Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Beirut the Connector: Rebuilding the City and its Collective Memory Beyond Trauma
(2022-04-13)Beirut’s history of conflicts has left destruction throughout the city leading to voids of disconnection. Understanding these voids of disconnection through the lens of sites of memory that serve as links between past and ... -
THE BEL CANTO REVIVAL IN PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMANCE: PRESENTING MADNESS AND THE GREAT LUCIAS
(2022-04-12)In this thesis, I examine the Mad Scene from Donizetti’s bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor by utilising perspectives from opera studies, pedagogy, and performance studies. Bel canto means “beautiful singing,” but there ... -
Benchmark and Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts for Acidic Water Oxidation
(2020-09-11)Solar-mediated hydrogen technology is a promising candidate for the low-carbon production of chemical fuels. Solar-mediated water electrolysis is a mature form of H2 technology that functions by rupturing water molecules ... -
Benchmarking Modular Genetic Programming on Deep Memory Tasks
(2022-04-01)Partially observable tasks require a learning agent to make decisions based on the previous state, hence a requirement for memory. There is a trade-off between the flexibility and specificity of the memory. This impacts ... -
Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages on the Continental Margin Off Nova Scotia: A Multivariate Approach
(1983-04)Two hundred and fifty grab samples from the continental margin off Nova Scotia were examined for total (live+dead) foraminiferal content. One hundred and twenty species were recognised, seventy five of which occur with ... -
Benthic-pelagic oxygen and nutrient cycles in a seasonally hypoxic coastal basin
(2023-10-20)The biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and oxygen in the coastal ocean is of high importance given that anthropogenic nutrient inputs have doubled the preindustrial nutrient load to water bodies. In particular, excess ... -
Best Practices for Human Rights Education in Atlantic Canada
(2018-08-30)The purpose of this thesis is to determine the best practice for human rights education (HRE) in Atlantic Canada. Through secondary data collection and analysis, this thesis also explores if HRE should be implemented in a ... -
Beta-Caryophyllene - A Novel Adjunct Treatment For Bacterial Cystitis in Mice
(2022-04-27)Bacterial cystitis (BC) belongs to the family of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and represents one of the most common types of infections. BC occurs when uropathogenic bacteria, mainly Escherichia coli (UPEC), enters the ... -
Better must come: Citizenship and belonging after statelessness
(2017-08-30)In light of the UNHCR’s global #IBELONG Campaign to end statelessness by 2024, this paper examines the benefits of citizenship acquisition among Sri Lanka’s previously stateless Up-country Tamil population. From 1948 until ... -
Between Disappearances: The Performance of Affective Archiving in Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydice Series
(2016-12-16)Artist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger’s Eurydice painting series is built upon a practice of sustained aesthetic, psychological, and ethical engagement with archival photographs of the Holocaust. First ... -
Between Figure and Ground: Articulating Heterotopia in the Suburban Paradox
(2013-04-05)This thesis focuses on exploring figure-ground within the amorphous suburban green space of Calgary, Alberta. It is an edgeless prairie city, flooded with unused space and tethered by freeways that stretch toward the ... -
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 ... -
Between poetry and life: George Whalley and the drama of mimesis.
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BETWEEN RHETORIC AND REALITY: A PSYCHOSOCIAL EXAMINATION OF RWANDA'S NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATION POLICY
(2011-12-20)The policy of National Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda has been the subject of much heated debate in recent years, prompted by the uncovering of repressive techniques of the current government. As the policy is designed ... -
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Union Prospects and Deliberative Debate in Nova Scotia’s Public Sphere, 1863-1864
(2014-08-11)This thesis explores Nova Scotia’s 1863-1864 public union debates and examines the roles of political liberalism and loyalism in the colony’s deliberative public sphere. It argues that these debates were thematically broad, ... -
Between the Medina and the Metropole: Race & Urban Planning from Algiers to Paris (1930-75)
(2011-09-06)This dissertation analyses the endurance of colonial logics of assimilation and cultural segregation in contemporary urban France by connecting them with their origins in colonial Algeria. French urban planning and policy ... -
Beware the Women: the Depiction of Anglo-American Female Pirates in Popular Culture, 1721-1995
(2017-09-01)Anne Bonny and Mary Read were female pirates who were active in the early-eighteenth century in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. Little is known of the two women other than what was recounted in Charles ...