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Scheduling Elective Surgeries with Emergency Arrivals in Operating Rooms
With the growing rate of surgical expenditures, improving operating room efficiency has become one of the most important targets for health care providers. Any delays, cancellations, or no-shows, result in increased costs ... -
Secondary Transmission Dynamics of the West Nile Virus in Mosquitoes
West Nile Virus (WNV) is a member of the genus Flavivirus and is transmitted by mosquitoes. It first appeared in North America in New York City in 1999 and was first detected in Windsor Ontario in an infected bird collected ... -
Self-Control and its Influence on Global/Local Processing: An Investigation of the Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Dispositional Approach Tendencies
People often inhibit or override their dominant response tendencies in order to complete tasks successfully. Exerting such self-control has been shown to influence attentional breadth differently depending on an individual’s ... -
The Sex Chronicles: Young Women’s Recollections of Learning About Sex
There is a pervasive social fear surrounding girls’ sexuality. In 2015, Ontario public schools mandated a new version of sex education. There was, and still is, public outcry by many parents over the new curriculum. The ... -
Shaping Responses to Terrorism, Muslims, and Syrian Refugees: The Role of Right-Wing Adherence and News Media Exposure
Right- (vs. left-) wing adherents often hold more anti-Muslim attitudes, disapprove of Syrian refugees in their country, are more concerned about terrorism, and endorse military action to combat ISIS (Islamist terrorist ... -
Shortest Path Routing on the Hypercube with Faulty Nodes
Interconnection networks are widely used in parallel computers. There are many topologies for interconnection networks and the hypercube is one of the most popular networks. There are a variety of different routing paradigms ... -
Sketching the Identity Negotiations of Male Athletes and their Coaches: A Case Study of a CIS Men’s Basketball Team
More than simply passive members of a hard masculine cult, male athletes and their coaches take up complex and contradictory identities within the larger athletic structures in which they operate. In this study, I explore ... -
"So were I equalled with them in renown": The Politics of Poetic Adaptation in Dante's and Milton's Epics
In this thesis I examine the narrator’s role in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. To do so, I compare Milton’s narrator to the narrator of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. I found that both Dante’s and Milton’s narrators have ... -
Social Anxiety and Psychosocial Functioning: Investigating Relations Across Emerging Adulthood
The social, emotional and academic tasks associated with emerging adulthood are particularly challenging for those with social anxiety, a behavior defined as fear of negative evaluation, distress with social interactions, ... -
Southern Ontario Principals' Perspectives on Recess in Low-Income Neighbourhoods
Elementary school recess is now generally understood to be a necessary part of a child’s school day. Therefore, it is important to move beyond research regarding the need for recess and capture the logistics and experiences ... -
Special Educators’ Experiences of Change Through Inclusive Education: The Development of the Inclusion Continuum of Change
This phenomenological case study explored the change experiences of special education teachers who have transitioned from teaching in self-contained classes to inclusive class settings. Ten educators completed surveys and ... -
Sport, The Business of ________: Exploring Higher Purpose in a Professional Sport Organization
Researchers have demonstrated that organizational leaders’ communication of an organizational higher purpose (i.e., a definition of ‘why the organization exists’) profoundly benefits organizational performance (Sisodia, ... -
Statistical Image Analysis for Image Evolution
This thesis is focused on using genetic programming to evolve images based on lightweight features extracted from a given target image. The main motivation of this thesis is research by Lombardi et al. in which an image ... -
A Steep Trajectory: An Educational Autoethnography of a Working Class Late Bloomer
Using Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and related constructs of capital, fields, and practice, I constructed an autoethnography that traced my early educational experiences as a First- generation student from a working class ... -
A Step Toward Recyclable Silicone Elastomers
This thesis introduces a new strategy for developing polysiloxane networks with the capacity of being recycled. The conventional methods of cross-linking polysiloxanes suffer from lack of self-repair and recyclability. ... -
Structural Equation Model of Father Involvement in Infant Development in Vietnam using Identity Theory
Child development is an important determinant of global health, and fathers’ involvement can enhance child behavioural, social, and cognitive development. However, fathers’ involvement varies between cultures, and research ... -
Student Commuting Patterns and their Effects on Readiness to Learn and Academic Achievement
This study examines how student modal choice to commute to school influences student readiness to learn and academic achievement during the first learning period of the day. The goal of all educational policies, curriculum ... -
A study of lipid recognition and membrane binding by the human oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP).
Recent studies have established oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) and members of the OSBP-related protein (ORP) family as global cellular sterol sensors that participate in non-vesicular anterograde transport of monomeric ... -
Sustainable Food Systems in northern Ghana: Assessing the influence of International Development
The concept of sustainable food systems gained prominence in the food security discourse as evidence from the 2007-2008 and 2010 world food and financial crisis suggested that food systems were under stress. The concept ... -
Synthesis and Coordination of the Arylazo Ligands 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-phenanthrol and 1-(8-quinolynazo)-2-phenanthrol
The use of ligands 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-phenanthrol and 1-(8-quinolinazo)-2-phenanthrol has afforded twelve new complexes that feature many different structural, mag- netic, and electronic properties. Chapter one deals with ...