Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Closing the Loop: Restoring the Hydrologic Cycle Through Architecture
(2016-04-08)As water scarcity has become one of the most important environmental and social issues of the 21st century, the way cities and the built environment interact with water must be reconsidered. A worldwide reliance on groundwater ... -
CLOUD AND AEROSOL PROPERTIES MEASURED WITH A LIDAR IN THE HIGH ARCTIC AT EUREKA
(2010-12-13)The recently commissioned CANDAC Rayleigh?Mie?Raman Lidar (CRL) in Eureka, Nunavut, finished its first winter measurement campaign in 2010, during which over 900 hours of data was collected. A comparison of several inversion ... -
Clustering-Based Global Forecasting Models for Significant Wave Height Prediction
(2023-08-31)Accurate wave predictions safeguard maritime operations, coastal communities, and marine ecosystems. Significant wave height, an average height of the highest one-third of the waves recorded during the sampling period, ... -
CMOS Sensor front-end and Data Converters for interface readout applications
(2022-12-15)The need for easily interfaced sensors is ever-increasing in the growing world of computers and digital systems. System performance depends more on many applications' sensors, actuators, and interface electronics. As a ... -
Co-ordinated port scans: A model, a detector and an evaluation methodology.
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A Coal Miner's Shadow
(2012-08-13)Light and shadow have the capacity to move us emotionally and create atmospheres that allow us to better understand stories. This thesis explores how light and shadow can propel the design of a music hall and museum space ... -
COASTAL EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST 3000 YEARS AT CONRADS BEACH, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF TRANSGRESSIVE COASTS
(2016-01-14)Although many modern coastlines are retreating as a result of global sea-level rise, periods of stability and progradation may result from time-varying sediment supply. In formerly glaciated regions, where sediment is ... -
Coastline as Commons: Using Spatial Devices to Link Littoral Temporalities
(2021-08-12)This thesis argues that architectural interventions can extend the water commons to the fluctuating littoral zone of Kjipuktuk/Halifax Harbour. The present composition of the Harbour as a working waterway favours a colonial ... -
Cocaine Production and the Provision of Household Services: Evidence from Colombian Coca Farmers
(2012-05-01)This paper analyzes how coca cultivation affects the provision of basic household services in Colombia. In particular, I examine how different levels of government responded to an exogenous upsurge in coca cultivation in ... -
Cockroaches: Refugee Justice in the Novels of Rawi Hage
(2013-09-03)Traditionally, refugees have been represented as passive, silent, and abject. While such representations are often used to elicit sympathy and support, they do so at the risk of dehumanizing their subjects. By rendering ... -
Code Status? Critically Evaluating Canadian ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ (DNAR) Orders
(2021-12-14)In this project, I explore and critically evaluate the theory, practical value, and accessibility of ‘do-not-attempt-resuscitation’ (DNAR) orders as they exist in the Canadian healthcare context. I first explain how DNAR ... -
Coding-In-Noise Deficits After Exposure to Noise Mimicking Real-Life Parameters
(2022-09-06)Noise induced synaptopathy (NIS) has been thoroughly researched in animals since the first observation of significant synaptic loss without permanent threshold shift (PTS) in CBA mice after brief noise exposure. However, ... -
Coercion-Resistant Verifiable Web-based Elections in Linear Time
(2019-08-21)Voter coercion broadly includes any attempt to influence the secrecy of a voter’s ballot, including bribery, vote stealing, and forced abstention. This risk, which affects the fundamentals of privacy in a democracy, is ... -
Cognition in individuals at familial and clinical risk for severe mental illness
(2019-09-10)Severe mental illness (SMI) includes schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe and chronic major depressive disorder. SMI typically onsets early in the lifespan and causes significant impairments in functioning. Cognitive ... -
THE COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF FORGETTING: AN INVESTIGATION OF IOR IN ITEM-METHOD DIRECTED FORGETTING
(2015-04-20)This dissertation investigated the occurrence of an increased magnitude of inhibition of return (IOR) after Forget (F) compared to Remember (R) memory instructions using a directed forgetting cueing paradigm. In such a ... -
Cognitive inhibition in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Cognitive mechanisms underlying a case of letter-by-letter surface alexia.
(Dalhousie University, 2000)