Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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A critical analysis of the construction of the new essential worker through the discursive practices of the Canadian news media during COVID-19: Implications for occupational rights
(2022-04-14)The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent government responses resulted in a shift in the identity of the essential worker that now included low wage essential workers. Using a critical discourse analysis methodology written ... -
Critical behaviour of gadolinium.
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Critical Care: Farming and Building as if the Earth Mattered
(2021-07-09)Such is the critical condition of our earth that reuniting building and farming is an urgently needed form of care for planetary well-being and survival. Lessons from utopias, communes, and nature are used in this thesis ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Seasonal Agricultural Workers within the Context of Agricultural Issues
(2022-08-26)The aim of the research is to understand the role of the government in producing or reproducing inequalities faced by seasonal agricultural workers in Canada by applying critical discourse analysis to government news ... -
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RENEWAL: A FRAMEWORK OF DYNAMIC MICROSIMULATION MODELLING FOR TRAFFIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT
(2016-08-29)This thesis develops a dynamic microsimulation modelling framework for traffic impact assessment during the renewal of a critical infrastructure in Halifax transportation network. The complexity of the construction project ... -
A critical perspective on social intervention and evaluation in the modern welfare state.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Crop Assessment Technique Using a Real-Time Hardware-Based Image Processing System to Support on-the-spot Decision Management for Agricultural Applications
(2022-04-21)Despite the advances in modern technology, one of the most challenging tasks remains the identification of stressed and/or diseased crops at the field scale. A wide range of precision agriculture (PA) technologies with the ... -
Cross-Cultural Landscapes: Integrating Islam into the Rural Canadian Vernacular
(2019-04-05)Canada is a country of immigrants. Over generations our iconic landscape has offered a focal point for integration and been an important symbol of our identity. Yet as new cultures integrate their identity often fluctuates ... -
Cross-Study Analyses of Microbial Abundance Using Generalized Common Factor Methods
(2020-05-15)Micro-organisms seem to flagellate about wherever they please, in our bodies and in the natural and built environments, but they are more cunning than their meandering behavior would suggest. By creating networks of ... -
CROSS-VALIDATION ADJUSTMENT FOR MODEL SELECTION WITH CORRELATED DATA
(2021-12-17)In the context of general linear models, often techniques are used with an independence assumption. Unfortunately, this assumption often does not hold in real data. Real data tends to have correlations in the errors which ... -
Crossing the Tracks: Imagining a New Approach to Urban Rail Yard Revitalization in North Winnipeg
(2016-04-08)This thesis proposes an approach to urban rail yard revitalization that is counter to the typical model of infill development. The railroad that historically joined Canada together, and galvanized urban development across ... -
Crustal subduction and the exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure terranes: contrasting modes with examples from the Alps and Caledonides
(2013-08-19)The widespread recognition of (ultra)high-pressure ((U)HP) metamorphic rocks in orogens worldwide suggests that subduction and exhumation of crustal rocks from mantle depths are normal processes at convergent plate margins. ... -
CRYSTALLIZATION OF TRISTEARIN FROM ITS SOLUTION IN DODECANE
(2017-12-18)A suspension of tristearin (SSS) crystals crystallized from 10% solution in dodecane (non-polar solvent), was studied using DSC (differential scanning calorimetry), Rheology, PLM (polarized light microscopy), and XRD (x-ray ... -
CRYSTALLIZATION ONSET AND POLYMORPHIC OCCURRENCE IN PURE SATURATED TRIACYLGLYCEROLS DURING COOLING FROM THE MELT
(2023-05-20)The effect of cooling rate on crystallization onset temperature and polymorphic occurrence in four pure saturated triacylglycerols, tridodecanoate (LLL), trimyristate (MMM), tripalmitate (PPP) and tristearate (SSS) has ... -
The Cuban Recipe for Food Sovereignty: Investigating the contextual variables that shape Cuba’s cuisine and food culture
(2020-12-18)This thesis investigates the linkages and contradictions between Food Sovereignty and Slow Food’s principles within Cuba. The Cuban food system is influenced by external factors including the US embargo, broader international ... -
Cultivating Contention: An Historical Inquiry into Agrarian Reform, Rural Oppression and Farm Attacks in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(2016-08-31)One of the most shocking post-apartheid developments for South Africa’s farming community has been the drastic increase in violent crime directed against white farmers – a phenomenon commonly known as farm attacks. ... -
Cultivating Landscape: A Demonstration Farm in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario
(2015)This thesis addresses the role of architecture in the design of large parks, and the role of landscape in the design of architecture. Given the scale and importance of national parks to identity and imagination, how might ...