Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Enhancing Research Utilization for Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Model Forests
(2012-04-13)Model Forests were developed to bridge the gap between the emerging policy and the practice of sustainable forest management (SFM) in the early 1990s and, as such, to facilitate uptake of research findings into practice. ... -
ENHANCING SIGNAL ALIGNMENT IN MIMO Y CHANNELS WITH SPACE AND TIME SCHEDULING
(2015)Spectrum sharing and relaying in wireless networks offer attractive solutions in communication system designs, especially when combined with more advanced signal processing in the terminals and the relays operating in ... -
ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCHOOL-BASED SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION PROGRAMS: DOES SCHOOL-CONNECTEDNESS PLAY A ROLE?
(2017-05-11)The aim of this study was to examine whether higher levels of school-connectedness (SC) among high school students are associated with better receptivity of school-based alcohol and drug educational programs, and lower ... -
Enhancing the performance of multicast systems with layered transmissions
(2019-04-10)This dissertation advances the theory of multicast data distribution using layered division multiplexing within the framework of cooperative communications system design. Multicast services are an indispensable part of ... -
Enhancing the Performance of Relay Networks with Network Coding
(2012-08-22)This dissertation examines the design and application of network coding (NC) strategies to enhance the performance of communication networks. With its ability to combine information packets from different, previously ... -
Enhancing The Privacy Framework: An analysis of Privacy in Canadian and Brazilian health care
(2014-12-23)In the last decade, with organizations’ increased reliance on digital storage of information, privacy laws have been implemented and updated to help govern the collection, use, disclosure, storage and destruction of personal ... -
Enhancing the production effect in memory: Singing, underlying mechanisms, and applications
(2018-02-05)The production effect is the finding that memory performance is better for words that are produced (i.e., read aloud) compared to words that are not produced (i.e., read silently). This dissertation aimed to expand previous ... -
Enhancing the Reliability of Functional MRI and Magnetoencephalography for Presurgical Mapping
(2015)Pre-surgical mapping has become a crucial tool in the preparation and planning for brain tumor resection since the development of widely available non-invasive imaging technologies like functional magnetic resonance ... -
Ennui et taedium vitae chez la femme au siecle des lumieres.
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Ensemble Learning for Visual Recognition
(2016-09-06)Due to the widespread availability of affordable mobile cameras and popularity of social networking, a large variety of visual-based applications are emerging. These diverse applications have attracted many researchers and ... -
An Ensemble Regression Approach For OCR Error Correction
(2017-04-11)This thesis deals with the problem of error correction for Optical Character Recognation (OCR) generated text, or OCR-postprocessing: how to detect error words in a text generated from OCR process and to suggest the most ... -
An Ensemble Sentiment Classification System of Twitter Data for Airline Services Analysis
(2015-04-06)In airline service industry, it is difficult to collect data about customers' feedback by questionnaires, but Twitter provides a sound data source for them to do customer sentiment analysis. However, little research has ... -
Entrainment of circadian rhythms in mice by daily bouts of food availability: Analysis of neural gene expression patterns.
(Dalhousie University, 2004) -
Entropy and the Monitoring Problem
(2015)Entropy is a well-known quantity that is used to describe verious phenomena in physics and information theory. Like energy or information, entropy cannot be measured directly and traditionally is used to describe the ... -
Environ(mental) Architecture: How Architecture Shapes Our Mental Health Through the Use of Public Space
(2019-04-05)This thesis examines the potential of architecture to improve mental health through the design of public space. To determine the programmatic needs of a site, this document uses a human perception framework to analyze the ... -
Environment assessment by tadpoles and factors affecting anuran metamorphosis.
(Dalhousie University, 2004) -
ENVIRONMENT-DEPENDENT CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MUTATION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE
(2012-05-01)Environmental effects on mutation have been documented for many years but have concentrated on agents that directly interact with DNA. Mutation research in its early history investigated a variety of more mundane ... -
Environmental Assessment Through Comprehensive Studies and Review Panel Process Options Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act: A Comparative Review of Public Influence in the EA Process
(2012-12-11)Public participation is a central objective of environmental assessment process and a means by which the concerns and interests of the public are considered before a project proceeds. However, there have always been concerns ... -
Environmental control of phytoplankton size distribution.
(Dalhousie University, 2007) -
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON THE GENERATION OF SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES IN ARCTIC FIORDS: AN EXAMPLE FROM PANGNIRTUNG FIORD, EASTERN BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT
(2022-04-28)High-latitude fiords are susceptible to hazardous submarine and subaerial mass movements. Landslide ages calculated from radiocarbon dating and 210Pb/137Cs activities indicate that 8 of the 11 dated landslides are younger ...