Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Construction and Characterization of a Single-Chain Variable Fragment Antibody Library against Fusobacterium nucleatum
(2012-08-09)Dental plaque forms sequentially, with Fusobacterium nucleatum facilitating the adhesion of pathogenic late colonizers. We hypothesize that a single-chain variable fragment (scFv) antibody library will enable the identification ... -
Construction of amino acid rate matrices and extensions of the Barry and Hartigan model for phylogenetic inference
(2011-09-07)This thesis considers two distinct topics in phylogenetic analysis. The first is construction of empirical rate matrices for amino acid models. The second topic, which constitutes the majority of the thesis, involves ... -
CONSTRUCTIVE PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION USING IMAGE DATABASES
(2019-04-01)Procedural Content Generation (PCG) attempts to define an automated process for designing game content. Angry Birds represents a physics based game in which interesting game play comes from the challenge and/or fun associated ... -
Consumer Self-development: Construct Validity and Nomological Network of a New Dimension of Consumer Well-being and the Consequences for Product Evaluations and Brand Judgments
(2020-09-09)This dissertation establishes the novel construct of Consumer Self-development (CSD). CSD captures the personal growth that people derive from consumption behavior and includes three dimensions: self-awareness, product ... -
CONSUMERS’ DECISIONS ON CALORIES, FAT, AND CARBOHYDRATES WITH RESPECT TO FOOD PRICES AND EXPENDITURES
(2011-12-21)Obesity is a big health issue in the developed world, especially in the US. This has led to a call to implement policies to control obesity. The major materials thought to contribute to obesity are calories, fat, and ... -
Contact Zones: Prefigurative Infrastructure for a Transformative Agenda
(2020-08-17)This thesis proposes strategies for architecture to respond to environmental racism by questioning how design can be used as a tool to communicate radical environmental awareness. The method applied seeks to aid designers ... -
Contaminant Migration Through Soil-Cement Materials
(2014-04-02)To assess the long-term performance of soil-cement materials used in source-control remediation methods (i.e. cement-based solidification/stabilization), procedures to measure or estimate contaminant migration parameters ... -
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF CUSTOMARY LAND ADMINISTRATION IN ZAMBIA
(2014-12-17)Land is an integral part of Zambian identity, heritage, and rural livelihoods. Its importance is summed up by the expression ‘land is life’. Zambia’s dual land system, that of statutory and customary land, is at a critical ... -
A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABILITY POLICIES AND PLANS FROM STARS-RATED CANADIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
(2014-08-25)Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a role to play in the transition to a more sustainable society through academics and managing their operations using sustainable practices. This study aims to deepen our understanding ... -
Contest for cultural authority: Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the "Distresses of the Country," 1816-1817.
(Dalhousie University, 1997) -
Contested future(s): The social opposition to the OECD-MAI.
(Dalhousie University, 2001) -
CONTEXT-AWARE SEMANTIC TEXT MINING AND REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR TEXT DISAMBIGUATION AND ONLINE HARASSMENT CLASSIFICATION
(2023-12-15)This dissertation presents a new method for text representation learning and applies it to two Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems, namely, word sense disambiguation and text classification. Word Sense Disambiguation ... -
CONTEXTUALIZING THE IMPACT OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON VELIGER GROWTH FOR THREE COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT BIVALVE MOLLUSCS
(2015-04-06)The impact of ocean acidification on the growth rate of bivalve veligers for three commercially important species (Crassostrea gigas, Crassostrea virginica and Mytilus edulis) has been assessed experimentally for the ... -
Continental convergence: Length-scales, aspect ratios, and styles of crustal deformation.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Continental scale variation in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) diets and the fatty acid signatures of their marine mammal prey.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
Continental topography and gravity.
(Dalhousie University, 1982) -
Contingent and Continuum: Simeon Perkins and “Loyalist” Nova Scotia, 1773- 1785
(2019-04-05)Nova Scotia remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. The majority of the population had close ties with New England, which raises the question of why Nova Scotia adopted this position during the ... -
CONTRA-LATERAL KNEE JOINT FUNCTION IN MODERATE KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS: AN ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF KNEE MUSCLE CO-CONTRACTION
(2017-08-28)Unilateral knee osteoarthritis (OA) often progresses to bilateral disease, yet studies focused on joint function during walking often test the symptomatic knee only. The thesis objectives were: i) identify whether ... -
CONTRADICTION AS THE WAY TO VISION IN ANSELM’S PROSLOGION
(2020-08-27)In the Proslogion’s quest for God, reaching vision of God is not a matter of bridging subject and object, but of coming to see what is already present at the journey’s beginning. The quest, as a single continuous explication ...