Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Cux2 regulates neurogenesis in the postnatal mouse hippocampus
(2012-08-15)Although once thought to be incapable of regeneration, the adult mammalian brain generates new neurons in two regions: the SVZ of the lateral ventricle and the DG of the hippocampus. While the cell types involved in adult ... -
Cyanobacteria Presence in Four Lakes in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Nova Scotia
(2018-08-24)The major objective of this project is to assess the presence of cyanobacteria (organisms that can pose serious challenges for drinking water treatment systems), in Halifax water supplies using DNA typing to identify ... -
The cytotoxic effects of novel jadomycins in drug-sensitive and drug-resistant MCF7 breast cancer cells
(2013-10-28)Multidrug resistance refers to the simultaneous resistance to structurally and mechanistically unrelated cytotoxic drugs. Chronic administration of cytotoxic drugs to patients with metastatic breast cancer results in the ... -
A DAILY DIARY EXAMINATION ON THE RELATIONS OF DEPRESSED MOOD AND COPING MOTIVES WITH CANNABIS USE QUANTITY ACROSS THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE: COMPARING CANNABIS USING FEMALES WITH AND WITHOUT PRE-MENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER
(2020-09-11)Cannabis is one of the most commonly used drugs in Canada. Though limited, research suggests female, versus male, heavy cannabis users have a higher propensity to develop a cannabis use disorder. Recent research suggests ... -
Daily Global Solar Radiation Forecasting Using ANN and Extreme Learning Machine: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia
(2013-03-14)The demand for solar radiation forecasting has become a significant feature in the design of photovoltaic (PV) systems. Currently, the artificial neural network (ANN) is the most popular model that is used to estimate solar ... -
Daily Life of Cham Village Girls: Learning to 'think' with stories
(2018-04-02)Cambodia has a small group of Muslims within its Buddhist majority population; locally known as Cham (from Champa Kingdom) or Khmer Islām. Little scholarly attention has been invested in understanding the daily lives and ... -
THE DAILY LIVES OF CANADIAN PARENTS: CORRELATES OF TIME USE
(2013-03-11)This study focuses on how children’s characteristics (number and age) and parental characteristics (e.g. employment status, education) and day of the week are linked to parents’ daily time allocations to primary child care, ... -
Damaged Perspectives: Towards a Visual Reading of Donald Barthelme's Picture Stories
(2020-08-21)America’s literary scene in the 1960s and 70s was a site of formal experimentation. Authors became discontented with the rational linearity of the written text and began to look for ways to disrupt it. Donald Bathelme is ... -
DANCING IN A CULTURE OF DISORDERED EATING: A FEMINIST POSTSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF YOUNG GIRLS’ EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD OF DANCE
(2017-08-16)Eating disorders are a public health issue in Canada where between 600,000 and 990,000 Canadians currently meet the diagnostic criteria for a clinical eating disorder; 80% of these Canadians are females. Of concern are ... -
Dark Honey: A Geo-Architectural Fiction of Extraction and Extinction
(2023-07-13)What does it mean to be human? As a species, we are defined by the contaminations that compose us and that are imposed by us. Spellbound by progress, our techno-hubris leaves no surface on Earth unaffected by perpetual ... -
A Dark Laboratory: Exploring Soil Health Perceptions and Assessments in the Maritimes
(2017-12-12)Farmer interviews and soil sampling were conducted on 34 farms to explore how farmers’ soil health (SH) perceptions, assessments and management practices relate to lab SH measures: the Cornell Soil Health Assessment (CSHA), ... -
Dark-rearing promotes drastic improvement of visual acuity in the amblyopic eye of lid-sutured kittens
(2013-04-05)This report extends findings (Duffy & Mitchell, 2013) of a dramatic recovery of vision in the deprived eye of amblyopic kittens following a short ‘dark-pulse’ (a 10 day period of darkness) to situations of clinical ... -
“DARKE HIDDEN VERTUOUS”: DECONSTRUCTING THE VIRGIN FIGURE IN MARY WROTH’S LOVE’S VICTORY AND JOHN FLETCHER’S THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS
(2020-08-21)This project analyzes the virgin figure as deployed by two Protestant playwrights. Clorin in John Fletcher’s The Faithful Shepherdess (c.1608) and Silvesta in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory (c.1620) are anomalous characters, ... -
DARSTELLUNG UND PROBLEMATIK DER SCHULDFRAGE IN BERNHARD SCHLINKS ROMAN "DER VORLESER" SOWIE IN DER GLEICHNAMIGEN VERFILMUNG VON STEPHEN DALDRY
(2013-08-23)This thesis discusses the question of guilt, as it appears on a variety of levels in Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader (1995) and its film adaptation by Stephen Daldry (2009). In general, a review of the question of the ... -
Das Bild des Fremden in der Dramatik Peter Turrinis und Rainer Werner Fassbinders
(2011-09-06)The following Master’s Thesis aims to describe the social and intellectual state of Austrian and German society after World War II through the perspective of two internationally renowned modern playwrights - Peter Turrini ... -
DAS LICHT DER KÜNSTE: HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHALS DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN MIT BLICK AUF WALTER PATERS THE RENAISSANCE
(2011-09-07)Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s literary relation to Walter Pater has already been established in the secondary literature; nevertheless, the Frau ohne Schatten has not been analysed with respect to this relation. This project ... -
Das Mögliche, Das Wirkliche Und Das Unmögliche: Three Concepts Of Poetics
(2013-08-27)This thesis presents a historical analysis of literature through the intriguing (but often overlooked) overarching concepts of art –“das Mögliche”, “das Wirkliche” and “das Unmögliche”– and the changes in the historical ... -
DATA ANALYTICS AND OPTIMIZATION MODELLING BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR CANADIAN ARCTIC OIL SPILLS RESPONSE
(2023-12-11)Oil spills adversely affect marine ecosystems. Hence, strategic planning for the development and operation of marine oil spill response facilities, along with resource allocation, holds significant importance for ... -
Data Compression Meets Automata Theory
(2024-02-07)We introduce a new paradigm in graph compression and formal language theory. We show that the ideas behind some of the most important data structures for compressing and indexing strings - such as the suffix array, the ...
