Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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WINSTON 'HANGING HAIRY FROM A BRANCH'?: THE CREATION, DISSEMINATION AND VALIDITY OF A DUAL PORTRAIT OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AS BOTH RATIONAL AND PRESCIENT CONCERNING WORLD WAR TWO AND AN IRRATIONAL REACTIONARY TO INDIAN NATIONALISM
(2015-03-27)A dual portrait of Winston Churchill exists in contemporaneous and historical commentary. Churchill is viewed as irrational and fossilized in his attitudes towards India during the interwar and wartime periods yet as a ... -
Winter House for an Inuvialuit Family: Dwelling, Collective Memory, and the Qallunaat Designer in the Western Arctic
(2019-08-27)Contemporary housing in the western Arctic is frequently based on Euro-Canadian (qallunaat) concepts of the home, which are ill-suited to Inuvialuit (Inuit) ways of life. Additionally, the forced settlement of Inuit peoples ... -
WINTER SEASONAL CLIMATOLOGY, VARIABILITY, AND PREDICTION OF NORTHWEST ATLANTIC EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES
(2022-03-14)Winter Extratropical Cyclones (ETCs) are mid-latitude storms that regularly impact the east coast of North America. These storms are characterized by high winds and heavy precipitation (rain, snow, and ice). ETCs are well ... -
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER VIA MAGNETIC RESONANT COUPLING
(2015)Small electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets are increasingly rooted in everyday life. To eliminate cable mess and make it easy to stay connected with always-charged electronic devices, magnetically coupled ... -
WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER VIA MAGNETICALLY COUPLED RESONANCE FOR SMALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES
(2018-04-24)The widespread use of all kinds of small portable devices have created the demands for wireless power transfer (WPT) systems that are proper for mobile devices. In this thesis, magnetically coupled resonance (MCR) WPT ... -
The Wisdom of Fallibilism in Augustine's Contra Academicos and Cicero's Academica Compared
(2019-09-03)On the Received Interpretation of Augustine’s CA, Augustine's primary aim is to refute the basic principles of Cicero's dogmatic Academic scepticism. In the Letter 1, however, Augustine says he tried to imitate rather than ... -
WITHIN VULNERABILTY: UNDERSTANDING THE PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES OF ENHANCED HOME VISITING PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES AND COMMUNITY HOME VISITORS
(2015)In Nova Scotia, a targeted Enhanced Home Visiting program began in 2002 as an enhancement to the universal healthy beginnings program for families requiring additional support at home with healthy child development. Public ... -
Witnessing the Darkness: Light Movements in the Poetry of Souvankham Thammavongsa
(2015)To date, Laotian Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa has published three collections of poetry: Small Arguments (2003), Found (2007) and Light (2013). A former refugee and an immigrant to Canada, Thammavongsa is deeply ... -
Women and Children First: Intimate Partner Violence, Children's Well-Being & Child Labour in Ecuador
(2021-07-12)This dissertation examines the relationship between women’s ownership of economic resources, beliefs, values and childhood experiences of violence and intimate partner violence, the relationship between household chores ... -
Women and children's labour in rural economy: A case study of Western Province, Kenya, 1902-1985.
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Women of the Healing Arts: Domestic Medicine in Nova Scotia, 1750-1850
(2021-06-23)This thesis addresses the history of British settler women’s encounters with health and medicine in Nova Scotia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Medicinal remedies used in the Northeastern Atlantic region reveal ... -
Women writing of divinest things: Rhetoric and the early modern poet.
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Women's Empowerment in Technical Vocational Education and Training. Exploring perspectives of females from vocational institutes: A case study of Nakawa Vocational Training Institute (NVTI)
(2022-04-13)In Uganda, women have achieved significant progress in technical vocational education and training (TVET), both in institutions and in the workplace. However, entry and retention rates remain low, and women continue to ... -
Women, class and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1930-1965.
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Womens Changing Attitude Toward Their Body Image During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
(1983-03-30)The purpose of this study was to describe women's attitudes to their body image during the postpartum period and to compare them to their attitudes to their body image prior to and during pregnancy. A non-random, ... -
Women’s Contextual Online Social Identity Formation Model: A Case Study from the Saudi Twittersphere
(2021-01-05)Online Social Networks (OSNs) are widely accessible, and they produce a wealth of information on their user's behaviour. Previous research has shown that the user identity experiences a dynamic shift through self-presentation ... -
Women’s Medicine and Female Embodiment in the Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula Treatise, and The Mists of Avalon
(2016-08-31)This thesis compares the representation of women’s medicine in Malory’s Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula treatise, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. Specifically, it uses the portrayal of women healers ... -
Woolscapes: Re-Connecting Nova Scotian Agriculture and Craft
(2016-04-08)Wool is a natural, renewable and biodegradable resource. It is used by the sheep to protect them from the elements; a natural form of architecture. Its properties as a thermally and acoustically insulating, water resistant, ... -
Word Embeddings for Domain Specific Semantic Relatedness
(2018-11-01)Word embeddings are becoming pervasive in natural language processing (NLP), with one of their main strengths being their ability to capture semantic relationships between words. Rather than training their own embeddings ...