Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) of Marine Seaweed (Macroalgae) for Producing Hydro-Char
(2019-09-03)This work attempts to address environmental issues due to waste seaweed, by producing a coal-like solid hydro-char) and nutritious processed water, by employing a rather recent process called Hydrothermal Carbonization ... -
Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Biomass and Process Intensification
(2019-08-13)Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is considered as a promising thermochemical conversion technology for biomass valorization and crude bio-oil (biocrude) production. However, moving this technology towards commercialization ... -
Hydrothermal liquefaction of spent coffee grounds for crude bio-oil production
(2016-05-02)The extensive use of fossil fuels has intensified the energy crisis over the recent years and caused series of environmental issues. Biofuels are renewable and carbon-neutral, thus have gained increasing attention and are ... -
The Hygroscopicity Parameter of Marine Organics in Sea Spray Aerosols
(2017-02-09)Atmospheric aerosols have important implications on Earth’s radiation budget by scattering and absorbing incoming solar radiation either directly or indirectly through cloud processes. Aerosols have a net cooling effect ... -
Hyperspectral Radiometer and Ultraviolet Spectrometer Design
(2016-08-24)Satlantic is currently developing a new hyperspectral radiometer for measuring spectral radiance in the ocean. This project includes the development of optical, mechanical, electronic, embedded firmware and software ... -
A Hypothesis on Banking and Democracy: Explaining Changes in Ukraine's Political Regime
(2020-12-14)Analysts have long attempted to explain the patterns of change in the quality of post-Soviet political regimes, but few systematic inquiries exist on the matter. In this thesis, I present a new account of such patterns of ... -
"I am not I": Late Modernism and Metafiction in Canadian Fiction
(2012-08-24)This dissertation argues that a number of works of Canadian fiction usually designated as modernist fit more properly into the category of “late modernism”: a category that has only recently begun to emerge as a bridge ... -
'I Can Be So Much More Than I Think of Myself': Girls' Sport Participation and Discourses of Power and Agency in Windhoek, Namibia
(2010-09-15)This study explores the impact of sport on the lives of 15-19 year old female participants in the Physically Active Youth program in Namibia by examining how they reinforce or resist dominant gender discourses in their ... -
I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION: THE EFFECT OF THE QUEBEC PARENTAL INSURANCE PLAN ON PARENTS’ OVERALL LIFE SATISFACTION
(2019-08-30)Despite the rising labour force participation rates of women and the gender wage gap closing, women are still more likely to take leave following the birth of a child. To promote fathers’ participation in parental leave, ... -
I COULD STAY HERE FOREVER… IF I FIND A JOB: EXPERIENCES OF INTEGRATION AND MARGINALIZATION OF YOUTH FROM REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS IN HALIFAX
(2018-04-27)This study examines the experiences of integration and marginalization of six youth from refugee backgrounds living in Halifax. The research identifies formal and informal supports they access as well as barriers and ... -
“I HATE MY GENERATION”: CANADIAN MALE IDENTITY IN SLOAN’S TWICE REMOVED
(2014-09-05)In the early 1990s, a Halifax band named Sloan broke Into the alternative rock scene with their debut album Smeared (1993), released by Geffen Records, which received critical and commercial success in both Canada and the ... -
“I Shall be Misunderstord if Understood”: The Art of not Understanding James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
(2020-08-21)By investigating and comparing critical responses to James Joyce’s final novel Finnegans Wake, this project attempts to dismantle the idea that the work is difficult and unreadable by demonstrating the ways in which it ... -
“I still felt in the last moment / The unsheathing of the great knife of parting”: Absence, Abandonment, and Maternal Lament as Poetic Theology in Five Poems by Nelly Sachs
(2020-04-30)Images of mothers and children proliferate throughout German-Jewish poet Nelly Sachs’s first two post-World War Two collections of poetry. Compelled by this pattern, this thesis contends that mother and child figures in ... -
I think I can, I think I can: Self-efficacy in the context of pediatric magnetic resonance imaging
(2020-08-31)Procedural distress is common among children and has been shown to interfere with cooperation and response during medical procedures. Predictors of procedural distress have been widely studied in an effort to inform ... -
I WANT TO BUY LOVE. PLEASE, DON’T BE A ROBOT!
(2023-12-12)Understanding consumer responses to online product recommendations is crucial, particularly for handmade products and when the recommender is either a chatbot or a human. Existing research has mainly focused on factors ... -
The idea of justice in Augustine's criticism of Manicheism.
(Dalhousie University, 1991) -
Ideal Rule in Shakespeare's Romances: Politics in "The Winter's Tale" and "The Tempest"
(2013-08-21)The Winter’s Tale (1611) and The Tempest (1611) are two of Shakespeare’s romances, written under the patronage of James I of England. While Shakespeare’s history plays have received extensive critical attention regarding ... -
Idempotent, direction-consistent anisotropic diffusion.
(Dalhousie University, 2004)