Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Are You Hungrier Than a Fifth Grader? The Rise of the Monstrous Child in The Walking Dead
(2016-09-01)Contemporary Western zombie narratives have become overrun with the little girl zombie. This figure exists in a liminal space: its function in the narrative is difficult to pinpoint because—even as monster—it is often ... -
Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on Divine and Human Happiness
(2018-12-13)This thesis aims to compare Aristotle’s and Thomas Aquinas’s doctrines of divine and human happiness. I argue that the doctrine of participation creates a significant difference between the two theories. I proceed by first ... -
Aristotle on Phantasia
(2005-10)This text will argue that Aristotelian phantasia does not form a full capacity in the psyche and, instead, by drawing on its causal origins in perception, acts as an activity serving in the role of helpmate to capacities ... -
Aristotle on Philia
(2014-08-22)Aristotle devotes two books of the Nicomachean Ethics—one fifth of the whole work—to the topic of philia, but the relation between these treatments and the rest of the work is unclear. My thesis shows the importance of ... -
Aristotle transfigured: Dante and the structure of the "Inferno" and the "Purgatorio".
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Aristotle's Concept of Analogy and its Function in the Metaphysics
(2016-08-31)This thesis aims to settle an old dispute concerning Aristotle’s concept of analogy and its function in the Metaphysics. The question is whether Aristotle’s theory of pros hen legomena, things predicated in reference to ... -
Aristotle's Ethics of Goodness: A Study of the Self in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
(2019-04-03)Aristotle's assumptions about the structure of the self and its relationship to society differ greatly from those which are prevalent in modern European philosophical discourse. This can be an obstacle to understanding ... -
The army and navy at Halifax in peace-time, 1783-1793
(1970-04)At the end of the American Revolutionary War the Army and Navy forces based at Halifax were reduced to peace-time levels. Although they remained at these levels until war broke out again with France in 1793, all their ... -
Arrian's Events After Alexander in Photius
(2014-08-25)This study seeks to examine Photius' 9th-century summary of Arrian's Events After Alexander. The original work, which no longer survives, records the early history of the successors to Alexander's empire. While Photius' ... -
The Arrival, Reception, and Immediate Integration of Holocaust Survivors in Halifax, 1945 to 1955
(2017-08-23)This thesis explores the experiences of Holocaust survivors in Halifax and the role the city played in the reception of survivors from 1945 to 1955. Fundamentally, it argues that the Halifax Jewish community had an important ... -
Art Gallery as Bridge Between Port Industry and City
(2021-07-26)For centuries port industry has played a vital role in Halifax, occupying the majority of its waterfront. As shipping developed, ports moved to specialized suburban areas, allowing cities to redevelop their urban waterfront. ... -
Art in the City: A New Vancouver Art Gallery as a Means of Re-affirming Culture and Vitalizing the Urban Realm
(2011-04-11)This thesis explores the possibility that a well designed and situated urban art gallery might improve a problematic urban condition in Vancouver. The aim is to vitalize a neglected urban space, and connect the waterfront ... -
Art, Mind and Evolution
(2017-09-01)I argue that the fact that the purpose of art is still open to theorizing is perhaps one of the stronger arguments for art behaviors being instinctual. After exploring and critiquing a selection of evolutionary theories ... -
Articulating Ecology: Brownfield Remediation, Urban Agriculture and Prospects for Community Revitalization
(2015)2015 has been declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations. This proclamation emphasizes the soil as a basis for life and culture, its importance for agriculture, and its fragility when threatened by ... -
Articulating the Fall: Satan's Instrumental Rhetoric in Paradise Lost
(2023-08-30)Milton’s Paradise Lost establishes itself as a song from its first invocation of the muse. Approaching the poem as a musical composition, this paper examines the acoustic properties of Satan’s rhetoric. Specifically, this ... -
An Artificial Neural Network as a Simulation Metamodel to Determine Production Parameters in a Specialized Manufacturing Setting
(2015)The material handling system of a specialized production line is evaluated using a discrete-event simulation model. The object-oriented simulation model is built to allow changes to machine programmable logic, machine ... -
ARTIFICIAL REEFS AS A PLATFORM FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION IN CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS
(2019-03-19)Artificial reefs (ARs) increasingly are being deployed to mitigate damage to coral reef ecosystems from local anthropogenic stressors and climate change. Evaluating the efficacy of ARs in enhancing or sustaining reef ... -
Artificial selection on growth and age at maturation of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linn.) in Thailand.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
ARTIV BCI: AUGMENTED REALITY + TABLET INTERFACE FOR VISUALIZING BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE DATA
(2022-11-03)Over-plotting and screen size are issues that challenge multivariate data visualization, even on large displays. Large datasets make scrolling through data tedious, and pose difficulties in isolating data points. Multivariate ... -
Ascophyllm nodosum Extracts Improve Shelf Life and Nutritional Quality of Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)
(2010-11-26)In order to develop an environmentally friendly seaweed extract treatment which will benefit both pre- and post-harvest qualities of vegetables, the effects of pre-harvest application of the brown algae Ascophyllum nodosum ...