could produce, through motivic development, all the components of the piece, from small to large. The secondary goal is to give the music a "sense of place" through depictions of natural sounds …  Lire la suite

"Amblyseius barkeri developed well on early first instar~ occidentalis nymphs, whereas few ~ cucumeris immatures survived on this diet. Consumption rates of 4 to 24 h and 72 h old thrip nymphs were similar for the two species, but~ cucumeris was able to capture more 48 h nymphs than could ~ barkeri. When offerred eggs and nymphs of Tetranychus urticae and nymphs of~ occidentalis, ~ cucumeris' rm was similar to that of~ barkeri feeding exclusively on~ occidentalis nymphs. At 35°C, no ~ cucumeris eggs hatched, whereas all ~ barkeri individuals developed to the adult stage. At 15°C, ~ barkeri 's …  Lire la suite

Advances in gastric physiology have followed the accretion of experimental evidence in a pattern largely determined by available experimental techniques. Three major fields may be grossly discerned. The integration of gastric secretion with other events of the digestive process first received the major attention of organ physiology, as exemplified by the work of Pavlov's laboratory. Interest in the alimentary regulation of gastric secretion continues unabated at the present time despite the fact that much is well confirmed. [...]  Lire la suite

Quastel, J. H. (Supervisor)  Lire la suite

Despite the recognition that culturally diverse groups of children in low income areas are at elevated risk for future health problems, no dietary/nutritional studies have been reported on this population. Children aged 9-12 were sampled from schools selected on the basis of a poverty index and ethnicity. Nutritional information (24-hour recall, heights and weights) indicated children were growing well but a high proportion were overweight. A comparison of reported energy intake to calculated BMR indicated that overweight children under-estimated their intakes. Mean intakes met the Canadian RNIs except for calcium in 10-12 year old girls. Nutrient intake was related to …  Lire la suite

En santé mentale jeunesse (SMJ), les praticiens sont de plus en plus confrontés à des situations interculturelles complexes exigeant des ajustements à leurs interventions. Cela peut entraîner de l'impuissance, de la frustration, provoquer des réactions défensives et nuire à la qualité de leur travail. Face à cette difficulté, la formation des professionnels est souvent présentée comme une solution, mais souvent sans préciser ce que ces initiatives impliquent et exigent. Cette thèse présente les résultats d'une étude qualitative réalisée sur l'une de ces initiatives, à savoir les Séminaires de discussion de cas transculturels, interdisciplinaires et interinstitutionnels (ST) de Montréal.L'objectif de cette …  Lire la suite

Normal Language requires the integration of formal, conceptual, and pragmatic knowledge. It appears to involve the analytic processing of the left hemisphere and the holistic processing of the right. To study hemisphere involvement in language processing, patients with unilateral right or left hemisphere lesions and a matched neurologically normal control group were tested on their ability to perceive stress and intonation contrasts in words and phrases of varying length. The results suggest that both hemispheres are involved in normal language processing, each in a qualitatively different way. Whereas the left hemisphere appears to work from the bottom up, analyzing information …  Lire la suite

This work includes several studies exploring functional specialization of human primary and anterior secondary auditory cortex (AC) in the two hemispheres. It was hypothesized that the left hemisphere prepotency for linguistic processing is based, in part, on specialized mechanisms within this hemisphere for the processing of acoustic transients relevant to speech. Evidence supporting this idea was obtained in a positron emission tomography study (PET). Since nonlinguistic stimuli were used, the observed left-hemispheric activation cannot be specific to the speech system, but must reflect a more general processing mechanism. A reanalysis of data from six auditory PET studies revealed that the …  Lire la suite

Abnormally slow processing of language may be a factor contributing to the poor verbal memory seen in many patients with lesions of the anterior temporal region in the left hemisphere. This possibility was examined by comparing the performance of 12 patients with left temporal-lobe resections (LT), 10 patients with similar lesions in the right hemisphere (RT) and 13 normal control (NC) subjects on a lexical-decision task, a sentence-plausibility-judgement task, and a story-recall task. Stimuli were presented aurally, and, in the latter two tasks, at 5 different speech rates ranging from 125 words per minute (wpm) to 325 wpm. Recall of …  Lire la suite

