Browsing Brock Theses by Title
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Isolation and partial characterization of a complementary protein from the mycoparasite, Piptocephalis virginiana, which specifically binds to two glycoproteins b and c of the host cell surface
(Brock University, 1996-07-09)Presence of surface glycoprotein in Piptocephalis virginiana that recognizes the host glycoproteins band c, reported earlier from our laboratory, was detected by immunofluorescence microscopy. Germinated spores of P. ... -
Isolation and partial characterization of host cell wall surface glycoproteins: their involvement in agglutination, attachment and appressorium formation by piptocephalis virginiana
(Brock University, 1989-07-09)Cell surface proteins obtained by alkaline extraction from isolated cell walls of Mortierella pusilla and M. candelabrum, host and nonhost, respectively, to the mycoparasite, Piptocephalis virginiana, were tested for their ... -
Isolation of DNA sequences with homology to a degenerate FaRP oligonucleotide from the crayfish Procambarus clarkii
(Brock University, 1995-07-09)The neuropeptide Th1RFamide with the sequence Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amide was originally isolated in the clam Macrocallista nimbosa (price and Greenberg, 1977). Since its discovery, a large family ofFl\1RFamide-related peptides ... -
The isolation, partial purification and preliminary characterization of a growth factor from chick embryo brains
(Brock University, 1995-07-09)Chicl( brain growth factor (CBGF) is a mitogen isolated from embryonic chick brains thought to have a potential role as a trophic factor involved in nerve dependent amphibian limb regeneration. In addition, CBGF stimulates ... -
The issue of truth in the thought of Martin Heidegger
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"It was easy to look for a place, but hard to actually get one": University students' experiences of racial discrimination in off-campus housing
This study examines university student perceptions of and experiences with racial discrimination in off-campus housing in Ontario’s Niagara Region. Using a qualitative methodology informed by critical race theory, the study ... -
“It’s just inappropriate”: The normalization of sexual harassment in Ontario schools as revealed through teachers’ stories
This study examines teachers’ experiences witnessing and addressing the sexual harassment of girls by boys in elementary and secondary schools in Southern Ontario. Through a feminist, poststructural framework using feminist ... -
Job Demands and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of Organizational Commitment and Social Interaction
(Brock University, 2014-04-21)Drawing from the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and research on social exchange relationships, this study investigates the impact of three job demands (work overload, interpersonal conflict, and dissatisfaction with ... -
Job satisfaction among nurses and its relationship to reflective practice /
(Brock University, 2001-07-14)This study was undertaken to explore job satisfaction among nurses and its relationship to reflective practice. It is a qualitative study that listens to the perspectives of 7 mental health nurses who work In a conmiunity ... -
Job satisfaction and dissatisfaction : comparison of behavioural and regular classroom teachers
(Brock University, 1985-07-09)Each of the forty Toronto Board of Education behavioural teachers was matched as closely as possible .with a regular cIassroom teacher from the same schooI, 0f the same sex, and teaching approxiately the same age group ... -
A journey into narrative inquiry : one teacher's lived experience with eating disorders /
(Brock University, 2001-07-14)In "A Journey Into Narrative Inquiry: One Teacher's Lived Experience With Eating Disorders," an elementary teacher searches for answers regarding how education can help prevent eating disorders by journeying into her own ... -
The journey towards comprehensive school health within an aboriginal community
(Brock University, 2009-01-28)The purpose of this research is to describe the journey towards Comprehensive School Health at two Aboriginal elementary schools. An advocate and a healthy schools committee were identified at both schools and were ... -
Keyword Competition and Determinants of Ad Position in Sponsored Search Advertising
(Brock University, 2012-10-11)Given the significant growth of the Internet in recent years, marketers have been striving for new techniques and strategies to prosper in the online world. Statistically, search engines have been the most dominant channels ... -
The Kids Need Hip-Hop: Reengaging Students through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
(Brock University, 2014-01-27)My thesis advocates for critically-conscious hip-hop in classrooms to promote student engagement and culturally relevant pedagogical practices. This proposed approach to educating youth offsets the harmful effects of a ... -
Kierkegaard : the temporality of becoming a self
(Brock University, 1997-05-21)Introduction In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze compares and contrasts Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's ideas of repetition. He argues that neither of them really give a representation of repetition. Repetition for them ... -
Kierkegaardian intersubjectivity and the question of ethics and responsibility
(Brock University, 2005-05-21)Kierkegaardian Intersubjectivity and the Question of Ethics and Responsibility By Kevin Krumrei. Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy are generally admitted and recognized as valuable in the history of Western ... -
Killing in the name of …?: Conscientious Objection in the age of the “Global War on Terror”
Within the last few centuries, the global community has seen an unprecedented amount of warfare that has spanned borders, lasted decades, and created countless environmental crises. The scale of human carnage from wars ... -
Kindergartners' perceptions of bullying /
(Brock University, 2002-05-19)Currently, few studies address what kindergarten children think about bullying behaviour and explore whether or not they perceive bullying as a prevalent concern in their day-to-day school activities. This study described ... -
Kinetic and mechanistic studies for the molybdenum- catalyzed oxidation of organic sulfides and olefins by t- DuO2H
(Brock University, 1982-07-09)This research was focussed on the effects of light, solvent and substituents in the molybdenum-catalyzed oxidation of phenylmethyl sulfides with t-Bu02H and on the effect of light in the molybdenum-catalyzed epoxidation ... -
Kinetic and product studies for the oxidtion of organic sulfides and sulfoxides in the presence of transition metal complexes
(Brock University, 1980-10-02)Rates and products of the oxidation of diphenyl sulfide, phenyl methyl sulfide, p-chlorophenyl methyl sulfide and diphenyl sulfoxide have been determined. Oxidants included t-Bu02H alone, t-Bu02H plus molybdenum or ...