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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 ...
Perennial negotiations/elemental encounters autoethnographic perspectives on approaching food sovereignty
(Brock University, 2010-10-27)
This thesis uses a multifaceted process to engage with the topic of food sovereignty in
California. It employs diverse methods, including critical and creative prose, photography,
autoethnographic mixed media, storytelling ...
Ten years after : a qualitative study of students' experiences in a high school theatre company
(Brock University, 2010-10-27)
This qualitative study explored 4 former students' perceptions of the learning
associated with their involvement in a high school theatre program and the contextual
factors they linked to their perceived development. ...
A phenomenological approach to understanding the psychological response to chronic low back pain
(Brock University, 2010-10-26)
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a complex health problem of psychological
manifestations not fully understood. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, 11
semi-structured interviews were conducted to help understand ...
The association between blood pressure and vascular characteristics in children
(Brock University, 2010-03-09)
Hypertension is thought to exist in up to five percent of children. A select number of studies have
investigated the role elevated blood pressure plays in pediatric atherosclerotic progression.
However these studies ...
Stock market reactions to changes in the FTSE SmallCap and S&P/TSX SmallCap indices
(Brock University, 2010-10-26)
Stocks added to (deleted from) the Russell 2000 and the S&P 600 indexes
experience positive (negative) abnormal returns following the announcement. However,
researchers disagree on whether these ...
A case study investigation of the learning needs of the Niagara grape and wine community
(Brock University, 2010-10-26)
The Niagara Grape and Wine Community (NGWC) is an industry that has
undergone rapid change and expansion as a result of changes in governmental regulations
and consumer preferences. As a result of these changes, the ...
Bullying in physical education : its prevalence & impact on the intention to continue secondary school physical education
(Brock University, 2010-01-28)
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of bullying in physical
education and its influence on students' intention to participate in the class in the future.
Additionally, the study researched the ...
ReAlM - a system to manipulate relations
(Brock University, 2010-10-26)
Given a heterogeneous relation algebra R, it is well known that the algebra of matrices with coefficient from R is relation algebra with relational sums that is not
necessarily finite. When a ...
Canadian investors and the discount on closed-end funds
(St. Catharines, Ont. : Brock University, Dept. of Management, 2010., 2010-03-09)
Small investors' sentiment has been proposed by behaviouralists to explain the
existence and behavior of discount on closed-end funds (CEFD). The empirical tests
of this sentiment hypothesis so far provide equivocal ...