PhD defences
Academic Year 2007 - 2008
Charlene Dodd
Education
2:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
The Impact of Distance Education
Experience and Coping Style on First Year University Achievement
and Attrition
Tayseer Abu
Alrub
Physics & Physical
Oceanography
10:00 a.m.
Monday, August 25, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Superconductivity in the Heavy Fermion System PrOs4Sb12
Charitha Goonasekara
Biochemistry
10:00 a.m.
Monday, August 18, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Structure-Function of Native and Amino-Terminally Truncated Striated Muscle Tropomyosins
Oznur
Yasar
Mathematics & Statistics
2:00 p.m.
Monday, August 18, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Algorithmic Complexity and Extremality Characterizations for Edge Searching and Its Variations
Calvin
Hollett
History
10:00 a.m.
Friday, August 15, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
A People Reaching for Ecstasy: The Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874
Salameh
Ikki
Engineering & Applied
Science
2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Performance Analysis of Cooperative Diversity Networks With Different Relaying and Combining Techniques
Larisa Mironova
Mathematics & Statistics
10:00
a.m.
Friday, July 25, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation
Centre
Accurate computation of free surface flow with an oscillating circular cylinder based on a viscous incompressible two-flow model
Adam Beardsworth
English Language & Literature
10:00 a.m.
Friday, July 18, 2008
ER 4002, Alexander Murray Building
Cold War Confessions: Autobiographic Poetry in the Age of
Anxiety
Maarten Gerritsen
History
2:00
p.m.
Friday, July 11,
2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation
Centre
Corps Identity: The Letters,
Diaries and Memoirs of Canada's Great War
Soldiers
Judith Klassen
Ethnomusicology Program
2:00 p.m.
Friday, July 4, 2008
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Encoding Song: Faithful Defiance in Mexican Mennonite
Music
Engineering & Applied Science
10:00 a.m.
Monday, June 23, 2008
EN4002, S. J. Carew Building (Engineering Bldg.)
Multisensor Based Environment Modelling and Control Applications for Mobile Robots
Ethnomusicology Program
10:00 a.m.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
ER4002, Alexander Murray Building (Earth Sciences Bldg.)
“Our Strength is Ourselves”: Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization Among the Mi’kmaq in Newfoundland
English Language & Literature
Thursday, June 12, 2008
3:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Freedom Fighters: The Violent Pursuit of Existential Freedom in Selected 20th Century American Narratives
English Language & Literature
Monday, June 9, 2008
2:00 p.m.
ER 4002, Earth Sciences Building Boardroom
Playful Citizens: Utopian Intersections of Play, Sex and Citizenship in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
Geography
Monday, June 9, 2008
2:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Innovation and Evolution in an Artificial Spatial Economy
Clifford Guy
Medicine
Friday, May 23, 2008
2:00 p.m.
IIC 1004, INCO Innovation Centre
Intrahepatic innate immunity in hepadnauiral infection in the woodchuck model of hepatitis B
Social Work
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
3:30 p.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Towards Cultural Safety: An Exploration of the Concept for Social Work Education and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples
Medicine
Friday, April 11, 2008
2:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Obesity and Its Impact on a Provincial Health System in Canada
Chemistry
Monday, April 7, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
Fluorinated and Dimeric Surfactants in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography
Anthropology & Archaeology
Friday, March 14, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
The Aboriginal Exploitation of Cuesta Quartzite in Southern New Jersey
Psychology
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
2:00 p.m.
IIC 1004, INCO Innovation Centre
Sustained Attention Training in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Biology
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 1004, INCO Innovation Centre
Protein Synthesis in Hypometabolic Fishes
Engineering & Applied Science
Friday, February 29, 2008
11:00 a.m.
EN 4002, S.J. Carew Building (Engineering Building)
Advances in Robust Methods for Limit Load Analysis
Stacey Wareham
Psychology
Friday, February 29, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Exploring Safety Behaviours in the Newfoundland Fibreglass
Boat-Building Industry: A Community Based Study
Chemistry
Monday, February 25, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Computational Studies of Reactions Involving 1st, 2nd and 3rd Row Elements and the Performance of Theory
Aisha El-Sherbiny
Chemistry
Friday, February 22, 2008
2:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Designing Algorithms for Improving Quantum Chemical
Calculations
Marion Brown
Social Work
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
3:30 p.m.
