Year: 2021, 2021
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Abstract: <p>This thesis aimed to determine what factors influence individual- and community-level shoreline stewardship attitudes and behaviours. Shoreline stewardship is part of the broader literature of environmental stewardship and place-based conservation. The needs and barriers limiting stewardship action were examined, as were the opportunities for increased impact. The Love Your Lake (LYL)… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Connecting with nature benefits human and environmental health, however it is unclear whether certain types of nature influence people differently. Research has primarily focused on green spaces (vegetation-rich areas), but recent cross-sectional studies suggest that green spaces with blue space (natural water elements) may have additional well-being benefits. A quasi-experimental design… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Lake, Whitney Anne, Thesis advisor (ths): Elliott, Paul, Degree committee member (dgc): Niblett, Blair, Degree committee member (dgc): Hill, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Enhancing interpretive trails with smartphone technology may enrich the visitor's educational experience by stimulating deeper engagement and enjoyment that will improve immediate knowledge and help promote the development of environmental literacy. This connection between technology and environmental education can only be considered successful if enhanced enrichment and educational… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Queer youth are an at-risk group, with an incredibly high rate of harm and death as they grow into themselves. They are often advised to wait until they finish school to express their sexuality more openly, when they can leave to somewhere that is "better", which in this context can mean safer, more accepting, or far away from friends and family who may reject them.… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This study analyzes Christian European perceptions of group identity and beliefs in early modern geographic literature, as exemplified by John Ogilby's Africa (1670), a selective translation of Olfert Dapper's 1668 work, and its descriptions of West-Central Africa. Ogilby's work, congruently with contemporary geographic literature, employed the Christian religion as a key… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This thesis presents an exploration of the requirements for and development of a software tool to calculate Certified Emission Reduction (CERs) credits for afforestation and reforestation projects conducted under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). We examine the relevant methodologies and tools to determine what is required to create a software package that can support a wide variety… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This study reconstructs the diet of pastoral populations from Bronze Age Southern Mongolia and Early Iron Age Central Mongolia using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone collagen from 44 individuals. Spatial and temporal differences were investigated and interpreted in combination with paleoenvironmental, archaeological, genetic and other stable isotope data. The Southern… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Through narrative/life story research this study explores the educational experiences of six individuals identified as Deaf or hard-of-hearing. The research presented will be conveyed in the form of an autoethnography, an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and analyze personal experience to understand cultural experience. I will combine the views of participants who… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Lopez, Gabriel Enrique, Thesis advisor (ths): Morin, Eugène EM, Degree committee member (dgc): Morin, Eugène EM, Degree committee member (dgc): Szpak, Paul PS, Degree committee member (dgc): Dubreuil, Laure LD, Degree committee member (dgc): Oetelaar, Gerald Anthony GAO, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Mount Mazama, a large volcano located in the Cascade Range of Oregon, eruptedsome 7,000 cal. years BP. Following the volcanic eruption, a large portion of the
northwestern region of the Great Plains of North America was covered by a thick layer of
volcanic ash. The present research project is concerned with the impact of this catastrophic
event on the subsistence patterns of the… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, treatment and outcomes in women remain largely inequitable globally. Unique sex-specific stages of life, including pregnancy conditions, and their influence on cardiac risk is a growing area of research (Norris et al., 2020). For example, preeclampsia is strongly associated with CVD risk. This connection has led to prevention interventions such as… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Recent climate scientists, Indigenous resurgence scholars, and psychologists have variously indicated that we need a transformation of consciousness in order to address the cultural and spiritual forces at the root of our current environmental, interpersonal, and individual crises of disconnection. My research is in direct response to diverse calls for this paradigm shift, including the… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Kolodzinski, Tyler Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): Bruce, Catherine D, Degree committee member (dgc): Bruce, Catherine, Degree committee member (dgc): Suurtamm, Christine, Degree committee member (dgc): Smale, William, Degree committee member (dgc): Mooney, Claire, Degree committee member (dgc): Niblett, Blair, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study investigates the potential for a responsive model of professional development in mathematics education which acknowledges how teachers perceive the value of professional learning, and examines how those perceptions are connected to teacher efficacy. Three fields of educational research ground this study: (i) professional development strategies in mathematics education, (ii)… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>The time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii Equation, describing the movement of parti-</p><p>cles in quantum mechanics, may not be solved analytically due to its inherent non-</p><p>linearity. Hence numerical methods are of importance to approximate the solution.</p><p>This study develops a discrete scheme in time and space to simulate the solution</p>… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Depression during the transition into adulthood is a growing mental health concern, with overwhelming evidence linking the developmental risk for depressive symptoms with maternal depression. In addition, there is a lack of research on the protective role of socioemotional competencies in this context. This study examines independent and joint effects of maternal depression and trait… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This thesis examines how dissolved organic matter quantity and quality and nutrients influence the flux potential of greenhouse gases (GHG) from sediments collected from streams across southern Ontario as well as Lake Erie. Sediments were collected and incubated in a laboratory setting where headspace gases and interstitial waters were analyzed. Results demonstrated that nutrients (… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This study used qualitative research methods to develop an understanding of the landscape of undergraduate academic advising in Ontario universities as well as deeply explore the experiences and practices of five full-time academic advisors. Phase one of the study consisted of a document analysis of Ontario universities' public-facing websites. Phase two of the study consisted of… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>Forensic epistemology is the study of knowledge as it relates to forensic science and can be broken into four sources; intuitive, authoritative, logical and empirical. In a four-phase research approach, I explored reasoning skills (logical knowledge) used by crime scene experts and methods (empirical knowledge) for forensic case-specific experimentation. First, the reasoning skills of… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>The waterborne protozoan Giardia intestinalis cycles between the environmentally-resistant and infectious cyst and the metabolically-active trophozoite that adheres to the epithelial lining of the small intestine. Adhesion can trigger the innate immune response in epithelial cells, including the synthesis of the free radical nitric oxide (NO) that inhibits cell proliferation and… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Brooks, Jeremy, Thesis advisor (ths): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Iannone, Gyles, Degree committee member (dgc): Fitzsimons, Rodney, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This MA thesis discusses the applications of immersive virtual reality technologies as a tool for studying archaeological excavation processes. The excavation of a structure at the Nassau Mills, a twentieth century milling complex in Peterborough, Ontario, is used as the case study. Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry is used to digitize each excavation day as 3D models. These… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This thesis investigated coloured and fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean from 2007 to 2017. The first interannual time-series of its kind in the Canada Basin incorporated the use of EEM-PARAFAC to validate a seven-component model. Statistical temporal tests revealed (1) an increasing protein-like intensity in the upper polar mixed layer (UPML); (2)… more
