Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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The Behavioural Expression of Empathy to Others' Pain versus Others' Sadness in Young Children
(2010-06-11)Empathy for others’ pain is an important human capacity. Despite this, little is known about how children develop or express their empathy for another individual’s pain. Thus, this dissertation aimed to accomplish two ... -
Behavioural Inhibition as a Risk Factor for Mood and Anxiety Disorders
(2020-08-28)Mood and anxiety disorders are leading causes of disability worldwide. Thus, early intervention strategies are needed. Behavioural inhibition (BI) has been proposed as a risk factor for these disorders, however, the strength ... -
BEHAVIOURAL, ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS OF CRAB HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS
(2022-08-31)The main objective of this thesis was to study crab host-parasite interactions though the examination of changes in behaviour, anatomy and physiological processes. Atlantic rock crabs (Cancer irroratus) infected with ... -
Behind Closed Doors: Aboriginal Women's Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence
(2010-12-20)This study provides a critical analysis of Aboriginal women's experiences with intimate partner violence, and how this experience is affected by their lives on a reserve and their access to resources while there. By taking ... -
Being a Man in Canada: The Gendered Impacts of Resettlement Programs on Syrian Male Immigrants in Halifax
(2022-08-29)Using a phenomenological approach, this thesis examined the ways in which Syrian men experience changes in the culture of gender relations in Canada. This study aimed to understand how Syrian men perceive Canadian ... -
Being Aquifex aeolicus: Untangling a hyperthermophile's Checkered Past
(2012-01-03)Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an important factor contributing to the evolution of prokaryotic genomes. The Aquificae are a hyperthermophilic bacterial group whose genes show affiliations to many other lineages, including ... -
"BEING BY MYSELF AND BELIEVING IN US" - THE EXPERIENCE OF PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH DURING AN INTIMATE PARTNER'S MILITARY DEPLOYMENT
(2015-04-07)For Canadian military families (CMFs), pregnancy and childbirth can occur in tandem with a military deployment. The central issue is that a military deployment of an intimate partner introduces unique stressors that can ... -
Being-Breathless-In-The-World: A Heideggerian Hermeneutic Phenomenological Interpretation of the Lived Experience of Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
(2012-04-30)The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how people living with advanced COPD experience their illness. The experiences of eight people were analyzed using Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology, an approach ... -
Beirut the Connector: Rebuilding the City and its Collective Memory Beyond Trauma
(2022-04-13)Beirut’s history of conflicts has left destruction throughout the city leading to voids of disconnection. Understanding these voids of disconnection through the lens of sites of memory that serve as links between past and ... -
THE BEL CANTO REVIVAL IN PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMANCE: PRESENTING MADNESS AND THE GREAT LUCIAS
(2022-04-12)In this thesis, I examine the Mad Scene from Donizetti’s bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor by utilising perspectives from opera studies, pedagogy, and performance studies. Bel canto means “beautiful singing,” but there ... -
Benchmark and Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts for Acidic Water Oxidation
(2020-09-11)Solar-mediated hydrogen technology is a promising candidate for the low-carbon production of chemical fuels. Solar-mediated water electrolysis is a mature form of H2 technology that functions by rupturing water molecules ... -
Benchmarking Modular Genetic Programming on Deep Memory Tasks
(2022-04-01)Partially observable tasks require a learning agent to make decisions based on the previous state, hence a requirement for memory. There is a trade-off between the flexibility and specificity of the memory. This impacts ... -
Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages on the Continental Margin Off Nova Scotia: A Multivariate Approach
(1983-04)Two hundred and fifty grab samples from the continental margin off Nova Scotia were examined for total (live+dead) foraminiferal content. One hundred and twenty species were recognised, seventy five of which occur with ... -
Benthic-pelagic oxygen and nutrient cycles in a seasonally hypoxic coastal basin
(2023-10-20)The biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and oxygen in the coastal ocean is of high importance given that anthropogenic nutrient inputs have doubled the preindustrial nutrient load to water bodies. In particular, excess ... -
Best Practices for Human Rights Education in Atlantic Canada
(2018-08-30)The purpose of this thesis is to determine the best practice for human rights education (HRE) in Atlantic Canada. Through secondary data collection and analysis, this thesis also explores if HRE should be implemented in a ... -
Beta-Caryophyllene - A Novel Adjunct Treatment For Bacterial Cystitis in Mice
(2022-04-27)Bacterial cystitis (BC) belongs to the family of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and represents one of the most common types of infections. BC occurs when uropathogenic bacteria, mainly Escherichia coli (UPEC), enters the ... -
Better must come: Citizenship and belonging after statelessness
(2017-08-30)In light of the UNHCR’s global #IBELONG Campaign to end statelessness by 2024, this paper examines the benefits of citizenship acquisition among Sri Lanka’s previously stateless Up-country Tamil population. From 1948 until ...