Browsing Brock Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Journeying Toward a Praxis of Indigenous Maternal Pedagogy: Lessons From Our Sweetgrass Baskets
This qualitative inquiry explored the value of Indigenous Maternal Pedagogy, an Indigenous women-centred approach, to consider the effects this unique teaching and learning engagement had on the cultural identity development, ... -
Keep Your Eye on the Game: The Impact of Distraction and Scoreboard Watching during Major League Baseball Playoff Races
This study examines 11 years and 26,370 of Major League Baseball’s (i.e., MLB) game outcomes to test whether distraction, through scoreboard watching, causes teams to choke under pressure. Results indicate that scoreboard ... -
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 ... -
Keyword Segmentation, Campaign Organization, and Budget Allocation in Sponsored Search Advertising
Sponsored search advertising, where search providers allow advertisers to participate in a real-time auction and compete for ad slots on search engine results pages (SERPs), is currently one of the most popular advertising ... -
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 ... -
Kinetic studies of the effect of organic sulphides on the oxidation of other sulphides /
(Brock University, 1984-06-04)The rates of oxidation of three Organic sulphides viz. methyl phenyl sulphide, (P), p -me thoxyphenyl methyl sulphide (M) and methyl p-nitrophenyl sulphide (N). have been obtained in ethanol using MoO-(acac)- as catalyst ... -
The kinetics and induced decomposition on the thermal decomposition of hydroperoxides /
(Brock University, 1976-06-09)This project is focussed on the thermsLl decomposition of t-butyl hydroperoxide and sec-butyl hydroperoxide at 120°C to 160°C in three alcohol solvents. These are methanol, ethajiol and isopropyl alcohol. The aim of ... -
The kinetics and mechanism of the thermal decomposition of bis diphenyl methyl and related peroxides in liquid phase /|nby C. Thankachan. -- 260 St. Catharines, Ont. : [s. n.],
(Brock University, 1973-07-09)Rates and products have been determined for the thermal decomposition of bis diphenyl methyl peroxide and diphenyl methyl tert* butyl peroxide at 110@~145@C* The decomposition was uniformly unimolecular with activation ... -
The kinetics and mechanism of the thermal decomposition of sec-Butyl peroxide in liquid phase /|nby Sandor Szilagyi. -- 260 St. Catharines, Ont. : [s. n.],
(Brock University, 1969-07-09)Re~tes artd pJ~oducts of tllerma]. d,ecom.position of sec-butyl peroxide at 110 - 150°C i.n four solvents h,ave been determined. The d,ecompos i tion vJas sb.o\'\Tn to be tlnlmolecl.llar wi tho energies of activation ...