The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, Sept. 2 and Friday, Sept. 5.<\/p>\n
Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Ashley Giroux, a Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cDeveloping an adaptive movement program for disabled older adults experiencing dementia: an instrumental case study\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 4 from 3 to 5 p.m. in TH 150.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Rebecca Raby, Chair; Maureen Connolly, Supervisor; Jarold Cosby, External Examiner (Brock University); Kimberley Zonneveld, Graduate Program Director; and Colleen Whyte and Pauli Gardner, Committee Members.<\/p>\n Master of Sustainability thesis defence<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Sahar Heidariasl, a Master of Sustainability candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cTourist Perceptions of Animal Welfare in Petra: Sentiment Analysis and Thematic Analysis Using GPT-Based Generation and Embedding-Based Analysis\u201d on Friday, Sept. 5 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Theal House Boardroom.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Teegawende Zeida, Chair; David Fennell, Supervisor; Carol Kline, External Examiner (Appalachian State University); Marilyne Carrey, Graduate Program Director; and Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Committee Member.<\/p>\n Master of \u200bScience in Applied Health Sciences (Health Sciences) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Drake Christie, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201c<\/span>Examining the role of PPAR\u03b2\/\u03b4 activation on skeletal muscle metabolism in the rodent model of Barth syndrome<\/span>\u201d on Wednesday, Sept. 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in STH 361.<\/span><\/p>\n The examination committee includes Will Pickett, Chair; Paul LeBlanc, Supervisor; Val Fajardo, External Examiner (Brock University); and Bill Gittings and Christopher Perry, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n Master of \u200bScience in Applied Health Sciences (Health Sciences) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Madeleine Maheu, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201c<\/span>Exercise: A Neurostructural Remodeling Perspective<\/span>\u201d on Friday, Sept. 5 from noon to 3 p.m. in STH 361.<\/span><\/p>\n The examination committee includes Paul LeBlance, Chair; Rebecca MacPherson, Supervisor; Cindy Barha, External Examiner (University of Calgary); and Paula Duarte-Guterman and Adam MacNeil, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n Master of \u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences (Leisure, Health and Wellbeing) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Kendra McConkey,<\/span>\u00a0a Master of\u00a0\u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis “<\/span>Self-Care motivation and behaviours among therapeutic recreation professionals working in mental health: A qualitative descriptive approach to inquiry\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 4 from <\/span>9 a.m. to noon<\/span>\u00a0in STH 456.<\/span><\/p>\n The examination committee includes Sanghee Chun, Chair; Colleen Whyte, Supervisor; Miya Narushima, External Examiner (Brock University); and Pei-Chun Hseih and Pauli Gardner, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Nujitha Ransika Wickramasurendra, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cBERT-Based Intrusion Detection System for RF Jamming Attacks in Vehicular Network\u201d on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Glaucio de Carvalho, Supervisor; Shengrong Bu, External Examiner (Brock University); and Robson De Grande, Committee Member.<\/p>\n Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Ghazal Khodabandeh, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cLink Prediction on Distributed Systems\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 4 at 9:30 a.m. in MCD 404.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Rahnuma Islam Nishat, External Examiner (Brock University); and Robson De Grande, Committee Member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, Sept. 2 and Friday, Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,188,55,41,38],"tags":[244,28,97,296,2262,7488,348,522,1512,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104012"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104188,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104012\/revisions\/104188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}