Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Developing an Early Warning System for Intrastate Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011-05-05)Intrastate conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa are a development tragedy and a security dilemma that requires more prevention and better intervention from the international community. Such engagement necessitates a robust ... -
DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE FRAMEWORK FOR OCEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: CASE STUDIES FROM THE PHILIPPINES
(2010-08-20)Unless subjected to skeptical and conscious scrutiny, environmentally-friendly ocean energy technologies can become “Trojan machines of social inequity” due to the subtle re-organizing influences of technologies on culture ... -
DEVELOPING AN FDTD SIMULATION TOOL TO EVALUATE THE USE OF MAGNETIC INDUCTION ACROSS AN AIR-WATER INTERFACE
(2020-08-24)Traditional underwater communication technology includes either the propagation of energy in the form of acoustic pressure waves or extremely low frequency electromagnetic radiation. Although today’s acoustic technology ... -
DEVELOPING AN INJECTABLE IN-SITU-FORMING CALCIUM POLYPHOSPHATE SYSTEM AS A HEMOSTATIC AGENT
(2015-04-06)Sodium Polyphosphate (NaPP) is a linear inorganic polymer formed from PO4 structural units. NaPP glass is soluble in water, but addition of multivalent cations to its solutions results in a precipitate and formation of a ... -
Developing and validating a combined attention systems test
(2018-08-31)Modern research on the phenomena of attention has motivated an increasingly nuanced view of its subsystems and their relations. However, popular tools for the measurement thereof are limited in their design in ways that ... -
DEVELOPING ANODE-FREE LITHIUM METAL CELLS WITH LIQUID ELECTROLYTES
(2021-09-01)Anode-free lithium metal cells store 60% more energy than lithium-ion cells. Such high energy density can increase the range of electric vehicles by over 200 km and will be critical for enabling electrified urban aviation. ... -
Developing computational models to understand aging
(2021-12-17)Aging in biological organisms is a complex process, involving changes at all levels of functioning. No single pathway or mechanism is responsible for aging, leading to the current understanding that aging is due to a number ... -
DEVELOPING NATURAL KILLER T CELL BASED TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR TARGETING BREAST CANCER
(2019-04-12)Natural killer T cells are a rare population of immune-regulatory lymphocytes which have been implicated in tumor control. However, the benefit of NKT cell activation therapy in metastatic breast cancer remains poorly ... -
Developing Species Distribution Models for Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) in Atlantic Canada
(2022-08-31)The wood turtle, Glyptemys insculpta, is listed as threatened federally in Canada and provincially in Nova Scotia (NS) and New Brunswick (NB). Historic surveying for G. insculpta in these provinces has been arbitrary ... -
Development and Analysis of a Water Quality Monitoring Program for the Pockwock Lake Watershed
(2011-05-02)Municipal Source Water Protection Plans (SWPPs) are instituted in efforts to maintain and protect water quantity and quality. An integral part of a SWPP is the Source Water Monitoring Plan (SWMP). Without well defined ... -
Development and Analysis of Approaches and Strategies to Facilitate the Conversion of Canadian Houses into Net Zero Energy Buildings
(2016-12-15)Conventional building design is not aligned with modern housing requirements. Growing energy demand, international pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing cost of energy motivate the building energy ... -
DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS OF PATHWAYS TO NEW CONSTRUCTION NET-ZERO ENERGY HOUSES IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2019-04-11)17% of Canadian secondary energy consumption is consumed by the residential sector. Efforts to reduce this energy consumption and the associated emissions include the replacement of traditional housing with net-zero energy ... -
Development and application of linked hydrodynamic-water quality models for small lakes, reservoirs, and tidal inlets.
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF NEW PALLADIUM CATALYSTS IN CHALLENGING C-N AND C-O BOND FORMING REACTIONS
(2013-10-17)In the pursuit of increasingly efficient and/or new chemical transformations, homogeneous transition metal catalysts are proving to be invaluable components of the synthetic chemist’s toolbox. Notwithstanding the many ... -
Development and Application of the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Method
(2018-01-02)Time-domain numerical methods are widely applied in modern engineering problems. In modeling electromagnetic structure problems, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is one of the most well-known and widely adopted ... -
Development and Applications of Composite and Low-Cost Approaches in Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction
(2019-07-04)Despite significant progress made in the last twenty years, the crystal structure prediction (CSP) of organic molecular solids remains challenging, as the demand to predict more complex crystal structures increases. On ... -
DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF A NEW SOLUTION FOR CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL FROM ANAESTHESIA REBREATHING CIRCUITS
(2019-01-15)Background: Our aging population’s rising health care costs cannot be met by the limited numbers of young tax payers. Compounding the cost of surgery are the costs associated with post operative cognitive decline (POCD) ... -
Development And Benchmarking Of A Semilocal Density-Functional Approximation Including Dispersion
(2013-03-27)Density-functional theory has become an indispensible tool for studying matter on the atomic level, being routinely applied across diverse disciplines from solid-state physics to chemistry and molecular biology. Its ... -
Development and Characterization of Decellularized Rabbit Tracheal Cartilage Matrix for Use in Tissue Engineering
(2016-08-23)Reconstruction of large upper airway defects requires replacement tissue. Unfortunately, there is no widely available tracheal tissue substitute that can be used at this time. To overcome this limitation, tissue engineering ...