Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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The material lives of Lunenburg German merchants and yeoman: The evidence based on probate inventories, 1760-1830.
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MATERIAL PROCESS AS A DESIGN TOOL: INVESTIGATING THE MAKING OF CERAMICS IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2013-12-10)Materials are a significant aspect of architectural design, the construction components are selected for their availability, location, cultural meaning, physical characteristics and properties. The construction components ... -
The Material World of Ñatitas: Personhood in Nonhuman Beings in Urban Bolivia
(2023-08-30)Each November 8, the Fiesta de las Ñatitas is celebrated in homes across La Paz and in the city’s public cemetery. Ñatitas, human skulls that are kept in homes and said to bring good fortune and guidance to their keepers, ... -
Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Twin Pregnancies Complicated With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Compared to Twin Pregnancies Without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study of Nova Scotia Births
(2020-08-18)Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is broadly defined as diabetes that is first diagnosed during pregnancy. It can lead to complications in singleton pregnancies for both mother and baby, such as excessively ... -
Maternal Bodies And Obesity: Rethinking Dominant Perspectives, Exploring A Path Less Travelled
(2014-09-04)A perceived global obesity epidemic, accorded the imprimatur of the WHO, has led to a moral panic and quest for causation fuelled by a dominant biomedical discourse that constructs obesity as a facile issue of individual ... -
Maternal effects on offspring traits from birth through weaning in the harbour seal, Phoca vitulina.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
Maternal Energy Allocation in a Capital Breeder: The Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
(2021-04-08)Parental allocation animals is largely in the form of maternal allocation. In mammals, lactation accounts for the largest proportion of maternal allocation. Lactation is the most energetically costly aspect of reproduction ... -
MATERNAL EXPOSURE TO PHTHALATES AND MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN THE OFFSPRING: RESULTS FROM A CANADIAN BIRTH COHORT STUDY
(2018-03-23)Objectives: The primary objective of this thesis was to determine if maternal exposure to phthalates during the first trimester of pregnancy was associated with penile length (PL) or width (PW) at birth in full term singleton ... -
Maternal Fitness Consequences of Different Causative Agents of Offspring Mortality in Early Life
(2010-12-15)Maternal effects can be key determinants of female fitness through their influence on early life survival. In salmonids, three main sources of mortality in early life can be attributed to redd superimposition, predation, ... -
Maternal Influenza Vaccination and the Effect of Provincial Immunization Programs in Canada
(2015)With evidence suggesting the importance of influenza vaccination of pregnant women, Canadian provinces have started to implement different publicly funded immunization programs to encourage vaccination of pregnant women. ... -
Maternal Microbes: The Effects of Probiotic Treatment on Maternal Care Behaviour, Inflammation and Offspring Stress Outcomes
(2019-08-16)Active maternal care is vital in offspring stress programming, yet the behaviour of a mother towards her offspring can also be influenced by her external environment. It is essential to understand what impacts maternal ... -
Maternal mood and child adjustment problems: Mutual risk and resilience.
(Dalhousie University, 2003) -
MATERNAL SENSITIVITY WITH THEIR INFANTS: THE ROLE OF EMOTION STATES, FATIGUE, AND INFANT ENGAGEMENT
(2013-08-26)Early sensitive caregiver (typically mother)-infant interactions form an important foundation for infant development. When sensitive, mothers behave with the apparent goal to keep their infants happy and engaged. Mutual ... -
A mathematical analysis of the regulation of ribosomes synthesis and activity, and its effect on bacterial growth rate.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Mathematical simulation of propagated electrical excitation in the human ventricular myocardium.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
Matheuristic methods for solving the multi-calendar naval surface ship work period problem
(2023-07-07)This thesis deals with the development of a binary integer programming (BIP) model and novel matheuristics to solve the naval surface ship work period problem (NSWPP) with multi-calendar activities and resources, multiple ... -
Matheuristic Optimization Approaches for Large Scale Resource Constrained Scheduling Problems in Refit Operations
(2021-09-14)This thesis will discuss the development of matheuristic methods for scheduling the refit activities in the naval surface ship work period problem (NSWPP). The NSWPP is a variant of the classical resource-constrained project ... -
A Matrix-based Visual Analytics approach for the Analysis of Association Rules
(2021-04-20)With a large amount of data, many data mining techniques have contributed to the extraction of useful information from the data. The generated information, if interpreted correctly results in a huge benefit for the user. ... -
Matter and the One in Proclus
(2018-08-27)The purpose of this thesis is to describe the relation between matter and the One in the philosophy of Proclus, and to discover how, by their relation, all things exist. The difficulty of this task is that matter and the ... -
MAXIMAL AND CONVEX LAYERS OF RANDOM POINT SETS
(2017-10-31)This thesis studies two well-known geometric structures in computational geometry: maximal points and convex hull. Extending the concepts to multiple maximal and convex layers is natural. We study the maximal and convex ...