Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Vector-valued inverse programming.
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Venezuela's Medical Revolution: Can the Cuban Medical Model be Applied in Other Countries?
(2013-12-10)This thesis analyzes the Cuban medical adaptation in Venezuela called Misión Barrio Adentro (MBA) and seeks to answer the question of whether MBA shows promise as a health system that improves medical accessibility for ... -
Verb Fast Mapping and Imitation in Children with Down Syndrome
(2018-08-30)Fast mapping is the ability to learn a new word after one or a few exposures. Research on verb fast mapping in children with Down syndrome (DS) has found mixed results. Imitation aids fast mapping of nouns (Schwartz & ... -
Verbal Working Memory and Discourse Comprehension in Older Adults
(2016-06-27)This study addresses the following question: How do different types of linguistic working memory relate to discourse comprehension among older adults? Community-dwelling participants (n = 34, mean age = 67.5 years) completed ... -
VERGIL THE HESITANT HORTICULTURALIST: READING EMOTIONS FROM THE EPICUREAN GARDEN IN THE 'AENEID'
(2023-08-15)The passions of love and anger are at the root of character motivation in Vergil’s Aeneid, and often act as an essential narrative device for developing the poem’s more cosmic themes. This thesis endeavours to apply the ... -
VERIFICATION OF SNP MARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH AFTER-COOKING DARKENING IN POTATOES
(2012-04-12)After-cooking darkening (ACD), a gray-black discoloration, is one of the key quality defects of the potato. Previous work using a diploid population 13610 identified 14 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers, located ... -
Vers une classification sémantique fine des noms d’agent en français
(2011-12-13)This thesis proposes a fine-grained semantic classification of what is traditionally named agent nouns in French; it is thus a study of semantic derivation. Our classification was elaborated starting from 1573 agent nouns ... -
Vertical distribution and transport processes of marine particles.
(Dalhousie University, 1992) -
THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF COPEPODS IN BEDFORD BASIN AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH PHYSICAL VARIABLES WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE
(2012-12-17)In the autumn of 2010 a novel free-falling profiler was deployed in attempt to measure, quantify and understand the vertical distribution of copepods in Bedford Basin, with particular emphasis on the effects of small-scale ... -
Vertical Regionalism: A Pilgrimage in Canada’s Western Mountains
(2011-08-25)Wilderness is defined as being "a wild or uncultivated region or tract of land, uninhabited, or inhabited only by wild animals" (Oxford English Dictionary 1989). But just how natural is the concept of wilderness? the idea ... -
THE VIA AFFIRMATIVA IN THE LETTERS OF DENYS
(2017-09-05)Denys’ four treatises (CH, EH, DN, MT) describe the logic of conversion of how the soul achieves a contemplative union with the One beyond-being and beyond-knowing through an informed and deliberate unknowing, by means of ... -
VIABILITY OF ACCELERATED SPIN ECHO SINGLE POINT IMAGING FOR LIPID COMPOSITION MAPPING IN FATTY LIVER DISEASE
(2019-08-29)Lipid composition may have the potential to predict disease progression in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies can provide this lipid composition information but single ... -
Vibration-based damage detection of structures using signal analysis methods.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
Vibratory Response of Dry Human Skulls
(2012-04-09)Hearing loss effects millions of people of all ages and is commonly treated with hearing aids and prostheses. Bone anchored hearing prostheses use bone conduction to transmit sound through the skull bone to the functioning ... -
Vibrio harveyi acyl carrier protein and its role in activation of exogenous fatty acids.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Vibrio harveyi acyl carrier protein conformation and interaction with partner enzymes.
(Dalhousie University, 2007) -
Victim Or Survivor: Do Labels Matter? A Poststructural Discourse Analysis of North American Undergraduate Students’ Beliefs on Sexual Violence Labels and their Societal Implications
(2022-08-30)Sexual violence is a public health and human rights crisis that continues to be ignored by society. University students experience sexual violence at implacable rates, causing rape culture and rape myths to engulf university ... -
Video Data Exploration for Film Production and User Study Analysis
(2012-04-16)This work provides visualizations for digital video management in two different problem domains that have significant commonalities: digital film production (“Bin Explorer”) and user study interview analysis (“Interview ... -
Vilma Espín: Her Role in The Federation of Cuban Women and the Evolution of Women’s Roles in Revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1975
(2013-11-28)In 1960, Fidel Castro’s newly founded revolutionary government created the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in an attempt to bring women into the revolutionary process. Vilma Espín, herself a former revolutionary, was asked ... -
Violating the phonotactic properties of American Sign Language to create illegal pseudosigns
(2016-09-01)This study aimed to develop a set of visual-manual stimuli that varied in structure, phonotactic permissibility, and lexicality, to be used in future brain imaging studies of sign language learning. By developing a set of ...