Cette thèse se consacre à l’analyse de l’image de la prison dans la littérature française et québécoise du 20e siècle et du début du 21e siècle. Elle examine un corpus vaste et varié constitué d’ouvrages de fiction et de ...

The increased use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers since the early 1900s has resulted in greater food production but also problems with nitrogen pollution in freshwaters. Nitrate (NO3-) is a common pollutant in rivers and ...

Ecotourism is a development strategy for many local communities in and around protected areas. Its ability to improve tourism opportunities, conservation and livelihoods is supported by many ecotourism studies. Such ...

A variety of nanostructures of tin (IV) oxide (TO) are synthesized using two fabrication methods: a solution spin-coating method followed by post-annealing in an oxygen flow and a newly developed catalyst-assisted pulsed ...

The members of the Canadian War Crimes Liaison Detachment – Far East travelled across the Pacific in April 1946 to participate in “minor” war crimes trials in Hong Kong and Japan. The assignment stemmed from the harrowing ...

Despite recognition that reductions in fossil-fuel usage are necessary to reduce environmental harm, energy consumption continues to rise globally. There is a growing need to understand how to effectively influence individuals ...

Researchers studying the alignment of business resources usually focus on business cases that inherently have a going-concern interaction built on long-term relationships at the firm level (e.g., Barney, 1991) dyadic level ...

This thesis deals with statistical issues in the analysis of dependent failure time data under complex observation schemes. These observation schemes may yield right-censored, interval-censored and current status data and ...

Linear programming (LP) relaxations provide a powerful technique to design approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. In the first part of the thesis, we study the metric s-t path Traveling Salesman ...

A comprehensive mathematical model of the hot extrusion process for aluminum alloys has been developed and validated. The model is capable of predicting the material flow behaviour and microstructure evolution that occurs ...