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Quebec's Bill 1: A Case Study in Anti-Corruption Legislation and the Barriers to Evidence-Based Law-Making
(2015-03-26)
Corruption is a significant problem around the world. Large-scale public works projects are especially prone to corruption. Much international effort has been devoted to fighting corruption, but the impact of these efforts ...
Giving a Voice to Adolescents Living with a Sibling with Chronic Illness
(2013-12-19)
The purpose of this phenomenological enquiry was to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be an adolescent living with a sibling who has a chronic illness. Children’s chronic illness has an impact on well siblings ...
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE UTILITY OF THE N400 FOR PASSIVELY ESTIMATING SPEECH HEARING ABILITY IN NOISE
(2015-04-01)
Recommended procedures for hearing assessment include the evaluation of speech hearing in background noise. Speech in noise assessments rely heavily on behaviour and attention, making them unsuitable for many patient ...
Between Inside and Outside: Expanding Environmental Context Through Building Systems
(2015-04-06)
This thesis explores how architecture can expand the conceived notion of enclosure to a greater environmental context, and how a building may become an instrument for experience and engagement across the interior/exterior ...
Affordable and Sustainable Design for Rural Houses in Cambodia
(2014-04-04)
This thesis investigates a new prototype for housing in rural Kampot, Cambodia with a focus on the health and safety of the inhabitants. This study came about because traditional Cambodian houses are rapidly disappearing ...
Fine-scale distribution, habitat use, and movements of sperm whales
(2013-09-04)
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are nomadic species typically studied across broad (>100km) spatial scales. In this study, I model fine-scale (or submesocale) habitat preferences, determine how organization into ...
Civilized Music: Postsecularism and the Humoured Body in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
(2015-04-02)
This thesis examines the way in which the representation of laughter, or the represented experience of humour, is postsecular in the contemporary American fiction of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo. ...
Separation and purification of antidiabetic bioactive peptide from salmon and cod waste
(2013-10-28)
Dietary proteins from Atlantic salmon and cod have previously been shown to have antidiabetic effects. Since dietary proteins are digested into small peptides before being absorbed through the intestinal mucosa, it is ...
Nova Scotia Layer Industry: Energy Use and Innovation Through LED Lighting
(2013-08-26)
This thesis aimed to identify the energy use within the Nova Scotia Layer Industry, through auditing and evaluating layer farms. Using the data collected, energy benchmarks were determined; providing a guide for achieving ...