Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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THE WRITERS IN THE ALLEY: STATE LEGITIMACY AND LITERATURE IN NASSER’S EGYPT, 1952-1967
(2011-09-06)In 1952 Gamal Abdel Nasser and his clique of disaffected young officers launched ‘the Free Officer’s Coup,’ deposing the monarchy, overturning the parliamentary system, and launching a durable regime that defined the face ... -
Writing Justice In The School System: An Integrative Review Of Handwriting Using The Framework Of Occupational Justice
(2011-04-12)Handwriting is a complex occupation; it is an intricately coordinated symphony of skills and interactions. The success of a child’s handwriting is dependent on many factors and conditions. The concept of occupational justice ... -
Writing Left: The Emergence of Modernism in English Canadian Literature
(2011-08-18)This dissertation complicates conventional understandings of the emergence of modernism in Canadian cultural production, proposing instead a multiplicity of modernist practices that emerge through direct engagement with ... -
Writing Palestine: Personal and National Identity Construction in Exile
(2011-09-13)This thesis examines representations of nationhood, exile, belonging and nostalgia in three Palestinian memoirs: Ghada Karmi’s In Search of Fatima (2002), Mourid Barghouti’s I Saw Ramallah (1997) and Aziz Shihab’s Does the ... -
Writing the Ethics of Water in Michael Ondaatje, Thomas King, and Anne Michaels
(2010-09-09)In July 2010, the United Nations declared access to water and sanitation a human right. Certainly a success for water rights advocates worldwide, this resolution also poses a number of questions, such as how to find and ... -
Writing to Women: Aemilia Lanyer and the Rhetoric of Equality
(2015)Over the course of the last few decades, much has been written on the subject of Aemilia Lanyer’s relationship to the all-female dedicatees of her major 1611 publication, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. While some critics read ... -
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Metal and Metal-Oxide Nanocatalysts
(2020-11-18)Nanoparticles have received much attention due to their unique structure and physical and chemical properties compared to their bulk material counterparts, which allow them to be used in a variety of applications, such as ... -
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Thiolate-protected Gold Nanoclusters with FCC-, HCP- and BCC-like Core Geometry
(2019-01-15)Research on thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters (AuSR NCs) has recently attracted a great deal of interests due to their intriguing atomic structure and promising applications in catalysis, nanoelectronics, bio-detection, ... -
X-ray Spectroscopic Studies of Gold-thiolate Nanoclusters
(2011-08-03)Structural characterization of nanomaterials represents one of the largest challenges in modern nanoscience. Recent advances in the synthesis and crystallography of gold-thiolate nanoclusters have led to enormous progress ... -
X-ray Spectroscopy Studies of Ligand-protected and Zeolite-confined Silver Nanoclusters
(2020-08-24)Ultrasmall silver nanoparticles, also known as silver nanoclusters (Ag NCs), are of interest because of their ultrahigh surface-to-volume ratio and strong quantum size effect. In this work, the studies of Ag NCs with ligand ... -
Yazoo foraminifera depositional history, northeastern Gulf Coast.
(Dalhousie University, 1972) -
Yeast proteins that modulate Cdc68 transcriptional activity.
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“Yesterday it was One Man One Vote, Today it is One Man One Gun:” Competing Nationalist Narratives and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, 1961-1980
(2018-08-16)This thesis is a political history of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), a significant, yet neglected, African nationalist party active in Zimbabwe’s liberation war between 1961 and 1980. A political history of ... -
"The yet unsayable": The limitations of knowledge in the poetry of Robert Graves.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Yin, Yang and Coca Cola: Changing and Enduring Concepts of Health and Balance among Zhong Yi 中醫 in Southern China
(2020-02-18)While modern dentistry views mouth and teeth as significant parts of the oral system, Chinese medicine does not justapose a concept of the ‘oral system” in its epistemological system. Some Zhong Yi consider the mouth, ... -
Yoga's Effect on Quality of Life and Psychological Distress in Key Caregivers of Cancer Survivors
(2012-08-28)Fourteen cancer caregivers participated in a six-week Vinyasa Yoga (VY) intervention and completed demographic items, psychological distress, measures of QOL, and open-ended questions. There was a significant difference ... -
You are Welcome: Immigrant Integration through the Courtyard Typology
(2020-08-04)This thesis addresses the architectural and social issues of immigrant populations relocating to foreign lands. The primary factor of immigrant integration is the availability of appropriate housing. Immigrant housing must ... -
"You didnt give me words" - Religious Subversion and Secular Philosophy in Cormac McCarthy
(2012-08-28)This project attempts to track and delineate a consistent subversion of religion and faith, as well as a vindication of fundamental principles of secular philosophy in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction. I identify three ... -
“YOU KNOW THE SAYING, THE FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT YOU HAVE TO WEAR SHADES?” DESCRIBING COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES ON WELLBEING, ENVIRONMENTS AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES WITH THREE REMOTE, OFF-GRID NUNATUKAVUT COMMUNITIES
(2019-10-17)This research aims to support three NunatuKavut Inuit communities – Black Tickle, Norman Bay and St. Lewis (Fox Harbour) – as they identify and pursue sustainable futures. This study builds upon an existing NunatuKavut ...