Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Cultural Competence in Mental Health Services: Learning from Client Experiences
(2015)Despite the introduction of cultural competence models in mental health services, individuals from marginalized backgrounds with severe mental health (dis)Abilities continue to face health and mental health inequities ... -
Cultural Constructionism and the Problem of White Sensibility
(2021-08-27)This thesis proposes that whiteness serves as a barrier to understanding the cultural constructionist theory of race. Cultural constructionism, a social constructionist theory of race put forward by Chike Jeffers, argues ... -
Cultural variation and usage of coda vocalisations by sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus.
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Culture and Cultivation: Self-Sustaining Landscapes in La Paz
(2019-04-04)The city of La Paz, in Bolivia, faces a series of food security challenges linked with the access to food during road blockings caused by protests. A promising solution to this issue is presented by a network of urban ... -
Culture and sexual health : exploring the experiences of young South Asian women in Nova Scotia
(2005-08)This qualitative exploratory study examined the experiences of a sample of young South Asian women living in Nova Scotia in relation to their sexuality and sexual health, while examining the influence of a bi-cultural ... -
Cupidine Caeci: The Ethics of Perception in Lucretius' De rerum natura IV
(2019-08-30)This thesis seeks to find a unity in the fourth book of Lucretius’ De rerum natura by considering the relationship between the book’s exposition of the Epicurean perceptual doctrine of simulacra and its concluding indictment ... -
Curiosity Driven Resource Allocation for 5G and Beyond Vehicular Networks
(2024-04-05)With the rapid advancement of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), there arises an increasing demand for efficient connectivity and communication mechanisms between vehicles and infrastructures, wherein resource allocation ... -
Current and future wildfire risk in the peri-urban Acadian Forest Region
(2013-08-21)The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and the peri-urban has grown simultaneously, creating new Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where development comes into contact – and intermingles with – ... -
Custom and Coverture in the Manor Courts: Women as Tenants in Early Modern England
(2020-08-27)England’s manor courts developed as a result of the tenurial agreements that structured the country’s medieval and early modern land market. Operated by the landlord’s steward and a jury of tenants, there courts were local ... -
Cuticle Proteins in Diverse Lines of Chickens
(2023-04-28)This study investigated variability of cuticle proteins on the eggshell surface from different chicken lines, as they aged. Proteins from 10 eggs were removed from two commercial lines every 30 days from 20 - 66 weeks-of-age. ... -
Cux2 regulates neurogenesis in the postnatal mouse hippocampus
(2012-08-15)Although once thought to be incapable of regeneration, the adult mammalian brain generates new neurons in two regions: the SVZ of the lateral ventricle and the DG of the hippocampus. While the cell types involved in adult ... -
Cyanobacteria Presence in Four Lakes in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Nova Scotia
(2018-08-24)The major objective of this project is to assess the presence of cyanobacteria (organisms that can pose serious challenges for drinking water treatment systems), in Halifax water supplies using DNA typing to identify ... -
The cytotoxic effects of novel jadomycins in drug-sensitive and drug-resistant MCF7 breast cancer cells
(2013-10-28)Multidrug resistance refers to the simultaneous resistance to structurally and mechanistically unrelated cytotoxic drugs. Chronic administration of cytotoxic drugs to patients with metastatic breast cancer results in the ... -
A DAILY DIARY EXAMINATION ON THE RELATIONS OF DEPRESSED MOOD AND COPING MOTIVES WITH CANNABIS USE QUANTITY ACROSS THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE: COMPARING CANNABIS USING FEMALES WITH AND WITHOUT PRE-MENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER
(2020-09-11)Cannabis is one of the most commonly used drugs in Canada. Though limited, research suggests female, versus male, heavy cannabis users have a higher propensity to develop a cannabis use disorder. Recent research suggests ... -
Daily Global Solar Radiation Forecasting Using ANN and Extreme Learning Machine: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia
(2013-03-14)The demand for solar radiation forecasting has become a significant feature in the design of photovoltaic (PV) systems. Currently, the artificial neural network (ANN) is the most popular model that is used to estimate solar ... -
Daily Life of Cham Village Girls: Learning to 'think' with stories
(2018-04-02)Cambodia has a small group of Muslims within its Buddhist majority population; locally known as Cham (from Champa Kingdom) or Khmer Islām. Little scholarly attention has been invested in understanding the daily lives and ... -
THE DAILY LIVES OF CANADIAN PARENTS: CORRELATES OF TIME USE
(2013-03-11)This study focuses on how children’s characteristics (number and age) and parental characteristics (e.g. employment status, education) and day of the week are linked to parents’ daily time allocations to primary child care, ... -
Damaged Perspectives: Towards a Visual Reading of Donald Barthelme's Picture Stories
(2020-08-21)America’s literary scene in the 1960s and 70s was a site of formal experimentation. Authors became discontented with the rational linearity of the written text and began to look for ways to disrupt it. Donald Bathelme is ...