Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title

Determining the Mechanisms Governing Transient Liquid Phase Bonding of Nickel-based Superalloys using Boron Containing Filler Metals

Moreau, Eric (2020-05-05)

During TLPB, an initial boron uptake (IBU) phenomena was quantified using DSC and microstructural analysis of a IN625 base metal (BM)/BNi-2 filler metal (FM) joint. A conceptual model was developed to quantify both the ...

Determining the Net Growth Efficiency of Eicosapentaenoic Acid and Docosahexaenoic Acid in Atlantic Pollock (Pollachius virens) Using a Mass Balance Approach

Williams, Stephen (2020-12-10)

The essential fatty acids (EFAs) eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are required for the maintenance of good health in humans. Marine production of EPA and DHA is predicted to decrease as a result ...

Determining The Relationship Between Hard and Soft Tissue Movements in Orthognathic Surgery Patients Using Multiple Imaging Modalities

Emanuele, Nicholas (2022-01-20)

Orthognathic surgery encompasses various surgical procedures used for the correction of dentofacial deformities from malocclusions, prognathism, retrognathism, obstructive sleep apnea, to TMJ disorders and others. While ...

Determining the Relationship Between Needle Nutrition and Post-harvest Needle Retention in Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.)

Georgeson, Melissa (2013-04-05)

The Christmas tree and greenery trade is a multi-million dollar industry in Atlantic Canada. Christmas trees grown in Nova Scotia are shipped internationally especially, to the United States. This thesis was set out to ...

Determining the Validity and Reliability of a Modified Game-Based Testing Instrument to Evaluate Preschoolers’ Connection to Nature

MacKeen, Jessica (2022-08-12)

Nature exposure is integral for the proper development of a child’s physical and psychological well-being and is an early intervention that is correlated with pro-environmental behaviour and decision-making in adulthood. ...

Deterministic channel equalization for spatial multiplexing and space-time coded transmissions.

Zhang, Zhan. (Dalhousie University, 2004)

Detrital Production in Kelp Beds

Krumhansl, Kira (2012-03-07)

Detrital subsidy from highly productive kelp beds and forests to adjacent habitats represents a major form of connectivity between coastal ecosystems that regulates regional patterns of community organization and production. ...

Deux récits de voyage en nouvelle France au dix-septiéme siècle

Zibara, Leila (1982)

The travel narrative is both a literary genre, a personal journal, and a historical document, offering fresh insight through a vividly contemporary perspective. This thesis deals with the accounts of two late seventeenth-century ...

Developing a Biological Approach for Chitin Extraction from Homarus americanus Shell Waste

Radhakrishnan, Balaganesh (2021-04-30)

Lobster processing generates ~0.3M tons of shell wastes each year in Canada, which are rich in chitin, proteins, and minerals, making them valuable substrate. Among them, chitin, a natural biopolymer, has various applications ...

DEVELOPING A CHLOROPHYLL-BASED PREDICTION MODEL FOR EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID (EPA) PRODUCTION IN PHYTOPLANKTON

Cheng, Michael (2020-08-18)

Phytoplankton are ideal candidates for sustainable high-scale production of polyunsaturated fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). However, a rapid and reliable technique to model EPA production has yet to be ...

Developing a neurofeedback based intervention to reduce tremor in Essential Tremor

Sanderson, Chelsey (2019-08-30)

Essential Tremor (ET), the most common adult movement disorder, can interfere with activities of daily living (ADLs). ET is difficult to treat and many individuals with ET try many combinations of treatments, including but ...

Developing a new spatio-temporal framework for assessment of the Nova Scotia Inshore Sea Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Fishery

McDonald, Raphael (2020-08-18)

The current stock assessment model model used to assess areas of the Nova Scotia Inshore Sea Scallop (Placopecten Magellanicus) Fishery is a delay-difference model. However, this model has been found to be unable to reliably ...

DEVELOPING A NOVEL MODEL TO MEASURE DYNAMIC JOINT STIFFNESS OF L4/L5 JOINTS IN HUMAN LUMBAR SPINES USING AN INVERSE DYNAMIC APPROACH

Moslehi, Amir Hossein (2016-05-13)

Joint stiffness has been claimed as the main component providing stability to human spines during different daily activities. As a result, researchers have developed various models to calculate spinal joint stiffness during ...

Developing a Score to Grade Primary Care Providers’ Potentially Inappropriate Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Testing Behaviour in Nova Scotia

Lenskjold, Anders (2022-04-12)

Introduction: Primary care providers are gatekeepers, and they only open the ‘gate’ for sick patients to further care and testing. Blood work is potentially overused, and overtesting can worsen health outcomes. We will use ...

Developing a Sustainable Bioprocess for Chitin Extraction from Atlantic Lobster Shell Waste

Steeves, Helena (2021-01-07)

The goal of this research was to develop a fermentative chitin extraction method from Atlantic lobster shell waste. Results showed initial inoculum ratio was the most statistically significant variable in chitin extraction ...

DEVELOPING A TWO-PRONGED DRUG SCREEN TO IDENTIFY COMPOUNDS THAT PROTECT AGAINST CISPLATIN-INDUCED OTO- AND NEPHROTOXICITY

Wertman, Jaime (2021-01-07)

Cisplatin is a chemotherapy used to treat a variety of cancers, including several pediatric malignancies. Cancer survivors are plagued by lifelong cisplatin-induced toxicities, including kidney damage and ototoxicity, or ...