The history of the United States is full of contradictions and paradoxes that are confusing to those who have marginalized identities or fall outside of the dominant culture in any way shape or form. The aim of this artwork is to open a dialogue and begin the process of bringing…
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Although a consensus exists that music is a powerful force and can be used as a vehicle to accomplish multiple endeavors—to express their identities; perpetuate histories and worldviews; and teach, conscientize, and mobilize others on a broad range of political and social issues…
The profession of voice and dialect is built upon the premise of maximum understanding for the audiences attending theatre. This maximum understanding, or intelligibility, has historically driven the practice and continues to shape the profession today. Intelligibility has been …
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an automatic identification technology that uses radio frequency to identify objects. Securing RFID systems and providing privacy in RFID applications has been the focus of much academic work lately. To ensure universal acceptance of RFID…
In 2011, the total installed PV capacity in Canada was almost 289 MW and it could reach between 9 and 15 GW by 2025. According to previous studies, sun tracking PV systems can capture 20% to 50% more solar radiation than fixed systems. Solar tracker is a device that keeps PV pan…
My project explores why it is so difficult to reconcile questions about the nature and meaning of music in philosophy with the case of Iranian classical music. This tradition is highly performative, musicians rarely use scores, and, importantly, that anyone who calls herself a m…
Critical intercultural communication (CIC) scholarship on hybridity emphasizes the necessity of examining hybrid performances within their cultural, political, and interpersonal contexts. Though telling, it overlooks a significant piece of the puzzle in understanding hybrid live…
The concept of the author has changed over time, along with the forms of media that have been used to circulate texts. In my dissertation, I examine assumptions about writers with roots on the African continent by looking at representations of their status and function as author…
This dissertation explores the history of colonial representations of the Dutch East Indies and analyzes the tropes that undergird those representations. The relentless damp of the tropics, it argues, suffuses European evocations of the Indies; from drenched forests and malarial…
The trustworthiness of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) comes from the data it receives, which in turn depends on the trustworthiness of each and every node in that network. Among several motivations for developing WSN trust models, the social networking and ecommerce models are …
This study evaluates the effect of formation damage on horizontal well performance. A computer model in the FORTRAN language is developed in this study. The model describes the fluid flow interaction between the reservoir and the wellbore, taking into account the combined effect…
This dissertation provides a history of Shared Experience Theatre, a fringe theatre company based in London, England. The members of Shared Experience have earned international acclaim for their commitment to physically innovative approaches to novel adaptations for the stage. A…
This dissertation explores the performative manifestations of two familiar tropes, queer colonials and nativized boys, on the colonial and global-scapes of Singapore, Bali and the Asian diaspora. I focus on selected, representative theater and performance that are produced by or…
This dissertation examines the intersections between marginalized sexualities and other modes of alterity in German culture. Looking at texts from a range of subcultural counternarratives, I investigate the ways in which the invocation of multiple alterities can displace, transf…
The language of Sephardic Jews for centuries, Judeo-Spanish is no longer transmitted to younger generations. After decades of discouraging the use of languages other than Hebrew, the Israeli government has changed its stance toward minority Jewish languages and now actively enco…
Concepts pertinent to the identification of a maqām, or melodic mode in Arab music, include intervallic ordering, pitch hierarchy, and performance rule called sayr. These concepts were examined with data gathered from qualitative and quantitative methods. First, interviews with …
The log xylophone is a unique subcategory of xylophones in Africa and is identified mainly by the lack of a resonator attachment. Pieces of log or wood, bundles of grass, or banana stems are commonly used to serve as the support frame on which the wooden slats rest. In this stud…
Narrative Battlegrounds draws on ethnographic research with veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan to examine how the ownership of personal narrative is negotiated within embodied performance. Storytelling is such a fundamentally human practice that it is often assumed to be `naturall…
Research on language teaching in Pakistan has typically presented it as a problem that requires solutions. The literature on this subject treats 'English' as a self-evident, bounded entity and traces its presence in the region to colonial imposition, thereby focussing the discus…