The ETD presented is but a simplistic representation of the time spent pursuing a proposition: what is the architecture of concrete? The timeline began in the Fall Semester of 2012 in Alexandria Virginia and ended as a formal built presentation on site to the committee in June of 2016. In its incipient form the thesis began with traditional and instructive methods involving ideas and theory. The ideas were refined by demonstration of the repertoire of tools available to an architect: hand drawings, physical models of different scales using a variety of media implicating concrete, and modern digital models transcending scale. Architecture requires that the tools, drawings, and models used in architecture respond to the site. To understand the site, I analyzed the site via various metrics, senses, and sensibilities. Upon further discussion, investigation, and opportunity, the committee allowed my proposition to transform itself into the architecture of concrete via the process of the art of building. The process lasted over two and a half years upon which I lived on site until the thesis was complete. / Master of Architecture

This quantitative descriptive cross sectional study explored factors influencing sexual risk behaviours among youths in senior secondary schools in Ethiopia. Data were collected using structured questionnaires. Religious attachment, living with friends, living alone, parental control, level of parental education, peer pressure and number of friends who had experienced sex were some of the factors noted to influence youths to engage in sexual risk behaviours. The findings of this study have implications for both practice and policy development. They will enable healthcare workers to identify youths at risk of engaging in sexual risk behaviours and subsequently motivate them using health promotion strategies to engage in safe sexual practices. Adopting such an approach will prevent or at least minimise risk of youths being infected with sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health Studies)

This quantitative descriptive cross sectional study explored factors influencing sexual risk behaviours among youths in senior secondary schools in Ethiopia. Data were collected using structured questionnaires. Religious attachment, living with friends, living alone, parental control, level of parental education, peer pressure and number of friends who had experienced sex were some of the factors noted to influence youths to engage in sexual risk behaviours. The findings of this study have implications for both practice and policy development. They will enable healthcare workers to identify youths at risk of engaging in sexual risk behaviours and subsequently motivate them using health promotion strategies to engage in safe sexual practices. Adopting such an approach will prevent or at least minimise risk of youths being infected with sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health Studies)

Behavioural theories of finance and economics have received little academic attention until recently. Nevertheless, behavioural theories of investor behaviour can be directly applied to categorization of investors and prediction of future behaviour. The purpose of characterizing and predicting future behaviour is to ensure allocation of appropriate corporate resources to meet the needs of clients as effectively as possible. This research specifically focuses on segmentation and predictive modeling of retail clients at Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd. Segmentation is undertaken through cluster analysis of investors based on transactional and performance data. Subsequent logistic regression and seemingly unrelated regression models are developed to determine if investment personality - through Know-Your-Client (KYC) information - and demographics have an explanatory and predictive relationship with future investor behaviour.

Behavioural theories of finance and economics have received little academic attention until recently. Nevertheless, behavioural theories of investor behaviour can be directly applied to categorization of investors and prediction of future behaviour. The purpose of characterizing and predicting future behaviour is to ensure allocation of appropriate corporate resources to meet the needs of clients as effectively as possible. This research specifically focuses on segmentation and predictive modeling of retail clients at Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd. Segmentation is undertaken through cluster analysis of investors based on transactional and performance data. Subsequent logistic regression and seemingly unrelated regression models are developed to determine if investment personality - through Know-Your-Client (KYC) information - and demographics have an explanatory and predictive relationship with future investor behaviour. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

Life and work of a late baroque painter Joseph Hager The thesis outlines artistic work of Joseph Hager, Czech late baroque painter. The author, especially of the wall painting, studied by Jan Karel Kovář and Antonio d'Agostini. Later worked as an assistant of František Karel Palko in a church St. Nicolas placed in Lesser Town od Prague. The illusive painting of architecture was his specialization. He worked primarily in Czech, but for example he decorated also a church in Vranov near Brno or a church in Dresden. The essential part of thesis is catalog of realizations, which contains a lot of extant works, but also a few realizations, which during the ages were destroyed.