Browsing Brock Theses by Title
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The Making of a Quality Improvement Team in a Community Health Centre: What Does it Take
The purpose of this study was to use Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of development to explore how a quality improvement (QI) team within a Community Health Centre (CHC) identifies the elements that have led to its ... -
Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism
(Brock University, 2013-07-11)In challenging normative social relations, queer cultural studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. ... -
Making the transition from secondary to post-secondary education : a retrospective study of students with learning disabilities
(Brock University, 1998-07-09)The purpose of this study was to investigate what students with Learning Disabilities perceive are the personal characteristics they possess and services they require to assist them to complete secondary school and to ... -
Male reproductive competition in the field crickets : gryllus veletis and G. pennsylvanicus
(Brock University, 1986-07-09)Sexual behavior in the field crickets, Gryllus veletis and G. pennsylvanicus , was studied in outdoor arenas (12 m2) at high and low levels of population density in 1983 and 1984. Crickets were weighed, individually ... -
"Man of science, man of faith" : Lost, consumer agency and the fate/free will binary in the post-9/11 context
(Brock University, 2009-02-16)In 2004, Lost debuted on ABC and quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Its postmodem take on the classic Robinson Crusoe desert island scenario gestures to a variety of different issues circulating within the post-9II1 ... -
Management decision-making in nursing
(Brock University, 1985-07-09)This study developed a new, valid and reliable evaluation instrument to measure the level, type and pattern of management decisions of fifteen nursing students. The management decision score achieved using this instrument ... -
Management Material: Understanding the Contradictory Perspectives of Lower Level Managers in a Canadian Call Centre
(2013-04-09)Call centres have emerged during a time of rapid technological change and represent a form of ready employment for those seeking to replace or supplement "traditional" forms of employment. Call centre work is considered ... -
Management Perspectives: Implications of Plastics Free Sport Facilities’ Beverage Service
Water is vital in supporting all life on Earth, and without it, all living things would cease to exist. Despite this vitality, water resources are steadily polluted and mismanaged. The challenge of pre-eminence, however, ... -
Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
(Brock University, 2013-05-14)This paper examines risk taking and CEO excess compensation problems in U.S firms to determine their impact on shareholders wealth. Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance ... -
Managing Risk in a Culture of Rights: Providing Support and Treatment in Community-Based Settings for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities who Sexually Offend
(Brock University, 2013-09-20)People with intellectual disability who sexually offend commonly live in community-based settings since the closing of all institutions across the province of Ontario. Nine (n=9) front line staff who provide support to ... -
Managing Volunteers in Canadian Community Sport Organizations
(Brock University, 2011-02-17)This study examined the use of human resource management (HRM) practices with volunteers in Canadian Community Sport Organizations (CSOs). Using the Volunteer Management Inventory (VMI; Cuskelly, Taylor, Hoye & Darcy, ... -
Manipulation of adenovirus early region 1 rescue plasmids by homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(Brock University, 2003-07-09)The manipulation of large (>10 kb) plasmid systems amplifies problems common to traditional cloning strategies. Unique or rare restriction enzyme recognition sequences are uncommon and very rarely located in opportunistic ... -
Manpower development and nation-building : Singapore's experience
(Brock University, 1977-07-09)Manpower is a basic resource. It is the indispensable means of converting other resources to mankind '.s use and benefit. As a process· of increasing the knowledge, skills, and dexterity of the people of a society, ... -
Manufacturing 'authenticity' : a case study of the Niagara wine cluster
(Brock University, 2010-10-26)In this thesis, I use "Fabricating Authenticity," a model developed in the Production of Culture Perspective, to explore the evolving criteria for judging what constitute "real" and authentic Niagara wines, ... -
Mapping one university's response to internationalization : a case study
(2012-07-04)This study explored one university's response to the internationalization of higher education. Case study methodology was employed through a review of current and archival documents and interviews with key actors in the ... -
Margin requirements and volatility : evidence from Canadian stocks
(St. Catharines, Ont. : Brock University, Dept. of Management, 2010., 2010-03-09)Margin policy is used by regulators for the purpose of inhibiting exceSSIve volatility and stabilizing the stock market in the long run. The effect of this policy on the stock market is widely tested empirically. However, ... -
Marginal/minority popular music : the concept of the "third space" and the case for "hybridities" of cultures/identities /
(Brock University, 2005-05-21)The topic of this thesis is marginaVminority popular music and the question of identity; the term "marginaVminority" specifically refers to members of racial and cultural minorities who are socially and politically ... -
Marked Territory: Assemblages of The Black Female Subject in 19th Century Visual Art and Verdi's Aida
The relevance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Aida within the Western operatic canon, contemporary opera, and other forms of theatre performance affect contemporary discourse around equity and inclusive representation in the ... -
Market Reaction to the Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
I investigate the market reaction to the events leading up to the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) using short and long window event studies. Using the sample of S&P 1,500 firms, I find positive market ... -
Market reactions to changes in the Nasdaq-100 Index membership
(Brock University, 2012-05-17)We examine stock market reactions around the Nasdaq-100 Index reconstitutions. We find a symmetric and transitory price response accompanied by a significant increase in trading volume on the effective date. Firms added ...