Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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CONFORMITY OR CONTRADICTION: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH RIGHTS IN CANADIAN COURTS
(2016-04-11)This thesis examines court decisions affecting health interests under the Canadian Charter from the perspective of Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights. Based on an empirical review of ... -
Confronting Hegemony: Architectural Dialogues in Northern Ontario
(2016-04-08)The aim of this thesis is to assert the role of architecture as an active mediator in shaping the social, physical and economic space of the indigenous reserve of northern Ontario. This contested region, bounded by the end ... -
A CONGESTION AND MEMORY-AWARE FAILURE RECOVERY IN SD-WAN
(2020-12-21)In software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs), link failure is a common occurrence creating heavy congestion and packet loss and degrading the application performance. Proactive failure recovery, i.e., preinstalling ... -
The conjugate margins of the Labrador Sea: Crustal structure from refraction profiles and their tectonic implications.
(Dalhousie University, 1994) -
Connecting Culture and Nature in Detroit's Downtown Core: The Design of a Technical College Campus
(2012-08-15)This thesis addresses the City of Detroit`s transformation from a thriving center of trade and commerce to its present abandoned state. Due to the decentralization of industry and massive suburbanization since the ... -
CONNECTING SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION TO CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE
(2016-08-26)Child welfare social workers are struggling with soaring workloads and tremendously difficult situations in their work. Many child welfare social workers feel their social work education did not prepare them well for their ... -
Connecting the City: Redefining a Railway Divide in Duncan, British Columbia
(2015-04-02)This architectural thesis seeks to examine how public architecture and urban design can facilitate increased social connection and exchange in North American cities through the suggested development of an unused rail ... -
Connecting the Storied Landscape of the Shubenacadie
(2020-08-19)For more than 100 years, the Shubenacadie has been forgotten by the collective consciousness of many Nova Scotians. This thesis examines the cultural practices of the Mi’kmaq, the Acadians, and the British as they engaged ... -
Connecting Water and Memory: Reshaping the Poetic Space of Canals in Amsterdam
(2020-08-21)Amsterdam is a poem about water, it sings in people’s mouths, and flows in the canals. Language and people are the carriers of memory and the symbolic composition of poetry. Travellers to Amsterdam end their journeys with ... -
The Connectome of the Larval Brain of Ciona intestinalis (L.).
(2015)The anatomical substrate for animal behaviour is founded on the circuits of synaptic connections formed by the brain’s neurons. Small nervous systems allow us to examine the entirety of a nervous system in comprehensive ... -
Conquering the Biological Clock: Representations of Social Egg Freezing and Meanings of Oocytes in the Assisted Reproduction Industry
(2021-08-04)“Social egg freezing” (SEF) describes the preventative use of oocyte cryopreservation by healthy women to bank their gametes until they are ready to have children. Existing research has tended to focus on the individual ... -
CONSENSUS ANALYSIS ON NETWORKED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS WITH STOCHASTIC COMMUNICATION LINK FAILURE
(2013-03-01)This thesis is to develop a novel consensus algorithm or protocol for multi-agent systems in the event of communication link failure over the network. The structure or topology of the system is modeled by an algebraic graph ... -
Consensus Control of Multiple-Quadcopter Systems Under Communication Delays
(2017-12-13)Multiple-quadcopter systems have various civilian and military applications, such as forest fire monitoring and load transportation. However, since multiple-quadcopter systems are networked control systems (NCS), they ... -
The consequences of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, 1982: Failure of a success.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Conservation of three forest landbird species at risk: Characterizing and modelling habitat at multiple scales to guide management planning
(2016-04-08)To effectively conserve species at risk (SAR), it is important to understand their ecology at multiple scales, including stand-level habitat associations and landscape-level distribution. The Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus ... -
Consolidation of Aerospace Grade Aluminum 7055 Powder Via PM Technologies
(2016-08-31)The objective of this research was to assess the response of aerospace grade gas atomized aluminum 7055 (Al-8Zn-2.1Mg-2.3Cu-0.2Zr) powder to sinter-forge and SPS-forge styles of powder metallurgy processing. In meeting ... -
CONSPICUOUS SEXUALITY: BOURDIEU’S AFFECTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE NORMATIVE ORIGINS OF HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE
(2014-04-29)Through an elaboration Bourdieu I argue that the embodiment of heterosexist norms produces negative dispositions towards gay men and women. Though this position relates to the literature on homophobic violence in its ... -
Constrained cops and robber.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Constrained Women in "Omkara": Marriage, Mythology, and Movies
(2017-09-01)Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara is an unconventional Bollywood film that draws on the story of Othello to explore themes of suppression and vengeance that can be traced back to Indian mythology. The film invokes the allure of ... -
CONSTRAINING THE DYNAMICAL MASSES OF SPT2349-56: A MASSIVE GALAXY PROTOCLUSTER AT Z ∼ 4.3
(2018-09-21)This study presents an analysis of SPT2349-56, the brightest unlensed source found by the South Pole Telescope during a 2500 deg^2 survey of the sky. Follow-up observations showed that SPT2349-56 is comprised of 14 ...