Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Damaged Perspectives: Towards a Visual Reading of Donald Barthelme's Picture Stories
(2020-08-21)America’s literary scene in the 1960s and 70s was a site of formal experimentation. Authors became discontented with the rational linearity of the written text and began to look for ways to disrupt it. Donald Bathelme is ... -
DANCING IN A CULTURE OF DISORDERED EATING: A FEMINIST POSTSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF YOUNG GIRLS’ EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD OF DANCE
(2017-08-16)Eating disorders are a public health issue in Canada where between 600,000 and 990,000 Canadians currently meet the diagnostic criteria for a clinical eating disorder; 80% of these Canadians are females. Of concern are ... -
Dark Honey: A Geo-Architectural Fiction of Extraction and Extinction
(2023-07-13)What does it mean to be human? As a species, we are defined by the contaminations that compose us and that are imposed by us. Spellbound by progress, our techno-hubris leaves no surface on Earth unaffected by perpetual ... -
A Dark Laboratory: Exploring Soil Health Perceptions and Assessments in the Maritimes
(2017-12-12)Farmer interviews and soil sampling were conducted on 34 farms to explore how farmers’ soil health (SH) perceptions, assessments and management practices relate to lab SH measures: the Cornell Soil Health Assessment (CSHA), ... -
Dark-rearing promotes drastic improvement of visual acuity in the amblyopic eye of lid-sutured kittens
(2013-04-05)This report extends findings (Duffy & Mitchell, 2013) of a dramatic recovery of vision in the deprived eye of amblyopic kittens following a short ‘dark-pulse’ (a 10 day period of darkness) to situations of clinical ... -
“DARKE HIDDEN VERTUOUS”: DECONSTRUCTING THE VIRGIN FIGURE IN MARY WROTH’S LOVE’S VICTORY AND JOHN FLETCHER’S THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS
(2020-08-21)This project analyzes the virgin figure as deployed by two Protestant playwrights. Clorin in John Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepherdess (c.1608) and Silvesta in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory (c.1620) are anomalous characters, ... -
DARSTELLUNG UND PROBLEMATIK DER SCHULDFRAGE IN BERNHARD SCHLINKS ROMAN "DER VORLESER" SOWIE IN DER GLEICHNAMIGEN VERFILMUNG VON STEPHEN DALDRY
(2013-08-23)This thesis discusses the question of guilt, as it appears on a variety of levels in Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader (1995) and its film adaptation by Stephen Daldry (2009). In general, a review of the question of the ... -
Das Bild des Fremden in der Dramatik Peter Turrinis und Rainer Werner Fassbinders
(2011-09-06)The following Master’s Thesis aims to describe the social and intellectual state of Austrian and German society after World War II through the perspective of two internationally renowned modern playwrights - Peter Turrini ... -
DAS LICHT DER KÜNSTE: HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHALS DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN MIT BLICK AUF WALTER PATERS THE RENAISSANCE
(2011-09-07)Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s literary relation to Walter Pater has already been established in the secondary literature; nevertheless, the Frau ohne Schatten has not been analysed with respect to this relation. This project ... -
Das Mögliche, Das Wirkliche Und Das Unmögliche: Three Concepts Of Poetics
(2013-08-27)This thesis presents a historical analysis of literature through the intriguing (but often overlooked) overarching concepts of art –“das Mögliche”, “das Wirkliche” and “das Unmögliche”– and the changes in the historical ... -
DATA ANALYTICS AND OPTIMIZATION MODELLING BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR CANADIAN ARCTIC OIL SPILLS RESPONSE
(2023-12-11)Oil spills adversely affect marine ecosystems. Hence, strategic planning for the development and operation of marine oil spill response facilities, along with resource allocation, holds significant importance for ... -
Data Compression Meets Automata Theory
(2024-02-07)We introduce a new paradigm in graph compression and formal language theory. We show that the ideas behind some of the most important data structures for compressing and indexing strings - such as the suffix array, the ... -
A Data Mining Approach for Predicting Delirium After Cardiac Surgery
(2014-12-19)Of particular concern to patients is the effect of surgery upon brain functions following a surgical intervention. Indeed, post-operative neurocognitive complications occur in up to 60% of patients. Delirium is a temporary ... -
A Data Mining Framework for Automatic Online Customer Lead Generation
(2012-04-04)Customer lead generation is a crucial and challenging task for online real estate service providers. The business model of online real estate service differs from typical B2B or B2C e-commerce because it acts like a broker ... -
A DATA MINING FRAMEWORK FOR PRODUCT BUNDLE DESIGN AND PRICING
(2016-12-06)Product bundling is a marketing strategy that has been widely studied in research literature and extensively used in practice. With the growing quantity of products and huge possible bundling combinations, it is necessary ... -
Data Mining in Social Media for Stock Market Prediction
(2012-09-05)In this thesis, machine learning algorithms are used in NLP to get the public sentiment on individual stocks from social media in order to study its relationship with the stock price change. The NLP approach of sentiment ... -
Data Science Strategies for Modelling Total Knee Arthroplasty Patient Variability
(2021-03-30)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) can present through self-reported patient symptoms and joint-level manifestations, impairing mobility and function. Symptom relief and functional restoration of end-stage OA is typically treated ... -
Data Structures for Colored Counting in Grids and Trees
(2023-08-31)In this thesis, we design data structures for colored counting queries. First, we consider the colored 2D orthogonal range counting problem and present four different time-space tradeoffs. Second, we consider the batched ... -
DATA STRUCTURES FOR GEOMETRIC RETRIEVAL IN TREE-LIKE TOPOLOGIES
(2020-12-21)This thesis studies the generalizations of orthogonal range searching to the case in which one of the dimensions is replaced with a tree topology. We design data structures for efficient support of path queries, which ... -
Database querying with direct manipulation.
(Dalhousie University, 1997)