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WASTE DIVERSION: HOW WELL DO DALHOUSIE STUDENTS ON STUDLEY CAMPUS KNOW WASTE REGULATIONS?
(2015-04)Halifax Regional Municipalities (HRM) currently has a solid diversion rate of 59%. While this rate is relatively high, more can still be done to increase this number. Non-residential uses account for about 58% of total ... -
Waste Knowledgeability on Studley Campus
(2019-04)Waste being sorted improperly around Dalhousie University’s Studley campus is an obvious issue. Improper sorting methods on campus can account for thousands of pounds of contaminated waste ending up in landfills every year, ... -
Waste Management at Dalhousie University, Canada: Social Factors Affecting Recycling Behavior and use of the Four Bin System at the Studley Campus
(2018-04)In this paper, we outline and explore student behaviour and habits toward the four-bin waste management system implemented at Dalhousie University. The purpose of the four-bin waste management system is to better manage ... -
Water Column Seismic Images as Maps of Temperature Gradient
(2009-03)Multichannel seismic imaging of ocean water column features is anew interdisciplinary study that may become an accepted oceanographic toot in coming years. We now know that reflectors are associated with water column ... -
Water Conservation on Dalhousie’s Studley Campus: An Audit of Dripping Faucets and Assessment of Attitudes Towards Water Waste
(2013-04)This research project is made up of two components; the water audit component in which the volume of water wasted from dripping taps was assessed and the survey component in which the level of awareness and concern of ... -
Water quality measurements on Williams Lake and Colpitt Lake (Halifax, N.S.) Dec 7-13, 2015 with reference to possible impacts of road salt
(Williams Lake Conservation Company, 2016-01-06)Concerns have been expressed by the Williams Lake Conservation Company (WLCC) about possible effects of renewed salting of roads close to Williams Lake on water quality of the lake. Such salting was replaced by sand and ... -
Wave-vector analysis of metallic surface energy
(1979-10/15)The exchange and correlation energy of a nonuniform electronic system can be decomposed into contributions of different wave-vector fluctuations. Both the long- and short-wavelength contributions to this energy can be ... -
Wave-vector decomposition of the exchange and correlation contributions to a metallic surface energy
(1980-04/15)The authors decompose the lowest-order nonlocal corrections to the local-density approximation to the exchange and correlation component of the metallic surface energy in terms its wave-vector components. Comparison with ... -
Waves of change: An analysis of the systematic and behavioural problems regarding dripping faucets on Dalhousie University’s Sexton campus
(2013-04)Fresh water is becoming more and more scarce throughout the world. Though Canada is blessed with an abundance of it, more efforts for water conservation are necessary and universities have the opportunity to lead the ... -
Weaning mass affects changes in body composition and food intake in harbour seal pups during the first month of independence
(2003-05)In phocid seals, the transition to nutritional independence is abrupt, with females abandoning their offspring after weaning and returning to sea. We hypothesized that body size at weaning may play an important role in ... -
Weighing the Black Holes in z~2 Submillimeter-Emitting Galaxies Hosting Active Galactic Nuclei
(2008-05-01)We place direct observational constraints on the black-hole masses of the cosmologically important z~2 submillimeter-emitting galaxy (SMG; f850>4mJy) population, and use measured host-galaxy masses to explore their ... -
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Westphal-MMD11: An interacting, submillimeter luminous Lyman break galaxy
(2002-6-10)We present new Hubble Space Telescope, high-resolution optical imaging of the submm luminous Lyman-break galaxy, Westphal-MMD11, an interacting starburst at z=2.979. The new imaging data, in conjunction with re-analysis ... -
What a Simple Letter-Detection Task Can Tell Us About Cognitive Processes in Reading
(Psychological Science, 2016)Understanding reading is a central issue for psychology, with major societal implications. Over the past five decades, a simple letter-detection task has been used as a window on the psycholinguistic processes involved ... -
What are the options for increasing biodiversity on campus through increasing native plant species' populations?
(2010-04)The year 2010 is the International Year for Biodiversity. Biodiversity or lack thereof is a pressing environmental issue as the strength and resilience of ecosystems rely strongly on their diversity of species and populations. ... -
What controls the mixed-layer depth in deep-sea sediments? The importance of particulate organic carbon flux
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What counts in making MPAs count: The role of legitimacy as a contributor to perceived MPA success in Canada. [graduate project].
(2016)Marine protected areas (MPAs) are powerful management tools used worldwide for conserving marine species and habitats. Yet, many MPAs fail to achieve their management objectives because of shortfalls in understanding ... -
What do students perceive to be the social, economic and environmental benefits of making Dalhousie’s Studley campus car-free?
(2016-04)Dalhousie University has published several statements and plans to promote sustainability on campus. In Dalhousie’s recent campus master plan, there is a proposal to remove on-street parking along University Avenue to make ... -
What is a fish stock assessment? Is it a sound method? Can it be used to manage a commercial fishery?
(2015-09)Under Karl Popper's non-inductive theory of method arguments are never carried from data to advice as in a fish stock assessment. That is: a distinction or 'demarcation' has to be made between (i) a Lamarckian-like inductive ...