Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Effects of the Brown Seaweed, Ascophyllum nodosum, on the Nodulation and Growth of Alfalfa
(2013-01-08)The effect of Ascophyllum nodosum extracts on the nodulation and growth of alfalfa was investigated. Plant growth assay revealed that alfalfa treated with 2 g L-1 ANE exhibited a significant increase in leaf area. Under ... -
EFFECTS OF THE NOVEL IDO INHIBITOR DWG-1036 ON THE BEHAVIOUR AND NEUROCHEMISTRY OF THE TRIPLE TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
(2017-08-30)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder causing memory loss as well as deficits in speech, motor performance and mood. Although the exact mechanisms causing the disease or how it progresses are not completely ... -
THE EFFECTS OF THE PROTEOGLYCAN ANTAGONIST SURFEN ON ANIMAL MODELS OF DEMYELINATION WITH COMPARISON TO IN VITRO T CELL AND MACROPHAGE RESPONSES
(2018-05-23)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that currently affects over 3000 Nova Scotians, and is characterized by the autoimmune-mediated destruction of myelin and axons in the central nervous ... -
Effects of wildtype and mutant forms of atrial natriuretic peptide on L-type Ca2+ current in mouse atrial myocytes
(2016-04-29)Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a hormone with numerous effects in the cardiovascular system, including ion channel physiology. Genetic mapping of a family with hereditary atrial fibrillation (AF) revealed a mutation ... -
EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID ACYLATED PHLORIDZIN FOR TREATING TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER
(2014-08-25)Phloridzin (PZ), a polyphenol compound found in apple, exerts glucose transporter inhibitory and estrogen-like effects. Therapeutic applications of PZ are limited due to its poor bioavailability. In this study, anitiproliferative ... -
Efficacy and Utility of Image Quality Metrics in Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction
(2019-08-22)Quantitative measurement of MRI image quality is a difficult, but important problem that can have direct and indirect benefits to MRI research. Objective image quality metrics (IQMs), such as root-mean-squared-error (RMSE) ... -
Efficacy of a brief intervention targeting a low responder profile in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder
(2020-08-27)Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social communication, and repetitive behavior and restricted interests. The need for effective service delivery models is urgent, as rates of ASD ... -
The efficacy of an elementary mathematics methods course in changing preservice elementary teachers' mathematics anxiety.
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Efficacy of Lysozyme as an Alternative to Antibiotics for Broiler Chickens
(2014-04-02)Antibiotics have been included in poultry feeds to improve growth performance. However, it is a concern that pathogens have become increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Lysozyme is a potential replacement for antibiotics. ... -
EFFICIENT AND OPTIMIZED HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION FOR FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION (FEC) OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
(2024-01-11)This PhD thesis focuses on developing new techniques of efficient architectural and circuit level implementation of forward error-correction (FEC) encoders and decoders for high-speeds fiber-optical communications. The ... -
EFFICIENT CLUSTERING OF SHORT TEXT STREAMS WITH AN APPLICATION TO FIND DUPLICATE QUESTIONS IN STACK OVERFLOW
(2023-12-18)This thesis focuses on the efficient clustering of short texts along with an application to find duplicate questions in Stack Overflow. In the first part of this thesis, we discuss static and dynamic clustering methods ... -
Efficient Computation and Application of Maximum Agreement Forests
(2013-08-15)Rampant lateral gene transfer (LGT) among prokaryotes, hybridization in plants and other reticulate evolutionary processes invalidate typical phylogenetic tree models by violating the assumption that organisms only inherit ... -
Efficient Hardware Implementations For The Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm
(2010-10-26)This thesis introduces new efficient hardware implementations for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Two main contributions are presented in this thesis, the first one is a high speed 128 bits AES encryptor, ... -
Effing the Ineffable: The Mysticism of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein
(2015)Both Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein hold mysticism—i.e., the belief in something utterly transcendent—centrally. The mysticism present in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus presents a problem: if “the ... -
Ego mechanisms of defense revisited: The relation of defense profiles to personality and health.
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Einstein-Aether Cosmological Scalar Field Models
(2017-03-24)The so-called Einstein-Aether theory is General Relativity coupled (at second derivative order) to a dynamical time-like unit vector field (the "Aether"). It is a Lorentz-violating theory and has gained much attention in ... -
Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Adjacent Seas: Composition, Biogeography, and Mitigation
(2015-03-31)BACKGROUND: Industrial fishing has profoundly changed the biological state of oceans and seas. While the direct impacts of overfishing on target stocks are being increasingly addressed, unwanted bycatch and discarding of ... -
ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR NATURAL GAS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL CANADA
(2014-04-03)In this paper, we used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and the bounds test approach to estimate the elasticity of demand for natural gas in Western and Central Canada. The best model specification selected ... -
Elasticity, Availability and Consistency in Cloud-based Aggregate Data Stores
(2015)Quorum-based replication is popular in many distributed online transaction processing data stores, especially key-value stores like Dynamo or Cassandra. By committing each write operation to N different nodes in a distributed ... -
Electric Space: A New Narrative for Aging Hydroelectric Facilities in B.C.
(2017-04-11)This thesis addresses the hydroelectric structures of the Buntzen Generating Station located within a restricted area of Indian Arm Provincial Park in British Colombia, Canada. Situated between ocean and mountain, the ...