Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Movement Architecture : A Performing Arts Center for Bharathanatyam
(1999-08-16)The thesis looks at what contemporary architecture can borrow from the often neglected, but omnipresent, act of human body movement in space. The vehicle for the study is Bharathanatyam, a classical dance originating from ... -
Movement Patterns of Late-Stage Ovigerous Female Lobsters (Homarus Americanus Milne Edwards) at Jeddore, Nova Scotia
(1989-08)A total of 217 late-stage ovigerous female lobsters, Homarus americanus, were carapace tagged from May 15 to June 20,1988, and another 14 tagged with ultrasonic transmitters from June 14 to August 12, 1988, in the Jeddore ... -
MOVEMENT RELATED INCREASES IN ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE DURING ARM CRANK EXERCISE
(2020-05-19)Few studies have evaluated the arterial blood pressure response during arm crank-exercise. The two specific aims of this study were to investigate if a higher arm cranking cadence was associated with an increase in finger ... -
Movement, diving and foraging success in a large, sexually dimorphic marine predator: Insights from telemetry.
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Moving Cities: Reclaiming the Fragmented Region of the Oil Sands
(2013-04-04)As the Oil Sands in Northern Alberta continue to develop and new companies take up leases, they continue to fragment the region’s communities and landscape. Rather than continuing the trend of subdividing the lands and ... -
Moving to the clear: A study of the grotesque in the writing of Michael Ondaatje.
(Dalhousie University, 1996) -
MOVING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA BY LINKING COASTAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION WITH INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF LAW
(2015)For long, coastal management focused on the sustainable utilization of coastal resources and avoidance and management of conflict, as well as the promotion of complementarities between users. However, with rising sea levels ... -
“Mr. Big Wood or Sawdust?”: Joseph R. Smallwood & The 1959 IWA Strike in Central Newfoundland
(2019-08-27)Joseph R. Smallwood was, for lack of a better term, a Newfoundlander for Newfoundland. Or so, that is how he portrayed himself. Under the first ten years of Confederation, Smallwood pushed a program of rapid industrialization. ... -
MTLV: A Library for Building deep multi-task learning Architectures
(2021-04-27)Multi-Task Learning (MTL) for text classification takes advantage of the data to train a single shared model with multiple task-specific layers on multiple related classification tasks to improve its generalization ... -
“A MUCH MILDER MEDIUM”: ENGLISH AND GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS IN ITALY 1840-1880
(2011-12-15)Travel writing is by definition an open and hybrid form that encompasses a variety of genres, styles, and modes of presentation. This study focuses on four little-known travel texts about Italy written between 1840 and ... -
'Much More Than Chocolate': A Mosaic of Identity in Moirs Advertising, 1830 to 2007
(2020-05-06)The Moirs chocolate company operated as early as 1815 and continued operation into 2007, seeing various changes in ownership and leadership. Throughout the duration of the Nova Scotia based company numerous methods of ... -
Multi-Axis Fiber Bragg Grating Accelerometer
(2010-06-29)This thesis mainly focuses on sensor nodes design. A small two-axis and three-axis accelerometer using optic fiber with FBG written in the core as sensing element were originally designed due to the advantages of FBG ... -
MULTI-COMMODITY NETWORK FLOW BASED APPROACH TO THE DYNAMIC CELL FORMATION PROBLEM: AN EXPLORATION OF DESIGN ROBUSTNESS
(2014-08-22)This thesis deals with robust cell formation and the design of central backup cellular manufacturing systems under uncertainty. Robustness in design is important when designing cellular manufacturing systems because these ... -
MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH TO MARITIME SEARCH AND RESCUE LOCATION ANALYSIS
(2017-08-14)Operating on the ocean can be risky, particularly in harsh weather, or under economic drivers as with the offshore industry or fishing activities. In addition to advances in safety technology and practices, a robust Search ... -
A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Risk Assessment Model for Carbon Capture and Storage
(2012-12-14)Currently several disparate and incomplete approaches are being used to analyse and make decisions on the complex methodology of carbon capture and storage (CCS). A literature review revealed that, as CCS is a new and ... -
A multi-criteria evaluation methodology for an economically and environmentally sustainable coffee industry.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
Multi-Decadal Habitat Changes Mapped via Remote Sensing and Implications for Juvenile Lemon Sharks (Negaprion Brevirostris) and their Nursery Areas.
(2024-04-12)Shark species currently face anthropogenic pressures, including loss of critical habitat. In Bimini, the Bahamas, two nursery areas exist for juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) with mangrove and seagrass providing ... -
A Multi-Depot Crew Routing Optimization for Post-Disaster Service Restoration
(2017-04-21)After any natural disaster, thousands of customers may get disconnected from the supply of electricity. To deal with the after effect of such calamity, the power utility companies will need to allocate the PLTs to the ... -
Multi-dimensional chromatographic methods for polycyclic aromatic compounds in complex environmental samples.
(Dalhousie University, 2002)