Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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North of North Street: Green Spaces, Identity, and the Middle Class
(2014-08-21)How do residents in Halifax Nova Scotia’s North End experience and use public green spaces within the city? Researchers argue that public green spaces in cities are important for the overall health and wellbeing of urban ... -
North Saskatchewan Spiritual: Reconnecting with Nature in the Edmonton River Valley
(2021-04-07)A strong connection to nature, wilderness, and landscape provides the foundation onto which life is constructed. But forces of industrialization and globalization have brought us to a time in which our built environments ... -
North-South Relations under the Clean Development Mechanism: Bridging the Divide or Widening the Gap?
(2009-12-16)The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has been hailed as the grand compromise of the North-South divide over climate change mitigation for its ability to reconcile the economic demands of the North ... -
NORTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALES IN CANADA: THE STORY OF EXPLOITATION, CONSERVATION, AND RECOVERY
(2021-08-10)Many populations of cetaceans are still recovering from the impacts of whaling and face ongoing, and sometimes increasing, human stressors. However, due to their slow reproductive life history, monitoring trends and responses ... -
NOS1APc associates with Hippo Signaling components and contributes to spinal cord development
(2017-06-01)The nitric oxide synthase 1 adaptor protein (NOS1AP) is an adaptor protein implicated in a number of human conditions including schizophrenia, anxiety and cardiac QT syndrome. Previous studies have shown that NOS1AP and ... -
NOSEMA CERANAE IN WESTERN HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA): BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2013-04-11)Western honey bees (Apis mellifera; hereafter honey bees) provide vital pollination services to global agriculture and biodiversity. However in recent years they have experienced severe population declines in many regions ... -
Nourished by Design: Public Architecture as Social Infrastructure
(2021-04-09)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 ... -
Nova Scotia 811 Telephone Triage and Lower Acuity Pediatric Emergency Department Visits at the IWK Health Centre
(2020-12-07)Growth in Emergency Department (ED) demand is occurring across the developed world, with increases in both urgent and non-urgent ED visits. Telephone triage systems allow a caller to speak with a healthcare professional ... -
Nova Scotia and the Conscription Election of 1917
This study traces the course of .federal politics in Nova Scotia from the time of the federal government's announcement of a policy of military conscription in early 1917, through the period of the formation of Union ... -
Nova Scotia and the reciprocity election of 1911
(1971-04)After a campaign which was probably the most keenly fought of any since Confederation a ministry which for fifteen years had enjoyed the confidence of the Canadian public went down to humiliating defeat in the election of ... -
Nova Scotia Layer Industry: Energy Use and Innovation Through LED Lighting
(2013-08-26)This thesis aimed to identify the energy use within the Nova Scotia Layer Industry, through auditing and evaluating layer farms. Using the data collected, energy benchmarks were determined; providing a guide for achieving ... -
Nova Scotia Parents' Perceptions on the use of Smartphone Health Applications in Improving Family Nutrition and Physical Activity Habits
(2013-10-08)Busy families of Nova Scotia and similar populations find it challenging to make healthy nutrition and exercise choices due to time constraints (Chircop et al, under review; Jabs et al, 2007; Devine et al, 2006). Smartphone ... -
NOVA SCOTIA RECTAL CANCER PROJECT: A POPULATION BASED ASSESSMENT OF RECTAL CANCER CARE AND OUTCOMES
(2011-05-02)Purpose: To describe patient & tumor characteristics among rectal cancer patients in Nova Scotia, to determine factors associated with permanent colostomy and oncologic outcomes and to determine the relationship between ... -
Nova Scotian forest history : evidence from statistical analysis of pollen data.
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Novel Algorithms for Trajectory Segmentation based on Interpolation-based Change Detection Strategies
(2020-10-15)An enormous number of mobility datasets for tracking animals, vehicles, vessels, individuals and moving objects are currently available, and this number continues to grow. Mobility data has diverse applications, including ... -
A NOVEL AND EFFICIENT METHOD FOR DIGITAL MICROSCOPY OF CELLS IN CULTURE
(2023-08-31)Common implementations of standard microscopy suffer from several disadvantages. The apparatus required is often inconveniently large and expensive, requires trained operators, provides only a limited field of view (FOV) ... -
A NOVEL AND GENERIC METHOD FOR EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENERGY SECURITY AND DIVERSITY OF AN ENERGY SYSTEM
(2013-12-16)In an energy system, diversity of supply—that is, reliance on a variety of mutually disparate energy suppliers and their energy supplies—is seen by many researchers and policymakers as an important component of energy ... -
NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF RANDOM FOREST FOR EXPLORING POPULATION STRUCTURE OF ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) IN LABRADOR, CANADA
(2017-08-28)The detection of population-genetic structure is useful for understanding patterns of gene flow, population distribution, and wildlife management and conservation. In this work, we examine approaches for inferring the ... -
Novel Approaches to Marker Gene Representation Learning Using Trained Tokenizers and Jointly Trained Transformer Models
(2021-08-19)Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have made marker-gene DNA sequence data widely available. Analysis of microbiome data has many challenges, including sparsity, high cardinality, and intra-study dependencies ...