This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Characterizing the Rhizosphere Microbial Community of Food Crops in a Changing Climate, Samuel Snider
Winter Dynamics of Storm Water Management Ponds and Winter Tolerance in Three Aquatic Plant Species, Patrick Strzalkowski
Examining Foot and Lower Leg Muscular Activation During Slip Recovery, Keara Sutherland
Distinctiveness and Similarity: How the Sub-Trait Facets of the Big Five Self-Organize to Create Personality Types, Jonathan Thiessen
Action strategies of young adults during an attentionally demanding collision avoidance task in virtual reality, Brooke J. Thompson
Navigating Waters: Experiences of Filipino Canadian Identity Making in the Diaspora, John Felix Tolentino
Assessing the Biocatalytic Promiscuity of PEP- Transformations for Geminal-Difluorination, Eloy Jose Torres Garcia
ADDING WOMEN TO THE CONVERSATION ON SAFE CONSUMPTION SITES: A QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW STUDY WITH POOR AND MARGINALIZED WOMEN WHO USE ILLICIT SUBSTANCES, Kaitlin Waechter
The effect of alkalinity on lampricide effectiveness and gill physiology in invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Alexandre J. Walsh
"I'm not working, but I'm a professional": Precarious employment pathways, consequences, and resistance strategies impacting the health of racialized immigrant women, Elizabeth C. Watters
Controls on Thermokarst Lake Water Balances in the Inuvik - Tuktoyaktuk Region, Evan J. Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Community stress and resilience during covid-19: Assessing the emotional profile of the City of Hamilton using a social media analysis, Senyo Agbeyaka
Influence of Dissolved Organic Matter on Phosphate Interactions with Hydrous Ferric Oxides, Alaa Hasan Alsherbi
The Kepler Problem on Complex and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds, Michael R. Astwood
Relationships Between Executive Functioning, Memory, and Source Judgements on Children’s Responses to Online Advertising, Samantha Barbosa
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