Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Ab initio studies of fluorinated ethanes: Electronic and energetic properties and reactions with hydroxyl radicals.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
ABENAKI CARBONATE PLATFORM IN RELATION TO THE JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS SABLE ISLAND DELTA, OFFSHORE NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
(2016-09-01)The offshore Nova Scotia Late Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous continental scale shelf-margin Sable Delta succession is juxtaposed with the extensive kilometre-thick Abenaki carbonate platform. This thesis addresses how ... -
Aberrant Behaviour and Neural Activity in the 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease: Exploring Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in a Mouse Model of Amyloid Pathology
(2023-08-30)The present work examines behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)-like behaviours in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related amyloid pathology. In particular, this work reviews BPSD-like ... -
The Ability to Create Household Wealth: An Alternative Perspective and Conceptual Framework
(2022-07-20)This thesis reviews the theories and evidence on households’ financial decision-making. It further relates these to a household’s ability to create wealth against the background of changing retirement systems. The work’s ... -
Abnormal lipoprotein metabolism in animal models of intrahepatic cholestasis induced by alpha-naphthylisothiocyanate.
(Dalhousie University, 1997) -
Absorption properties of phytoplankton and photosynthetic pigments in seawater.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Two Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants and Receiving Water in Atlantic Canada
(2017-06-05)Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in pathogenic bacteria confer resistance to many clinically important antibiotics and will, if found in treated wastewater and the environment, threaten public health. Using quantitative ... -
AcademiaMap-GIV: Geo-based Information Visualization of Scholarly Conversations on Twitter
(2011-12-16)Geo-based Information Visualizations (GIV) allow people to analyze data points based on their related geographic locations. This approach is usually adopted where a large scale geo-referenced dataset is present and users ... -
ACADEMIC EXPERTISE REPRESENTATION USING WIKIPEDIA
(2016-04-08)Finding experts to review a submission or to collaborate with an industry partner is a common problem in the research enterprise that is typically solved manually or by word of mouth. Services like LinkedIn rely on the ... -
“THE ACADIAN OF OUR FANCY” : Clothing, community, and identity among the Neutral French, c. 1670-1750
(2020-09-11)“The Acadian of our Fancy” explores Acadian textile culture from French colonists’ establishment outside of Port Royal to the deportation of 1755. It addresses questions of change and identity: did the Acadians maintain a ... -
Accelerated algorithms and universality in coarsening systems.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
ACCELERATING TEXT RELATEDNESS COMPUTATIONS ON GENERAL PURPOSE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS
(2015)This thesis investigates a novel approach for accelerating document similarity calculations using the Google Trigram Method (GTM). GTM can be performed as either a 1:1 comparison between a pair of documents, a 1:N comparison ... -
Accelerometry: the key to measuring size-at-age and activity in fish
(2016-02-17)Recent advancements in tracking technology have increased the ability to unravel key parameters affecting behaviour patterns among marine animals where direct observations are scarce. Within the suite of biologging techniques, ... -
Accenting Edmonton’s River Valley - Methodologies of Color; Using Framework of Human-Environment Connections
(2017-04-07)West Rossdale and its river banks are the core cultural aspect of Edmonton. Its potential is portrayed through ‘River Crossing”, the one place where city and river meet. The thesis aims to explore the physical and cultural ... -
Access and Inclusion: The Experiences of University Students with Mobility-Related Physical Disabilities
(2019-08-16)Research indicates that physical and social environments are key determinants of health. However, little is known about how these environments can influence access to and inclusion in educational and leisure activities for ... -
Access to Mental Health Supports and Services in Rural Nova Scotia: Perceptions and Experiences of Young Women
(2018-08-22)Although a growing number of Canadian youth live with diagnosed and undiagnosed mental health issues, only one in six youth has access to mental health services and supports. Existing literature suggests there may be ... -
Accessibility’s Impact on the Information Literacy of the Deaf Community
(2020-04-30)This Master’s thesis explores access and accessibility and how they impact information literacy in the (d)eaf community. Information literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the information the ... -
ACCESSIBLE TOOLS ON TOUCHSCREEN DEVICES FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE
(2018-06-19)Input methods on touchscreen devices are often developed without taking into account the needs of people with no or low vision. Because of this, there has been a strong research interest in the development of techniques ...