Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses
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INVESTIGATING CLUSTER ENSEMBLE METHODS TO DEVELOP PHYSICIAN PHENOTYPES BASED ON PATHOLOGY TEST ORDERING PATTERNS
Pathology laboratory testing is central to medical practice as most diagnostic and therapeutic decisions are guided by the patient’s bloodwork results. Pathology laboratory tests are ordered by clinicians, and it has been ... -
CAN GENDER (IN)EQUITABLE ORGANIZATIONS DELIVER FEMINIST PROGRAMMING? AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CANADA’S FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE POLICY IN UGANDA
Through a focus on Ugandan civil society organisations (CSOs) receiving funding from the Government of Canada (GOC) for gender equality programming under the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), this research ... -
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH GENERAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH CHRONIC NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS
The purpose of this study was to explore the factors associated with self-reported general health (SRH) and mental health (SRMH) for adults living in Canada with chronic neurological conditions. A secondary analysis of ... -
Reprogramming Sacred Monuments: Giving New Life to Stepwells in Gujarat, India
This research is based within historicism and its inherent practices to conserve obsolete and symbolic structures. Due to their sacred nature these types of structures are often preserved, remain untouched and left to ... -
Which Factors? International Evidence
This thesis investigates five major asset-pricing models recently proposed in the literature. Those models are Fama and French’s (2015) five-factor model and its six-factor extension adding a momentum factor (Carhart, ... -
Thermal history of the Labrador rifted margin: Insights from apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He and apatite fission track thermochronology
The Labrador margin, Eastern Canada formed from Mesozoic rifting, breakup and seafloor spreading between eastern Labrador and southwest Greenland, producing the Labrador Sea. This study aims to quantify the thermal ... -
[De]constructing Rikers Island: Confronting Architectures of Harm through Reflective Remediation
Designed environmental, social, and physical inequalities in American cities have produced sites, systems, and architectures of harm. Rikers Island is at the center of this condition in New York City. The Penitentiary ... -
Climate Change and the Coloniality of Foodways: Linking the Replication of an Unsustainable Scale of Ruminant Consumption to Western Cultural Imperialism
This thesis examines the cultural processes attributable to a global protein transition toward climate change inducing ruminant products. It employs the theoretical lens of the colonial matrix of power to contend that a ... -
The relationship between frailty and the development and progression of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND)
Background: The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between frailty and the development and progression of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND). Methods: This study used data from the ... -
EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES AND DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABILITY IN THE CANADIAN PORT SECTOR
Ports are critical connecting nodes in Canada’s resource-based economy that have adverse environmental and social impacts. Despite being federal entities, the Canada Port Authorities (CPAs) inconsistently report sustainability ... -
Integrated Lithostratigraphic, Formation and Structural Evaluation of the Migrant Structure, Sable Subbasin, Offshore Nova Scotia.
Well data and 3D seismic are integrated to investigate the impact of sand-on-sand juxtaposition across a crestal fault in the Migrant Structure previously missed in 2D seismic. Pressure and petrophysical analysis of well ... -
SAMUEL RINGGOLD WARD’S EXAMINATION DAY: THE EDUCATION OF A BLACK ABOLITIONIST
This thesis examines the life of Samuel Ringgold Ward, one of the greatest orators and spokesmen for abolition in the nineteenth century. This work specifically examines how Ward’s early life and education at the New York ... -
ELECTROLESS Ni-P-Ti BASED NANOCOMPOSITE COATINGS
Infrastructures in various industries, such as oil and gas, chemical, automotive etc., are subjected to aggressive erosive and corrosive environments. A potential candidate for the protection of such infrastructures is ... -
Adverse childhood experience and loneliness among young adults: Exploring the roles of attachment style and resilience
Objective: The health risks associated with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among different age groups in adults has been widely studied in recent years. Adults with ACEs are more likely to develop mental health ... -
Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland
Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland investigates collective memory in rural Newfoundland and the act of the Newfoundland Resettlement Program. The Newfoundland Resettlement, a ... -
Late Cenozoic Basin Evolution of the western Canadian Arctic Archipelago: The Beaufort Formation and Iperk Sequence
During the Late Miocene to Mid-Pliocene (Messinian to Zanclean), global mean annual surface temperatures (MAT) averaged >1°C warmer than present and transitioned to much cooler climates over the next million years. Today, ... -
Investigation of a Dog's Ability to Detect Ketosis in Dairy Cows
Cows can be in a state of sub-clinical ketosis before any of the clinical signs such as a decreased appetite, weight loss, and decreased milk production are present. In order to manage the incidence of ketosis it is important ... -
Any Mummers Allowed in the Pool? Queering Vernacular Typologies in Outport Newfoundland
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador’s unique cultural mythology and traditional architecture is directly related to a heteronormative way of living, with relatively no evidence of queerness in representations of place ... -
Putting the Constitutional Horse Before the Cart: Federal Jurisdiction over Next Generation Environmental Assessment
This thesis explores the extent of federal jurisdiction over a next generation environmental assessment (EA) model proposed by Sinclair, Doelle and Gibson. Examining the jurisprudence and literature, it analyses the scope ... -
Nourished by Design: Public Architecture as Social Infrastructure
This thesis reimagines the role of public buildings in urban society arguing that their contemporary value comes not only from providing public services but also from being accessible places for socialization in the public ...
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