Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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.
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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 ... -
Violence Against Refugee Women and Mitigation Programs: Highlighting the Perspectives of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
(2018-08-28)Refugee women and girls are among those most vulnerable to violence. This thesis examines how Syrian refugees view efforts to prevent and address such violence in their host community. Through interviews with both NGO staff ... -
VIOLENCE DETECTION IN CROWD FOOTAGE: ENGINEERING STATISTICAL FEATURES USING TRANSFORMED OPTICAL FLOW
(2020-12-17)Video surveillance technology is becoming increasingly common and is often used to increase safety in public spaces. However, the effectiveness of the video information on its own is questionable as it relies on someone ... -
Violence, Illicit Crops and Development in the Colombian Pacific Region
(2023-12-14)The Colombian Pacific region is a strategic hub for the illicit drug trade, due to its geographical suitability for cultivation and access to the Pacific Ocean. This study focuses on the relationship between the rise in ... -
Violent Femininity: Exploring Representations of Women’s Violence in Global Politics
(2023-12-15)Women are becoming increasingly visible as violent perpetrators in global politics, yet the gendered language used to describe them betrays a collective uneasiness with their wilful participation. The inability, or ... -
The Virginia Height Increase: The Effects of Climate, Diet, and Labour on the Health of Enslaved Men in the Cold South, 1815-1835
(2022-08-24)From 1815 to 1835, the height average of enslaved Virginian men increased while the average of European and North American men decreased. This thesis argues that climate should be considered a major influence on the skeletal ... -
A VIRTUAL INEVITABILITY?: RECONCEPTUALISING THE INTERNET VOTING DEBATE WITH EVIDENCE FROM CANADA AND ABROAD
(2019-08-28)The Internet is changing democracy in many important ways. Though governments have proven willing to leverage technology for service delivery in many instances, perhaps the most important democratic act – the casting of ... -
VIRTUALEYEZ: DEVELOPING NFC TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO SHOP INDEPENDENTLY
(2014-07-11)A large number of people throughout the world have visual impairments that make everyday tasks difficult, ultimately reducing independence and quality of life. VirtualEyez is a low cost system that uses a mobile phone ... -
The Virtue of Process: Finding the Legitimacy of Judicial Fact-Finding in Personal Injury Litigation
(2017-06-02)This thesis is an inquiry into the legitimacy of judicial fact-finding in civil litigation. Judges make authoritative factual findings in conditions of uncertainty and the decision-making process cannot, and does not, ... -
The Virtuous Citizen: Rawls and Cohen on the Scope of Egalitarian Justice
(2014-12-17)My thesis responds to G. A. Cohen’s criticism that Rawls’ theory of justice arbitrarily limits its scope to political and social institutions. On Cohen’s view, there is no reason why we should not demand the same principles ... -
Visees, modalites et portees de la poesie francaise contemporaine: Bancquart, Commere, Leclair, Pinson et Tellermann.
(Dalhousie University, 2004)