Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Submit Date
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Rethinking Responses to Coastal Problems: An Analysis of the Opportunities and Constraints for Canada
(2010-06-22)This research challenged popular assumptions that Canadian coastal environments remain relatively un-impacted by human activities, and that current practices in coastal management are sufficient to ensure sustainability ... -
THE AVIAN REOVIRUS TRICISTRONIC S1 mRNA: NEW INSIGHTS INTO CONTROL OF TRANSLATION INITIATION
(2010-06-28)The S1 genome segment of avian reovirus is functionally tricistronic, encoding three independent protein products (named p10, p17 and ?C) from three sequential, partially overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). The dogma ... -
INEQUITY IN ACCESS TO COLORECTAL CANCER SERVICES ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF CARE IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2010-06-28)Introduction: Despite the public and policy attention on ensuring access to health care for all Canadians, research continues to identify inequities in access to cancer care services. The objectives of this thesis are to ... -
Multi-Axis Fiber Bragg Grating Accelerometer
(2010-06-29)This thesis mainly focuses on sensor nodes design. A small two-axis and three-axis accelerometer using optic fiber with FBG written in the core as sensing element were originally designed due to the advantages of FBG ... -
An Examination of Hardy-Weinberg Disequilibrium and Statistical Testing in Genetic Association Studies
(2010-06-30)In an unpublished study in Toronto it was observed that cases were in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium at a locus whereas their family members were in Hardy-Weinberg Disequilibrium (HWD). This led to an investigation of relatives ... -
Preventative Counselling for Nova Scotia Adolescents: Examining Predictors of its Provision in Several Communities
(2010-07-16)This project examined the extent to which Nova Scotian adolescents’ counselling needs are being met with respect to physical, sexual, substance use, and psychosocial health by their family physicians. This was accomplished ... -
An Analysis of Time-Loss Duration Following Work-Related Traumatic Injuries to the Hand and Wrist
(2010-07-19)Objective: The purposes of this thesis included: i) To explore the annual incidence and time-loss duration of traumatic, work-related injuries of four nature-of-injury (fractures, nerve lacerations, tendon lacerations/disruptions ... -
Analysis of an M/M/1 Queue with Customer Interjection
(2010-07-23)In our daily life, we often experience waiting in a queue to receive some kind of service. Some customers do not join the queue at the end like other normal customers, and try to cut in the queue hoping to have a shorter ... -
Exploring the Relationships Between Healthy Active Living Marketing and Family Eating and Physical Activity Perceptions and Behaviours
(2010-08-17)Canada’s obesogenic environment is host to the advironment, which bombards children with advertisements for soft drinks, fast foods, confectionary, cereals and savory snacks (‘the Big 5’). Television is the primary media ... -
MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF SURFACTANT ARCHITECTURE ON THE CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION OF DOUBLE-HEADED AND GEMINI SURFACTANTS
(2010-08-17)Monte Carlo simulations have been used in the past to investigate a variety of surfactant systems; however, there is little published literature for double-headed and gemini surfactants with asymmetric tails. We perform ... -
Mismatch Calibration of Time-Interleaved Digital-to-Analog Converters
(2010-08-17)This thesis presents a stable technique for distribution of data in Time Interleaved Digital-to-Analog Converters (TIDAC) that allows usage of the entire Nyquist bandwidth. The data distribution uses a Thiran all-pass ... -
Feasibility Study of Using Cement Kiln Dust as a Chemical Conditioner in the Treatment of Acidic Mine Effluent
(2010-08-17)Water contaminated due to mining activities is often acidic and can contain high concentrations of dissolved metals. Cement kiln dust (CKD) is a fine-grained, alkaline material that is generated as a by-product of cement ... -
Circulation and Associated Variability in the Intra-Americas Sea: the Role of Loop Current Intrusion and Caribbean Eddies
(2010-08-17)Circulation and associated variability in the Intra-Americas Sea (IAS) are examined using observations and numerical models. Vertically integrated transport variations through the Yucatan Channel in the model are found to ... -
Sex and the Supremes: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexuality
(2010-08-17)This thesis examines how the Supreme Court of Canada, across legal contexts, has tended to conceptualize sexuality. It focuses primarily on areas of public law including sexual assault law, equality for sexual minorities, ... -
Residential Sector Energy and GHG Emissions Model for the Assessment of New Technologies
(2010-08-17)Worldwide, the residential sector is a major consumer of energy. Both the rate at which we consume energy and our use of non-renewable energy resources have come under pressure to change. These changes may occur to some ... -
Lipase-catalyzed synthesis of omega-3 vegetable oils
(2010-08-18)The effects of temperature, reaction time, and substrate concentration on the incorporation of decanoic acid (DA) and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), into cocoa butter, were compared, using an immobilized enzyme derived from ... -
Characterization of Electrode Materials for Aqueous-Based Electrochemical Capacitors Using Spectroscopy, the Boehm Titration and Spectroelectrochemistry
(2010-08-19)In this research various techniques were used to study surface groups on carbon electrodes, including the spectroscopic techniques UV-Vis-NIR, FTIR, PAS, XPS and XAS, as well as the Boehm titration. The methods determined ... -
MEDICINFOSYS: AN ARCHITECTURE FOR AN EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICAL INFORMATION RESEARCH AND DELIVERY SYSTEM
(2010-08-19)Due to the complicated nature of medical information needs, the time constraints of clinicians, and the linguistic complexities and sheer volume of medical information, most medical questions go unanswered. It has been ... -
A Knowledge Management Framework to Develop, Model, ALign and Operationalize Clinical Pathways to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Diseases
(2010-08-19)The objective of this thesis is to formalize, model, align and operationalize the evidence-based clinical algorithms of co-morbid chronic heart failure (CHF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) in order to provide clinical ... -
DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE FRAMEWORK FOR OCEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: CASE STUDIES FROM THE PHILIPPINES
(2010-08-20)Unless subjected to skeptical and conscious scrutiny, environmentally-friendly ocean energy technologies can become “Trojan machines of social inequity” due to the subtle re-organizing influences of technologies on culture ...