Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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AUTOTAXIN IS NUTRITIONALLY REGULATED AND ALTERS MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IN OBESITY-INDUCED INSULIN RESISTANCE
(2019-08-28)The skeletal muscle is a major site of insulin stimulated glucose disposal. Skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity can be influenced by multiple circulating nutritional, hormonal, neuronal and bioactive factors, including ... -
AVERAGE RISK COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING: UNDERSTANDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF INTRODUCING COMPETING DEMANDS FOR LIMITED COLONOSCOPY RESOURCES
(2014-08-25)Population-level average risk screening is becoming an important strategy for the control of colorectal cancer. When implementing a population-level colorectal cancer screening program, it is essential to consider how to ... -
THE AVIAN REOVIRUS TRICISTRONIC S1 mRNA: NEW INSIGHTS INTO CONTROL OF TRANSLATION INITIATION
(2010-06-28)The S1 genome segment of avian reovirus is functionally tricistronic, encoding three independent protein products (named p10, p17 and ?C) from three sequential, partially overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). The dogma ... -
Aviation and Empire : The British African Experience, 1919-1939
(1974-08)The period 1919-1939 was the pioneer age of air transport, the newest and most promising of man's efforts to improve and accelerate his means of transport and communications. The agent of that purpose was the aeroplane, ... -
Awareness of Prosodic Cues in Text: The Missing Link Between Prosodic Sensitivity and Reading Comprehension in Young Readers?
(2019-08-22)This thesis investigated whether and how prosodic sensitivity and reading comprehension are related in the mid-elementary grades. A total of 151 students in Grades 3 to 5 were tested. Prosodic sensitivity was found to be ... -
AZ-NUGGETS: AN IDE FOR PROGRAMMING BY CONCEPT
(2013-08-21)Contemporary Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) offer minimal or no fea-tures that allow programmers to explore details of a programming language or interact with the program elements at a conceptual level. Programmers ... -
B cells and antibody in the development of long-term cardiac graft rejection
(2014-03-10)The long-term survival of heart transplants is limited by the development of allograft vasculopathy (AV), a vascular pathology that develops in spite of the use of modern immunosuppressive therapies. Although it is widely ... -
Back to the Future: New Metabolisms for Declining Urban Towers
(2016-08-26)As the number of residential towers increases with the growth of modern cities, we are faced with the question of how to handle the older towers that, little by little, no longer attract renters for their apartments. Is ... -
BACKSTEPPING-ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MOBILE MANIPULATORS FOR TRAJECTORY TRACKING
(2016-12-06)A mobile manipulator is a manipulator arm mounted on the mobile platform to offer more flexibilities to reach to the target position in the space. In recent years, research activities in this area have expanded because of ... -
Backyard Densification: Resectioning Urban Residential Lots
(2017-08-09)City densification techniques have become stagnant. Suburban land use needed to be revisited and a resectioning of lots implemented. This thesis investigates the typical characteristics of the suburban city lands, ... -
The Bad and the Beautiful: Public Persona and Genre in Three Film Adaptations of William Faulkner
(2011-12-15)Direct study of the film adaptations of the works of William Faulkner’s is relatively rare, and many of the few examples are still based entirely on the notion of textual fidelity as opposed to the more modern approach of ... -
Bad Reputation: Joan Jett and Questions of Canon
(2011-09-06)The purpose of this project is to identify and examine the reasons for which American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Joan Jett has been widely excluded from critical musicological study and discussion. The overall aim ... -
Balanced Steady-State Free Precession Imaging of the Temporal Bone and Paranasal Sinuses at 0.5T
(2023-01-31)Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performed with main magnetic field strengths below the conventional 1.5T or 3T has typically been considered inferior, due, primarily, to the proportional decrease in raw signal available. ... -
Balancing a fine line: Decision-making by sub-elite athletes about playing through pain: A focused ethnography of gymnasts, rowers and speed skaters
(2017-04-11)Aim: To explore the factors associated with sub-elite athletes playing through pain in gymnastics, rowing and speed skating. Methods: Five coaches, four athletes and three rehabilitation specialists were studied. Athletes ... -
Balancing Developed and Developing State Interests under a Regulatory Framework for Foreign Direct Investment: The Potential of the GATS Model
(2011-09-06)This thesis examines the need for a multilateral regime for the regulation of foreign direct investment. The absence of such a regime has slowed the growth of foreign direct investment, as investment decisions are difficult ... -
Ball Milled Si-W Alloy Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries
(2018-04-05)Si-based materials are excellent alternatives to conventional graphite anodes because of their high theoretical capacity and high earth abundance. This thesis explores the electrochemical and structural characteristics of ... -
Ballast Water Management Convention, 2004: Towards Combating Unintentional Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens.
(2011-09-06)The introduction of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens transferred through ships' ballast water and sediments from one coastal region to another has ecological, economic, environmental, and human impacts. The international ... -
Bangladeshi Female Migrant Workers in The Middle East: A Study of Migration and Women’s Empowerment
(2022-08-31)The number of Bangladeshi female migration to the Middle East has risen in recent years. Though they leave their home country and migrate to the Middle East for their and their families’ better future, but they go through ... -
A Bank Clerk at War: The Great War Diary of Nova Scotian A.I.M. Taylor, 85th Battalion C.E.F.
(2020-04-15)This thesis is an exploration of the previously unpublished diary of Aleck Taylor, a private of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Taylor’s methodical daily entries offer a unique opportunity for both ... -
Bar-trapped edge waves.
(Dalhousie University, 1997)