Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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.
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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 ... -
Negotiating ‘Gastro-anomie’: Exploring the Relationship Between Food, the Body & Identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the relationship between food and identity. Drawing on the concept of ‘gastro-anomie’, or ‘food normlessness’, it asks how individuals’ make sense of food and eating in the context of an increasingly ... -
NEIGHBORHOOD CLUSTERING TO ANALYSE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN BACTERIAL GENOMES
(2021-08-19)Valuable insight into gene function and evolution can be obtained by analysing the order of genes in prokaryotic genomes, as neighboring genes often share related functions and evolutionary histories. Obtaining precise ... -
Neighbourhood Impacts on Stress: Perspectives of Adolescent Girls
(2011-11-18)The physical and social environments of a neighbourhood can cause and/or reduce stress for residents. However, we know relatively little about the neighbourhood-level stressors and stress-relievers experienced by adolescents, ... -
"Neither the Morning, Nor the Evening Star is So Fair": Virtue and the Soul of the World in Plotinus, Treatise 19 (I, 2) and Treatise 20 (I, 3)
(2013-08-21)In Treatises 19 (I, 2) and 20 (I, 3), Plotinus unfolds several ‘grades’ of virtue by interpreting the Platonic dialogues. Beginning with the goal of Theaetetus, “likeness to god”, Plotinus frames his discussion with a ... -
Neo-orientalism in the Operas of Tan Dun
(2015-04-02)As the most active neo-orientalist composer, Tan Dun is known for using instruments constructed from organic materials, and fusing Western avant-garde compositional techniques with Asian cultural traditions. Forming part ...