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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Does air pollution cause residents of New Delhi, India to migrate internationally?, Snigdha Basu
Impression Management Among Municipal Employees as a Barrier to Engagement: An Explorative Study, Alicia Bevan
Inducing Kindness to Cope with Social Stress: Comparing Self-Compassion with Cognitive Reappraisal, Cortney Burnham
God's Story, Our Story: Telling, Re-telling, Re-storying, Kara Carter
Enhancing zero-shot and few-shot text classification using pre-trained language models, Yanan Chen
Three Essays on the Impacts of Tax Planning and Earnings Management on the Informativeness of Taxable Income, Book Income, and Cash Flows from Operations, yong qiang chen
How Narcissism Relates to (Non-) Cooperation, Christopher Chinn
An Examination of External Threats on Romantic Behaviour in People with Low Self-Esteem, Melanie Christoforou
Impact of Orthophosphate as a Corrosion Inhibitor and Chloramine Disinfectant on Drinking Water Biofilm Communities, Mitchell Cooke
Feeling Fat: Theorizing Intergenerational Body Narratives Through Affect, Katie Cook
Adaptive capacity and mobility in the Bahamas: Examining the social costs of displacement in response to Hurricane Dorian, Kearney Coupland
B-SURE (Bereavement Support Research): The Differential Experiences of Peer and Professional Support in Grief, Andrea Crowley
The Avian Hippocampal Declarative Memory System, Chelsey C. Damphousse
The Hidden Side of Work-Family Boundary Management: Uncovering the Role of Cognitive Boundary Work and Boundary Context, Victoria Daniel
Thinking About Making a Connection: Exploring the Role of Metacognition in Recognition Memory for Associative Information, Mario E. Doyle
Exploring the Impact of Social Media on the Religious and Spiritual Beliefs of Emerging Adults, Mark Ehlebracht
Femme Ex Machina: Sex Robots, Embodiment, and Posthuman Subjectivity, Julia A. Empey
Divest or Disband?: A Social Problems Game Analysis of Canadian Media Coverage of 2020's Defund the Police Movement, Nicholas Fappiano
An Exploration on the Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Services Among South Asian Youth, Oeishi Faruquzzaman
Approaches to Preventing Applicants from Faking Personality Assessments: Construct Contamination Under Faking Conditions, Peter A. Fisher
Young adult and adolescent balance control strategies during a dual-task stone-stepping paradigm, Emily Ford
Coastal Landform Change Influences on Endangered Five-Lined Skink Distribution at Northwest Beach, Point Pelee National Park, Canada, Evan Fortushniok