Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Dimming the City
(2017-08-08)This thesis addresses light pollution, specifically over-illumination, in cities. It examines the history of artificial lighting, the consequences of excessive light, and the motivations for its continued overuse: fear and ... -
Dipyrrins, Pyrrolyldipyrrins, Prodigiosenes and Their Complexes
(2012-12-20)Dipyrrins, pyrrolyldipyrrins and prodigiosenes are a closely related series of molecules: pyrrolyldipyrrins are dipyrrins with a pyrrolic substituent and prodigiosenes are a special class of pyrrolyldipyrrins with a methoxy ... -
Direct Integration of Dielectrophoresis, Pneumatic Pumping, and Reversibly Bonded Polymer Moulds for MEMS Based Lab-on-Chip Applications
(2016-04-26)Cell testing based on lab-on-chip technology using MEMS devices is a new area of interest for biomedical research, however currently the testing is limited in the sample size which is due to low throughput methods applied ... -
Direct Powder Roll Compaction of α- β Titanium Alloys with Al, V, and Fe
(2022-08-12)Compared to other metals, titanium has good corrosion and oxidation resistance, strength-weight ratio, and retains strength at relatively high temperatures. Despite being an excellent engineering material, its cost of ... -
Direct Selling Business Lead Prediction by Social Media Data Mining
(2016-04-08)Business leads are new potential customers and networkers from the direct selling business point of view, which are the marketing backbone of the direct selling industry. People who work in the direct selling business ... -
DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION PROCESSING OF ALPHA-BETA, NEAR-ALPHA, AND BETA TITANIUM ALLOYS
(2022-04-18)Directed energy deposition (DED), or laser powder fed additive manufacturing (LPF-AM) is a process whereby a conical stream of metal powder is concentrated at the focal point of a laser, providing sufficient energy to ... -
DIRECTING THE ABORTION DEBATE
(2011-09-09)Arguments in the debate over abortion can, for the most part, be categorized as aiming to provide an answer to one of two questions: “Is abortion Immoral?”, and “Should abortion be legal?” I will argue that those wishing ... -
The Dirty Work of a Telltale: Narrative Ethics in Melville's The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd
(2011-09-06)In Melville's final two works of fiction, The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, narration itself is presented as an ethical act. Drawing primarily on the theory of Emmanuel Levinas, this thesis explores the ethical dynamics ... -
Disabusing the Tax Aid Narrative: What Inter-national Tax Equity Really Means for "Poor" Countries and How to (Re)Frame It
(2022-06-10)International tax regimes (e.g., the “double taxation regime”) are created by states with competing tax jurisdiction to coordinate their tax rules and, specifically, to address common efficiency problems like international ... -
Disaster Preparedness and Response in Cuba: The Impact of Solidarity on Disaster Management
(2019-12-09)This thesis examines Cuba’s disaster response and preparedness measures. The central research question asks: Is Cuba’s disaster management model effective in protecting and enhancing the livelihoods of its citizens? Following ... -
DISCIPLINOLOGY: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES
(2016-04-07)Phylogenetic software and techniques from natural language processing can be applied to the analysis of the structure of academic disciplines. This is possible through a synchronic analysis based on comparisons of the ... -
DISCOURSE AND DISEMPOWERMENT: EXAMINING INDIGENOUS CONSULTATION POLICY IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2018-06-26)This research focuses on the duty to consult as exercised currently in Nova Scotia, to explore whether or not government discourses of reconciliation have led to formal policy changes, which recognize the sovereignty of ... -
A discourse of their own? The critique of luxury in selected prose of eighteenth-century women writers.
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DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A CANCER STEM CELL-ENRICHED LONG NON-CODING RNA IN TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER
(2019-11-28)Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients face poor prognoses, possibly due to the presence of highly tumorigenic cancer stem cells (CSCs) within their tumors. The search for possible CSC targets is limited, but may ... -
The discovery of a novel series of amyloid-β antiaggregants based on the structure of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid: a detailed analysis of the mechanism of action underpinning antiaggregant activity
(2015-05-01)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized nations, yet there are no disease-stabilizing therapies currently in use. The amyloid hypothesis suggests that oligomeric species of the ... -
Discovery of small molecule interactors of human ArfGAP1 and their potential use for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease
(2023-12-12)Parkinson’s disease (PD), a movement disorder affecting primarily elderly patients, is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. The majority of cases are idiopathic, however, a subset of patients have genetic ... -
Discrimination Learning Between and Within Complex Displays
(1970-09)The present experiment was designed to investigate discrimination learning between and within complex displays in a concept formation task. The displays were characterized by the presence or absence of a distinctive feature ... -
Discrimination of vaccine preventable serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae by PCR and sequencing
(2017-07-13)Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterium that causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, and vaccines have been developed against a certain number of its serotypes. Serotyping of S. pneumoniae is important to ... -
Discriminative Shape Feature Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Classification
(2016-12-12)Unlike conventional handcrafted feature extractors, deep learning approach can extract generic image features without relying on explicit domain knowledge. Recently, there is a trend of combining handcrafted features with ... -
Discussions of abnormality and deformity in early modern England, with particular reference to the notion of monstrosity.
(Dalhousie University, 1995)