Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Land Use Factors Affecting Economic Damages From Tropical Cyclones On The US Gulf and Atlantic Coasts
(2014-12-18)This paper assesses the economic damages from 94 tropical cyclones between 1992 and 2012 along the US Gulf and Atlantic coasts. I used the Geographical Information System ArcGIS to buffer the digital track of each storm ... -
A landscape approach to the interpretation, evaluation and management of wetlands.
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LANDSCAPE DISCOURSES OF AMENITY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN VITICULTURE REGIONS IN CANADA
(2021-12-17)Shifts from fossil fuels toward renewable energy (RE) are happening worldwide. Although RE contributes to global warming, this shift introduces profound changes to landscapes. Moreover, RE transitions are often happening ... -
Landscapes of Memory: A Study of Memorialization in Northern Uganda
(2016-04-08)In the Western world today, memorialization typically occurs at ‘sites of memory’, such as monuments and museums, where people go to remember or learn about the events being commemorated. This approach to memorialization ... -
Landslide Risk Assessment using Digital Elevation Models
(2011-04-08)Regional landslide risk, as it is most commonly defined, is a product of the following: hazard, vulnerability and exposed population. The first objective of this research project is to estimate the regional landslide hazard ... -
Langevin Equation for Diffusion of Molecules Adsorbed on Surfaces
(2010-09-07)Starting from a classical mechanical model, a set of Langevin equations for the surface diffusion of adsorbed molecules is developed. In contrast to previous work, these Langevin equations take full account of the rotations ... -
Language and Earnings: How Proficiency in Official Languages Affects Immigrants' Earnings in Canada
(2012-12-13)This paper studies how proficiency in host countries’ official languages affects immigrants’ earnings in destination countries. An earnings gap is found between Canadian-born and immigrant workers in Canadian labor market. ... -
The language of abuse: Marital violence in later medieval England.
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The Language of Selling Ethnicity: Satirizing the Commodification of Culture, Theatre, and Identity in the Ali & Ali Plays
(2015)If the exoticization of non-mainstream ethnic groups through the deployment of language and stereotypes is a pervasive, and successful, marketing strategy in today’s Western media, then critical, deconstructive play with ... -
Language's Empire: A Counter-Telling of Administrative Law in Canada
(2018-08-30)This thesis renders the unstated assumptions that animate statutory interpretation in the administrative state. It argues that the current approach is a disingenuous rhetorical overlay that masks the politics of definitional ... -
Language, Literacy and Classroom Participation of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
(2014-08-22)The language, reading and classroom participation of students who were deaf or hard-of-hearing (deaf/hoh), educated in inclusive settings, and served by APSEA were studied. Fifteen students in grades four to eight participated. ... -
Language, Translation, and the Inscription of the Female Body in the Works of Margaret Atwood
(2010-08-30)In The Handmaid’s Tale, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace, Atwood demonstrates that the connection between language, translation, and the female body is evident in the ways in which language is used to control the female body. ... -
LAR's and PLAR's, during SARS
(2022-08-08)The Weak Lefschetz Property (WLP) of polynomial quotient rings is studied in commutative algebra for the implications it has for a ring's Hilbert function, which is a chief object of study in commutative algebra. As ... -
LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS IN TANZANIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON WATER SECURITY
(2015)The surge in large-scale land acquisitions – or ‘land grabs’ – following the financial crisis has provoked a polarised debate centred on the role of foreign investment in African agriculture. A critical and often overlooked, ... -
LARGE-SCALE TRIAXIAL TESTING OF SUSTAINABLE TDA BACKFILLING ALTERNATIVES
(2018-04-03)One billion scrap tires are generated worldwide every year. Advanced countries have a higher rate per capita of generating scrap tires. In 2015, Canadians disposed of 37 million tires; while, nearly 250 million scrap tires ... -
Large-Scale Web Page Classification
(2010-12-09)Web page classification is the process of assigning predefined categories to web pages. Empirical evaluations of classifiers such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), and Naïve Bayes (NB), have ... -
The Larger Pelagic Crustacea of the Gully Submarine Canyon
(2011-09-06)The larger pelagic crustacean fauna of the Gully submarine canyon is described for the first time, based on three annual summer surveys. The larger Crustacea are a significant part of the Gully fauna, and are dominated by ... -
Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processing of Aluminum Powders Containing Iron and Nickel
(2020-08-31)The variety of aluminum alloys currently used in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (PBF-AM) is limited, yet the demand for such materials is growing. The AM community is particularly keen on aluminum alloys ... -
The Lasting Legacy of Munich: British Public Perceptions of Neville Chamberlain During the Phoney War
(2014-08-14)History remembers Neville Chamberlain as the personification of Britain's shame over the 1938 Munich Agreement. Literature that discusses contemporary attitudes towards Chamberlain relies on the misleading satisfaction ...