The purpose of this thesis is to compare mother-child relationships with respect to children born prematurely to mother child relationships with respect to children born at full term. It represents one aspect of a larger research project directed to the evaluation of the relationship between paranatal stress, cognitive organization and intrafamily dynamics. Mother-child relationships were measured by means of a modified version of the Fels Scale for the Appraisal of Parent Behavior consisting of eighteen variables of parental behaviour. The attitudes and behaviour of one hundred mothers in relation to their children was evaluated; fifty of them were the mothers …  Lire la suite

Goforth, W. (Supervisors)  Lire la suite

Adamchuk, Viacheslav (Internal/Supervisor)  Lire la suite

Les biomatériaux entièrement poreux à haute résistance construits avec la fabrication additive fournissent une excellente occasion pour des applications orthopédiques structurales. La première partie de cet ouvrage présente deux topologies à haute résistance étirement dominé, le tétraèdre et le Octet truss, ainsi qu'une méthode de visualisation intuitive afin de comprendre la relation de la topologie de la cellule, la taille des pores et la porosité, tout en limitant les exigences de croissance osseuse et les limitations de fabrication d'additifs. Quarente échantillons de porosités sélectionnés sont fabriqués en utilisant la fusion sélective par laser (SLM), et leurs écarts morphologiques résultant du …  Lire la suite

Dumont, Dr. Florent  Lire la suite

Dans une piece moderne, l'intrigue est basée sur la force mystérieuse et irresistible qui joint les coeurs de deux personnes, vivant à des époques différentes, mais dont la grandeur de l'amour anéantit le Temps. Nous entreprenons ici une tâche analogue: l'étude de deux prédicateurs, qui vivaient à des époques différentes, qui se trouvaient en face de problèmes différents, qui essayèrent de les résoudre par des moyens différents, et qui pourtant se réunirent dans une devotion commune et dans une commune loyauté au même Sauveur. Pref, l'étude de deux hommes, mais d'"une seule chose". [...]  Lire la suite

Substantial numbers of adolescents suffer from the detrimental effects of internalized shame, however no assessment scale existed specifically for use with youth. Consequently, this study utilized multidimensional scaling, focus groups and questionnaires to develop the Adolescent Internalized Shame Scale. Analyzes revealed some clinicians do not adequately differentiate shame and guilt, adolescents unquestionably comprehend the feelings and ramifications of shame and there are significant gender differences in how youth experience shame. Statements generated by youth during focus groups and on the questionnaires raise considerable concerns regarding the painful experience of shame, and the resultant feelings of self-harm and suicide. In addition, …  Lire la suite

The aim of the historical geographer is to reconstruct and interpret past landscapes (i.e. the physical and cultural aspects of the surface of the earth) at significant cross-sections in the historical development of a region. The landscape at any point of time is the result of the historical processes gone before, and will itself change, with time, into a new landscape with different physical and cultural characteristics. The historical geographer thus hopes to explain the development of each landscape, including that of the present, and its transformation into the next. By means of maps and diagrams, comparisons can be made …  Lire la suite

During the winter months of 1950-1951 a pneumococcal infection, type 19, broke out among our guinea pigs. Sulfonamide therapy was started immediately; all animals, healthy or sick, receiving one-half grain per pound body weight of sulfamethazine every day in their drinking water. Sera, to be used as complement for the serological laboratory, was always obtained from large healthy guinea pigs. During the pneumococcal outbreak, greater care than ever was taken to see that only healthy animals were used, but in spite of the precautions taken, it soon became evident that the complement was unsatisfactory. In the light of this, it …  Lire la suite

The thesis presents a development of J. L. Austin's analysis of truth and its accompanying analysis of sentence structure. This involves a discussion and refinement of Austin's notions of the demonstrative and descriptive conventions of language and of the demonstrative and descriptive devices of sentences. The main point of the thesis is that ordinary language must be treated as an historical phenomenon: one that has evolved its more complex features through a long series of variations upon a small number of rudimentary conventions and locutions. The utility of Austin's analysis is shown to lie in the description that it provides …  Lire la suite

