Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Determining Centralized Inventory SKUs in a Space and Cost Constrained Hospital Environment using Integer Linear Programming
(2022-08-03)This research determines centralized inventory stock keeping units (SKUs) in a space and cost constrained hospital environment using Binary Integer Programming (BIP). The case study takes place at the IWK hospital in Halifax ... -
Determining Client Effort: Understanding Therapists' Practices
(2013-04-02)For over 20 years occupational therapists have been using functional capacity evaluations to provide information about individuals’ ability to work after a musculoskeletal injury. An important component of these evaluations ... -
Determining Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin from a Drop of Blood using Contact Optical Microscopy
(2018-05-23)Contact optical microscopy (COM) is a novel and highly compact imaging technology that has the potential to deliver a point-of-care complete blood count, which could strongly impact many fields of medicine. It was hypothesized ... -
DETERMINING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN KNEE MUSCLE STRENGTH AND VARUS THRUST IN KNEE OA
(2015)Varus thrust (VT), a biomechanical feature reported in knee OA is identified visually, quantified using frontal kinematics and associated with OA progression. Objectives: To determine the association between i) two objective ... -
Determining the functional neuroanatomy of speech perception and reading.
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Determining the Influence of Surface Preparation on Transient Liquid Phase Bonding of Inconel 718/BNi-2
(2019-10-17)Transient liquid phase bonding is a high-performance brazing process used to join superalloys. Alloys that contain stable oxide layers present on the faying surface require surface preparation in order to be successfully ... -
Determining the Link Between Certain Hydraulic Properties and Postharvest Needle Abscission in Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.)
(2015)The goal of this project was to better understand the link between certain hydraulic properties and postharvest needle abscission (PNA) in balsam fir. Balsam fir branches were kept under various conditions to measure and ... -
Determining the Mechanisms Governing Transient Liquid Phase Bonding of Nickel-based Superalloys using Boron Containing Filler Metals
(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
(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
(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.)
(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
(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.
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Detrital Production in Kelp Beds
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...