Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Maintaining the Character of a Place: Critical Approaches to Built Heritage in Newfoundland
(2018-07-31)Newfoundland has an evolving and dynamic culture of repairing, maintaining, and adapting buildings as their function changes. This thesis highlights the pluralist viewpoint of Bonavista and its capacity to absorb many ... -
Maintaining the Narrative: A Content Analysis of the Impact of Political Discourse on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador Political Culture
(2015)The following project is an examination of political culture in Canada. More specifically, this work argues that the methods used to study political culture in Canada need to be modified to improve the relevance of political ... -
Maintaining the Sacred: Adapting to a ‘Post-Religious’ Society Through the Reprogramming of the Early Church in Montreal
(2018-04-06)This thesis is a study of the architectural qualities that correlate with the sacred, while addressing the growing problem of dissolving religious buildings in Canada. The initial argument puts forth the idea that a building ... -
Majority Voter Model for Information Diffusion
(2019-08-29)A Majority Voter Model is a iterative process on graphs. Let G be a graph with a initial vertex colouring of n colours with the option of a vertex being uncoloured. The is a sequential process where once a vertex is coloured, ... -
MAKESPAN MINIMIZATION FOR PARALLEL MACHINES SCHEDULING WITH AVAILABILITY CONSTRAINTS
(2010-04-16)A new method is developed to schedule jobs on parallel machines with availability constraints. The objective of the problem is to minimize the makespan of the total production schedule. Without the availability constraints ... -
Making a Living: A Framework for Community-Based Waste Management in Jamaica
(2020-04-17)Jamaica has a history of resistance from tyrannical systems that no longer serve the vulnerable and oppressed. The uneven geographical development in Jamaica, influenced by Colonialism, and promulgated by Industrialization ... -
Making Development Marketable: The Politics of Image and Representation within Consumer Driven Schemes of Development Fundraising
(2011-09-06)This project examines a new and growing form of international development fundraising, which constructs and packages development as a product of consumption in order to achieve its goals of awareness and fundraising. These ... -
MAKING EVOLUTION RELEVANT IN PSYCHIATRY: EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AS A FOUNDATION FOR PSYCHIATRY
(2011-09-06)Evolution has tended to hold minimal significance for psychiatry making evolutionary psychiatry a niche sub discipline. This despite many calls for integrating evolution into psychiatry. One of the main impediments to ... -
Making Informed Consent Work in Nigerian Health Care
(2012-08-29)The notion of informed consent to medical treatment is a fundamental precept in law. It recognizes autonomy and the right to personal inviolability, irrespective of nationality, socio-economic situation and ideological ... -
MAKING MEANING: MATERIAL CULTURE IN NEW ORLEANS’ CARNIVAL
(2022-04-14)New Orleans’ carnival is a rich and complex celebration that people participate in across the city in many different ways. Notably, carnival is characterized by a spectacular display of material culture, which refers to ... -
Making Sense of Social Media Text and the Spread of Rumours in Online Social Networks - An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2019-08-27)As the spread of rumours in online social networks (OSNs) has grown at an alarming pace, there is a growing need to better understand the social and technological processes behind this trend. This research proposes an ... -
(Making) Kin: Narratives of an Ash Tree
(2022-08-25)Ash trees are facing extinction in North America from the accidental introduction of an invasive insect called the Emerald Ash Borer. The event is a disruption to the forest ecosystem as well as to relationships of care ... -
The maladaptive threats of identity limbo and cohesion resistance: A qualitative case study examining the challenges of over-inclusion and status and dominance confusion
(2013-08-27)This doctoral thesis examines the construct of organizational identity of knowledge workers involved in a merger or acquisition, to gain insights into the complex social-behavioural responses of participants to perceptions ... -
Malaria Hysteria: An Investigation of Africa's Deadly Disease Burden and International Intervention
(2012-08-15)Malaria is a daunting epidemic killing millions of people annually and no region is harder hit than Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Each year there are more than 247 million malaria cases in SSA, resulting in more than 600,000 ... -
Malaysia, South Africa and the marketing of the competition state: Globalization and states' response.
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Male Experience, Female Investment and Offspring Anxiety Behavior: Where Father’s Nature Meets Mother’s Nurture
(2017-08-30)Mammals, like most species, change in physiology and behavior over the course of their lifespan. Lifetime experiences and environmental exposures can potentially alter the developmental trajectory of their offspring, not ... -
MANAGEMENT OF FUSARIUM BASAL ROT DISEASE OF ONION (ALLIUM CEPA L.) BY USING PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA IN SEAWEED FORMULATION
(2023-03-30)Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops cultivated around the world. The production of onion is negatively affected by fungal and bacterial diseases. Ascophyllum nodosum extract (ANE) could ... -
Management of goldenrods (Solidago spp.) in wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) fields
(2018-08-28)Weeds are considered a major yield limiting factor in wild blueberry fields, and creeping herbaceous perennials have become common and problematic. Goldenrods are creeping herbaceous perennial weed that reproduces by ... -
Management of Hawkeed (Hieracium spp.) in wild blueberry fields on Prince Edward Island
(2015)Hawkweeds (Hieracium spp.) are a persistent problem in lowbush blueberry fields on Prince Edward Island (PEI). In 2011 and 2012, experiments were conducted on PEI on the weed phenology, herbicide trials and the best time ... -
THE MANAGEMENT OF MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS. THE IMPACT OF INDWELLING PLEURAL CATHETER VERSUS PLEURODESIS ON PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES, NEED FOR RE-INTERVENTION, COMPLICATIONS, AND LENGTH OF STAY.
(2021-08-17)Background: Chemical pleurodesis and indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) are the two most common treatments for malignant pleural effusions (MPEs). Previous systematic reviews inadequately address patient-reported outcomes ...