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Assessing and Valuing Damage to the Marine Environment in Accordance with the Polluter Pays Principle for the Practical Purpose of Compensation after Ship-Source Oil Spills
(2016)The objective of this study is to evaluate how marine environmental damage caused by a ship-source oil spill is assessed intergovernmentally and nationally for the practical purposes of determining compensation. A comparative ... -
Assessing Appropriate Conservation Strategies for Carpet Sharks
(2023-05-30)Although there is considerable momentum for expanding protected area coverage under the 30x30 paradigm, there is key criticism of the existing targets in that they are not linked to conservation outcomes and marine ... -
Assessing Aquatic Ecosystem Health Benefits Arising from Activities Associated with Community-Based Monitoring
(2015)In Canada, government funding cutbacks have decreased the capacity for government- sponsored water quality monitoring. In response, many community-based water monitoring (CBWM) organizations have been established that have ... -
Assessing Changing Baleen Whale Distributions and Incidents Relative to Vessel Activity
(2023-08-28)Baleen whales in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (NWA) are increasingly affected by human pressures related to vessel activity, fisheries entanglement, and climate change. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear, in ... -
Assessing climate-impact risk to Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) breeding sites in Nova Scotia, Canada
(2022-12-16)The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) is a shorebird assessed as 'Endangered' by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. They nest in coastal habitats and are vulnerable to climate change ... -
Assessing Depression Severity From Speech: The Role of Clinical Intuition and Artificial Intelligence
(2023-07-20)Automated speech analysis methods are used to estimate depression severity. However, it is unclear how these compare to the intuition of expert clinicians using the same information from speech. We distributed 1-minute ... -
Assessing Driven Steel Pile Capacity on Rock Using Empirical Approaches
(2012-08-28)Methods of determining pile toe capacity for both small displacement driven steel piles and drilled sockets were collected. Working in conjunction with a local consulting firm, records of previous pile driving sites were ... -
Assessing Durability of Cement Kiln Dust Manufactured Aggregates
(2018-03-29)Accelerated carbonation technology (ACT) is the addition of carbon dioxide and water and/or binder to a waste material to change an initially fine-grained waste material to an aggregate. For use in geotechnical applications, ... -
Assessing effects of industrial effluent on wetlands surrounding a wastewater treatment facility using a multiple lines of evidence approach
(2019-12-06)A former estuary, known as the Boat Harbour Treatment Facility (BHTF), has been used to treat industrial effluent since 1967. This effluent created large volumes of unconsolidated sediment impacted by inorganic and organic ... -
Assessing Eutrophication Vulnerability as an Indicator of Cyanobacteria Presence in Kejimkujik National Park
(2024-04)Kejimkujik National Park (KNP) and National Historic Site (Nova Scotia, Canada) is home to numerous lakes that support a multitude of recreational activities and aquatic habitats. The park is comprised of camp sites, ... -
Assessing Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations Across Dalhousie University’s Studley Campus
(2017-04)This report aims to provide an assessment of the air quality across Dalhousie’s Studley campus; primarily focusing on a group of aerosols with an aerodynamic diameter ranging from 1 μm to 10 μm, known as particulate ... -
Assessing Floor Versus Pneumatic Malting: Comparing the Effects on Malt Quality and Fermentability
(2020-10-22)The increase in popularity of craft beer over the past decade has resulted in a subsequent increase in the craft malting industry. Approximately 25% of craft malthouses use a labour-intensive method called floor malting ... -
Assessing functional divergence in EF-1 alpha and its paralogs in eukaryotes and archaebacteria
(2003-07)No abstract available. -
Assessing functional divergence in EF-1 alpha and its paralogs in eukaryotes and archaebacteria
(2003-07)No abstract available. -
Assessing functional divergence in EF-1 alpha and its paralogs in eukaryotes and archaebacteria
(2003-07)No abstract available. -
Assessing Gender: An Exploration of Transgender Individuals' Experiences of Assessments for Hormone Therapy or Surgery in Nova Scotia
(2019-09-04)Transgender individuals living in Nova Scotia and wishing to undergo gender-confirming hormone therapy or surgery must participate in a mandatory mental health assessment to determine whether they meet the diagnostic ... -
Assessing Impacts of Historical Pulp Mill Effluent on Coastal Food Web Structure and Identifying Suitable Bioindicators for Wastewater: a Stable Isotope (δ13C and δ15N) Analysis
(2022-07-26)Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia was a tidal estuary that was converted into a wastewater treatment facility for pulp mill effluent in 1967. Treated effluent from Boat Harbour was discharged through a dam into the coastal ... -
Assessing Informal Cancer Caregivers’ Needs and Preferences for an Exercise Program and Their Views Regarding Participating in a Dyadic Exercise Program with Their Care Recipients
(2023-07-27)The number of informal cancer caregivers (ICC) is rising due to increased cancer prevalence and a shift towards home-based care. ICC have been shown to experience several physical, emotional, and social consequences leading ... -
Assessing Monetary Valuation Methodologies for Estimating the Impacts of Climate Change in the Laguna de Rocha (Uruguay)
(2012-04-05)The motivation for this study arose from the dual observation that there are very few estimates of the local costs of climate change in developing countries and that the few studies that do exist rarely take into account ... -
Assessing Olfactory Learning and Memory in the 5XFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
(2012-08-17)Using an operant-olfactometer, the long term learning and memory, executive function, olfactory sensitivity, and working memory of the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease was assessed. Six month old male and female ...