Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Fabric of the Path: Viewing a Nova Scotia Landscape Through a Long-Distance Trail Network
(2010-12-17)This thesis investigates the role architecture can play in structuring a shelter-to-shelter kayaking route in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Without the confines and linearity of a terrestrial course, the trail-less ... -
Fabrication, Characterization, and Investigation into the Wear Behavior of NiTi-based Nanolaminate Coatings
NiTi is a shape memory alloy possessing a stress-induced reversible martensitic transformation. NiTi alloys are used in a variety of industrial applications, however, is prevalent in the automotive, aerospace, and medical ... -
Face Processing and Sex Categorization: A Behavioural and Eye-Tracking Study
(2014-08-01)Effects of gaze direction, head position, and inverted stimulus orientation were investigated on categorizations of the sex of photographs of human face stimuli as demonstrated by behavioural (accuracy, RTs) and eye-tracking ... -
Face validity of the Multiple Errands Test with youth in a community setting
The Multiple Errands Test (MET) is a performance-based assessment of the impact of executive dysfunction in the real-world. For youth (age 16-24) who sustain acquired brain injury, distinguishing gaps in typical development ... -
Face Validity, Internal Consistency and Applicability of The Participation and Environment Measure: Child and Youth (German Translation) in Switzerland: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study
The Participation and Environment Measure: Child and Youth is a parents’ self-report, descriptive measure of childhood participation, with established validity and reliability in large-scale participation research (Anaby ... -
Faces of death on the Renaissance stage.
(Dalhousie University, 1984) -
FACIES DISTRIBUTION, FLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE, PROVENANCE, DIAGENESIS, AND RESERVOIR QUALITY OF SYNRIFT SUCCESSIONS FROM THE BREAKUP OF PANGEA: EXAMPLES FROM THE FUNDY BASIN AND ORPHEUS GRABEN
This study investigates the sedimentology, provenance, diagenesis, and reservoir characteristics of Late Triassic synrift successions from the Wolfville and Chedabucto formations along the margins of the Minas Basin and ... -
Facilitation of Ectomycorrhizal Colonization of Picea mariana by Alternate Host Plants above Treeline
(2011-08-26)The availability of ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECMF) to conifer seedlings above the present treeline is likely related to the presence of alternate ECMF host plants, including Betula glandulosa, Arctostaphylos alpina, and Salix ... -
Factorization in C*-algebras: Products of positive operators.
(Dalhousie University, 1992) -
Factors affecting knee joint muscle activation patterns during gait in individuals with knee osteoarthritis
(2012-01-03)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive disease and a leading cause of morbidity in older adults, resulting in severe mobility limitations. While the osteoligamentous and neuromuscular systems are altered in knee OA, ... -
Factors Affecting the Gut Microbiome
The recent boom in microbiome research, made possible by advances in sequencing technology, has revealed that the gut microbiome plays an important role in human health. A relatively stable community, gut microbes are ... -
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SURVIVAL FOR A COHORT OF CLINICALLY CONFIRMED DIABETES CASES IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2011-09-06)Diabetes Care Program of Nova Scotia (DCPNS) Registry data were used to examine factors associated with survival for clinically confirmed diabetes mellitus (DM) cases. Type 1 (N=2,043) and type 2 (N=47,974) cases were ... -
Factors Effecting the Electrical Conductivity and Zeta Potential of Alumina Nanofluids
(2014-06-19)This study investigates of the effect of nanoparticle volume fractions, NaCl concentration and pH on size of agglomerates, electrical conductivity and zeta potential of alumina nanofluids. The volume fractions used were ... -
Factors influencing flux, mineralization and availability of phosphorus in clear and organic lakes in the Atlantic Region.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Factors influencing sitting comfort and in-chair movement in the office environment.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Factors influencing the abundance, composition and diversity of deep-water benthic megafaunal communities
This thesis examines the role of the physical environment in influencing the abundance, composition and diversity of epibenthic megafaunal communities – i.e. organisms > 2-3 cm living on the seafloor – in deep waters on ... -
Factors influencing the survival, growth and development of central nervous system neurons in the fetal rat and human.
(Dalhousie University, 1996) -
Factors that Influence Biofilm Formation, Desiccation Resistance, and Sanitizer Susceptibility in Listeria monocytogenes at a Simulated Food Processing Plant Temperature of 15°C
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic foodborne bacterium whose persistence in food processing environments is in part attributed to its biofilm formation. A library of 11,024 L. monocytogenes 568 (serotype 1/2a) Himar1 ... -
Factors that Influence the Sustainability of Community Archives: A Case Study of Nova Scotia
(2014-05-01)Small archives are essential for understanding the historical context of social groups and geographic communities by those who live in them or study them. Using a multiple case study of eight archives serving in Nova Scotia, ...
