Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Investigating Governance Enablers for Water Safety Plans in Mi'kmaq and Wolastiqjyik Communities
(2022-04-19)Despite Canada’s privileged economic status, First Nations disproportionately experience drinking water issues. In the past decade, the focus has shifted from technological to governance-based solutions, in recognition of ... -
Investigating In-Situ Alloying During Blended Elemental (BE) and Master Alloy (MA) Sintering of Ti6Al4V
(2015-04-28)Despite an increasing body of research, there exists a lack of understanding about the alloying behaviour of PM titanium alloys. Specifically, Ti6Al4V, which is the most common alloy, has not been investigated sufficiently ... -
Investigating interference in the environmental sciences and studies in Canada: Defining the phenomenon and measuring its prevalence and impacts
(2022-08-29)When scientific researchers are sufficiently resourced to conduct research and communicate their findings, the knowledge produced can underpin technology and policy outcomes related to the environment and society. However, ... -
Investigating Maintenance Of The Yeast 2-Micron Family Of Plasmids
(2021-09-14)The 2µm plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the best-studied member of a family of multi-copy plasmids found only in Saccharomycetaceae budding yeast. All members of the family are small circular double-stranded DNAs ... -
Investigating Malt Inducing Premature Yeast Flocculation: Threshold and Stability
(2016-07-11)Premature yeast flocculation (PYF) has proven to be troublesome for the malting and brewing industries. It causes production difficulties and quality issues characterized by poor attenuation and low yeast cell counts ... -
Investigating mast cell responses and the functional role of Toll-Like Receptor 2 in Chlamydia pathogenesis
(2023-08-31)Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is a Gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterium that can cause severe reproductive tract complications in females. In this thesis, I have investigated two aspects of the immune response in ... -
Investigating Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in the Northwest Arm, Halifax Harbour and in Wastewater Treatment Facilities Using Natural Abundance Stable Isotopes in Nitrate, Nitrite, and Ammonium.
(2023-12-06)Using a 3-year time series of concentrations of nitrate, nitrite and ammonium and natural abundance stable isotopes in nitrate, this project identifies seasonal trends and major sources of fixed nitrogen to the Northwest ... -
INVESTIGATING MOTOR INHIBITION IN MOTOR IMAGERY
(2017-09-01)Motor leaning can be achieved via motor execution and motor imagery (MI), where the difference is the lack of overt movement in MI. Many theories exist as to the timing and source of this motor inhibition, however no one ... -
INVESTIGATING OFF-RESONANCE FAT MODULATIONS IN THE TURBOSPI SIGNAL TO IMPROVE R2* MAPPING FOR QUANTITATIVE CELL TRACKING
(2017-12-15)Immune cells can be labelled with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles and detected in vivo. Tracking the migration of immune cells is valuable for understanding the immunogenic response to both cancer and ... -
Investigating Performance Under Two Forms of Temporal Cueing
(2020-08-18)Temporal attention is the focusing of cognitive resources to an interval in time to prepare a response and improve perception. Recently, it has been shown that there are two independent forms of temporal attention: one ... -
INVESTIGATING RELIABILITY AS A TOOL FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC PIPELINE SELECTION
(2017-08-21)Introduction: Functional neuroimaging plays a key role in pre-surgical planning and improving surgical outcomes. My team has developed ROCr (Receiver Operating Characteristic reliability) - a tool to assess intra-session ... -
INVESTIGATING SKILL ACQUISITION IN THE ABSENCE OF PHYSICAL PRACTICE: MOTOR IMAGERY-BASED SKILL ACQUISITION AND THE ROLE OF THE INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE
(2015)Motor imagery (MI), the mental rehearsal of movement, is a useful adjunct to physical practice (PP) in numerous domains and shows promise for post-stroke rehabilitation. However, it is unknown if MI alone can produce robust ... -
Investigating Skilled Reading in School-Aged Children: An EEG Study
(2018-08-14)There exist conceptual gaps between the behavioural and electrophysiological accounts of skilled reading development that limit the ability to interpret them cohesively. The goal of this study was to bridge these gaps and ... -
Investigating Sources of Elevated Lead in Drinking Water
(2013-05-29)Lead exposure poses as a risk factor for various adverse health effects including intellectual delays, reduced IQ, and behavioural problems in children, as well as cognitive decline in adults. Lead enters drinking water ... -
Investigating sources of stream chloride near Kejimkujik National Park, southwestern Nova Scotia: A chlorine stable isotope approach
(2010-09-15)Chlorine stable isotope analysis (?37Cl ) means of stream water (- 0.95 ‰, n = 22), rainwater (- 1.51 ‰, n = 12), fog water (- 1.08 ‰, n = 7) and silicate mineral bound chloride (+ 0.13 ‰, n = 3) are used in an isotope ... -
INVESTIGATING TARGETED DRIVER MUTATIONS AND PD-L1 EXPRESSION FOR IMPROVED THERAPY OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
(2021-02-22)Most lung cancer patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, limiting their treatment options to chemotherapy. New therapies that target driver gene mutations, are used to treat patients who have tumours with these ... -
Investigating the 13C Suess effect in the northwestern North Atlantic
(2018-10-23)The carbon isotope signature (δ13C) of atmospheric CO2 has decreased as a direct result of anthropogenic CO2 emissions since the industrial revolution. This climate phenomenon has been termed the 13C Suess effect, and can ... -
Investigating the Antioxidant Effects of a Commercial Sunflower Derived Lecithin and Phosphatidylserine
(2015)The search for natural antioxidants for use in food and nutritional supplements led to an in-depth investigation into the antioxidant effect of a commercial sunflower derived lecithin (CSL), consisting of high levels of ... -
Investigating the Association between Arsenic Exposure and Chronic Disease Using Toenail Speciation Biomarkers: A Pilot Study in Atlantic Canada
(2017-09-01)With the support of Atlantic PATH, this study has used the world’s largest collection of toenail samples to investigate the association between chronic disease and arsenic speciation. The results of our study showed no ... -
Investigating the Design of Bisphosphine Ligands for use in Nickel-catalyzed C(sp2)-N Cross-Coupling
(2019-12-13)Notwithstanding the matured protocol of palladium-catalyzed C(sp2)-N cross-coupling (Buchwald Hartwig Amination, BHA), the development of nickel-based catalysts that carry out analogous transformations is motivated both ...