Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Efficacy of Lysozyme as an Alternative to Antibiotics for Broiler Chickens
(2014-04-02)Antibiotics have been included in poultry feeds to improve growth performance. However, it is a concern that pathogens have become increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Lysozyme is a potential replacement for antibiotics. ... -
EFFICIENT AND OPTIMIZED HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION FOR FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION (FEC) OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
(2024-01-11)This PhD thesis focuses on developing new techniques of efficient architectural and circuit level implementation of forward error-correction (FEC) encoders and decoders for high-speeds fiber-optical communications. The ... -
EFFICIENT CLUSTERING OF SHORT TEXT STREAMS WITH AN APPLICATION TO FIND DUPLICATE QUESTIONS IN STACK OVERFLOW
(2023-12-18)This thesis focuses on the efficient clustering of short texts along with an application to find duplicate questions in Stack Overflow. In the first part of this thesis, we discuss static and dynamic clustering methods ... -
Efficient Computation and Application of Maximum Agreement Forests
(2013-08-15)Rampant lateral gene transfer (LGT) among prokaryotes, hybridization in plants and other reticulate evolutionary processes invalidate typical phylogenetic tree models by violating the assumption that organisms only inherit ... -
Efficient Hardware Implementations For The Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm
(2010-10-26)This thesis introduces new efficient hardware implementations for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Two main contributions are presented in this thesis, the first one is a high speed 128 bits AES encryptor, ... -
Effing the Ineffable: The Mysticism of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein
(2015)Both Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein hold mysticism—i.e., the belief in something utterly transcendent—centrally. The mysticism present in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus presents a problem: if “the ... -
Ego mechanisms of defense revisited: The relation of defense profiles to personality and health.
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Einstein-Aether Cosmological Scalar Field Models
(2017-03-24)The so-called Einstein-Aether theory is General Relativity coupled (at second derivative order) to a dynamical time-like unit vector field (the "Aether"). It is a Lorentz-violating theory and has gained much attention in ... -
Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Adjacent Seas: Composition, Biogeography, and Mitigation
(2015-03-31)BACKGROUND: Industrial fishing has profoundly changed the biological state of oceans and seas. While the direct impacts of overfishing on target stocks are being increasingly addressed, unwanted bycatch and discarding of ... -
ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR NATURAL GAS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL CANADA
(2014-04-03)In this paper, we used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and the bounds test approach to estimate the elasticity of demand for natural gas in Western and Central Canada. The best model specification selected ... -
Elasticity, Availability and Consistency in Cloud-based Aggregate Data Stores
(2015)Quorum-based replication is popular in many distributed online transaction processing data stores, especially key-value stores like Dynamo or Cassandra. By committing each write operation to N different nodes in a distributed ... -
Electric Space: A New Narrative for Aging Hydroelectric Facilities in B.C.
(2017-04-11)This thesis addresses the hydroelectric structures of the Buntzen Generating Station located within a restricted area of Indian Arm Provincial Park in British Colombia, Canada. Situated between ocean and mountain, the ... -
Electrical impedance analysis and freeze-thaw injury in plants.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Electrifying Residential Space Heating with Air-Source Heat Pumps in a Carbon-Intensive Grid: Greenhouse Gas Emission Impacts and the Case of Incentivising in Nova Scotia
(2019-03-01)Commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions warrant consideration of alternative residential space heating technologies particularly in regions with colder climates. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia (NS) has ... -
Electrochemical Behaviour of Ti(C,N) and TiC Cermets
(2012-08-24)Three samples of Ti(C,N) were fabricated with 40 vol.% Ni3Al: Ti(C0.3N07), Ti(C0.5N0.5) and Ti(C0.7N0.3), as well as TiC with 10, 20, 30 and 40 vol.% Ni3Al binder addition by means of melt infiltration and sintering. Each ... -
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC RECORDING DURING NATURALISTIC CONVERSATION: PRELIMINARY INSIGHTS FROM AN EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL LANGUAGE STUDY
(2021-08-31)EEG hyperscanning, which refers to recording simultaneous EEG data from multiple people, are becoming more popular in language cognition research. Studies have mainly focused on neuro-oscillatory dynamics as it is difficult ... -
ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC DRYING OF FRUITS: EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
(2022-08-30)Electrohydrodynamic drying is a novel nonthermal drying technique with simple equipment design, low operational costs, and relatively low energy consumption. This study investigated the effect of material properties and ... -
Electrokinetic Removal of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate from Proteins for Mass Spectrometry Analysis
(2021-12-21)Transmembrane electrophoresis (TME) is an electrokinetic method designed to remove sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) from protein samples prior to mass spectrometry analysis. Proteins in solution are stored behind dialysis ... -
ELECTROLESS Ni-P-Ti BASED NANOCOMPOSITE COATINGS
(2021-04-09)Infrastructures in various industries, such as oil and gas, chemical, automotive etc., are subjected to aggressive erosive and corrosive environments. A potential candidate for the protection of such infrastructures is ...