Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>My objective was to understand how individual variation, in conjunction with variation in habitat, can affect individual and population-level variation in animal space use. I used coyotes (Canis latrans) as a model species to investigate the roles of hybridization, an inherited intrinsic factor, and spatial memory, a learned intrinsic factor, on space use. I used a diversity of methods… more Full Text: BEYOND HABITAT: INDIVIDUAL AND POPULATIONLEVEL DRIVERS OF COYOTE SPACE USE A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Iridoviruses are large (120-200nm) double stranded DNA viruses that contain an icosahedral capsid. The iridoviridae family is composed of five genera that infect a wide range of poikilothermic vertebrates (Lymphocystivirus, Ranavirus and Megalocyivirus) and invertebrate hosts (Iridovirus, Chloriridovirus). Frog virus 3 (FV3) is a member of the Ranavirus genus, and is commonly used as a… more Full Text: Characterization of frog virus 3 75L and its binding partner LITAF A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, ON, Canada …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Maintaining functional connectivity among wildlife populations is important to ensure genetic diversity and evolutionary potential of declining populations, particularly when managing species at risk. The Boreal Designatable Unit (DU) of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan has declined in southern portions of the range because of increased… more Full Text: CONSERVATION GENETICS OF WOODLAND CARIBOU IN THE CENTRAL BOREAL FOREST OF CANADA A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>On Tilt: The Inheritance and Inheritors of Digital Games accepts and extends Eric Zimmerman's contention that literacies currently being developed during video-game play will be more broadly applicable (outside games) in the next hundred years as Western work, education, entertainment, and citizenship spaces become ever more shaped like video games. </p><p> To the end of… more Full Text: On Tilt: The Inheritance and Inheritors of Digital Games A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In this thesis, a methodological framework for the assessment and monitoring of forest degradation based on remote sensing techniques and field data, as part of the REDD+ programme, is presented. The framework intends to support the implementation of a national Monitoring, Verification and Report (MRV) system in developing countries. The framework proposed an operational definition of… more Full Text: A methodological framework for the assessment and monitoring of forest degradation under the REDD+ programme based on remote sensing techniques and field data. A Thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Phylogeographic histories of taxa around the Great Lakes region in North America are relevant to a range of ongoing issues including conservation management and biological invasions. In this thesis I investigated the comparative phylogeographic histories of plant species with disjunct distributions and plant species with continuous distributions around the Great Lakes region; this is a… more Full Text: COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY IN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: UNRAVELLING THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES OF DISJUNCT AND INVASIVE SPECIES AROUND THE LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of the …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Browning, Mark Henry, Thesis advisor (ths): Davies, Chris, Thesis advisor (ths): Buttle, Jim, Degree committee member (dgc): Lafleur, Peter, Degree committee member (dgc): Whillans, Tom, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Theoretical work on community recovery, development, stability, and resistance to species invasions has outpaced experimental field research. There is also a need for better integration between ecological theory and the practice of ecological restoration. This thesis investigates the dynamics of community assembly following peat mining and subsequent restoration efforts at Canada's… more Full Text: The Dynamics and Mechanisms of Community Assembly in a Mined Carolinian Peatland A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Baya, Pascale Anabelle, Thesis advisor (ths): Hintelmann, Holger, Degree committee member (dgc): Lamborg, Carl, Degree committee member (dgc): Hickie, Brendan, Degree committee member (dgc): Georg, Bastian, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Monomethylmercury (MMHg), the most bioavailable form of mercury (Hg) and a potent neurotoxin, is present at elevated concentrations in Arctic marine mammals posing serious health threats to the local populations relying on marine food for their subsistence living. The sources of MMHg in the Arctic Ocean surface water and the role of dimethylmercury (DMHg) as a source of MMHg remain… more Full Text: INVESTIGATING THE SOURCES AND FATE OF MONOMETHYLMERCURY AND DIMETHYLMERCURY IN THE ARCTIC MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER AND WATERS A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The objective of this thesis is to better understand the demography and habitat selection of Newfoundland caribou. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction of elements of population ecology and behavioural ecology discussed in the thesis. In Chapter 2, I examine the causes of long-term fluctuations among caribou herds. My findings indicate that winter severity and density-dependent… more Full Text: DEMOGRAPHY AND HABITAT SELECTION OF NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>Rewiring the State: The Privatization of Information Technology in the Ontario Public Service (1972-2003)</p><p>David Rapaport</p><p>Senior managers in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and neo-liberal public policy advocates rationalize the privatization of Information Technology (IT) as an organizational quest for new efficiencies,… more Full Text: Rewiring the State: The Privatization of Information Technology in the Ontario Public Service (1972-2003) A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) is a sunfish that is endemic to eastern portions of Canada and the United States. During the late 19th century, the species was introduced into Europe, and it is now present in over 28 countries. Previous attempts to determine the characteristics that can predict the