Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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) -
Disease-causing Mutations in Human Enzymes of the CDP-Ethanolamine and CDP-Choline Pathways Cause Distinct Growth and Phospholipid Synthesis Phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2020-08-27)Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine are two of the most abundant phospholipids present in eukaryotic cells. In mammalian cells, these are mainly synthesized through the Kennedy pathways. PCYT1A is the gene ... -
The diseases of listening in early modern England.
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DISMANTLING THE GREEN MACHINE: A CRITICAL REFLECTION ON TECHNOLOGY AND ECOMODERN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
(2020-08-28)Addressing the scale of negative environmental changes from the rapid expansion of human populations and economic growth is a critical policy issue in the twenty-first century. Government and corporate responses are directed ... -
Disordered Eating Behaviour and Depressive Symptoms Among Nova Scotia Youth
(2011-12-15)Prevalence rates for adolescent depressive symptoms differ significantly between males and females. Explanatory models are unable to adequately clarify why this difference exists. To enhance understanding of gender ... -
Disorienting Responsibility
(2012-09-11)Experiences of disorientation can be common and powerful parts of moral agents' lives yet they have not been characterized by mainstream Western philosophers, and their effects have not been adequately ... -
Dispatch Policies between Hubs in the Physical Internet with Emission Considerations and Local Dispatch Using Machine Learning
(2023-12-15)This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of dispatch management in Physical Internet (PI) logistics systems. As a modular approach to freight deliveries and container transportation, it aims to reduce costs and ... -
Dispersal, homing, and connectivity in the estuarine fish, Osmerus mordax.
(Dalhousie University, 2007)