Retrospective theses: Recent submissions
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Examination of predictors related to the stages and transitions of smoking behavior in adolescents / by Connie Dalton.
(1998)The present study examined adolescent smoking in relation to six different groups of smoking determinants, including: the social environment, pharmacological factors, social bonding, social learning, personality/intrapsychic ... -
Ski jumping flight : a kinematic analysis of the mid-flight and preparation for landing phases
(1998)Competitive success in the sport of ski jumping is made possible through the optimal performance of junkers during flight. While the flight phase has been the subject of several scientific investigations, there remain ... -
Gender issues in initial teacher education
(1998)The purpose of the study was to examine preservice teachers' perceptions towards gender issues in education. It also examined whether gender issues are an integral component of prospective teacher training. This was ... -
Effect of group goals on group performance
(1998)The purpose o f the present study was to investigate the effect o f group goal difficulty and group goal commitment on group performance. In addition, it was also to investigate two mediating processes, effort and ... -
Control of flexible-link manipulator
(1998)Flexible-Iink manipulator has many advantages over classic rigid body manipulator in industrial and space applications. However, it also poses high requirements on controller design, to ensure the accurate tip position ... -
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 ... -
Manipulating the salience of stimulus & response features in the spatial precuing task
(1998)Reeve, Proctor, Weeks and Dornier (1992) demonstrated that the Gestalt grouping principles could be used to influence performance in the four-choice spatial-precuing task by enhancing the organizational features of the ... -
Effect of feedback and motivational orientations on intrinsic motivations
(1998)The purpose of the study was to investigate how dispositional motivational orientations effect the perception of external rewards and the resulting effect on intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation was assessed with ... -
Effect of blocked and random practice schedule variations on acquisition and retention of a pattern drawing task
(1998)The contextual interference (CI) effect refers to the phenomenon that practice organised according to a random schedule appears to negatively affect acquisition, while retention performance is facilitated. Previous ... -
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, ... -
Possessing the literary mystery : reading, writing and interpreting the detective process in A.S. Byatt's Possession
(1998)This thesis investigates how Byatt’s literary mystery Possession uses elements of antidetective fiction and subverts conventions of the classic detective story. The classic detective novel is a genre in which the strange ... -
Effect of rpoS inactivation on biofilm formation of a p-nitrophenol degrading Pseudomonas putida strain
(2005)With the widespread existence of environmental pollutants in the modern world, effective, non-destructive means of remediation are becoming more and more desirable as an alternative to the traditional excavation and ... -
Get on the good foot : do pedal asymmetries exist in the sprint start response?
(2005)The study of pedal asymmetries examines the differences in reaction time and movement time between the foot/hemisphere systems in humans. Although asymmetries have been examined using pointing movements research has yet ... -
Supporting injured professional football players : the role of significant others
(2005)The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of professional football players regarding the social support provided by family, friends and partners during injury. A sample of professional football players ... -
Investigation into the use of ELG for stand alone power system frequency control
(2006)The use of ELG for stand alone power system frequency control is investigated in this thesis. Characteristics of a stand alone power system with PCR-ELG are presented. Dynamic simulation of the system is developed using ... -
Modeling of PWM boost converters for continuous and discontinuous inductor current modes
(2006)Owing to the relatively more complicated nature of the boost converter with non-ideal elements and operating in continuous and discontinuous inductor current modes, a parsimonious large signal and small signal model for ... -
Carbon stock estimates for red spruce (Picea rubens) forest in central Nova Scotia
(2005)Carbon storage was measured in natural red spruce dominated stands in the Eastern Eco-region of central Nova Scotia (NS). Twenty-four plots over a 140-year chronosequence were established. Within each plot, major carbon ...