Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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BROWN ALGAL GENES IMPART SALINITY AND HIGH TEMPERATURE STRESS TOLERANCE IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
(2021-06-10)Plants are constantly exposed to unfavorable environmental conditions like salinity, temperature, and water stress, that negatively affects growth and development. The ability of plants to survive these environmental ... -
Bubble dispersion and coalescence in turbulent pipe flow.
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Buddhist Society of Wonderful Enlightenment Terrace: Observations on Functionalism
(2013-04-05)Louis Sullivan’s “form ever follows function” had a profound influence on architecture. Although often confused as synonymous with modernism, functionalism is more closely related to positivism in its bias toward science ... -
Building a Neighbourhood: Interpreting Montreal’s Plateau to Redefine Contemporary Mass Housing Typologies
(2013-04-09)After the industrial revolution, the increase in population of urban centres created a severe housing shortage. In North America there were two contrasting responses to house the masses, the urban tower and the garden city ... -
BUILDING AN ARC IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE TO IMPROVE SINGLE-SPECIES CONSERVATION PLANNING IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE
(2017-12-14)Habitat loss and fragmentation have precipitated a mass extinction. Therefore, maintaining a functionally connected habitat network is an effective response to biodiversity loss. However, climate change poses challenges ... -
Building Community in Sacred Space: A Method for Adaptive Reuse of Deconsecrated Catholic Churches in Millbank, New Brunswick
(2022-04-11)In an increasingly changeable and defamiliarized society, where attendance at religious services has decreased, many religious buildings are falling into disuse and disrepair. By using sacred qualities of architecture to ... -
Building ecoSystems Integration: An Approach to Building with Nature
(2014-08-25)This thesis investigates the relationship between architecture and nature and is positioned with the understanding that human beings are not separate from nature and therefore, our processes of design and construction are ... -
Building for the Network Society: Spaces of Information in a Newly Connected Havana
(2016-04-11)Since the Embargo of 1962, Cuba’s information infrastructure has been frozen. While other countries switched from copper wire to fiber-optic cables linking to a globally connected network -- the Internet -- Cuba remained ... -
Building On Controversy : Developing Architectural Dialogues on Controversial Sites
(2020-07-30)This thesis explores how controversial sites that are in stasis, like the old memorial library in Halifax, can be transformed into architecture. As the public becomes more involved in architectural design process the ... -
Building on the City: Inhabiting the Rooftops as a Strategy for the Urban Densification of Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2012-08-13)This thesis investigates the space above buildings, as an uninhabited layer of the city, possessing vast amounts of interconnected space. This idea will be pursued through the insertion of rooftop housing over the existing ... -
Building Resilience: Connecting Water, Landscape and Community in the Mississippi River Delta
(2021-08-06)Humans have altered the natural flow of the Mississippi River Delta through settlement structures and a layered set of scalar infrastructural systems creating a complex hybrid landscape. These changes to the natural landscape ... -
Building Rural Solutions from Rural Conditions: Revitalizing Cambodian Fishing Communities through Environmental Education
(2012-04-04)This thesis aims to create an architecture that adapts and integrates modern sustainable building solutions with Cambodian vernacular architecture to improve the quality of dwelling in rural fishing communities in Cambodia. ... -
Building with Biomaterials
(2023-04-14)Concrete buildings account for 80% of construction and generate 50% of global waste. Cement, which makes up 13% of concrete, is responsible for 6% of all anthropogenic emissions. To reduce a building’s carbon footprint, ... -
Building With Trees: Steps Forward in Forest Informed Design
(2022-08-29)This thesis builds on the roundwood construction methods of Ben Law, the experiments with grown form carried out at Hooke Park, and the forestry-to-building integration by the firm Whole Trees Structures. All three feature ... -
Buildings that Sing: Architectural Design for Choral Performance
(2023-07-14)Architecture filters sound, and therefore music. The design of concert halls favours a specific quality and experience of musical sound. Choral church music, which adapted to profit musically from the acoustics and spaces ... -
Built for Change: An Adaptive Approach to the Diversification of Halifax’s Residential Neighbourhoods
(2021-07-26)Residential patterns across Canada have longstanding social and urban qualities that are no longer suited to our current socio-economic world, including smaller and more diverse households and the need to integrate activities ... -
BULK AND COMPOUND-SPECIFIC NITROGEN ISOTOPE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATERIAL IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
(2023-12-15)Sewage wastewater is a significant global contributor to the degradation of coastal ecosystems globally. While stable isotope analysis (15N) has been used since the 1970s to track sewage pollution in the marine environment, ... -
Bumble Bees & Blueberry Fields: Landscape Characteristics that Affect Growth of Bombus impatiens Colonies
(2018-04-06)Development of bumble bee colonies can be affected by landscape composition and configuration. My study measured relationships between landscape metrics and development of bumble bee Bombus impatiens (Cresson 1863) ... -
Buoyancy and vertical movements of marine planktonic diatoms.
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Burning a Graph as a Model for the Spread of Social Contagion
(2016-04-08)The spread of social contagion is an active area in social network analysis. Assume that we want to spread a message among all the users of a network. Knowing the structure of the network, we may ask how fast can we do ...