Airlines in Canada and the United States of America desiring to purchase commercial aircraft are confronted today with serious legal and financial problems. In general, the financial problems in both countries are related to the fact that the cost of new equipment is very high in proportion to airline earnings. The earnings of the United States trunklines for the year 1960 are estimated to be about $4 million, at the lowest point since 1949. In the face of competition and technological advances, airlines have been forced to re-equip their fleets with jets and turbo-prop aircraft.  Lire la suite

The purpose of this thesis is to assess the prevailing climate of legal thought on matters relating to fishing on the seas. This will be done by making a preliminary and brief survey of the legal concepts which have clarified or darkened the understanding of international fishery problems; by studying the development of state practices through selected case histories in the field of fishery disputes; and by a more detailed analysis of some international fishery agreements in recent times to determine the likeliest course of action for the future. [...]  Lire la suite

Caplin, William Earl (Internal/Cosupervisor2)  Lire la suite

Knowledge of the time rate of diffusion of fluids through solids is of interest on account of its bearing on the structure of solids. Much light can be cast upon the size and arrangements of the insterstitial spaces by such studies, and this often may lead to important applications in the field of surface chemistry, particularly in the case of coloidal systems such as gels. A most interesting field is that presented by the glass of gels which swell by processes of sorption. [...]  Lire la suite

The purification of saturated a1dehydes is often achieved by isolating the pure addttion products with acid sulphites of alkali meta1s or with ammonia, and then hydrolysing these compounds. If an ethylene linkage be present, irreversible addition to the aldehyde molecule results, rendering the method inapplicable to cotonaldehyde, which yields sulphonic acids with sulphurous acid and collidines with ammonia. [...]  Lire la suite

This thesis deals with factors leading to the formation in 1875 of that ecclesiastical organization known as The Presbyterian Church in Canada. The union movement, a product of contemporary situations in Christendom in general and Canadian Presbyterianism in particular, resulted in a legislative union of Kirk, Secession and Free Presbyterian bodies in Canada.  Lire la suite

The phrase 'Covenant Chain' is unique in the English language and along with its antecedents---'linked arms', 'the rope', and the 'iron chain'---the Haudenosaunee established relationships with the Europeans. The 'Covenant Chain' has been the subject of extensive discussion since the mid-1980s when a group of scholars in Iroquois Studies published several volumes on the diplomacy of the Haudenosaunee during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most studies focus on the political aspects of the Covenant Chain and the role it played in creating and sustaining alliances. This study examines the meaning of the word 'covenant' and related ideas in the context …  Lire la suite

This thesis presents the theory required to estimate the available test time in the expansion tube with a reactive gas assuming perfect conditions. The superiority of the expansion tube over the non-reflected and reflected shock tubes will be shown. Further, a method of increasing testing times of combustible flows in the expansion tube through use of a chemical inhibitor is proposed and validated theoretically. The compound selected to illustrate the concept is CF$ sb3$Br. In order to carry out the theoretical analysis of the expansion tube with reactive gas in the presence of trace amounts of inhibitor, the following empirical …  Lire la suite

Throughout the chapters of this study, entitled "Engagement and dialogue: pluralism in the thought of Joseph B. Soloveitchik," run two concerns: Soloveitchik's epistemology and metaphysics, and his account of inter-religious dialogue. Critically and creatively engaging important currents in twentieth century thought such as Neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, pragmatism, and post-classical physics, Soloveitchik borrows and combines elements from each, developing a position that emphasizes the close connection between the human way of knowing and reality's way of being. Developed in his early writings, his epistemology and metaphysics bring together the constructive and receptive elements proper to cognitive experience and describe reality as processive, …  Lire la suite