ER 4002 – Alexander Murray Building (Earth Sciences
Building)
She Hits Like a Girl: Contexts and Constructs of Femininity,
Use of Violence and Living in Group Homes
Muddassir Nazir
Engineering & Applied Science
Friday, February 15, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 1004, INCO Innovation Centre
Quantitative Risk Assessment of a Marine Riser: An Integrated
Approach
Michelle Huminicki
Earth Sciences
Monday, February 4, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, INCO Innovation Centre
A Comprehensive Geological, Petrological and Geochemical Evaluation of the Voisey’s Bay Ni-Cu-Co Sulfide Deposit: An Integration of Empirical Data and Process Mechanics
Baozhong Zhang
Chemistry
Monday, February 4, 2008
2:00 p.m.
EN 4002 – S.J. Carew Building (Engineering Boardroom)
Synthesis of Polyphenyl Pyrenophanes and Pyrenylene-Ethylnylene Nanorings
Reza Adibi-Asl
Engineering & Applied Science
Friday, February 1, 2008
2:00 p.m.
EN 4002, S.J. Carew Building (Engineering Building)
Simplified Limit Load Determination for Integrity Assessment
Reza Shahidi
Engineering & Applied Science
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
2:30 p.m
EN 4002, S.J. Carew Building (Engineering Building)
Novel High-Quality Variational Image Decomposition Models and their Applications
Michael Hayley
Biochemistry
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Biochemical analysis of toposome, a protein mediating membrane-membrane interactions in the sea urchin egg & embryo
Habo Niu
Engineering and Applied Science
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
2:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Dispersion of Offshore Discharged Produced Water in the Marine Environment: Hydrodynamic Modeling and Experimental Study
Medicine
Monday, December 12, 2007
11:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
An Examination of Three Types of Health Care Resource Allocation Decisions
Zhipeng Duan
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Friday, November 2, 2007
2:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Analysis of Slip Flow in Microchannels
Sabir Muzaffar
Department of Biology
Tuesday, October 23 2007
3:00 p.m.
EN 4002, S.J. Carew Building
Diseases and Parasites of Birds: Ecology and Epidemiology in a Changing World
Luckshman Jayakody
Department of Biochemistry
Friday, October 26 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Impact of in-vitro annealing on structures and properties of Dioscorea starches
Mohamed Mahmoud Awad
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Two-Phase Flow Modeling in Circular Pipes
Anna Scheyett
School of Social Work
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
1:30 p.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Clinician Impact on Consumer Decisions Regarding Psychiatric Advance Directives
David Murrin
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
2:00 p.m.
EN 4002, S.J. Carew Building
A Three-dimensional Simulation of Vortex Induced Vibrations (VIV) on Marine Risers at High Reynolds Number using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Bruce Mason
Department of Folklore
Friday, September 28, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
The Creation of Folk Cultures on the Internet: A Proposed Methodology of Investigation With Case Studies
Meghan Walsh
Faculty of Medicine
Thursday, September 20, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Boardroom #1, Room HSC 2975
Assessing the Care Requirements and Perceptions of Elderly
Applying to Long-Term Care - The Need for Alternatives to
Institutionalization Along the Continuum
Wasana Mudalige
Department of Biochemistry
Monday, September 17, 2007
10:00 a.m.
IIC 1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Structure Function of Actin and Tropomyosin Isoforms and Discovery of a Unique Actin Isoform
James Rice
Department of Anthropology & Archaeology
Friday, September 14, 2007
2:00 p.m
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
Shaun Killen
Department of Biology
Friday, September 7, 2007
2:00 p.m.
IIC 2014, Inco Innovation Centre
The Metabolic Cost of Behavioural Tradeoffs During the Early Life Stages of Marine Fishes
Mansour Almatarneh
Department of Chemistry
Friday, September 7, 2007
2:00 p.m.
IIC 1004, Inco Innovation Centre
Computational Study of the Deamination Reaction of Cytosine