Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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City in Motion: Anchoring Vancouver’s Active Transit Network
(2022-04-19)This thesis examines Vancouver’s transportation networks and their impact on city-building to inform the design of an active mobility trailhead at the False Creek Flats. The proposal argues the social benefits of intersecting ... -
The City Sublime: Enabling the Arts by Engaging With the Urban Environment
(2013-07-26)This thesis explores the ways in which architecture can be used to enhance and support creativity in music by engaging with the urban environment. The investigation will take the form of designing a community scaled ... -
City Within A City: Revitalization Through Connectivity
(2016-04-08)This thesis seeks to revitalize the soon-to-be vacated, iconic Molson Brewery in Montreal. In many instances, the development of the Molson Brewery mirrors that of its urban context. Occupying a footprint roughly equivalent ... -
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. ... -
A Clarification of the Secrecy Debate
(1976)This study had three aims: to identify the presuppositions on both sides of the dispute about secrecy; to assess philosophically these presuppositions in terms of stated principles of politics and government; and to ... -
CLASS AND MENTAL HEALTH: AN ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENT HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR
(2019-08-28)There is a disparity between rising levels of mental health problems and low levels of mental health service uptake among Canadian adolescents. While there are resources available for adolescents, they are not accessing ... -
Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Restricted Epitopes in Oncolytic Virus Infection and Therapy
(2021-08-24)Cancer immunotherapies (re)educate the body’s natural defenses to recognize and attack malignant cells. The consequent anti-tumor immunity is highly specific, long-lasting, and often dependent on CD8 T cells, the presence ... -
The Class of Strong Placement Games: Complexes, Values, and Temperature
(2018-08-28)Strong Placement (SP-) games are a class of combinatorial games in which pieces are placed on a board such that the order in which previously placed pieces have been played does not matter. It is known that to each such ... -
Classical conditioning of attack behavior in squirrel monkeys.
(Dalhousie University, 1976)A review of the literature on classical conditioning of pain elicited attack suggested that the use of a bite-tube as a CS should produce strong conditioned attack in Squirrel monkeys. In Experiment I, however, it was found ... -
Classification and Analysis of a Large MEG Dataset using Convolutional Neural Networks
(2019-08-16)Convolutional neural networks were used to classify and analyse a large magnetoencephalography (MEG) dataset. Networks were trained to classify between active and baseline intervals recorded during cued button pressing. ... -
Classification of certain non-commutative three-tori.
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Classification of E-products Under the WTO System
(2013-06-10)The WTO Work Programme on Electronic Commerce was established to deal with the implications of E-commerce in trade in the context of the WTO Agreements. One outstanding issue within the Work Programme is the disagreement ... -
Classifying Horizontal Swimming Behavior of Atlantic Salmon Using Deming Regression
(2022-08-18)As aquaculture production of fish is progressively increasing, we need to understand the relationships between their swimming behavior and external variables in order to improve their welfare. Fish in sea cages normally ... -
The classroom in ancient times.
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Cleavage of duplex DNA using two-photon excitation of N-(alkoxy)pyridine thiones
(2013-09-17)DNA photocleaving reagents are a unique class of molecules that display the ability to cleave DNA, causing strand breaks, upon exposure to an irradiation source. In terms of biological applications, achieving excitation ... -
Climate Change and the Coloniality of Foodways: Linking the Replication of an Unsustainable Scale of Ruminant Consumption to Western Cultural Imperialism
(2021-04-12)This thesis examines the cultural processes attributable to a global protein transition toward climate change inducing ruminant products. It employs the theoretical lens of the colonial matrix of power to contend that a ... -
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in the Forests of Central Nova Scotia
(2010-09-13)Global climate change is at the forefront of issues in forest management. Forest managers are now faced with the challenge of incorporating climate change into their forest management values and objectives, as existing ... -
Climate Change in Canadian Environmental Assessment Legislation: Review and Recommendations for Further Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(2018-12-03)Climate change is the most urgent crisis of our time, as reflected in international agreements like the recent Paris Agreement. State members must now integrate climate change considerations into domestic legislation to ... -
Climate Change in Ecuador's Coastal Communities and Mangrove Ecosystems: Local Knowledge, Perceptions, and Priorities
(2010-12-17)Coastal communities in Ecuador – and worldwide – are vulnerable to climate change due to both marine and inland pressures. Studies predict that climatic changes will impact strongly on coastal zones, with particularly ... -
Climate change risk assessment for a confined, small-island aquifer off Prince Edward Island, Canada
(2022-06-28)Aquifers on small islands are at risk of salinization due to the low topographies and small freshwater volumes, and present-day risks are expected to be exacerbated under projected climate change. To date, most studies ...