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Foreign Aid and Dutch Disease: A Case Study of Burkina Faso, Gambia, Malawi, and Mozambique
(2013-01-10)
Foreign aid has shaped the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa since independence. There has been passionate debate as to whether this has helped or hurt Africa’s poor economies. One of the downsides to foreign aid is the ...
Studies on the Morphology and Evolution of 'Orphan' Eukaryotes
(2013-10-28)
Most living eukaryotes are currently classified into one of five or six ‘supergroups’, which are in turn often divided between two assemblages: ‘unikonts’ and ‘bikonts’. This thesis explores the cytoskeletal morphology and ...
Imagining “An Other England” in the North Atlantic, 1577-1625
(2011-09-06)
This thesis explores the place of Newfoundland and the North Atlantic within early English colonization. Between 1577 and 1625, colonial promotion shifted from advocating primarily commercial to moral justifications in ...
NFC-Enabled Smartphone Application for Drug Interaction and Drug Allergy Detection
(2012-09-11)
An estimated 70,000 preventable medication errors occur in Canada annually, causing up to 23,750 deaths. Medication errors increase when the number of medications being administered increases. Therefore, people with ...
Anti-inflammatory properties of potato protein hydrolysates in cellular and animal models
(2014-12-17)
Inflammation is a series of non-specific immune responses and irregular inflammation can lead to injury and chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases. TNF-α is one of the primary pro-inflammatory cytokines mediating ...
Systematically developing the chemistry of bismuth and other heavy metals with biorelevant ligands.
(Dalhousie University, 2004)
Crustal subduction and the exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure terranes: contrasting modes with examples from the Alps and Caledonides
(2013-08-19)
The widespread recognition of (ultra)high-pressure ((U)HP) metamorphic rocks in orogens worldwide suggests that subduction and exhumation of crustal rocks from mantle depths are normal processes at convergent plate margins. ...
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? INVESTIGATING VISUAL OBSERVATIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS AND UNTRAINED OBSERVERS
(2015-01-06)
Assessments within occupational therapy frequently are dominated by observation-based information gathering. However, it remains unknown how therapists gather and interpret visual information, and there have been few ...
COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF THE CATALYTIC CYCLE OF ORGANOSELENIUM ANTIOXIDANTS
(2012-07-31)
The chemistry of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase and synthetic organoselenium enzyme mimics has been a significant research interest for more than three decades. In this work, the results of a computational study employing ...
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS AND BARRIERS TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: ADDRESSING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, LANGUAGE, AND MENTAL MODELS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
(2011-08-16)
The current state of organizational environmental management is inadequate to face the risks posed by the natural environment such as resource scarcities resulting from natural, social and/or economic processes such as ...