Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Current and future wildfire risk in the peri-urban Acadian Forest Region
(2013-08-21)The majority of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and the peri-urban has grown simultaneously, creating new Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where development comes into contact – and intermingles with – ... -
Custom and Coverture in the Manor Courts: Women as Tenants in Early Modern England
(2020-08-27)England’s manor courts developed as a result of the tenurial agreements that structured the country’s medieval and early modern land market. Operated by the landlord’s steward and a jury of tenants, there courts were local ... -
Cuticle Proteins in Diverse Lines of Chickens
(2023-04-28)This study investigated variability of cuticle proteins on the eggshell surface from different chicken lines, as they aged. Proteins from 10 eggs were removed from two commercial lines every 30 days from 20 - 66 weeks-of-age. ... -
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 ...