Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Building On Controversy : Developing Architectural Dialogues on Controversial Sites
(2020-07-30)This thesis explores how controversial sites that are in stasis, like the old memorial library in Halifax, can be transformed into architecture. As the public becomes more involved in architectural design process the ... -
Building on the City: Inhabiting the Rooftops as a Strategy for the Urban Densification of Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2012-08-13)This thesis investigates the space above buildings, as an uninhabited layer of the city, possessing vast amounts of interconnected space. This idea will be pursued through the insertion of rooftop housing over the existing ... -
Building Resilience: Connecting Water, Landscape and Community in the Mississippi River Delta
(2021-08-06)Humans have altered the natural flow of the Mississippi River Delta through settlement structures and a layered set of scalar infrastructural systems creating a complex hybrid landscape. These changes to the natural landscape ... -
Building Rural Solutions from Rural Conditions: Revitalizing Cambodian Fishing Communities through Environmental Education
(2012-04-04)This thesis aims to create an architecture that adapts and integrates modern sustainable building solutions with Cambodian vernacular architecture to improve the quality of dwelling in rural fishing communities in Cambodia. ... -
Building with Biomaterials
(2023-04-14)Concrete buildings account for 80% of construction and generate 50% of global waste. Cement, which makes up 13% of concrete, is responsible for 6% of all anthropogenic emissions. To reduce a building’s carbon footprint, ... -
Building With Trees: Steps Forward in Forest Informed Design
(2022-08-29)This thesis builds on the roundwood construction methods of Ben Law, the experiments with grown form carried out at Hooke Park, and the forestry-to-building integration by the firm Whole Trees Structures. All three feature ... -
Buildings that Sing: Architectural Design for Choral Performance
(2023-07-14)Architecture filters sound, and therefore music. The design of concert halls favours a specific quality and experience of musical sound. Choral church music, which adapted to profit musically from the acoustics and spaces ... -
Built for Change: An Adaptive Approach to the Diversification of Halifax’s Residential Neighbourhoods
(2021-07-26)Residential patterns across Canada have longstanding social and urban qualities that are no longer suited to our current socio-economic world, including smaller and more diverse households and the need to integrate activities ... -
BULK AND COMPOUND-SPECIFIC NITROGEN ISOTOPE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATERIAL IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
(2023-12-15)Sewage wastewater is a significant global contributor to the degradation of coastal ecosystems globally. While stable isotope analysis (15N) has been used since the 1970s to track sewage pollution in the marine environment, ... -
Bumble Bees & Blueberry Fields: Landscape Characteristics that Affect Growth of Bombus impatiens Colonies
(2018-04-06)Development of bumble bee colonies can be affected by landscape composition and configuration. My study measured relationships between landscape metrics and development of bumble bee Bombus impatiens (Cresson 1863) ... -
Buoyancy and vertical movements of marine planktonic diatoms.
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Burning a Graph as a Model for the Spread of Social Contagion
(2016-04-08)The spread of social contagion is an active area in social network analysis. Assume that we want to spread a message among all the users of a network. Knowing the structure of the network, we may ask how fast can we do ... -
BURNING VELOCITY AND LOWER FLAMMABILITY LIMITS OF HYBRID MIXTURES CONTAINING COMBUSTIBLE DUST AND FLAMMABLE GAS
(2018-04-20)Hybrid mixtures of combustible dust and flammable gas may demonstrate increased burning velocities and reduced lower flammability limits (LFL) over the fuels individually. This can increase explosion likelihood and severity ... -
BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SANCTIONS: A ROAD TO FILLING THE GOVERNANCE GAP
(2021-01-07)As concerns about the negative impacts of sanctions on the human rights of civilians and the environment increases, it is necessary to reflect upon the lawfulness and legal status of such measures in international law, and ... -
Buyer behaviour toward Instagram based businesses in Saudi Arabia
(2020-08-07)This study explores the behavior of buyers in Saudi Arabia. Primarily, buyers who are using Instagram to purchase from new types of e-businesses; businesses that use Instagram as their only platform for commerce. The ... -
BWT-runs Compressed Data Structures for Pan-Genomics Text Indexing
(2023-04-14)The FM-index is used in many bioinformatics applications; however, it cannot handle large text collections. This is of particular concern due to reference bias; references fail to capture the required genetic diversity. A ... -
By Others: Architecture as Mediation, Collaboration as Context
(2020-04-13)This thesis investigates architecture as a mediation in the context of collaborative housing production in Havana, Cuba. Given that these processes occur whether architects are present or not, this study demonstrates the ... -
A Cache-Friendly BWT Layout
(2023-08-21)The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is a widely used succinct data structure in bioinformatics. However, one of the main concerns that researchers still face when using BWT is its processing time due to the lack of access ... -
Caffeine cue-reactivity: The impact of caffeine-related stimuli and expectancies on caffeine craving.
(2019-08-16)Caffeine is consumed by approximately 90% of adults, yet its potential addictive properties have been understudied. Specifically, this study examined the impact caffeine cue reactivity and expectancy on caffeine craving ... -
Calcium Dynamics of Ganglion Cell Layer Neurons in rd1 Mice
(2020-07-21)In the rd1 mouse model of inherited retinal degeneration, activation of P2X7 purinoreceptors (P2X7r) has been suggested to lead to the formation of pores permeable to large molecules in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). This ...