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Trajectory of Disenchantment. A Freetown Writer and the Insolubility of the Creole Problematic
(2010-12-16)
The Sierra Leonean Creoles, formed by a conglomeration of black returnees to Africa, arrived over the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century from Britain, Nova Scotia, the West Indies, and other parts of Africa. Heavily ...
Economic Burden of the Nova Scotia Mumps Outbreak
(2010-10-04)
Infectious disease outbreaks can have a significant impact on healthcare resources and are disruptive to routine healthcare programs and services. There is very little literature on the economic burden of infectious disease ...
Surface Dose Enhancement Using Low-Z Electron/Photon Beams
(2014-12-23)
Advances in linear accelerator technology has lead to the development of a linac which incorporates an in-air target assembly, making it possible to investigate novel treatments using multiple target designs. One such novel ...
Trailblazing: Empowering Rural Youth Through Mobile Architecture
(2013-08-09)
This thesis proposes a network of small-scale architectural interventions to address a growing issue of youth substance abuse in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Thorburn, a hub of a larger region of dispersed communities, acts ...
Design and Application of P,N-Ligands for Platinum-Group Metal Catalyzed Reactions
(2010-11-19)
Homogeneous organometallic species serve as useful catalysts for a vast number of chemical transformations. Ancillary ligands which bind to the metal center are employed to modulate the reactivity of the metal, and have ...
Distribution, Dimerization and Function of Human Cannabinoid Receptor Type 1 Coding Region Splice Variants
(2012-08-17)
The pharmacological functions of the type 1 human cannabinoid receptor (hCB1) are thought to be modulated through the isoform encoded by the fourth exon of the CNR1 gene. Two other mRNA variants of the coding region of ...
The Binding of Ishmael: Autobiographical Consciousness and Tragedy in Moby-Dick
(2014-08-25)
Since its publication in 1851, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick has been difficult to pin down in any formal sense. The book's experimental style, which seems to violate literary conventions through Ishmael's immediate presence ...
Reproductive Biology of the Deep-Water Gorgonian Coral Acanella arbuscula from the Northwest Atlantic
(2011-03-18)
This thesis examined the reproductive biology of the poorly-known deep-water gorgonian Acanella arbuscula from the Northwest Atlantic. Colonies were collected from The Gully in 2007 and 2010 between 914 and 1860 m depth, ...
Farm Design: Functional Architecture in a Family Farming Enterprise
(2011-04-12)
This thesis challenges the argument that farms must grow larger and more specialized in order to survive. The root of this thesis stems from my disdain towards current mainstream industrial methods of farming, attempting ...
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 ...