Browsing Retrospective theses by Title
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Safeguarding the "springs of life" : women's contributions to social and moral reform in Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario, 1900-1930
(1998)This thesis examines women's involvement in the moral and social reform movement under the umbrella of social purity, as it occurred in Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario, between 1900-1930. I analyze the role of two ... -
Satisfaction and stability within long-term relationships involving trait hostility
(2001)This study examined correlates of trait hostility within long-term relationships. In accordance with the rules of complementarity put forth by interpersonal theorists, it was predicted that hostile individuals would more ... -
Satisfaction with a primary care-based diabetes management program
(2008)Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and affects approximately 7% of the population (Hupke, Camp, Chaufoumier, Langley, & Little, 2004; Piatt et al., 2006). It is an established fact that ... -
School cars of northern Ontario : the origin and accomplishments of an educational innovation
(1987)This study examines northern Ontario’s railway school car system which began in 1926. It is an account of the educational service provided until 1967 and an assessment of its accomplishments. The study concentrates on ... -
School council implementation : women principals' experiences with a policy for improving school leadership
(1998)The 1995 Ontario initiative that requires representatives of all school stakeholder groups to participate in the new forum of community governance known as school councils is based on the premise that decentralized ... -
School leadership for effective communication in the 21st century / by Ying She. --
(2004)School leaders are facing increased challenges as they enter the 21st century. In seeking to share the vision of the school, and achieve the agreed upon goals and objectives, school leaders are constantly advocating, ... -
Searching for incomplete self orthogonal latin squares : a targeted and parallel approach
(2003)The primary purpose of this dissertation is in the search for new methods in which to search for Incomplete Self Orthogonal Latin Squares. As such a full understanding of the structures involved must be examined, ... -
Seasonal changes in gas exchange and foliar nitrogen of three conifer species growing on an Ontario boreal mixedwood site
(2003)Jack pine, black spruce and white spruce are three vital species of the Ontario boreal mixedwood forest. The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the ecophysiological characteristics of each species and to ... -
Secret sharing for mobile agent cryptography
(2003)A mobile agent is a multi-threaded autonomous program that can be distributed over a heterogeneous network to perform some predefined task for its hum an creator (user). The independence, flexibility and autonomy offered ... -
Sedimentation models for glacial deltaic successions in the Thunder Bay area
(1991)The comparison of three mapped successions in northern Ontario to glacial deltas reviewed in the literature results in the definition of four end-member depositional environments for glacial deltaic sedimentation. Similar ... -
Sedimentology and geochemistry of the Mesoproterozoic Pass Lake and Rossport formations, Sibley group
(2006)The Sibley Group is an essentially unmetamorphosed, Mesoproterozoic sedimentary succession consisting of a mixture of siliciclastic and chemical sedimentary rocks. This study examined the sedimentology and geochemistry ... -
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the paleoproterozoic Rove and Virginia formations, southwest Superior Province
(2006)The Paleoproterozoic Rove and Virginia Formations are lithostratigraphically and chronostratigraphically correlative units which comprise the upper sedimentary strata in the Animikie basin. They sharply overlie an intensely ... -
Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the northern and central metasedimentary belts in the Beardmore-Geraldton area of northern Ontario
(1987)The northern and central metasedimentary belts (NMB, CMB) are east-trending, regional (formation- to group-scale) iithostratigraphic units within the Beardmore-Geraldton Archean terrane of northern Ontario's Superior ... -
Seeing education through two pairs of eyes : an investigation of community involvement in the education system of a Northern Cree community
(2005)This qualitative emergent research study investigated the perceptions of involvement of Aboriginal community members in the formal secondary education system of a Northern Cree community by using a grounded theory approach. ... -
Self-assembly of dithiol monolayers on Au(III)
(2001)This thesis compares the self-assembly of octanethiol, a representative n-alkanethiol, with dithiothreitol (DTT) on Au (lll). Octanethiol is on eight carbon n-alkanethiol while DTT is a four carbon Q ,(i) dithiol ... -
Self-consistent driven Bloch oscillations in excitonic Wannier-Stark ladder
(2001)In this thesis, we present a theoretical model of Self-consistent driven Bloch oscillations (SCD BO) of different types of charge carriers in biased semiconductor superlattices photoexcited via ultra-short near-bandgap ... -
Self-esteem : the experience of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) adolescents
(1999)This study examines the levels of self-esteem of 10 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Grade 8 adolescents. It researches, through an examination of the existing literature and the means of statistical ... -
Self-esteem in learning disabled children : the role of social competence
(1995)This study compared the self-esteem of a group of twenty-one socially and behaviourally competent learning disabled (LD) children, aged 8-12, with that of a group of fifteen socially and behaviourally competent normally ... -
Self-evident shams : metafiction and comedy in three of Flann O'Brien's novels
(1998)The aim of this thesis is to analyse the connections between comedy and metafiction evident in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and The Hard Life. The following pages discuss how these novels express, ...