Browsing Master's Theses by Title
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10,000 Drowned: Commemorating the Caribou
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-01)This exhibition commemorates a caribou herd that drown during their fall migration in 1984. The disaster occurred when Hydro-Quebec opened the Caniapiscau reservoir spill gates two hundred and seventy miles upstream from ... -
Aboriginal Dispossession and Proletarianization in Canadian Industrial Capitalism: Creating the Right Profile for the Labour Market
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-07)The central theme of this paper revolves around the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) from their traditional socio-economic means of production and their subsumption into the ... -
Accessing Intimacy: The Experience of Younger Long-Term Care Residents
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-05)The sex and intimacy needs of persons with disabilities are increasingly highlighted in research, particularly during the last two decades. There is also research to examine the experience of staff within long term care ... -
Accroitre la collaboration entre l'ecole et la communaute: comment le curriculm peut-il servir de pont entre les familles et l'ecole?
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-07)Résumé Cette étude qualitative aborde le thème de la collaboration entre les familles et l’école et ce, en lien avec le curriculum scolaire. Des chercheurs comme Larivée (2011), Sheldon (2009), Deslandes (2001), Đurišić ... -
Acimowin Anaskanak - Story Scrolls: A Methodology of First Nations Art Practices as a Healing Tool
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-08)This study utilizes visual art as a tool to encourage survivors of Indian Residential Schools to share their experiences as a means toward connecting with community and fostering healing. This work is informed by personal ... -
An Action Research Study: EAL and Content Teachers Collaborating to Support All Students at a Secondary School
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2015-04)As the number of English as an Additional Language (EAL) students increases in Saskatchewan schools, there is a need for language and content teachers to work collaboratively. This study describes the implementation of an ... -
Acute Psychological Stress and Food Intake in Humans: A Scoping Review
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-06)In response to stress, stress-sensitive systems, including the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (SAM) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, are activated to enable the individual to engage in the fight-or-flight ... -
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) - Based Model Predictive Control (MPC) for Carbon Dioxide Reforming of Methane (CDRM) in a Plug Flow Tubular Reactor for Hydrogen Production
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-01)The current sources of our energy supply are plagued with many problems, and the impact on the climate is of grave concern. To preserve and sustain our environment, a non-polluting and renewable energy source is required. ... -
Adaptive Quality of Service and Trust Based Lightweight Secure Routing Algorithm for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-01)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are group of wireless devices that are deployed in an adhoc manner and are generally left unattended. The main advantages of WSNs are that they are simple to use, allow the use of inexpensive ... -
Addiction Services for Parents with Addiction in Regina, Saskatchewan
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-09)The research question that guides this thesis is: are the addiction services in Regina and area meeting the needs of parents with addictions and their families in Regina and area? The goal was to research the treatment ... -
Advanced Music Training and Executive Function: A Neurocognitive Study
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2011-12)The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between advanced music training and neurocognitive functioning, with specific focus on executive function, working memory, and tactile interhemispheric transfer. ... -
Advocates’ Perspectives on Decriminalization and Safety Strategies for Female Sex Workers
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-06)Street-level sex workers are at a high risk for physical and sexual violence as a result of the stigmatization and marginalization of the sex trade industry. This thesis investigates the perceptions held by Regina sex ... -
Aen Loo Pawatamihk: Inherited and Personal Memories Shared Through Storytelling and Mediated Interactions with More-Than-Human-Beings
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-03)This critical engagement paper represents the fundamental framework conducted for my MFA thesis project, Aen loo Pawatamihk: Inherited and Personal Memories Shared Through Storytelling and Mediated Interactions with ... -
Agent-Based Household Energy Consumption Model for the City of Regina
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2012-06)The Regina household energy consumption model is designed to estimate residential energy consumption for the city of Regina using agent-based technology. The impact of social and economic factors on the levels of energy ... -
Algebraic and Measurable Sub-Product Systems
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2018-12)Our main goal, in this thesis, is to conduct a thorough investigation of the math- ematical concept of sub-product system in relation to both quantum dynamical sys- tems and product systems. This notion originates in W. ... -
"all alongingly the way": Ontology and Longing in bpNichol's The Martyrology
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2016-11)bpNichol’s (1944-1988) long poem, The Martyrology (published between 1972 and, posthumously, 1993), is a work that is comprised of text, illustrations, and musical notations. Its sheer length, both in time of composition ... -
Altering the Pattern: Willing Self-Sacrifice as an Embodiment of Free Will in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2015-07)This study analyzes the role of willing self-sacrifice in Guy Gavriel Kay’s trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry. I begin by detailing anthropological studies about sacrifice which provide the critical framework for this thesis. ... -
Alternative Land Tenure: A Path Towards Food Sovereignty in Saskatchewan?
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-03)In the past few years, a global food crisis has fuelled corporate investment and speculation in land and the attendant dispossession of smallholders and ecological damage, while doing little to alleviate hunger or secure ... -
“Always in the process of Becoming”: Inquiring Narratively Into Providing Purposeful Support Towards Critical Social Justice Education
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2014-07)Even as teacher education programs raise issues of social justice with pre-service teachers, the opportunities for them to practice their skills happen within the existing school structure— a structure that resists change. ... -
Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid Beta: Effects of amyloid beta on hippocampal and dorsal root ganglion neurons' electrophyiology and morphology
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-07)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, increasing by 10 new cases every day in Saskatchewan alone. AD results from pathological amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides that hamper neurons’ communication, cause ...
