Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Using yeast genetics to understand the roles of phosphatidylcholine synthesis in the regulation of cell growth and death.
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Using Zebrafish Xenotransplantation To Study Ewing's Sarcoma And Investigate The Role Of Y-Box Binding Protein 1 In Metastasis
(2015-05-05)The most unfavourable prognostic factor for Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) is the presence of metastases. To date, a viable cancer model for ES metastasis has not been developed. Models for ES are crucial to uncovering the key ... -
UTILIZATION OF RECYCLED PLASTICS AS BINDER MODIFIERS FOR USE IN HOT-MIX ASPHALT PAVEMENT
(2013-12-11)Atlantic Canadian highways are vulnerable to impacts of climate change, including more frequent cycles of both wetting and drying, and freezing and thawing. These climate impacts coupled with continued increases in truck ... -
UTILIZING BIOLOGGERS TO INFER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMERCIAL ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR)
(2024-04-15)There is a growing global market for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Stakeholders have a vested interest in the future of commercial operations considering the ongoing and future impacts of ocean warming as it relates to ... -
Utilizing Photoelectron Spectroscopy to Influence the Design of Earth-abundant Solution-Processed Chalcogenide Thin-film Photovoltaics
(2020-12-17)Solution processing offers many key advantages to the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells. This includes lower costs, higher throughput and lower temperature conditions resulting in shorter energy payback times and better ... -
UTILIZING ZEBRAFISH TO MODEL THE CHILDHOOD BLINDING DISORDER, FAMILIAL EXUDATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY (FEVR), AND DISCOVER NOVEL THERAPEUTICS
(2017-09-15)Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a blinding disorder that results in incomplete peripheral retinal vascularization at birth and there is currently no treatment. Zebrafish were used as a model to mimic a ... -
A Utopian Vision for Metabolic Cities: The Future of Farmscraping in New York City
(2022-07-07)This thesis turns to radical architecture for drawing visionary solutions to future problems. An issue that faces cities in the not-so-distant future is access to food. Compared to other industries, farming lags in ... -
UV LED TECHNOLOGY FOR DRINKING WATER POU APPLICATIONS AND BIOFILM DISINFECTION
(2021-03-11)UV LEDs are a promising technology for the water sector because of their small size and low energy consumption, which makes them ideal for POU applications. UV LED POU device testing is required to verify their effectiveness ... -
Vaccine Approval Effect on Firms in Socially Responsible and Conventional Funds During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2023-04-11)This research investigates the effects of vaccine approval on socially responsible and conventional funds in the United States and Canada. The study analyzes the daily total returns of the constituents of the Jantzi Social ... -
Validating a Meditation-based Mind Wandering BCI: A Pilot Study
(2023-09-06)Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have become a burgeoning field of research as computers become embedded in everyday life. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the preferred brain measurement device used in BCIs, though research- ... -
Validation in Risk and Hazard Analysis in Safety-Critical Industries: Understanding Current Practices to Develop a Framework for STPA Validation
(2023-05-30)In recent years, scholars have increasingly delved into the theoretical foundations and issues surrounding risk and safety science. However, validation has not received much explicit attention although it has been highlighted ... -
Validation of a Commercial Three-Dimensional Whole-Body Laser Scanner for the Collection of Obesity-Related Measurements
(2014-09-03)This study aimed to develop a systematic method of comparing manual and digital anthropometric measurements and validate a commercial three-dimensional laser scanner, for measurements related to obesity. Firstly, novel ... -
VALIDATION OF THE PATIENT ACTIVATION MEASURE (PAM-13) AMONG ADULTS WITH CARDIAC CONDITIONS IN SINGAPORE: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
(2016-04-08)The purpose of this study was to validate the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) among English-speaking cardiac patients in Singapore. A concurrent mixed methods design was utilized. The quantitative approach was conducted ... -
VALORIZING INDUSTRIAL BYPRODUCTS - PAPER MILL PULP SLUDGE AND DRYWALL THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-QUALITY GROWTH MEDIUM
(2020-05-13)The human population continues to rise and projections suggest there will be nine billion people on earth by 2050. Food consumption patterns continue to indicate there will be a need to significantly increase agricultural ... -
Valuative Capacity of Compact Subsets of Ultrametric Spaces
(2019-08-29)A p−ordering is a combinatorial concept introduced by Bhargava to generalize the factorial function. K. Johnson noticed in his paper “p−orderings, Fekete n−tuples and capacity in ultrametric spaces” that p−orderings also ... -
The Value and Ownership of Art in a Digital Age
(2015)This thesis examines three key research questions, including: How are artists making art and making a living? How do they use the Internet in their artistic practice? How do they use and understand copyright? These questions ... -
VALUE OF INFORMATION IN CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE USING PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS: A COMPARISON OF MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES
(2016-04-29)In this study, a comparison of equipment maintenance strategies’ cost behaviour is performed under different assumptions regarding equipment failure behaviour, availability of condition monitoring data, and its accuracy. ... -
Value Struggles: The Politics of Production in Rural Cuba
(2024-04-12)This dissertation examines the politics of value in contemporary rural Cuba, focusing on the agricultural region south of Havana. The Soviet bloc’s collapse in the 1990s and Cuba’s need to reconnect to the neoliberal global ... -
Vancouver's Indigenous Identity: Representing a Narrative
(2017-04-07)As an estranged site that defines a gap along the recreational and accessible water’s edge in Vancouver, it is odd to fi find prime real estate left desolate. With research, the issue of the site was evidently much grander ... -
Vancouver’s Chinatown: Rebuilding a Community’s Identity
(2019-08-28)In the competition for space within developing cities, key cultural and social components within working class ethnic neighbourhoods are often found being transformed by outside market forces. In the newest iteration of ...