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Fall 2011
Being human is a finite entity, defined by specific qualities, ideals, or characteristics. In Deleuzian terms, the posthuman is a stage of transition, never reaching representation because it is always changing and becoming. This dissertation explores the subjectivity of mostly Canadian,...
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Fall 2011
This thesis is a comparative analysis of representations of the African American fife and drum musical tradition in North Mississippi, tracing the ways these representations are shaped by the ideologies, aims, methods, and social positions of the person(s) in primary control of representation. It...
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Fall 2022
The saxophone continues to inspire through its ability to both play an extremely wide array of dynamics and evoke intense emotions. This recital and recording project explores works for saxophone written in the last forty years that best encapsulate the extreme musical and emotional dynamics of...
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Soundscape, Sonic Experience, and Sonic memory in Iran: Jewish and Muslim Cultural Identity in Udlajan, Tehran
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This dissertation explores the impact of everyday soundscape on cultural identity formation by considering the experiences of one neighborhood of Tehran, Iran before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Being home to a majority of Jews before the Revolution, Udlajan is one of the oldest...
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Stories of Faculty who Served as Academic Administrators: Career-Life Experiences and Academic Identities of five Associate Deans
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Deans, chairs, associate deans, and associate chairs are, as academic administrators, at the nexus of the university organization. Much has been written on educational leadership theory and practice and on organizational theory, management, and behaviour. I have come to wonder, though, what the...
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Teachers’ Perspectives on Motivational Practices in Classrooms: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Design
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Motivation theory suggests several different approaches to best motivating students, established through rigorous empirical research. However, a theory-practice divide persists: teachers report feeling underprepared to motivate their students and researchers fail to make their recommendations...
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Telling Tales: The Israelite Oratorios of George Frideric Handel as a Platform for Social Thought in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
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"Identity is built on the ideologies of a collective nation"; there is no statement that rings clearer in the case of eighteenth-century Britain. This thesis examines the formulation of British identity as evidenced through allegorical narratives in Handel’s Israelite oratorios. As part of this...
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The Alberta Drug Administration Modeller (ADAM): a life-size, hands-on pharmacokinetics learning tool for our future healthcare professionals
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The processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination (ADME) determine a drug’s pharmacokinetics (PK). Each of these processes is described with abstract modelling, and the relationships are characterised through equations and graphical analysis using both noncompartmental and...
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Spring 2014
Sound and space are physically inseparable; all sounds have a defined spatial location. Our ears receive the energy generated by sound sources traveling in the air and inform us about location, motion, and in many cases also the velocity of movement of that source. Since the 1950s, technology has...
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The calm carrel: a relaxation technique for students with emotional and behavioural disorders
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The present study examined the implementation of a self-management strategy, termed the calm carrel, as a potential means of bringing about behavioural improvement (as reflected, primarily, in global behavioural ratings, extent of isolation time-out assignments, and student and teacher feedback)...