Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Decision under Complete Uncertainty: Bridging Economic and Philosophical Research
(2012-08-28)This thesis explores the topic of decision under conditions of complete uncertainty, advocating an interdisciplinary perspective that benefits from the insights of both economists and philosophers. Thus far, most of the ... -
DECISION-MAKING IN LOCAL AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE UTILIZATION OF BIOMASS RESOURCES
(2017-08-30)Agricultural biomass fulfils several important functions essential for the sustenance of human societies; it is used for the production of food, feed, biomaterials and bioenergy. Although biomass is renewable, there is ... -
Decisional balance of nutrition behaviour and physical activity among children and adolescents.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
DECOLONIZATION THROUGH MADNESS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH IN THE CONTEXT OF BANGLADESH
(2022-12-31)The global mental health movement has given rise to a new discourse on the implication of the use of psychiatric-biomedical categories of disorder to standardize a global approach to mental health and illness. The aim of ... -
Decolonizing Childbirth: Inuit Midwifery and the Return of Delivery to the Canadian North
(2018-08-27)Since the 1970s, the mandatory evacuation of Inuit women to southern Canada for hospitalized childbirth has resulted in many negative impacts on communities including a loss of culture in the form of traditional knowledge ... -
Decolonizing Marine Safety and Shipping in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Looking inwards and to Inuvialuit for insights for reconciliation
(2024-04-10)The governance of shipping in Inuit Nunangat has been evolving in response to a growing interest in polar navigation and a recognition that while such navigation is possible, it comes with unique risks and operating ... -
DECOLONIZING MI'KMAW MEMORY OF TREATY: L’SƗTKUK’S LEARNING WITH ALLIES IN STRUGGLE FOR FOOD AND LIFEWAYS
(2017-04-07)ABSTRACT Treaty negotiations in Nova Scotia have been triggered by the Supreme Court of Canada decision in 1999, based on the Donald Marshall Jr. case, upholding a Mi’kmaq treaty right to fish for a livelihood. These ... -
Decomposability and structure of bands of nonnegative operators.
(Dalhousie University, 1996) -
Decomposability and triangularizability of positive operators on Banach lattices.
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Deconstructing Young Adults' Religious (Dis)engagement in Statistics Canada's Religiosity Index
(2013-04-03)This research explored whether Statistics Canada’s religiosity index is an adequate measurement tool to capture the degree of young adults’ (aged 15-29) religious engagement in contemporary Canada. The impact of the agency’s ... -
Decreasing the Stigma of Mental Health Facilities: Creating a Community Treatment Center in East Liberty, Pittsburgh
(2019-08-09)This thesis demonstrates the positive impact that the built environment can have to decrease mental health stigma by creating specific design tools to blend community space and mental health treatment facilities through ... -
A DEEP IMAGE CLASSIFICATION APPROACH FOR FISHING ACTIVITY DETECTION FROM AIS DATA
(2019-12-12)Maritime transport and vessel activities on the ocean have a significant impact on marine life, which consequently affects human life. Therefore analyzing and monitoring the fishing activities using the vast amount of ... -
Deep Language Models for Text Representation in Document Clustering and Ranking
(2023-12-13)Deep language models have become increasingly prominent in the field of machine learning. This thesis explores the potential of deep language models for text representation and their role in specific text mining applications ... -
Deep Learning Applications to Offline Arabic Handwriting Words Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network
(2023-03-08)Automatic handwriting recognition is the process of converting online and offline letters or words as a graphical form into its text format. Automatic Arabic Handwriting words recognition using deep learning neural networks ... -
DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES TO CLASSIFY AND TRACK AT-RISK FISH SPECIES
(2021-08-31)In marine ecosystems, fish play a crucial role. They are linked to other organisms through the food web and other processes. Because they provide food, humans have had an especially close relationship with them for decades. ... -
A deep learning computer vision system for image based cytometry
(2017-02-02)A Complete Blood Count (CBC) is one of the most commonly deployed tests for checking the overall medical condition of a human body. It results in a summary of blood cell related measures allowing for a quick preliminary ... -
Deep Learning-Based Stacking Neural Network and Generative Adversarial Networks for Human Activity Recognition Based on Ambient Sensors
(2021-01-28)Smart home for healthcare services has acquired more attention since the increasing development of the Internet of Things and the population ageing over the world. Human activity recognition (HAR) is one of the concerns ... -
Deep Learning? Investigating Student’s Perceptions of Educational and Occupational Skills for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(2020-08-20)The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key factor driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Like industrial revolutions of the past, it will have a profound effect on jobs, the kinds of skills needed to fill ... -
Deep Neural Network (DNN) Design: The Utilization of Approximate Computing and Practical Considerations for Accuracy Evaluation
(2021-08-04)Approximate computing is emerging as a viable way to achieve significant performance enhancement in terms of power, speed, and area for system on chip (SoC) designs. Utilizing approximate computing in the design of deep ... -
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Admission Control for Throughput Maximization in Mobile Edge Computing
(2021-09-02)With the development of wireless network technologies, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been proposed as a solution for mobile devices’ high-complexity computation. Technically, with MCC, mobile devices’ high-complexity ...