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Spring 2010
Concerns have been expressed about assessment results that report girls outscoring boys on standardized achievement testing in reading and writing and boys outscoring girls in mathematics and science. This study explored how Western Canadian rural farm boys understand and practice multiple...
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A taxonomic investigation of the Carex macloviana D'Urv. Aggregate in western Canada and Alaska
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Masters thesis. Statistical analysis of 47 quantitative characters, including chromosome numbers, geographic distributions, and ecological preferences used to diagnose each species of Carex macloviana in western Canada and Alaska.
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Fall 2018
This thesis addresses the intersections existing between gender, violence and political humour in Alberta political cartoons. I ask the following question: do cartoonists more frequently use hostile humour to represent women premiers, and, if so, what do these representations communicate about...
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Above, Beneath, and Within: Collaborative and Community-Driven Archaeological Remote Sensing Research in Canada
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This thesis investigates the application of geophysics and remote sensing techniques in community-driven and collaborative archaeology research in Canada. While these techniques have become common among some archaeologists, they have yet to be extensively used within the lens of Indigenous...
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Access and Engagement in Treatment-Aided Addiction Recovery: Differences between Men and Women
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Background. Addiction treatment research increasingly recognizes the importance of access factors (i.e., systematic barriers and facilitators) and engagement factors (i.e., perceptions of coercion, motivation, and social networks) as determinants of clients’ response to treatment programs. While...
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Achieving carbon-neutral cement production by 2050 through the adoption of decarbonization technologies
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Global warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is leading to measurable environmental impacts that threaten to disrupt societies globally. Food and water security, human health, and economies are expected to be adversely affected. Therefore, as the world strives to reduce...
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Fall 2014
This research broadly examines how people consider two opposing but compelling ideas and whether they synthesize the two concepts or reject one of them. Specifically, I focused my research on evangelical Protestant adolescents who participate in church youth groups and look at how they negotiate...
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After This, Therefore, Because of This: Refusing Settler Immunity & Abolishing Indigenous Criminality
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According to Statistics Canada, in 2016/2017 Indigenous peoples accounted for 28% of admissions to provincial/territorial prisons and 27% for federal prisons, while representing only 4.1% of the Canadian adult population. The majority of analyses drawn from these statistics continue to follow a...
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Fall 2011
Between fall 2009 and fall 2010 I conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 19 young-adult women and men of mixed race in Edmonton, Alberta. A prominent theme that emerged was being asked the question ‘what are you?’. I position the ‘moment’ of being questioned as a manifestation of...