Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Birthing and Being Birthed: Exploring How the Experience of Birth Trauma Impacts Birthing People in Their Postpartum Lives
(2020-08-10)Birth trauma is experienced by up to 30% of childbearing people and has negative health consequences. Further, birth trauma is poorly understood by healthcare providers and childbearing people’s embodied experiences of ... -
A BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW: CANADIAN DRUG REGULATION
(2010-09-16)This thesis assesses the current status of Canadian prescription drug regulation and the policy drivers that guide this process. This analysis is accomplished by first providing a general survey of the steps, law, and ... -
The bitter taste receptor Tas2R14 is expressed in ovarian cancer and mediates apoptotic signaling
(2017-07-07)Bitter taste receptors (Tas2Rs) are a subfamily of G-protein coupled receptors expressed not only in the oral cavity but also in several extra-oral tissues and disease states. For example, mammary epithelial cells express ... -
Black American refugees in Nova Scotia, 1813--1840.
(Dalhousie University, 2003) -
Black carbon: Atmospheric measurements and radiative effect.
(Dalhousie University, 1996) -
A Black Feminist Study of African Nova Scotian Nurses and Their Leadership in Healthcare
(2022-04-21)African Nova Scotians (ANSs) are a culturally distinct group who have endured hardship yet succeeded in exceptional ways. Little is known about African Nova Scotian (ANS) nurses; however, literature suggests that ANSs are ... -
The Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.
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Black Loyalists: Land Petitions and Loyalism
(2016-04-05)The Black Loyalists played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia. They faced many difficulties, including discrimination during the process of land granting. There has been a lively scholarly debate over the ... -
Black Sinatras, White Panthers: Race, Genre and Performance in Detroit Black Pop and Rock, 1960-1970
(2010-12-20)This paper explores several narratives of race and racialized music production in postwar American popular musics, to study the ways in which race has played an intrinsic role in structuring not only contemporary expectations ... -
Blessed be the Paps: Early Modern English Medical Representations of Women’s Breasts, Breast Milk, and Breastfeeding
(2022-12-14)In this interdisciplinary study, I examine representations of women’s breasts in early modern English vernacular medical texts and posit that women’s breasts – as represented within these texts – are a visible and powerful ... -
Blind Network Tomography
(2011-08-17)abstract The parameters required for network monitoring are not directly measurable and could be estimated indirectly by network tomography. Some important research issues, related to network tomography, motivated the ... -
Blind Sight
(2010-12-20)This thesis focuses on the exploration of the sense of smell, touch, taste, and hearing as main design guidelines. In doing so, an architecture was developed which moves beyond the visual reliance of spatial understanding. ... -
BLN: A LAYER-2 Framework for Fast Bitcoin Transaction Processing
(2023-04-11)Lightning Network (LN) is a layer-2 protocol that enables fast Bitcoin transaction processing. However, it only works well for peer-to-peer micropayments, namely, small amount payments between individual parties. In this ... -
A Blockchain Based Framework for Reputation Management and Node Misbehaviour Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2021-06-14)With the growth of smart applications such as smart cities and smart farming, the importance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is gradually being realized by many industrial enterprises. In particular, WSNs have shown ... -
Blood Flow Disturbances Downstream of an Endovascular Stent Graft: An Investigation of Oversizing and Compliance Mismatch
(2015)In current medical practice endovascular stents are the most common treatment used in the management of arterial disease, particularly to bridge blood flow through aneurysmal vessels. Despite their relative ease of ... -
Blood Vessel Health: The Influence of Ageing and Aerobic Fitness
(2016-08-04)Optimal blood vessel function requires a balance between sympathetic neural vasoconstrictor activity (SNA) and endothelial-derived vasodilatory nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability. Ageing is associated with elevated resting ... -
Blood-Brain Barrier Pathology as a Bio-Marker and Target for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Epilepsy
(2024-07-31)TBI is currently the leading cause of death and disability. Although moderate TBI only accounts for 10% of all TBIs worldwide, approximately 450 Canadians suffer a moderate brain injury every day and less than 30% of ... -
BLUEBERRY SPANWORM, ITAME ARGILLACEARIA (PACKARD) AND BUMBLE BEE, BOMBUS IMPATIENS (CRESSON) SUSCEPTIBILITY TO NEW BIORATIONAL INSECTICIDES
(2011-01-25)Biological and cultural control tactics are available for many agricultural pests but insecticides still play an important role in the rapid reduction of pest incidence when damage reaches economic levels. Laboratory and ... -
"Bluenose Effrontery": Dr. William Johnston Almon and the City of Halifax During the United States' Civil War
(2013-08-27)Popular historiography of the U. S. Civil War has traditionally underemphasized the war’s foreign dimension and the role outside support and potential recognition played in the conflict. Recent literature, however, has ... -
Blurring Boundaries: Waste as a Vehicle for a Social Metamorphosis
(2013-08-08)In 2001, Argentina suffered an economic collapse that almost wiped out the middle-class, leaving thousands homeless. This resulted in the growth of the informal settlements and informal sectors of employment in and around ...