The origin of the Governor General's awards stems from tile Canadian Authors Association, which was founded in 1921 and which provided the stimulus necessary for the establishment of the awards. The first written evidence of the Canadian Authors Association considering such a need may be found in the Minutes of the National Executive of the Association dated February 19 1927 which reads as follows.  Lire la suite

[...] In the pages which follow, we shall study in greater detail the treatment of time in the works of these three writers — Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and Joyce.  Lire la suite

Objectifs : Au Canada, l'octroi de fonds pour les services de soutient aux familles d'enfants présentant des troubles neurologiques incombe aux collectivités provinciales ou territoriales. Par conséquent, la façon dont les services de soutient sont financés et fournis varie en fonction de la juridiction. Cette étude documente les moyens d'accès au financement de l'aide à domicile dans chaque province ou territoire et analyse les écarts. Méthodes : Cette étude a été menée en 3 phases. Au cours de la première phase, une analyse environnementale des sites Internet gouvernementaux a été réalisée pour chaque province (n = 10) et chaque territoire …  Lire la suite

The time-honoured attitude toward the problem of truancy is that it is purely an educational concern. Howerver, it is becoming recognized more and more as a behaviour disorder arising from a personality abnormality. Disorders of personality arise, to a very large extent, from unsatisfactory relationships within the family such as subjecting the child, during the early period of his development, to unwholesome and adverse parental attitudes, to unusual forutnes and to seduction by adults and older children. Children within the school may also cause the child to truant. He may be bored with a stereotyped school routine or find the …  Lire la suite

Privatization of federal correctional services in Canada is extensive. It has gained considerable momentum since the present Conservative government came into power in 1984. Privatization has allowed the government to cut costs, but has not addressed the underlying issue: the high rate of delinquency. The author argues that, in the future, correctional services will not be purely private, but neither will they be wholly public. Correctional services and the operational aspects of corrections will involve a mix of the public and private sectors. Privatization will have its largest impact on concrete auxiliary services of the Correctional Service of Canada; to …  Lire la suite

This thesis contains four manuscripts examining the respiratory mechanics of normal and stuttering speech. The first study (J.Appl.Physiol. 75 (2):696-703, 1993) examined lung volume (V scL) during stutterers' relatively fluent speech. We showed that stutterers used the V scL extremes. This suggested that stutterers recruited their respiratory muscles in a different manner than normals to maintain subglottic pressure (Psg). We therefore investigated respiratory muscle recruitment patterns in normals and stutterers. In the second study, (submitted to J.A.P.), we modified the Campbell pressure volume diagram by the addition of abdominal pressure (Pab) and by the use of a surrogate relaxation curve. …  Lire la suite

This thesis considers the rationalization of health care in Canada. It focuses on the conflicting roles modern physicians play in our system, acting as both patient advocate and social agent. It begins by tracing the origin of both of these duties. It then examines the ethical, professional, and legal issues which arise in the limited circumstances where front-line physicians must participate in the rationing of health care. It offers a framework for resolving the double agent dilemma and states five interlocking recommendations which are the building blocks of the resolution.  Lire la suite

This work challenges common arguments as to the division of the political from other fictional genres and, in treatments of nineteenth-century fiction and culture, the private from the public sphere. Through an examination of works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth, and Elizabeth Gaskell, I uncover a common concern with the preconditions of liberal selfhood which posits the household as the space in which the political rights-bearer, defined by interiority and mental qualities, comes to be. This rights-bearer is not, as has been argued, defined by purely formal and abstract procedural reason, but in terms of a capacity for …  Lire la suite

Coon, Jessica (Supervisor1)  Lire la suite

Genetic information gained through the study of the inheritance of growth pattern and their certain body characteristics in reciprocal crosses of Broad Breasted Bronze - Charlevoix turkeys should provide a basis for the development and improvement of a small type of turkey such as the Charlevoix. Any inherent study of this kind must be carried through at least a three year period, to allow for the necessary reciprocal crosses within the progeny of the initial mating to bring forth Inherent differences existent within the parental types. The results which are presented in this thesis are therefore representative of the FI …  Lire la suite

Heidi McBride (Supervisor2)  Lire la suite