Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Exploring Mi'kmaq Women's Experiences with Pap Smear Screening in Nova Scotia
(2013-09-03)Mi’kmaq women in Nova Scotia are reported to have lower rates of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening and have higher rates of cervical cancer compared to non-Aboriginal women. Much of the cervical cancer literature reflects ... -
Exploring NAT detection and host identification
(2018-08-23)This thesis explores NAT detection and host identification. The NAT detection approach is processed by supervised machine learning algorithms on HTTP attributes. Three classifiers are employed on training datasets labelled ... -
Exploring Novel Aspects of Cannabis Use Patterns and Their Associations with Anxiety and Cannabis Outcomes in Trauma-Exposed Cannabis Users
(2024-08-28)Many Canadian adults who have experienced trauma are also using cannabis. While these individuals may be self-medicating with cannabis to reduce their post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms acutely, they may be putting ... -
Exploring Nurses' Perceptions on the use of Kangaroo Mother Care to Reduce Pain During Heel Lance Procedures
(2011-03-14)Infants in the NICU undergo many painful procedures and literature supports KMC as an effective intervention to diminish pain however, it is not used routinely in NICUs. The purpose of this qualitative study is to provide ... -
EXPLORING PAIN AND CLINICAL COMMUNICATION
(2020-04-06)The overarching aim of this dissertation is to explore and better understand how clinical contextual factors and patient education (e.g., delivery of pain-related explanations and diagnoses) shape meaning and the experience ... -
Exploring Phishing Detection Using Search Engine Optimization and Uniform Resource Locator based Information
(2021-04-29)Phishing attacks are the work of social engineering. They are used to trick users to obtain their sensitive/private information using malicious links, websites, and electronic messages. In this thesis, phishing attack ... -
Exploring Place for Community Mental Health Support in Natural Environments
(2012-08-07)The thesis looks at developing a new model for a mental health support program which is integrated into a natural recreational environment. Its starting point is Beginning Again, a registered charity in Richmond Hill, ... -
Exploring Postpartum Sexual Health in Nova Scotia Using Feminist Poststructuralism
(2022-03-29)Sexual health is a critical component of health throughout a person’s lifespan. Postpartum individuals may experience many changes to their sexual health, including emotional or physical issues. However, little is known ... -
EXPLORING RESUMPTION AIDS FOR TASKS INVOLVING 3D MODELS ON TABLETS
(2017-04-24)Aircraft mechanics use mobile devices and workstations to view 3D models of parts and assemblies. This offers easy viewing of static perspectives of a 3D model; however, during more complicated tasks when model perspectives ... -
Exploring Risk and Resilience Concepts: A Social-Ecological Coastal Community Case Study from Southwest New Brunswick, Canada
(2019-12-20)Social-ecological systems (SES) are integrated systems of nature and society, with reciprocal feedbacks. The goal of this research was to better understand risk and resilience concepts, and their interactions, in a coastal ... -
Exploring Safer and Unsafe Drug Use and Sexual Practices Among Female Injection Drug Users Living in Small Towns / Rural Communities, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
(2011-12-07)The purpose of this qualitative research study was to understand the facilitators and/or barriers to safer drug use and sexual practices among a sample of young female injection drug users (IDUs) who live in small towns/rural ... -
EXPLORING SCHOOL-BASED IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS AND THE IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE CANADIAN MARITIMES
(2024-06-11)Introduction: School vaccine programs help support equitable access to routine vaccines for students. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health measures affected three school years and shifting learning environments ... -
EXPLORING SOLITON AND SIMILARITON FORMATION IN RESONANT OPTICAL MEDIA
(2012-10-05)Investigating the behavior of an atom in response to the applied electric field when the latter frequency is in resonance with the natural frequency of the atom is an interesting subject. Near resonance, some of the most ... -
Exploring stakeholder mapping as a tool to support student incorporation of stakeholder needs in a senior undergraduate mechanical engineering capstone course
(2021-08-18)This thesis presents a novel method for integrating and assessing stakeholder mapping, a design thinking tool aimed at developing comprehensive understandings of problem contexts, within a capstone setting. This work ... -
Exploring the Capacity of the Extended Producer Responsibility Principle to Incentivize the Collection and Recycling of Plastic Food Packaging Waste
(2022-04-12)Plastic waste mismanagement and pollution have become mounting global concerns that are closely implicated in unsustainable production and consumption paradigms. This research reviews the ecological and socio-economic ... -
Exploring the Catalytic Radical Reactivity of Diazaphospholenes
(2021-12-16)A subset of N-heterocyclic phosphines known as 1,3,2 diazaphospholenes (DAPs) have amassed significant attention over recent years. DAPs are excellent reduction catalysts for carbonyls, imines, pyridines, and enoates by ... -
Exploring the Complex Syntax of School-Aged Children: The Effects of Age, Discourse and Bilingualism
(2018-03-15)Purpose: The aim of the study was to evaluate established and novel metrics of syntactic development in school-age children, to compare elicitation tasks, and to evaluate the effects of bilingualism on measures of syntactic ... -
Exploring the contributions of 2B4 and CD48 to natural killer cell activation and cancer killing
(2024-07-21)Natural killer (NK) cells are known mediators of immunosurveillance and anti-cancer activity. They prevent cancer growth and relapse and are increasingly used for cancer immunotherapy. NK cells distinguish non-cancerous ... -
Exploring the Development of Trust in the Athlete-Physiotherapist Relationship
(2020-12-16)Sport injury is prevalent and may lead to negative psychological consequences for athletes. When athletes become injured they can turn to a physiotherapist to help them rehabilitate. An athlete’s trust in their physiotherapist ... -
Exploring the Dissociations between Overt and Covert Mechanisms of Spatial Attention and Inhibition of Return
(2013-09-06)Prompted by oculomotor theories of attention, the present experiments explore the role of saccade activation in the generation of two cueing effects: exogenous capture (Experiment 1) and inhibition of return (IOR; Experiment ...