Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Natural Organic Matter Characterization in Drinking Water
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Natural photoperiodic regulation of hippocampal neural plasticity in wild male and female black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)
(2022-08-22)Food storing, a hippocampus-dependent spatial behaviour, fluctuates seasonally in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), who store more food in the fall months for later retrieval in the resource-scarce winter. ... -
Natural Product Biosynthesis by Streptomyces venezuelae: Genetic Variants for Drug Discovery
(2017-12-05)Natural product biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 was investigated in three ways. First, through precursor-directed jadomycin biosynthesis using non-proteinogenic amino acids (4-(aminomethyl)benzoic acid, ... -
THE NATURE AND DYNAMICS OF CHANGES IN LIPIDS AND FATTY ACIDS DURING POSTHARVEST NEEDLE ABSCISSION, THEIR ROLE IN COLD ACCLIMATION, ULTRA-STRUCTURAL CHANGES, AND NEEDLE ABSCISSION RESISTANCE IN BALSAM FIR, ABIES BALSAMEA, L.
(2021-05-05)Balsam fir is an important species of Atlantic Canada’s Christmas tree and greenery industries that is suffering due to excessive needle loss postharvest. A series of investigations were carried out to: (i) characterize ... -
NATURE IN THE CITY: Ecological Consciousness Development Associated with Naturalized Urban Spaces and Urban Forest Values in Calgary, AB and Halifax, NS
(2011-01-04)In an increasingly urbanized world, how cities are designed and built affect how urbanites connect to the natural world and develop an ecological consciousness. Findings indicate that people value different urban landscapes ... -
The Nature of Healing: A Proposal for a Therapeutic Garden in the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta
(2012-04-04)Nature positively affects the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing of all people. In the natural environment, fresh air, daylight, organic materials and plant life exist in harmony. When we come into contact ... -
The Nature of Urban Infrastructure: Re-imagining the City as a Continuous Productive Urban Landscape
(2021-04-26)This thesis argues that urban food systems in Canadian cities are essential to healthy communities and a healthy society: Urban agricultural landscapes should be considered a system of infrastructure. Growing food in cities ... -
The nature, expression and impact of pain in children with severe cognitive impairments.
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Navigating Irregularity: The State, Immigration Bureaucracy, and Surveillance in Chile
(2022-04-06)The focus of this thesis is the political space of migrant irregularity in Chile, specifically the development and maintenance of this political space by the Chilean state and its bureaucracy, as well as the resilience and ... -
Navigating memory and neuron identity with the COMPASS complexes
(2023-08-24)Epigenetic post-translation modifications are thought to be involved in the maintenance of postmitotic neuron subtypes, however, their role in maintaining differentiated cell-type specific identities is not clear. Previous ... -
NB Power and Historical Institutionalism: Why the People of New Brunswick Could Not Accept the Sale
(2011-09-07)Why did the people of New Brunswick fail to accept the agreement between the governments of New Brunswick and Québec to sell NB Power to Hydro-Québec? This research seeks to answer that question by examining the arguments ... -
NCK1 FUNCTIONS IN THE BRAIN TO REGULATE DENDRITIC SPINE FORMATION, COGNITION, AND BEHAVIOUR
(2020-06-17)NCK1, encodes for the non-catalytic region of tyrosine kinase adaptor protein (NCK1). NCK1 has previously been shown to modulate cellular actin, although its role in CNS development and function remain unknown. Here, ... -
A NEAR OPTIMAL SOLUTION FOR MAXIMUM RELEVANCE MINIMUM REDUNDANCY FEATURE SELECTION
(2020-04-24)In many real-world applications, a high number of features could result in noisy and redundant information, which could degrade the general performance of classification tasks. Feature selection techniques with the purpose ... -
Nearshore bottom boundary layer responses to complex forcing.
(Dalhousie University, 2004) -
Need for Navigation and Utilization of Cancer Patient Navigators (CPNs) among Breast Cancer Patients in Nova Scotia
(2019-09-03)Background: The Cancer Patient Navigator (CPN) program aims to reduce burdens of care coordination, emotional stress and logistical challenges on cancer patients in Nova Scotia (NS). There is concern that some patients ... -
Needing to be Normal: Understanding the Experiences and Barriers of Young Men with Ankylosing Spondylitis
(2013-08-23)Abstract Graeme Kohler BSc. (Health Education), MA (Health Promotion) School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University Objective: To understand the experiences of young men living with Ankylosing ... -
Negative Binomial Modelling and Applications for Microbiome Count Data
(2016-08-30)The human microbiome plays an important role in human health and disease. Identification of factors that affect the microbiome composition will eventually allow modulation of the microbiome for therapeutic purposes. The ... -
Negotiating Form: Reconciling Two Philosophies of Making Through the Adaptive Reuse of the Petroleum Service Station
(2017-09-01)The community workshop is a space where a group of individuals can collaborate and share knowledge and expertise to create customized products for themselves and their peers. These communities have crystalized around ... -
Negotiating Place : Explorations of Identity and Nature in Select Novels by Contemporary Canadian Women Writers
(1999-08)In my thesis, I explore this dynamic through close readings of select novels by contemporary Canadian women writers. Specifically, I examine the representations of non-human nature and landscape in their novels, and the ... -
Negotiating Uncertainty: Advance care planning in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
(2012-06-27)Physical and psychosocial symptoms in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are cumulative and profound; global financial and human costs are huge. COPD in late stages runs an unpredictable downward course ...