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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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
Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment Access Among People Who Inject Drugs, Monika Roerig
Venus in the Trenches: The Treatment of Venereal Disease in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, Lyndsay Rosenthal
The Role of Indicators in Promoting Gender Equality Through the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, Sara Rose Taylor
Recovering from Workplace Offenses: Understanding the Roles of Resilience and Forgiveness, Francisca Saldanha
“Inconvenient Neighbours, Whom It Was Desirable Ultimately Wholly to Remove”: Differing Factors in the Dispossessions of Studied Anishinaabe Groups of the Great Lakes Basin, 1820-1865, Heather J. Sanguins
Comparison of the Sensitivity of Yes/No and Forced Choice Associative Recognition, Garrett Schliewinsky
Moral identity development across middle childhood and adolescence, Sonia Sengsavang
GROWTH DYNAMICS OF BLACK SPRUCE (PICEA MARIANA) ACROSS NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA, Anastasia E. Sniderhan
Capitals, climate change and food security: Building sustainable food systems in northern Canadian Indigenous communities, Andrew Spring
The role of channel fens in permafrost degradation induced changes in peatland discharge at Scotty Creek, NT, Lindsay Elena Stone
SHAME IN THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF GOD IN STEPHEN MINISTRY, Richard Tamas
Fifty Shades of Day - The Varied and Incomplete Meanings of Marketing Capabilities, Gregory J. Tanguay
EXPLORING LACTATE’S ROLE IN APPETITE REGULATION FOLLOWING HIGH-INTENSITY EXERCISE, Luke W. Vanderheyden
A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ONLINE SELF-HARM SUPPORT FORUMS: EXAMINING USERS’ ONLINE ACTIVITIES DURING SELF-HARM DESISTANCE PROCESSES, Claudia Volpe
THE HOLD ME TIGHT PROGRAM FOR COUPLES BECOMING PARENTS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY, Debbie Wang
Narcissistic Intolerance: Verbal Hostility and Dismissiveness in Response to Subjective Disagreement, Wan Wang
Defence in Depth: An Anatomy of Containment from Quarantine to Resilience, Jessica West