Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Aspects theoriques et pratiques de la traduction en situation de bilinguisme.
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Assessing Alternative Options for Energy Cost Reduction in Greenhouse Industry
(2014-01-10)Nova Scotia has over 100 commercial greenhouses covering an area of 186,245 square meters. Heating costs have become the largest energy expenditure in greenhouses mainly due to increasing fuel prices and the use of imported ... -
Assessing and Improving the Reliability of Models of Molecular Evolution
(2021-12-17)The site models of codon substitution used to detect positive selection at amino acid sites first use a pre-screening likelihood ratio (LR) test for positive selection at the level of the protein. Due to statistical ... -
Assessing and Predicting Distribution Shifts of Canopy-Forming Marine Macrophytes in the Northwest Atlantic with Remote Sensing and Species Distribution Models
(2017-12-12)This thesis quantified the distribution of several ecologically and commercially important canopy-forming marine macrophytes in the Northwest Atlantic using species distribution models (SDM) and satellite remote sensing. ... -
Assessing Aquatic Ecosystem Health Benefits Arising from Activities Associated with Community-Based Monitoring
(2015)In Canada, government funding cutbacks have decreased the capacity for government- sponsored water quality monitoring. In response, many community-based water monitoring (CBWM) organizations have been established that have ... -
Assessing Changing Baleen Whale Distributions and Incidents Relative to Vessel Activity
(2023-08-28)Baleen whales in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (NWA) are increasingly affected by human pressures related to vessel activity, fisheries entanglement, and climate change. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear, in ... -
Assessing climate-impact risk to Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) breeding sites in Nova Scotia, Canada
(2022-12-16)The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) is a shorebird assessed as 'Endangered' by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. They nest in coastal habitats and are vulnerable to climate change ... -
Assessing Depression Severity From Speech: The Role of Clinical Intuition and Artificial Intelligence
(2023-07-20)Automated speech analysis methods are used to estimate depression severity. However, it is unclear how these compare to the intuition of expert clinicians using the same information from speech. We distributed 1-minute ... -
Assessing Driven Steel Pile Capacity on Rock Using Empirical Approaches
(2012-08-28)Methods of determining pile toe capacity for both small displacement driven steel piles and drilled sockets were collected. Working in conjunction with a local consulting firm, records of previous pile driving sites were ... -
Assessing Durability of Cement Kiln Dust Manufactured Aggregates
(2018-03-29)Accelerated carbonation technology (ACT) is the addition of carbon dioxide and water and/or binder to a waste material to change an initially fine-grained waste material to an aggregate. For use in geotechnical applications, ... -
Assessing effects of industrial effluent on wetlands surrounding a wastewater treatment facility using a multiple lines of evidence approach
(2019-12-06)A former estuary, known as the Boat Harbour Treatment Facility (BHTF), has been used to treat industrial effluent since 1967. This effluent created large volumes of unconsolidated sediment impacted by inorganic and organic ... -
Assessing Floor Versus Pneumatic Malting: Comparing the Effects on Malt Quality and Fermentability
(2020-10-22)The increase in popularity of craft beer over the past decade has resulted in a subsequent increase in the craft malting industry. Approximately 25% of craft malthouses use a labour-intensive method called floor malting ... -
Assessing Gender: An Exploration of Transgender Individuals' Experiences of Assessments for Hormone Therapy or Surgery in Nova Scotia
(2019-09-04)Transgender individuals living in Nova Scotia and wishing to undergo gender-confirming hormone therapy or surgery must participate in a mandatory mental health assessment to determine whether they meet the diagnostic ... -
Assessing Impacts of Historical Pulp Mill Effluent on Coastal Food Web Structure and Identifying Suitable Bioindicators for Wastewater: a Stable Isotope (δ13C and δ15N) Analysis
(2022-07-26)Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia was a tidal estuary that was converted into a wastewater treatment facility for pulp mill effluent in 1967. Treated effluent from Boat Harbour was discharged through a dam into the coastal ... -
Assessing Informal Cancer Caregivers’ Needs and Preferences for an Exercise Program and Their Views Regarding Participating in a Dyadic Exercise Program with Their Care Recipients
(2023-07-27)The number of informal cancer caregivers (ICC) is rising due to increased cancer prevalence and a shift towards home-based care. ICC have been shown to experience several physical, emotional, and social consequences leading ... -
Assessing Monetary Valuation Methodologies for Estimating the Impacts of Climate Change in the Laguna de Rocha (Uruguay)
(2012-04-05)The motivation for this study arose from the dual observation that there are very few estimates of the local costs of climate change in developing countries and that the few studies that do exist rarely take into account ... -
Assessing Olfactory Learning and Memory in the 5XFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
(2012-08-17)Using an operant-olfactometer, the long term learning and memory, executive function, olfactory sensitivity, and working memory of the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease was assessed. Six month old male and female ... -
Assessing Poetry Markup with NUScholar
(2013-12-23)Scansion is the process of identifying the rhythm of a poem, which plays an important part in the process of analysing a poem by assisting readers in understanding its textual and contextual meaning. Usually, poetry students ... -
ASSESSING POLICY CAPACITY: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY OF HEALTH POLICY MAKING IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2020-04-16)Introduction: Health policies need to be changed to better address health system challenges. However, these changes require many factors in order to succeed. Collectively, these factors are referred to as policy capacity. ... -
Assessing progressivity and catastrophic effect of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Canada: 2010-2015
(2018-08-31)This study uses Statistics Canada’s Survey of Household Spending (SHS) to examine progressivity and catastrophic effect of OOP healthcare expenditures (OOPHE) in Canada from 2010 to 2015 inclusive. The Kakwani Progressivity ...