Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Wabagamoyo: Redefining identity in a Swahili town, 1860s--1890s.
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WAITING FOR A LIVER TRANSPLANT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS IN ATLANTIC CANADA
(2014-12-10)Liver transplantation is the only life-sustaining treatment available for patients with end stage liver disease, however the demand for these organs far exceeds availability. Many psychological, emotional and physical ... -
A Walk in the Park Airport Inhabitation: Making Place in the Place-less
(2020-08-27)Airports are nodes of convergence, intersection and divergence. They are processing machines functioning solely to move people from one stage to another in an efficient, expedient manner. This thesis takes the position ... -
"Walk-On Parts": The Diminished Agency of Grant Morrison's Superhero Celebrities
(2019-12-16)While several comic book writers have written superheroes as analogous to celebrities, Grant Morrison is the author who has done so the most frequently. Using Zenith, Animal Man and The Multiversity as its core examples, ... -
Walking Balance in Individuals with Acromegaly
(2023-07-24)Introduction: Acromegaly is characterized by growth hormone excess. It adversely affects the patients’ musculoskeletal and neural systems, consequently impairing physical function. This study explored the walking balance ... -
WALKING CHALLENGES IN MODERATE KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS: A BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSE TO MEDIAL WALKWAY SURFACE PERTURBATIONS
(2016-08-31)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) causes debilitations to mobility. It has been hypothesized that individuals walk with altered biomechanics to prevent symptoms of instability. Perturbations can be used to investigate how individuals ... -
Wall, Hero, and Text : Heroic Narrative Encounters the Warsaw Ghetto
(2004-09)This thesis examines the intersection of the heroic narrative and the Warsaw Ghetto . It considers both Polish and Jewish texts; Marek Edelman's The Ghetto Fights and Hanna Krall's To Outwit God both vigorously reject the ... -
Wanting to Sweat Together: The Relationship between Community and CrossFit
(2018-06-15)Physically-active leisure offers numerous physical, psychological and social benefits (Shiraev & Barclay, 2012). Further, heightened benefits occur when physically-active leisure occurs in community environments (Iwasaki, ... -
The Wants and Needs of Older Cancer Survivors When Searching for Online Social Support
(2011-09-06)In recent years, the Internet has emerged as a popular tool for providing social support to chronically-ill populations. However, research is limited in understanding the distinct needs of older cancer survivors who are ... -
WARDS OF THE STATE: ANALYSING THE WELL-BEING OF CANADIAN INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY IN GOVERNMENT CARE
(2021-07-09)This paper evaluates the relationship between having previously been a ward of the state as a child and the likelihood of having high self-reported well-being as an adult. Using data from the 2014 General Social Survey ... -
WARRIOR TRADERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EARLY SEVENTEENTHCENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH NORTH AMERICAN TRADE AND COLONIZATION
(2012-08-17)This thesis examines French and English trade voyages and trade colonies in North American during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and French and English relations with Native Americans. The colonies ... -
A WASSERSTEIN GAN BASED FRAMEWORK FOR ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS AGAINST INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS
(2022-12-09)IIntrusion detection system (IDS) detects malicious activities in network flows and is essential for modern communication networks. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have been employed to construct IDSs. However, ... -
WASTE-DERIVED FUELS FOR CO-PROCESSING IN ROTARY CEMENT KILNS
(2017-01-05)Co-processing waste as alternative fuel in cement kilns presents a two-pronged solution to cost and environmental concerns in resource utilization. It is the simultaneous recovery of energy and recycling of resources ... -
Water and Wind: The Fluvial and Eolian Forces Behind the Pennsylvanian-Permian Halgaito Formation, Utah
(2020-10-06)The study of dryland fluvial systems has yielded a broad and well established body of work. As rivers in semi-arid and arid environments cover nearly 50% of the present land surface, there are many modern examples to turn ... -
Water Quality Dynamics in Pockwock Lake Tributaries
(2022-06-13)In forested watersheds, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, and suspended sediment, are affected by hydrologic regime, landscape characteristics, and forest management practices. These constituents can impact the quality and ... -
Water-Related ecosystem services and water quality: Farmers’ perceptions and practices
(2015-04-29)Freshwater ecosystems provide numerous ecosystem services (ES) to humans. Agricultural pollution negatively impacts waterbodies and their capacity to provide ES. To reduce agricultural pollution it is crucial to understand ... -
Wave energy conversion in a random sea.
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Wave- and wind-driven flow on the continental shelf.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Wave-current interactions in the eastern Canadian waters
(2018-11-09)This thesis examines effects of wave-current interactions (WCIs) on surface gravity waves and ocean currents over the eastern Canadian coastal and shelf waters using a coupled wave-circulation numerical model. The coupled ... -
WAVE-CURRENT-TURBULENCE INTERACTIONS IN A HIGH-FLOW TIDAL CHANNEL
(2018-04-05)Grand Passage has been identified for in-stream tidal turbine development as a predictable, high power density, renewable energy source, and is the site for this work. A shore-connected bottom mounted Acoustic Doppler ...
