Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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THE ‘CAUSAL TREE’: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNDP EXPENDITURES AND QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(2016-12-16)The effects of foreign aid on development and governance has long been a much debated subject. Some scholars have primarily focused their examinations on the correlation between foreign aid and the democratization of states, ... -
Causes and Consequences of Fission-Fusion Dynamics in Female Northern Long-Eared Bats, Myotis septentrionalis
(2012-07-13)Individual costs and benefits of living in groups vary with group size, stability, and composition. Investigations of these features of group living have lead to the recognition of a variety of social structures. Although ... -
CD8+ T cells in the development of Allograft Vasculopathy and de novo allospecific memory formation
(2014-01-24)Long-term survival of cardiac transplant recipients continues to be severely limited by the development of a pathological, chronic rejection process, termed allograft vasculopathy (AV). This remains to be the case despite ... -
Celebrating the Overlap: Expressing Canada’s Plurality Through Collective Ceremony in Charlottetown Harbour
(2021-07-09)Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is popularly regarded as Canada’s “Birthplace of Confederation.” It was the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, which led to Confederation in 1867. This new national narrative ... -
Cellular and Subcellular Mechanisms of Ventricular Mechano-Arrhythmogenicity
(2021-07-15)The heart is an electro-mechanical pump with feedback mechanisms for responding to acute changes in its mechanical environment. This requires cellular and subcellular elements of cardiac mechano-sensitivity, including ... -
Cellular dedifferentation and redifferentiation in Splachnum ampullaceum (L.) Hedw
(1959)The phenomena of dedifferentiation and rediff-erentiation in Splachnum ampullaceum are discussed. A quantitative study of changes in the size and number of the main cellular constituents as well as changes in their position ... -
Cellular mechanisms of the neurotoxicity caused by hyperammonemia and hypoglycemia.
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Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Neuromuscular Junction Stability and Plasticity in Normal and Diseased Mice
(2021-01-07)The stability of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is critical for maintaining independence and quality of life. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that underlie this stability is of paramount importance to be able to ... -
Cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of gender specific mitochondrial inheritance in the marine mussels Mytilus.
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Cemetery as a Place of Cultural Communication
(2012-04-10)Cemeteries serve as repositories of history and memories of the local community, as well as afford the living population an opportunity to connect and learn about a culture’s past. Accordingly, the cemetery as a place and ... -
Centering Women and Newborns in Health Human Resources Planning: A needs-based approach to primary maternity health care in Nova Scotia
(2015)With a global health human resources (HHR) crisis and increasing health needs, new ways of designing health care in all clinical settings, including primary maternity health care is required. The purpose of this sequential ... -
Central Amazon fish populations: biomass, production and some dynamic characteristics
(1983)A 2.5 year field study designed to estimate production of fish in the Amazon river provides a basis for understanding the fishery and certain features of floodplain ecology. Intensive sampling with a fine-mesh seine ... -
Central and Peripheral Visual Fields in Patients with Migraine
(2012-09-04)Purpose: To determine if patients with migraine show clinically apparent visual field deficits in the peripheral visual field compared to healthy controls. Methods: Normal observers (n=25; mean age 41 y, range 15-67 y) ... -
Centralized Waiting List for Outpatient Physiotherapy in the Central Zone of the Nova Scotia Health Authority
(2019-04-05)This thesis utilizes discrete event simulation to model four outpatient physiotherapy locations in the Central Zone of the Nova Scotia Health Authority. Centralization of intake is being considered to increase efficiency ... -
Centring Community: New Pathways in Resource Extraction Policy Processes
(2021-04-29)The community dimension of resource extraction is a historically understudied area of inquiry in Canadian political science. While bringing prosperity and benefits for more privileged members of communities, resource ... -
A Century of Planning for Environmental Concerns in the Alewife Brook Watershed, Boston, MA
(2019-04-05)Landscapes are ever changing, both ecologically and culturally, making it difficult for planners to understand and balance environmental, social, and economic needs. The Alewife Brook Watershed located in Boston, Massachusetts, ... -
CEOL AGUS TEANGA: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRISH LANGUAGE MUSIC AND IRISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2021-07-14)This study examined the relationship between music, language, and cultural knowledge management, through the lens of Knowledge Management. I interviewed both students and educators on-site at St. Mary’s University Halifax, ...