Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Co-ordinated port scans: A model, a detector and an evaluation methodology.
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A Coal Miner's Shadow
(2012-08-13)Light and shadow have the capacity to move us emotionally and create atmospheres that allow us to better understand stories. This thesis explores how light and shadow can propel the design of a music hall and museum space ... -
COASTAL EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST 3000 YEARS AT CONRADS BEACH, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF TRANSGRESSIVE COASTS
(2016-01-14)Although many modern coastlines are retreating as a result of global sea-level rise, periods of stability and progradation may result from time-varying sediment supply. In formerly glaciated regions, where sediment is ... -
Coastline as Commons: Using Spatial Devices to Link Littoral Temporalities
(2021-08-12)This thesis argues that architectural interventions can extend the water commons to the fluctuating littoral zone of Kjipuktuk/Halifax Harbour. The present composition of the Harbour as a working waterway favours a colonial ... -
Cocaine Production and the Provision of Household Services: Evidence from Colombian Coca Farmers
(2012-05-01)This paper analyzes how coca cultivation affects the provision of basic household services in Colombia. In particular, I examine how different levels of government responded to an exogenous upsurge in coca cultivation in ... -
Cockroaches: Refugee Justice in the Novels of Rawi Hage
(2013-09-03)Traditionally, refugees have been represented as passive, silent, and abject. While such representations are often used to elicit sympathy and support, they do so at the risk of dehumanizing their subjects. By rendering ... -
Code Status? Critically Evaluating Canadian ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ (DNAR) Orders
(2021-12-14)In this project, I explore and critically evaluate the theory, practical value, and accessibility of ‘do-not-attempt-resuscitation’ (DNAR) orders as they exist in the Canadian healthcare context. I first explain how DNAR ... -
Coding-In-Noise Deficits After Exposure to Noise Mimicking Real-Life Parameters
(2022-09-06)Noise induced synaptopathy (NIS) has been thoroughly researched in animals since the first observation of significant synaptic loss without permanent threshold shift (PTS) in CBA mice after brief noise exposure. However, ... -
Coercion-Resistant Verifiable Web-based Elections in Linear Time
(2019-08-21)Voter coercion broadly includes any attempt to influence the secrecy of a voter’s ballot, including bribery, vote stealing, and forced abstention. This risk, which affects the fundamentals of privacy in a democracy, is ... -
Cognition in individuals at familial and clinical risk for severe mental illness
(2019-09-10)Severe mental illness (SMI) includes schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe and chronic major depressive disorder. SMI typically onsets early in the lifespan and causes significant impairments in functioning. Cognitive ... -
THE COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF FORGETTING: AN INVESTIGATION OF IOR IN ITEM-METHOD DIRECTED FORGETTING
(2015-04-20)This dissertation investigated the occurrence of an increased magnitude of inhibition of return (IOR) after Forget (F) compared to Remember (R) memory instructions using a directed forgetting cueing paradigm. In such a ... -
Cognitive inhibition in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Cognitive mechanisms underlying a case of letter-by-letter surface alexia.
(Dalhousie University, 2000) -
Cold Comforts: Women Making Inuit and Qallunaat Homes in the Eastern Arctic and North American Cultures of Exploration, 1890-1940
(2020-10-29)This thesis explores the experiences of white and Inuit women who were involved with American expeditions in North America’s Eastern Arctic between 1890 and 1940. In studying the intersecting histories of women who were ... -
Coliform Bacteria From A Drinking Water Distribution System: Microbial Source Tracking, Characterization And Biofilm Formation
(2011-12-16)A library of 18 coliform bacteria strains was obtained from different sampling points in the drinking water distribution system in Lexington, KY, over a three month period in 2006. To investigate the cause of the coliform ...