Theses/Dissertations from 2009

Reference and Reverence: An Exhibition of Photographic Works, Kenneth Chou

An Enhanced Numerical Model to Simulate Nonlinear Continuous Wave Ultrasound Propagation and the Resulting Temperature Response, Shahram Mashouf

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

A Voice: The Role of Child Interpreters in their Parents’ Immigration and Settlement Experience in Canada, Liliana Araujo

Muslims, Soccer, and the Politics of National Identity, Arwa Aulaqi

Multicultural Education from the Private Sphere: Growing Up Filipino-Canadian in a Third-Tier City School, Jennilee Austria

“Bahala Na Ang Dios”: The Church’s Role in the Socialization of Filipinos in the Greater Toronto Area, Mary Grace T. Betsayda

Defeating the Purpose of Multiculturalism: a Case of Hate on Campus, Laura Bettencourt

Opportunities for Employers in Immigrant Labour Market integration: a Case Study of the Canadian Financial Sector, Laura Caroline Burke

Multicultural Nations: Issues of Race and National Identity in Britain and Canada, Nicola Bush

Whose Nature?: Exploring the Link Between Wilderness, Belonging and Residential Summer Camp Use among Canadian Immigrants, Kristen Bustamante

Immigration and Anti-Terrorist Policies: An Analysis of Canada and the United Kingdom, Monica Carreon-Diez

Refugee Health: A Gender Comparison in Health Care Access, Kate Dadey

The Wealth of Immigrants: Expanding our Understanding of Immigrant Economic Integration in Canada, Kimberley J. Dalgleish

Afrocentric Schools Within a Multicultural Context: Exploring Different Attitudes Towards the TDSB Proposal Within The Black Community, Isabelle Ekwa-Ekoko

Intermarriage, Assimilation, and Transnationalism: New Directions, Rebecca Leah Fitt-Ajewole

Parenting Circles Program: The Key Elements for the Meaningful Engagement of Spanish-Speaking Parents to Support their Children’s School Success, Catalina Beatriz Garcia

Selective Expressions of Portugueseness: Notions of Portugueseness among Second Generation Portuguese-Canadian Youth in Toronto, Frederica Gomes

New Orientalism: Depictions of Muslims in the Canadian Media, Hanan Harb

Resilient Teens: Social Exclusion Of Parents And Impact On The Second Generation Eritrean Youth, Fatma Hassan

Francophone Immigrants Leaving Montreal to Settle in Toronto: What Happened and What is Happening?, Julie Dominique Hautin

Racialized Immigrants In Canada’s Changing Labour Market: An Investigation Of The Effects Of Precarious Work On Black Caribbean Women, Maqueita Hibbert

Protecting Children's Rrights in Transnational Circumstances: Canada’s Role in Global Patterns of Movement for the Exploitation of Children in the Commercial Sex Trade, Rose Higgins

Defining the Field of Immigration Studies: A Preliminary Study of Research Contributions, Olena Ingerova

Diffusion of Responsibility: A Discourse Analysis of The Toronto Star’s Protrayal of Domestic Violence in the South Asian Community, Akelah Jamal

Immigrant Women Living with Hiv/Aids: Their Barriers as Experienced by Service Providers, Jane Wangari Karago-Odongo

LGBTQ Immigrant Exclusion: An Introduction, Johanna Laing

Do Not Disturb/Please Clean Room: The Invisible Work and Real Pain of Hotel Housekeepers in the GTA, Sirena Liladrie

Nova Scotia’s Provincial Immigration Policy: The Failure of the Business Mentorship Program, Patricia Lynn McDonough

The Code and Politics of Drupal and the Pirate Bay: Alternative Horizons of Web2.0, Fenwick McKelvey

Welcoming the Stranger: The Canadian Church and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, Christine McKinlay

Latino Youth and Machismo: Working Towards a More Complex Understanding of Marginalized Masculinities, Ramon Meza Opazo

Scalable FPGA Hardware Acceleration for H.264 Motion Estimation, Theepan Moorthy

Community Arts Programming as a Factor in Newcomer Youth Inclusion: The Toronto Situation, Adriann Moss

New Migration Motives and New Settlement Challenges: Integration Experience of Korean Immigrants in the Toronto CMA, Byung Chun Oh

Provincial Immigration Policies: The Case of Ontario’s Pilot PNP, Radostina Pavlova

The Effect of the Parenting Circles Program on Home Language Retention and Parental Engagement: The Case of a Spanish-Speaking Parent Group in Toronto, Stefany Pinkus

Canada’s Response to the “War on Terror”: A New Era of National Security, Erosion of Rights and Racial Injustice, Waheeda Rahman

The Tourism-Migration Nexus: Towards a Theory of Global Human Mobility, Nicolas Clemens Wilhelm Rode

Race, Space and Place: Exploring Toronto’s Regent Park from a Marxist Perspective, Jaihun Sahak

Whiteness, Orientalism and Immigration: A Critique of Two Iranian Exilic Memoirs, Sara Saljoughi

“Orgulhosamente Sós:” Recent Immigration to the Portuguese Republic, Joao Carlos GDS Simões

"You Have to Have Tough Skin": The Impact of Social Exclusion on Immigrant Mothers of Children with Disabilities, M. Majella Skrinda

Humanitarian Dilemmas for the Palestinian Refugees & the Question of Return, Lina Smoum

Attraction and Retention of Immigrants in Small Centres: The Case of Kingston, Ontario, Sarah Thurston

Immigration and Refugee Board acceptance of Russian Jews from Israel, Inna Tsinman

A History of Marginalization - Africville: a Canadian Example of Forced Migration, Mary Pamela Vincer

