Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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At-sea biology and movements of leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, in the northwest Atlantic.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
Athletes' Village: The Adaptive Reuse of Rexall Place
(2012-04-03)Currently very few retired venues are reused and most are torn down to make room for new development. Of the venues that are reused, they are either converted into housing projects or mixed use commercial buildings. My ... -
THE ATLANTIC BULGE: THE ROLE OF LOW-INCOME STATUS IN EXPLAINING REGIONAL VARIATION OF ADOLESCENT WEIGHT IN CANADA
(2013-08-21)Childhood obesity has become an increasingly important public health concern in Canada. This paper provides an econometric analysis of the role of income and other explanatory factors on adolescent overweight and obese ... -
Atlantic Canadian High School Students and Alcohol-Related Harms: Are There Differences Across Sex, Sexual Orientation and Psychosocial Indicators?
(2016-08-31)Alcohol is responsible for the greatest burden of acute harms in youth aged 15-24, with one fifth reporting at least one form of harm (physical, social, legal) in the past 12 months. This study sought to determine which ... -
Atlantic Canadians’ Attitudes Toward Cultural Difference
(2017-09-01)Atlantic Canadians are often stereotyped as being unwelcoming to people who “come from away,” being too traditional, and being closed minded. However, this reputation is rarely backed up with evidence. Little scholarship ... -
Atlantic Culture In The Pacific World: Maritime Whaling Voyages, 1827-1848
(2016-08-08)Between 1827 and 1850, whale ships from Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Saint John (New Brunswick) joined the hunt for whales in the Pacific Ocean. Using the extant records from these ships, this thesis explores the boundaries ... -
Atmospheric processing of aerosols at a site in rural Canada.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
Atomic force microscopy studies of the reaction of lithium with amorphoous silicon-tin alloys.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Attaining Uniformity in User Interfaces across Mobile Platforms - A Developer's Perspective
(2013-01-14)Mobile Application Development encompasses disparate facets such as architectural design, development and deployment, integration with existing web applications and business issues. Cross-platform mobile application ... -
Attempts Toward An Improved Synthesis of Aza-Dipyrrins
(2023-08-04)Compounds built on the 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (F-BODIPY) framework have a wide range of uses stemming from their highly tunable electronic properties. The versatility of this class of compound affords ... -
Attending to the health needs of African Nova Scotians: Exploring the role of district health authorities.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
ATTENTION BIASES AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN YOUTH WITH ANXIETY
(2023-07-21)Background: While attentional biases towards negative stimuli have previously been linked to the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders, attentional biases in anxiety remain understudied using dynamic social ... -
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: Constructing a measure of sluggish cognitive tempo.
(Dalhousie University, 2007) -
Attention mediates the relation between catastrophizing and pain.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
THE ATTENTION NETWORK TEST (ANT): INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES? AND ?COMPONENTS OF ATTENTION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
(2011-04-04)Using orthogonal subtractions of performance in selected conditions the attentional network test (ANT) measures the efficacy of three isolable components of attention: alerting, orienting, and executive control. This ... -
Attitudes Towards Influenza Vaccination During "Wait Times" in the Emergency Department
(2019-04-05)Influenza is a burdensome and preventable infectious disease. Lack of time was the reported reason 15% of Canadians did not receive their influenza vaccine in 2016/2017. Meanwhile, emergency department (ED) wait times are ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
Augmented and exact Lagrangian approaches to continuous constrained optimization with evolution strategies
(2022-08-31)We consider variations on Lagrangian approaches to constraint-handling in the context of stochastic black-box optimization. The well-known augmented Lagrangian function transforms a constrained problem into a sequence of ...
