Browsing Brock Theses by Title
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Dancing politics : connecting women's experiences of rave in Toronto to ageism and patriarchy
(Brock University, 2007-05-21)Based on a critical analysis of recent Canadian and British media, academic, and political representations of rave, in conjunction with the author's and ten female interviewees' past experiences as active rave participants, ... -
Deaf Accessibility in a Three-Day Instructional Skills Workshop: An Explorative Study
This study focused on the learning experience of a culturally Deaf person in a workshop milieu where training is short and intensive. The researcher is a culturally Deaf person who signs fluently and was raised in a Deaf ... -
Death anxiety and experiences of transcendence : peak experiences of skydivers
(Brock University, 2010-03-09)Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that human beings battle to protect ourselves from the potential terror resulting from the juxtaposition of our need for selfpreservation and our unique human ability to realize ... -
Deception in Sport: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis
(Brock University, 2011-02-03)In 1973, Kathleen Pearson offered a pivotal first step into understanding deception in competitive sport and its many intricacies. However, the analysis falls short of truly deciphering this widespread phenomenon. By ... -
Dechanneling of 2 Mev Heâ ½ in gold
(Brock University, 1978-07-09)Thick gold single crystals of high quality were prepared for Rutherford Backscattering Dechanneling studies by electropolishing and annealing. The variation.; with temperature of the Random Fraction versus Depth spectrtnn ... -
Decision analysis of the effectiveness of lung cancer screening using autofluorescence bronchoscopy and computed tomography
(Brock University, 2008-06-15)Background: Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer death in the developed world. Most cancers are associated with tobacco smoking. A primary hope for reducing lung cancer has been prevention of smoking and ... -
Decision-Making in Agriculture: Why do Farmers Decide to Adopt a New Practice?
Current rates of environmental degradation demand changes to the way in which food is produced. Transforming agricultural production requires both the development and the adoption of new practices that facilitate high ... -
Decision-making theory applied to India's explosion of a nuclear device in May, 1974
(Brock University, 1985-07-09)This essay reviews the decision-making process that led to India exploding a nuclear device in May, 1974. An examination of the Analytic, Cybernetic and Cognitive Theories of decision, will enable a greater understanding ... -
Decisions, Decisions … Understanding the Brand Associations Attached to U Sports Hockey: A Means-End Analysis of U Sports Hockey Players Who Transferred from The NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is often considered the pinnacle of colligate sports, drawing athletes from around the world to compete at one of its 1,281 institutions. Of the thousands of athletes ... -
Decoding algorithms using side-effect machines
(Brock University, 2010-03-09)Bioinformatics applies computers to problems in molecular biology. Previous research has not addressed edit metric decoders. Decoders for quaternary edit metric codes are finding use in bioinformatics problems ... -
Deconstructing a discourse : broadening understandings of teenage girls' "resistance"
(Brock University, 2010-10-27)Popular culture has a strong influence on youth, and the creation of meanings associated with youth. Representations within popular culture, specifically film, branch beyond entertainment and become discourses that ... -
Deconstructing Child Youth Care: an autoethnographic exploration of physical restraints in children’s residential settings
This thesis is written through the front-line perspective of a child/youth worker who has experienced ‘rupture’ in her personal understanding of the Child Youth Care (CYC) practice. Using a collection of personal journal ... -
Deconstructing Evidence-Based Practice and Its Application in Children to with Mental Health Disorders
(Brock University, 2013-03-06)This is a mixed methodology study that uses an autoethnographic approach to combine both an autobiography and a survey of practitioners who work in children’s mental health. It is largely about the implementation of ... -
Decreased motor unit firing rate in the potentiated tibialis anterior in humans
(Brock University, 2009-02-16)With repeated activity, force production, rate of force production, and relaxation time are impaired. These are characteristics ofa fatigued muscle (Vandenboom, 2004). However, brief bouts of near maximal to maximal ... -
Deep Learning Concepts for Evolutionary Art
A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on millions of images forms a very high-level abstract overview of any given target image. Our primary goal is to use this high-level content information of a given target ... -
A Deep Learning Pipeline for Classifying Different Stages of Alzheimer's Disease from fMRI Data.
Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive neurological disorder that causes memory and thinking skill loss. Many different methods and algorithms have been applied to extract patterns from ... -
Defence of Agaricus bisporus against toxic secondary metabolites from Trichoderma aggressivum.
(Brock University, 2013-09-12)Trichoderma spp are effective competitors against other fungi because they are mycoparasitic and produce hydrolytic enzymes and secondary metabolites that inhibit the growth of their competitors. Inhibitory compounds ... -
Defining Freedom: An Ethnographic Study with American Vanlifers
Moving alongside the “snowbirds” and grey nomads that have been discussed in the academic literature, there is a group of nomads that appears to have escaped scholarly attention. United under the “vanlife” and “buslife” ... -
DEFORMATION OF INTERIOR LAYERED DEPOSITS (ILD) AND THEIR ASSOCIATED LANDFORMS IN WEST CANDOR CHASMA, MARS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TIMING OF ILD DEPOSITION
(2013-02-22)On Mars, interior layered deposits (ILD) provide evidence that water was once stable at the surface of the planet and present in large quantities. In West Candor Chasma, the ILD and their associated landforms record the ... -
Deformations of Maxwell gauge field theory
Deformations of Maxwell gauge theory are studied in 2+1 dimensions. Unlike in previous work in the literature, no Lagrangian structure is assumed for possible deformations, and instead the requirement of gauge invariance ...