Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Compact Living: Rethinking Calgary's Laneways
(2012-09-21)Through architectural design, this investigation explores a strategy for defining the back alley as a new place of community and dwelling. The study considers ideas to design living spaces that offer amenities in a compact ... -
Compact Open Sets in the Dual Space of a Wallpaper Group
(2018-12-18)Knowledge of the compact open sets in the dual space of a locally compact group can be used to study projections in the L1-algebra of the group.The wallpaper groups are a class of almost abelian groups which arise as the ... -
Comparative analysis and Evaluation of techniques for Generating High-Quality synthetic Datasets for Industrial Control Systems
(2023-08-10)Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) and SCADA networks are vital for managing complex industrial infrastructures, ensuring smooth operations across applications. Rising cyber threats prompt the exploration of machine learning ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Dominant and Alternative Media: An Empirical Study of the Similarities and Differences in an Online Context
(2010-09-20)Despite a rising democratic defict in dominant Canadian media they continue to hold much influce on policy-makers, government officials and citizens. While some scholars argue that recent advancements in communication ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Farm-to-School Activity in Nova Scotia and Maine: An Institutional Perspective
(2011-04-15)Focusing on a rural community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, this research examines the Atlantic Canadian context for farm-to-school programs, gauging interest and attitudes and examining current barriers which prevent ... -
Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for an Hour-Ahead Forecasting of Electric Vehicle States
(2023-08-22)This thesis presents a method for forecasting the state of electric vehicle (EV) batteries (Vehicle-to-grid, Grid-to-vehicle) for the next hour towards leveraging updated data as the grid's auxiliary power source. The aim ... -
A Comparative Analysis Of Prototyping Techniques With Youths
(2019-03-13)Researchers working with young participants may use prototyping techniques as a tool for design components of the research. This research focuses on idea generation from prototyping design sessions with youths of various ... -
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF CANADIAN AND U.S. BANKS FROM 2005 TO 2013 USING THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
(2015-04-30)To understand why the U.S. banking system collapsed but the Canadian one did not during 2007-08 financial crisis, I first review the history of U.S. and Canadian banking system regulations. The review suggests that the ... -
A comparative and historical analysis of candidate selection practices in the Liberal Party of Canada
(1993)The thesis questions conventional approaches to resolving the chronic nomination problems of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) over the last twenty-five years. Attempts at creating a more structured, regulated candidate ... -
A Comparative Approach to Studying Sickness Mediated Behavioural Changes
(2015)Immune activation alters behaviour in animals across phyla (i.e. sickness behaviour) and is thought to aid recovery from infection. Hypotheses regarding the adaptive function of different sickness behaviours (e.g. decreased ... -
Comparative Assessment of a Two-Layered and Multi-Layered Sediment Model
(2011-12-19)Coastal sediments continuously interact with the overlying water column, collecting and decomposing the incoming rain of organic detritus into inorganic nutrients, and consuming oxygen in the process. This thesis compares ... -
Comparative ecophysiological seed adaptation of three barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli (L.); Beauv.) ecotypes.
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COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF WATER DEFICIENCY AND APPLIED NITROGEN ON CAMELINA SATIVA L. CRANTZ AND BRASSICA NAPUS L.
(2015-02-17)This study compared key aspects of the physiology and agronomy of Camelina sativa and Brassica napus under controlled environments and at multiple field locations in 2013 and 2014. The controlled environment study showed ... -
A Comparative Evaluation of Augmented Reality Learning Techniques and Traditional Learning Materials for Bead Weaving
(2021-12-16)The most common learning materials for handcraft today are videos and figures, which are limited in their ability to express embodied knowledge as an in-person tutor could. I developed EmbodiAR, an application for headworn ... -
Comparative Genomics of Endosymbiotically-Derived Organelles in Cryptophyte Algae
(2016-01-14)The cryptophytes are an enigmatic group of unicellular algae that acquired their plastids through the process of secondary endosymbiosis, which involved the uptake and retention of a red algal endosymbiont. There are several ... -
Comparative patterns of plankton communities under different regimes of pH in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Comparative Proteomics in the Absence of Tandem Mass Spectra
(2013-12-20)Mass spectrometry plays a significant role in many proteomics experiments owing to its ability to provide high quality, detailed data on complex samples containing proteins and/or their constituent peptides. As with any ... -
Comparative Proteomics: Studies on the Composition and Evolution of the Mitochondrial Proteome in Eukaryotic Microbes (Protists).
(2011-08-19)Mitochondria are eukaryotic organelles derived in evolution from within the ? subdivision of Proteobacteria. Although mitochondria are structurally and metabolically complex, modern-day mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) encode ...