Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Geometry and composition of ice banks in a macrotidal channel
(2013-05-30)Large ice blocks containing enough sediment to be denser than sea water form in the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy. The timing of ice block formation and ice block composition were monitored to improve understanding of ... -
Geophysical Character of the Mohican Channel Gas Hydrate, Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada
(2014-09-19)Bottom simulating reflections (BSRs) attributed to gas hydrates occur worldwide and were first formally recognised on the eastern Canadian continental margin by Mosher et al. (2004). The objectives of this study are to 1) ... -
Geophysical Fingerprints of Exhumed Serpentinized Mantle Domains at The Ultraslow-Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge
(2023-07-10)Ultraslow-spreading oceanic ridges (< 20 mm/yr) comprise ~35% of the global mid-ocean ridge system, yet their lithospheric structure and accretionary process are still little understood. At these ridges, the interplay ... -
GEOREFERENCED TREES AND THE PHYLOGENETIC SIMILARITY OF BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES
(2012-08-10)Culture-independent DNA sequencing is being used to recover genetic material directly from environmental samples. This has spurred large-scale community efforts to catalogue the diversity of life and its geographic ... -
GEOs and Gender: GEOs and What They Mean for Women Farmers in Kenya
(2015)Kenya is on the brink of becoming the fourth African nation to commercialize genetically engineered organisms (GEOs). The Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) program is expected to publicly release a variety of drought ... -
Geotechnical Resistance Factors for Ultimate Limit State Design of Deep Foundations Under Axial Compression Loading
(2010-04-20)For many years, engineers have designed foundations, walls and culverts for highway and other geotechnical applications using allowable stress design (ASD) methods. In ASD, all uncertainties in the load and resistance ... -
GestAnnot: A Paper Annotation Tool for Tablet
(2013-12-23)Active Reading is an important part of a knowledge worker’s activities; it involves highlighting, writing notes, marking with symbols, etc., on a document. Many Active Reading applications have been designed in seeking to ... -
GET REAL(ISM): EVOLUTIONARY DEBUNKING ARGUMENTS AND MORAL REALISM
(2013-08-26)Genealogical arguments which aim to undermine some aspect of ethics by referring to its supposed evolutionary origin have become both more common and more philosophically substantive in recent years. In this thesis, I ... -
Get your ears dancing: Evaluation of a novel training paradigm for posterior auricular muscle contraction in response to auditory stimuli
(2024-04-08)A novel auditory auricular myogenic training paradigm was developed. Ten participants underwent 5 training sessions comprised of a facilitation and skill acquisition phase. Through tones-in-noise tasks and coordinate ... -
Getting to the Root of Infection: Using a Novel Model to Study Innate Immune Responses in Canola
(2019-11-28)Agriculture is important towards the world’s population survival but is challenged by plant pathogens affecting crops worldwide. Canola is one of the world’s most important oilseed crops. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an ... -
GETTING UNDER THE SKIN OF FIBROSIS: A FUNCTION FOR MAST CELLS IN THE PROGRESSION AND RESOLUTION OF DERMAL FIBROSIS, AND AN ANTI-FIBROTIC FUNCTION FOR KETOTIFEN ON DERMAL FIBROBLASTS
(2024-03-27)Fibrosis is a pathological feature of many chronic inflammatory and fibroproliferative diseases, characterized by an excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins within tissues and organs. This pathological ... -
Gifts to a Future World: Conversations with Woodland Owners in Nova Scotia
(2017-08-22)Private, non-industrial woodland owners provide more than half of the timber used by Nova Scotia’s forest-products industry. Research, however, suggests that many of these owners do not consider the income from timber sales ... -
“A Girl Called Dusty With the Sound of Motown:” Dusty Springfield, Mimesis, and the Genealogy of a Persona
(2013-09-03)Though British singer Dusty Springfield had a very prominent and successful career, she is often left out of the history books. Her North American legacy has been reduced to her album Dusty in Memphis, an inaccurate and ... -
GIS-BASED MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS (MCDA) FOR PRIORITIZING TREE-PLANTING SITES IN HALIFAX URBAN PARKS
(2018-08-31)In Halifax, the lack of canopy cover and urges for better management of urban forests stimulated the Urban Forest Master Plan (UFMP), which was adopted by council in 2012. One goal of the UFMP is to increase the canopy ... -
GIVEN ITS ROLE, THE HALIFAX WATERSHED ADVISORY BOARD'S ABILITY TO INFLUENCE WATER RESOURCE PROTECTION: A CASE STUDY
(2007)Stakeholders engaged in land use planning and development in Halifax County and in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) have recognized Waters Advisory Boards (W ABs) for their expertise in water resource protection for ... -
Giving a Voice to Adolescents Living with a Sibling with Chronic Illness
(2013-12-19)The purpose of this phenomenological enquiry was to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be an adolescent living with a sibling who has a chronic illness. Children’s chronic illness has an impact on well siblings ... -
Glacial erosion in Atlantic and Arctic Canada determined by terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclides and ice sheet modelling.
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GLIAL DEVELOPMENT, SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY AND NEUROTRANSMITTER RECYCLING IN THE VISUAL SYSTEM OF THE FRUIT FLY DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
(2010-12-17)The visual system of the fruit fly is ideal for studying the association between neurons and glia. These interact during the morphogenesis of brain neuropiles and, in the adult, work together to maintain an ideal environment ... -
Global and local processing in object categorization.
(Dalhousie University, 2004)