Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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 ... -
COMPARATIVE QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF PROTEIN STRUCTURES: A COMPOSITE APPROACH TO PROTEIN STRUCTURE EVOLUTION
(2017-02-02)Structural biology has been long concerned about the emergence of protein structures and the convergence to particular folds. It can be said that protein structures are the realization of genetic information given ... -
A Comparative Study of the Anti-Breast Cancer and Immunomodulatory Effects of [6]-, [8]-, and [10]-Gingerol
(2013-08-16)[6]-Gingerol, [8]-gingerol, and [10]-gingerol are phytochemical extracts from ginger that are thought to contribute to its health-benefitting properties. The objectives of this investigation were to explore and compare the ... -
A Comparative Study of the Environmental Impact of Online and Offline Movie Rental Businesses
(2010-04-16)The purpose of this thesis is to assess and compare the energy consumption and carbon footprints of two, online and offline, major movie rental services in Canada. The thesis is divided into two parts that represent two ... -
A comparative study of the photoreceptors of the decapod crustacean Pandalus borealis, Kryer.
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A comparative study of wheat mitochondrial and cytosol ribosomal RNA.
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COMPARING STATISTICAL METHODS FOR INFERRING CONTRIBUTIONS OF VISUAL ONLINE CONTROL FROM HUMAN LIMB TRAJECTORIES
(2018-12-03)Visual motor control involves using visual information about the limb and the target to adjust the trajectory of the limb towards the target to improve movement accuracy. The primary objective of the thesis was to demonstrate ... -
Comparing the representation learning of autoencoding transformer models in ad hoc information retrieval
(2020-12-18)Information retrieval (IR) saw a recent development in ranking models since the ad-vent of deep learning techniques. Traditionally, classical IR methods, such as BM25,assume query term independence, allowing them to ... -
Comparing transfer-learning and self-supervised learning for ocean floor image classification
(2022-12-13)Benthic habitat mapping is a process of labeling substrates, plants, and animals on the seafloor. Mapping of the benthic habitat is crucial to monitor changes happening due to natural and human-related activities. Annotation ...
