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Unraveling the Seismic History of the Himalayas: Paleoseismological Insights from a Surface Rupture in Eastern Bhutan
(2024-04-11)The Himalayas are known for large, destructive earthquakes. The study of paleoseismology in this area encounters challenges due to the sparse historical records of earthquakes and the inadequacy of paleoseismic data. Thus, ... -
Unraveling the Unpaid Work Gender Gap: Insights from Ecuador
(2024-02-11)Ecuadorian women dedicate an average of 38.68 extra weekly hours (5.53 additional hours daily) to unpaid work than men. This study explores the impact of gender, relative income and socio-demographic factors on allocating ... -
Unravelled: A Contextual Exploration into the Weaving of Karen Refugee Women
(2012-08-01)Despite a thirty year protracted refugee situation in Thailand, little data exists regarding the traditional weaving of the Karen refugee women from Burma. Through semi-structured interviews, participant observation and ... -
Unravelling the mechanism of ghrelin secretion and the effects of ghrelin reduction using a receptor decoy approach
(2013-03-28)The incidence of obesity, and the associated morbidities and mortality are increasing. Strategies to manage this disease hinge on the balance of caloric intake and energy expenditure. This regulation depends largely on ... -
Unravelling the Mechanisms of Exciton Transport in Natural Light Harvesting Systems
(2021-08-30)Photosynthetic organisms contain light harvesting complexes comprised of pigments that absorb sunlight as electronic excitations. In this work, the transfer of this exci- tation energy in four natural light harvesting ... -
The Unrepresented Defendant and the Unbundling of Legal Services
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2004-11)This project has been focused on contributing to an appreciation of the unrepresented defendant phenomenon in Halifax provincial criminal court and to the examination of possible solutions, including the strategy of a more ... -
Unrolling the Truth about Paper Towel: Social, Financial and Environmental Incentives for Why Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Should Install Electric Air Hand-Dryers in Future Buildings
(2019-04)This paper aims to outline one way Dalhousie University can contribute to combating landfill waste. With the increasing global population and room for waste already becoming an issue, there is bound to be detrimental ... -
The Unromantic Window
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An Unsettled Plantation: Nova Scotia’s New Englanders and the Creation of a British Colony, 1759-1776
(2012-08-14)The New England Planters were the largest wave of Protestant migration into Nova Scotia prior to the American Revolution. Sponsored by the British government, they represent an attempt to make Nova Scotia a securely British ... -
Unsexy
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Unspeakable Things Spoken at Last
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Unsupervised Clustering of Time Series from Microbial Marker-Gene Data
(2016-07-29)Microorganisms interact with each other and the world around us, impacting every environment that they inhabit. DNA sequencing technology allows us to monitor entire communities of microorganisms. Using taxonomic marker ... -
UNSUPERVISED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF FISH WITHOUT THE INFERENCE OF CLUSTER NUMBER
(2023-04-14)This thesis investigates deep learning techniques, particularly unsupervised image classification, for identifying and clustering fish images captured with underwater cameras. In collaboration with Innovasea, the goal ... -
An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Network and System Analysis
(2017-04-03)This thesis investigates the capability of employing the SOM, an unsupervised learning technique as a network data analytics system. In doing so, the aim is to understand how far such an approach could be pushed to analyze ... -
UNSUPERVISED PARAPHRASE GENERATION FROM HIERARCHICAL LANGUAGE MODELS
(2018-12-14)Paraphrase generation is a challenging problem that requires a semantic representation of language. Language models implemented with deep neural networks (DNN) have the ability to transform text to a real valued vector ... -
Untangling the Problem of Abandoned, Lost, and Discarded Fishing Gear: Evaluating the Benefits of Side Scan Sonar as a Gear Detection Method
(2021-12)Abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) has surfaced as a significant conservation issue that continues to compromise the economic, social, and ecological aspects of the marine environment. To alleviate ... -
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Untitled
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