Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Cellular and Subcellular Mechanisms of Ventricular Mechano-Arrhythmogenicity
(2021-07-15)The heart is an electro-mechanical pump with feedback mechanisms for responding to acute changes in its mechanical environment. This requires cellular and subcellular elements of cardiac mechano-sensitivity, including ... -
Cellular dedifferentation and redifferentiation in Splachnum ampullaceum (L.) Hedw
(1959)The phenomena of dedifferentiation and rediff-erentiation in Splachnum ampullaceum are discussed. A quantitative study of changes in the size and number of the main cellular constituents as well as changes in their position ... -
Cellular mechanisms of the neurotoxicity caused by hyperammonemia and hypoglycemia.
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Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Neuromuscular Junction Stability and Plasticity in Normal and Diseased Mice
(2021-01-07)The stability of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is critical for maintaining independence and quality of life. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that underlie this stability is of paramount importance to be able to ... -
Cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of gender specific mitochondrial inheritance in the marine mussels Mytilus.
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Cemetery as a Place of Cultural Communication
(2012-04-10)Cemeteries serve as repositories of history and memories of the local community, as well as afford the living population an opportunity to connect and learn about a culture’s past. Accordingly, the cemetery as a place and ... -
Centering Women and Newborns in Health Human Resources Planning: A needs-based approach to primary maternity health care in Nova Scotia
(2015)With a global health human resources (HHR) crisis and increasing health needs, new ways of designing health care in all clinical settings, including primary maternity health care is required. The purpose of this sequential ... -
Central Amazon fish populations: biomass, production and some dynamic characteristics
(1983)A 2.5 year field study designed to estimate production of fish in the Amazon river provides a basis for understanding the fishery and certain features of floodplain ecology. Intensive sampling with a fine-mesh seine ... -
Central and Peripheral Visual Fields in Patients with Migraine
(2012-09-04)Purpose: To determine if patients with migraine show clinically apparent visual field deficits in the peripheral visual field compared to healthy controls. Methods: Normal observers (n=25; mean age 41 y, range 15-67 y) ... -
Centralized Waiting List for Outpatient Physiotherapy in the Central Zone of the Nova Scotia Health Authority
(2019-04-05)This thesis utilizes discrete event simulation to model four outpatient physiotherapy locations in the Central Zone of the Nova Scotia Health Authority. Centralization of intake is being considered to increase efficiency ... -
Centring Community: New Pathways in Resource Extraction Policy Processes
(2021-04-29)The community dimension of resource extraction is a historically understudied area of inquiry in Canadian political science. While bringing prosperity and benefits for more privileged members of communities, resource ... -
A Century of Planning for Environmental Concerns in the Alewife Brook Watershed, Boston, MA
(2019-04-05)Landscapes are ever changing, both ecologically and culturally, making it difficult for planners to understand and balance environmental, social, and economic needs. The Alewife Brook Watershed located in Boston, Massachusetts, ... -
CEOL AGUS TEANGA: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRISH LANGUAGE MUSIC AND IRISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2021-07-14)This study examined the relationship between music, language, and cultural knowledge management, through the lens of Knowledge Management. I interviewed both students and educators on-site at St. Mary’s University Halifax, ... -
CFD SIMULATION OF SIEVE TRAY HYDRODYNAMICS USING OPENFOAM
(2022-09-21)A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was used to predict the hydrodynamics of transient 3-dimensional flow on sieve trays. The model is constructed in the Eulerian-Eulerian framework for two interpenetrating phases. ... -
The Challenge of Youth Engagement in Local Government: Exploring the Use of Youth Councils in Amherst and Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
(2014-04-04)Youth councils are an increasingly popular tool that both government and non-governmental organizations use to inform policy and program development, to increase the participation of young people, and to improve the ... -
Challenges in Two-fluid Modeling Applied to Large-scale Bubble Plumes
(2018-09-28)Large-scale bubble plumes of sour gas from underwater wells pose many environmental health and safety concerns. The prediction of the physical extent of the release and the amount of dissolution into the surrounding ocean ... -
The Challenges of Communication: A Study of Immigrant Parents and School Staff in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s English School System
(2018-10-15)This thesis employs an anthropological approach to analyzing the communication between immigrant parents and school staff at elementary schools in the west end of Halifax. I focus on the communication process in relation ... -
THE CHALLENGES OF IDENTIFYING TRAFFICKED CHILDREN: THE EXPERIENCES OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE GHANAIAN FISHING INDUSTRY
(2021-04-26)This thesis uses the Ecological Systems Theory and Qualitative Research methods to explore the identification of child trafficking for labour in the Ghanaian Fishing Industry by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The ... -
Challenges to Victim Involvement at the International Criminal Court: Shedding Light on the Competing Purposes of Justice
(2011-09-09)The Rome Statute saw the provision of three statutory rights for victims: the right to participation, protection, and reparations. The addition of these rights is an attempt to incorporate elements of restorative and ...