spread of non-indigenous species have been largely unsuccessful, but new evidence… more Full Text: ! Ecological and morphological traits that affect the fitness and dispersal potential of Iberian pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Ellis, Cameron Alexander James, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Panagia, Davide, Degree committee member (dgc): Stavro, Elaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Pero, Allan, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This dissertation utilizes the psychoanalytic theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva as a lens through which to read the novels of American author Samuel R. Delany. I argue that concepts proper to Kristeva's work--namely abjection and/or the abject--can provide a way to think what it might mean to be utopian in the 21st century. Delany's novels are received… more Full Text: ABJECT UTOPIANISM AND PSYCHIC SPACE: AN EXPLORATION OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS TOWARD UTOPIA IN THE WORK OF SAMUEL R. DELANY AND JULIA KRISTEVA A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This dissertation seeks to explore and understand how autism, asperger and the autistic spectrum is represented in Canadian culture. Acknowledging the role of films, television, literature and print media in the construction of autism in the consciousness of the Canadian public, this project seeks to critique representations of autism on the grounds that these representations have an… more Full Text: Pausing Encounters with Autism and Its Unruly Representation: An inquiry into method, culture and academia in the making of disability and difference in Canada A dissertation submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Johnson, James Anthony, Thesis advisor (ths): Aherne, Julian, Degree committee member (dgc): Watmough, Shaun A, Degree committee member (dgc): Huber, Christian, Degree committee member (dgc): Cummins, Thomas, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The objective of this thesis was to assess the influence of anthropogenic sulphur (S) and nitrogen (N) deposition, and harvesting on soil acidity and calcium (Ca<super>2+</super>), magnesium (Mg<super>2+</super>), potassium (K<super>+</super>) and N soil pools in plantation forest soils in Ireland. The response to reductions in anthropogenic S… more Full Text: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION AND HARVEST INTENSITY ON SOIL ACIDITY AND NUTRIENT POOLS IN PLANTATION FORESTS A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Interactions between hosts and pathogens play a crucial role in their adaptation, evolution and persistence. These interactions have been extensively studied in model organisms, yet it is unclear how well they represent mechanisms of disease response in primary vectors in natural settings. The objective of my thesis was to investigate host-pathogen interactions in natural host… more Full Text: Immunogenetic Responses of Raccoons and Skunks to the Raccoon Rabies Virus A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the faculty of Arts and Science …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This dissertation traces the concept of transcendentalism from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to Michel Foucault's historical a priori and Pierre Bourdieu's field and habitus, with implicit reference to Deleuze's `transcendental empiricism,' and the influence this trajectory has had on contemporary theory and culture. This general conceptual framework is… more Full Text: THE TRANSCENDENTAL TURN: KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, CONTEMPORARY THEORY, AND POPULAR CULTURE A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The dissertation explores and defends the theory and practice of a Western-Islamic public sphere (which is secular but not secularist and which is Islamic but not Islamist), within which a critical Islamic intellectual universe can unfold, dealing hermeneutically with texts and politically with lived practices, and which, moreover, has to emerge from within the arc of two alternative,… more Full Text: The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West: the Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Bennett, Amanda Maria, Thesis advisor (ths): Murray, Dennis L, Degree committee member (dgc): Burness, Gary, Degree committee member (dgc): Kerr, Leslie, Degree committee member (dgc): Ridgway, Mark, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Inducible defenses are plastic responses by an organism to the perception of predation risk. This dissertation focuses on three experiments designed to test the hypothesis that plastic ability is limited by energetic constraints. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to phenotypic plasticity research and the theoretical costs and limitations affecting the expression of plastic traits… more Full Text: CONSTRAINTS ON PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN RESPONSE TO PREDATION RISK: CARRYOVER EFFECTS, MATERNAL INVESTMENT, AND THE STARVATION-PREDATION RISK TRADE-OFF A dissertation submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Onusko, James, Thesis advisor (ths): Sangster, Joan, Degree committee member (dgc): Marshall, Dominique, Degree committee member (dgc): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Walden, Keith, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970</p><p>This dissertation explores the intersections between the suburban landscape both `real' and imagined, childhood, children and adolescents. I contend that there was a richness and diversity in the experiences of children and adolescents in postwar Canada that resists simplistic… more Full Text: Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970 A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Effective population size (Ne) is a key concept in population genetics, evolutionary biology and conservation biology that describes an important facet of genetic diversity and the capacity of populations to respond to future evolutionary pressures. The importance of Ne in management and conservation of wild populations encouraged the development of numerous genetic estimators which rely… more Full Text: Comparative Evaluation of Effective Population Size Genetic Estimation Methods in Wild Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Populations A Thesis Submitted to The Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of …