“Hey Cabbie! Where are you From?” An Examination of Everyday Racism in Toronto’s Taxi Industry, Jessica Walters

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

Inclusive education in Guyana : perspectives of policy makers, teachers, and parents of children with special needs, Amanda Devi Ajodhia-Andrews

Hiding in Delight: Transgression, Irony And the Edge of Vice, Ryan Bigge

Stress Factors and Child-rearing Practices in Somali-Canadian Mothers of Young Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fatima Kediye

Plus ça Change? – A Comparative Analysis of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the Pilot Foreign Worker Program for Farm Workers in Quebec, Sophia J. Lowe

Government-assisted Refugees in Toronto's LINC Classes: An Exploration of Perceived Needs an Barriers, Dunja Metikos Debeljacki

International Donor Agencies' Guidelines for Responding to Children in Emergencies, Nina Angel Prabhu

Stripping Them of Legal Status: The Making and Unmaking of the Exotic Dancer Visa Program, Alise Rimniceanu

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

Media Education: Rethinking the Role of Photographic Representation in Public Education, Kris Erickson

But is it art? : the construction and valuation of illustration in Victoria's Island Illustrators Society, Shannon Jaleen Grove

Access to Employment or Access to Employers: a Descriptive Study of Employers' Attitudes and Practices in Hiring Newcomer Job Seekers, Eric Nan Liu

Applying DTGolog to Large-scale Domains, Huy N. Pham

Digital and traditional preservation of photographic albums, Jennifer Tyner

Senior Immigrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Toronto: Access to Services and Community Connection, Masa Vucetic

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

Evaluation of Approaches to Depicting First Nations, Inupiat and Inuvialuit Environmental Information in GIS Format: Options for the Handling of Spatial Information in the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-Op Database, Jadah Elizabeth Folliott

Ethnic Identity and Heritage Language Ability in Second Generation Canadians in Toronto, Bonnie Mah

A Comparison of Some Heuristics to Improve Shift Generation in the Labour Scheduling Problem, Banafsheh Namiranian

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

Inflight investigation of the effects of rotor state measurement and feedback on variable stability helicopters, Marc David Alexander

Assessment of androgenic response potential of effluents using in vitro and in vivo methods, Emil Bandelj

Fatigue life prediction in a door hinge system under uni-axial and multi-axial loading conditions, Sacheen Bekah

IPPS_R : a generative process planning system for rotational parts, Yijing Cai

Simulation analysis of a multi-product flexible assembly line, Nelson Da Silva

A validated finite element study of blunt trauma to the human maxilla, Peter Krimbalis

Agent of social change : a history of Canadian University Press, Käthe Anne Lemon

Voluntary environmental initiatives in Canadian manufacturing sector, Maina Levin

Characterization of noise in the lightning current derivative signals measured at the CN tower, Petros Liatos

Current bridge deck rehabilitation practices : use and effectiveness, Melvin Ramcharitar

Modeling of inclusion removal in a tundish by gas bubbling, John Patrick Rogler

Transgressive actions and the production of public space : policy, people and urban space in Winnipeg's downtown, Etoile Catherine Stewart

Modeling and simulation of reconfigurable systems with applications to the polishing process, Qiang (John) Sun

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

An integrated positioning system for the Toronto Transit System, Mahmoud Salem I.S. Abd El-Gelil

Usability of the design structure matrix for automotive design engineering, Muhammad Adrees

Energy absorption of composite materials under high velocity impact, Ramin Amid

Experimental and theoretical studies of composite multiple-box girder bridges, Anwar Androus

Imaginary Soundscapes: Electronic Music Culture and the Aesthetics of the Virtual, Sara Wei-Ming Chan

Dynamic response of concrete rectangular liquid storage tanks, Jun Zheng Chen

An investigation of the interaction between a travelling shock wave and a solid rocket motor nozzle, Harmanjit Singh Chopra

Prediction of sea ice concentration using artificial neural networks, Mohammed Kandil El-Emam El-Diasty

Time-frequency analysis of spread spectrum based communication and audio watermarking systems, Serhat Erküçük

Nuclear fuel waste and aboriginal concerns : Canada's nuclear fuel waste management concept public hearings--a content analysis, Ann Marie Farrugia-Uhalde

Evaluation of driver visual demand in complex two dimensional rural highway alignments, Chandi D. Ganguly

Lost in translation : new media, performance, & identity in Quebec, Daniel Goldberg

Mapping the Canadian landscape : the performing arts and experiential perspectives, Christine Alison Johns

Effect of primary silicon crystals on the fluidity of eutectic and hypereutectic Al-Si alloys in lost foam casting, Shailesh Kamble

Self-consolidating concrete : rheology, fresh properties and structural behaviour, Vasilios Bill Lambros

Automatic target matching, Michael Leslar

Identifying the variance in the magnitude of landfill impacts on residential property values using multiple regression analysis, Jong Seok Lim

Analysis of periodically switched nonlinear circuits and nonlinear oversampled sigma-delta modulators, Quan Li

Three-dimensional GIS-based approach for highway design consistency evaluation, Yingfeng Li

Geometric design of single-lane roundabouts for optimum consistency and operation, Atif Mehmood

Using bioleaching to remove metals from sewage sludge intended for land application, Jun Nie

Characterization of activated sludge flocs by confocal laser scanning microscopy and image analysis, Eva Nowak

Development of statistical models to simulate and optimize self-consolidating concrete mixes incorporating high volumes of fly ash, Rajeshkumar Patel

Performance evaluation of a sediment control pond, Lindsay Pyatt