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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dynamic Balance Control and Segmental Orientation While Listening During Walking: Effects of Age and Hearing Loss, Sin Tung Lau
The Forgotten Front: British Home Defence and the Invasion Scare of 1914, Alexander Maavara
Tweeting Strategy: Military Social Media Use as Strategic Communication, Rupinder Mangat
Spatial and temporal variability of the snow environment in the Western Canadian Arctic, Philip Mann
Exploring the Discourses of Compulsive Hair-Pulling: A Body-Mapping Study, Julia Mason
The Effects of Fire on Snow Accumulation, Snowmelt and Ground Thaw on a Peat Plateau in Subarctic Canada, Elyse Mathieu
Predicting Credit Ratings with Statistical Learning Methods, Yinduo Ma
Social Anxiety and Interpersonal Interactions: Investigating the Impact of Anxiety on Interpersonal Behaviours, Perceptions, and Processes, Kelly McDonald
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF INTERLEUKIN-6 ON APPETITE REGULATORY PEPTIDES IN LEAN AND OBESE SEDENTARY MALES, Greg L. McKie
"A meruelous thinge!": Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina the Astonishing, and Performative Self-Abjection in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud
Reading across Different Orthographies: Urdu, Arabic, Hindi and English, Amna Mirza
Differences in perceptions of aperture crossing during a virtual reality choice reaction task between non-athletes and varsity athletes, Jaime Mitchell
The Influence of Physiological and Abiotic Factors on the Sensitivity of the Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) to the Lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM), Alexandra Muhametsafina
THE COMPLEXITY OF CANADIAN ANTI-COMMUNISM, 1945-1967, Ian Muller
Factors limiting sand dune restoration in Northwest Beach, Point Pelee National Park, Canada, Pritichhanda Nayak and Pritichhanda Mohanty Nayak
IT TAKES A VILLAGE-SCHOOLING OUT OF PLACE: SCHOOL EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AFRICAN YOUTH IN WATERLOO REGION, Olufunke Oba 5726040
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF FAMILIES’ EXPERIENCES WITH FOOD INSECURITY IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, Elias Omer
Bioinformatic interrogation of phosphonate tailoring pathways, Monica Papinski
The Great and Widening Divide: Political False Polarization and its Consequences, Victoria Parker
The Sidewalk Problem: An examination of the avoidance behaviours employed during a head-on collision course with an approaching person, Lana M. Pfaff
A Phenomenological, Arts-Based Study of Art Therapists’ Self-Reflective Practice, Laurie Ponsford-Hill
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Female Retirement Living Seniors and Their Social Relationships, Kathy Procyk
The Effect of Oxidation, Thionation, and Dimerization on the Self-Assembly and Photophysical Properties of Novel Discotic Materials, Katie M. Psutka
Girls’ Voices of the Eighteenth Century: The Development of a Genre for Young Female Readers, 1740-1800, Sarah Rangaratnam