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Social Determinants of Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Problems Among Urban Aboriginal Adults in Canada
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Objective: Little is known about the determinants of addictive disorders within the rapidly growing urban Aboriginal population in Canada. The objectives of this dissertation were to examine whether Aboriginal enculturation, Canadian acculturation, and racial discrimination were associated with...
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Social Determinants of Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Problems Among Urban Aboriginal Adults in Canada
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Objective: Little is known about the determinants of addictive disorders within the rapidly growing urban Aboriginal population in Canada. The objectives of this dissertation were to examine whether racial discrimination, Aboriginal enculturation, and Canadian acculturation were associated with...
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Student Experiences of a Diversity-Positive Chapter Book: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis Using an Arts-Informed Analysis
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This study aimed to understand the lived experience of school-aged children engaging with a diversity-positive chapter book in a classroom setting. Participants were 9 third-grade students and 26 sixth-grade students and their respective teachers in a Canadian urban school. An interpretive...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021:This research project will address the issue of unprovenanced manuscripts by examining a collective of North American and European institutions involved in the papyrus trade of the early 1900s – the British Papyrus Syndicate. In order to better understand the history,...
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Spring 2010
The traditional approach to the study of consumer behaviour is to regard them as isolated islands of preferences, needs, motives, and goals; however, this approach neglects the impact of ‘others’ on consumers’ judgments and preferences. For this reason, the theme of this thesis is the ‘connected...
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The Effects of Culture on Conceptualizations of Leisure, Control, and Positive Affect Between Japanese and Canadian Undergraduate Students
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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine: (a) similarities and differences in conceptualizations of leisure between Japan and Canada and between two Japanese leisure-like terms: yoka and rejā (Study 1); (b) the effects of leisure participation on Japanese and Canadian undergraduate...
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The Elusiveness of the Embedded Liberal Compromise: An Evaluation of Canada’s Supply Management System and its Legality within the Global Trade Regime
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The original compromise of embedded liberalism sought to balance the need for domestic social stability with the need to further liberalize trade through the removal of both tariff and non-tariff barriers. However, this raises the question on what qualifies as social stability? Is the...
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The Intersection between Culture and Postpartum Mental Health: An Ethnography of Bhutanese Refugee Women in Edmonton, AB
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This thesis is an ethnography of postpartum mental health outcomes in a group of Bhutanese refugee women living in Edmonton, AB. Previous research has shown that refugee women are at a higher risk of postpartum depression than Canadian-born women. Despite this finding, the postpartum experiences...
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Fall 2009
Adaptation has been an important part of the appreciation and study of Shakespeare’s plays from the beginning. As was usual for playwrights of his time, Shakespeare adapted the majority of his writings from other literary and/or historical works; and in the centuries since, other writers have...