Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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He's Got Great Feel, But What Do You Mean?
(2013-05-03)The field of popular music studies currently lacks effective and extensive discourse on drumming and rhythmic parameters in general. Some important preliminary work exists primarily due to significant contributions by ... -
HEADS UP HOCKEY: TRAINING UPWARD GAZE WHILE STICK-HANDLING
(2016-04-07)A pilot study assessing an off-ice, computer-based training intervention (Quickstickz, QS) at improving upward gaze and on-ice performance. Elite male hockey players (n=10, age 11-12) were recruited. Participants were ... -
Healing Aquascapes
(2017-05-02)The Healing Aquascape is a strategy to remediate the Burrard Inlet of southern BC and recover the waterway as an integral site in the development of the cultural landscape. As the ecology of the inlet is impoverished by ... -
Healing Architecture: Rebuilding Hope for Overlooked Communities in Harasta, Syria
(2023-07-28)Damascus, a colonized city facing a war-ruled reality, continues to deprive its residents of basic necessities, mental health support and social cohesion. This dire situation mainly affects overlooked communities like ... -
Healing Harmoniously through a Community-Based Ecosystem on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
(2022-07-11)In Western and industrialized societies, cities, buildings, and industries are often more valued than the natural world. This is an unfortunate legacy of anthropocentrism. The industrial era has only exacerbated the ... -
Healing Justice: A New Architecture for Therapeutic Justice Administration in Kentville, Nova Scotia
(2019-08-06)The Canadian criminal justice system is exemplary but imperfect, particularly for society's most vulnerable members. Increasingly, therapeutic methods of justice administration are using focused rehabilitation as an ... -
Healing, Self-Knowledge and Speech : Narrative Re/Construction in the Fiction of Julia O'Faolain and Lee Maracle
(2001)Designed more as a parallel than a comparative project, this thesis has developed out of a combination of post-colonial theory and post-structural ethics. Working from Ron Marken's notion that sharing a commonality can be ... -
Health care entitlement and citizenship development: Re-evaluating the social rights thesis.
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Health Promotion Experiences and Ideas for Health Promotion Improvements: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of Nova Scotian Women with Multiple Sclerosis Through a Feminist, Disability Rights Lens
(2014-08-26)Most research in health promotion uses quantitative methodology to better understand the health promotion experiences of people with disabilities. This qualitative thesis study used Interpretative Phenomenologist Analysis ... -
Health, Safety, and Access to Health Care of Foreign Seasonal Farm Workers in Nova Scotia
(2016-08-30)As the population of foreign seasonal agricultural workers (FSFWs) grows in Nova Scotia, so too does Nova Scotia’s responsibility to take care of this population. The first objective of this study was to determine the ... -
Heat shock proteins protect against angiotensin II-induced cardiovascular inflammation.
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Heat Transfer Enhancements Using Laminate Film Encapsulation for Phase Change Heat Storage Materials
(2012-08-09)A model is proposed to predict the heat spreading behaviour experienced by laminate materials when heated over only a part of the domain, which is broken up into two regions, known as the heated and fin regions. The 2D, ... -
Heat transfer in circulating fluidized bed boilers.
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Hedging the Return on Equity and Firm Profit: Evidence from Canadian Oil and Gas Companies
(2012-08-29)In this thesis, we analyse the relationship between the hedging activities and return on equity, and the relationship between profit on hedging and other factors. Fully conditional specification is used to impute the missing ... -
Heidegger und Rilke: eine Analyse
(2012-09-10)This work is an attempt to analyse the novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge using a Heideggerian approach, by means of the text Wozu Dichter? by Heidegger. In the analysis of the first part of the novel Malte ... -
Hello, World: The Exploration of a Component-Based, Systemic Approach to the Physicality of Digital Infrastructure
(2015)This thesis explores the interrelationship between digital and physical environments by investigating the Fabrication Laboratory typology as a new form of digital infrastructure. The research conducted herein examines the ... -
HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOURS OF ADULTS FROM SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES LIVING WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
(2019-08-19)Increasing research has highlighted certain health disparities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other gender/sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) peoples, particularly in relation to poorer mental health ... -
Helping Biologists Find Whales: AI-in-the-Loop Support for Environmental Dataset Creation
(2021-12-13)We develop a computer vision system to help biologists detect endangered whales. Given access to a limited dataset of aerial imagery (1544 images of mainly water), we implemented object detection and semantic segmentation ... -
HEMATOLOGICAL PROFILES ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND ESTRUS STATE IN GRASS-FED BEEF HEIFERS
(2017-06-01)Feeding expenses and reproductive success are major drivers impacting profitability in the cow-calf sector. Similarities between feed efficient phenotypes and estrus state may be supported by markers of energetic shifts. ... -
Hepatitis B Virus X Protein Induces Cellular Senescence and Autophagy
(2011-09-06)Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant global threat to human health due to its ability to cause chronic infections that can lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While the process by which HBV increases the risk of ...