PhD defences

Academic Year 2005 - 2006

Victoria Milway
Department of Chemistry

Monday, August 21, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Supramolecular Polymetallic Clusters and Grids - Self-Assembly, Structures and Magnetic Properties

Judy MacDonald
School of Social Work

Friday, August 18, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Untold Stories: Women in the Helping Professions as Sufferers of Chronic Pain (Re)Storying (Dis)Ability

Fang Zhang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Friday, August 11, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Global Dynamics of Some Spatially Heterogeneous Population Models

Budd Tucker
Faculty of Medicine

Monday, August 7, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Cooperation between integrin and growth factor receptor signaling in the regulation of neurite growth from rat sensory neurons

Keith Chaulk
Cognitive and Behavioural Ecology

Friday, July 21, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Spatial and Temporal Ecology of a Colonial Waterbird: The Distribution and Abundance of Nesting Common Eiders in Labrador

Alejandro Martin Cohen
Department of Biochemistry

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
10 a.m.
EN-4002, Engineering Building

Characterization and Quantification of Atlantic Salmon, Rainbow Trout and Atlantic Cod Vitellogenin Applying Combined Mass Spectrometric Techniques

Tyson MacCormack
Department of Biology

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Impact of Tissue Adenosine and Glucose Availability on Performance of Hypoxic Fish Heart and Brain

Yubo Zou
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Decycling and Dominating Cubes and Grids

Venessa Bennett
Department of Earth Sciences (Geology)

Thursday, June 8, 2006
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Earth Sciences Building

A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Formation, Growth, and Evolution of Neoarchean Crust, Snare River Terrane: Southwestern Slave Province

Marilyn Elaine Dodge
Faculty of Medicine

Monday, June 5, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Factors Contributing to Adult DRG Neurotrophin-Independent Neuronal Survival

Krista Solvason
Department of Earth Sciences (Geophysics)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Crustal Structure and Formation of the Southeast Newfoundland Continental Margin

Clifford Stamp
Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography

Thursday, May 18, 2006
10 a.m.
A-2029, Arts & Administration Building

Collision-Induced Absorption Spectra of H₂ in the First Overtone Region and the Fundamental Band of D₂ in Binary Mixtures: D₂ - N₂ , D₂, - CO, D₂ - He, D₂ , - Ar and D₂ – Kr

Annika Haywood
Department of Biology

Monday, May 15, 2006
2 p.m.
A-2029, Arts & Administration Building

The Analysis of Parkin in Drosophila Melanogaster

Elizabeth Dicks
Faculty of Medicine

Monday, May 15, 2006
10:30 a.m.
ER-4002, Earth Science Building

Incident Renal Events and Risk Factors in ADPKD: A Population and Family Based Cohort Followed for 22 Years

Xiangqun Li
Faculty of Engineering

Thursday, April 27, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Identification of Linear and Non-Linear Multi-Modal VIV Responses for Flexible Deepwater Risers

Panyiotis Verginis
Faculty of Medicine

Thursday, April 13, 2006
2:30 p.m.
A-2029, Arts and Administration Building

Immunoregulation of Experimental Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

James Drover
Department of Psychology

Thursday, April 13, 2006
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Earth Sciences Building

New Screening Program for the Detection of Amblyopia and Other Early Visual Disorders in Toddlers and Preschool Children

Ronald Japp Voordouw
Department of Earth Science

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
9:30 a.m.
ER-4002, Earth Sciences Building

Geology of Mesoproterozoic Anorthosite Intrusions in the Vicinity of Nain, Labrador

Teymuraz Tvalavadze
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Friday, March 31, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Structure and Uniqueness of sums of simple Lie superalgebras

Daryl Attwood
Faculty of Engineering

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
2:30 p.m.
ER-4002, Earth Sciences Building

A reliability approach to the quantification of occupational accidents in the offshore oil and gas industry

Kavithaa Loganathan
Department of Chemistry

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
9:30 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre

Electrochemical Studies of Conducting Polymers

Agung Budipriyanto
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Monday, March 13, 2006
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Identification of cracks on orthogonally stiffened ship plate panels using on-line monitoring

Guangchun Li
Department of Chemistry

Thursday, March 9, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Electrochemical Study of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells and Development of Pt Based Catalysis for Electro-Oxidation of Ethanol

Jacqueline Blundell
Department of Psychology

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
2 p.m.
HSC-2990, TETRA Classroom, Health Sciences Centre

NMDA Receptors and pCREB - Their Role in Brain and Behavioural Changes after Stress

Jamie Kramer
Department of Biology

Friday, February 17, 2006
2 p.m.
A-2029, Arts and Administration Building

Analysis of the forkhead box subgroup 'O' (FOXO) family of trasncription factors and the toxic effects of Ga14 in Drosophila

Marina Tvalavadze
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Friday, February 17, 2006
10 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre

Simple superalgebras and simple decompositions of simple Jordan algebras and superalgerbras

Fergus O'Brien
Department of English Language & Literature

Friday, January 27, 2006
9:30 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre

The Politics of Family in the 1900s Postmodern Fiction of Kathy Acker, William Gaddis, and Robert Coover

Cory Victor Giles
Faculty of Medicine

Thursday, December 15, 2005
2:30 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building

Modulation of the Hyperpolarization Activated Cationic Current (I_h) and Subthreshold Resonance in Neocortical Neurons

Amir Ali Khan
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science

Wednesday, December 14, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Evaluation of Uncertainties in Mofat for Tier 3 RBCA

Dominique Clément
Department of History

Monday, December 12, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Rights in the Age of Protest: A History of the Human Rights and Civil Liberties Movement in Canada, 1962 - 1982

Sally Braun-Jackson
Department of English Language & Literature

Friday, December 9th, 2005
10:30 a.m.
HSC-2990, Health Sciences Centre

Allusion in A.S. Byatt's Fiction

Marcianna Ptak Delaney
Department of Biology

Monday, December 5, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Pelagic Cold Ocean Microbial Dynamics and Small-Scale Turbulence Interactions with Special Reference to Bacteria

David J. Clarke
Department of History

Friday, October 14, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre

Liverpool Shipowners: 1820 - 1914

Vasily Korabel
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography

Tuesday, October 11, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Vortical Structures Generated by a Localized Forcing

Cristina Tollefsen
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography

Tuesday, October 4, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

Evaluation of a Doppler Sonar System for Fisheries Applications

Lynda Jane Younghusband
Faculty of Medicine

Thursday, September 22, 2005
2 p.m.
IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre

High School Teachers' Perceptions of their Working Environment in Newfoundland: A Grounded Theory Study

Martin Renner
Department of Biology

Monday, September 12, 2005
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building

Evolution of Variation in Plumage and Ornamentation in Least Auklet Aethia pussila (Pallas)

Mahmoud Hasan Abu-Karma
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography

Monday, September 12, 2005
10 a.m.
IIC-1004, Inco Innovation Centre

Collision-Induced Absorption of the First Overtone Bands of H₂ and D₂