Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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WITHIN VULNERABILTY: UNDERSTANDING THE PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES OF ENHANCED HOME VISITING PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES AND COMMUNITY HOME VISITORS
(2015)In Nova Scotia, a targeted Enhanced Home Visiting program began in 2002 as an enhancement to the universal healthy beginnings program for families requiring additional support at home with healthy child development. Public ... -
Witnessing the Darkness: Light Movements in the Poetry of Souvankham Thammavongsa
(2015)To date, Laotian Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa has published three collections of poetry: Small Arguments (2003), Found (2007) and Light (2013). A former refugee and an immigrant to Canada, Thammavongsa is deeply ... -
Women and Children First: Intimate Partner Violence, Children's Well-Being & Child Labour in Ecuador
(2021-07-12)This dissertation examines the relationship between women’s ownership of economic resources, beliefs, values and childhood experiences of violence and intimate partner violence, the relationship between household chores ... -
Women and children's labour in rural economy: A case study of Western Province, Kenya, 1902-1985.
(Dalhousie University, 1991) -
Women of the Healing Arts: Domestic Medicine in Nova Scotia, 1750-1850
(2021-06-23)This thesis addresses the history of British settler women’s encounters with health and medicine in Nova Scotia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Medicinal remedies used in the Northeastern Atlantic region reveal ... -
Women writing of divinest things: Rhetoric and the early modern poet.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Women's Empowerment in Technical Vocational Education and Training. Exploring perspectives of females from vocational institutes: A case study of Nakawa Vocational Training Institute (NVTI)
(2022-04-13)In Uganda, women have achieved significant progress in technical vocational education and training (TVET), both in institutions and in the workplace. However, entry and retention rates remain low, and women continue to ... -
Women, class and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1930-1965.
(Dalhousie University, 1992) -
Womens Changing Attitude Toward Their Body Image During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
(1983-03-30)The purpose of this study was to describe women's attitudes to their body image during the postpartum period and to compare them to their attitudes to their body image prior to and during pregnancy. A non-random, ... -
Women’s Contextual Online Social Identity Formation Model: A Case Study from the Saudi Twittersphere
(2021-01-05)Online Social Networks (OSNs) are widely accessible, and they produce a wealth of information on their user's behaviour. Previous research has shown that the user identity experiences a dynamic shift through self-presentation ... -
Women’s Medicine and Female Embodiment in the Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula Treatise, and The Mists of Avalon
(2016-08-31)This thesis compares the representation of women’s medicine in Malory’s Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula treatise, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. Specifically, it uses the portrayal of women healers ... -
Woolscapes: Re-Connecting Nova Scotian Agriculture and Craft
(2016-04-08)Wool is a natural, renewable and biodegradable resource. It is used by the sheep to protect them from the elements; a natural form of architecture. Its properties as a thermally and acoustically insulating, water resistant, ... -
Word Embeddings for Domain Specific Semantic Relatedness
(2018-11-01)Word embeddings are becoming pervasive in natural language processing (NLP), with one of their main strengths being their ability to capture semantic relationships between words. Rather than training their own embeddings ... -
Word, Image, and Vision: Cardiosensory Sight and Cognition in the Work of the Pearl-poet
(2017-02-02)This thesis examines vision and visuality in the poems of MS. British Library Cotton Nero A.x art. 3 (Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight). These Middle English poems of the late fourteenth century, ... -
Working Nomads: The Relocation of the Individual in a Transient, Industrial Environment
(2015-04-06)The lucrative development of the Alberta oil sands has created a unique settlement condition. Current resource developers have proposed an alternative to permanent settlement: remote, temporary, and mono-functional housing ... -
WORKING THROUGH STIGMA: A CONSTRUCTIVIST GROUNDED THEORY OF DELIVERING HEALTH SERVICES TO 2SLGBTQ POPULATIONS IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2022-04-26)This study was designed to generate theory that works to further understandings of the processes and factors influencing the conditions under which primary care services are delivered to diverse 2SLGBTQ populations in Nova ... -
WORKING TOWARDS HEALTH EQUITY IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
(2020-11-23)This study describes how health equity approaches are currently enacted in occupational therapy practice and documents barriers and needs to foster the integration of these approaches. Over 360 Canadian occupational ... -
Working with men to prevent and address violence against women: South African perspectives
(2014-08-22)With one of the highest prevalence rates in the world, violence against women is a critical issue in South Africa. Though efforts to respond to violence against women have traditionally focused on women’s behaviour, rights ... -
Workload and Physician Accumulation Across Canadian Health Regions
(2014-08-15)Primary care physicians serve an important role in the Canadian health care system, and the recruitment of primary care physicians is often an important policy and political goal. Wide disparities in both physician workload ...