Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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PERSONALITY TO SUBSTANCE MISUSE IN YOUNG PEOPLE: HOW DOES WHO YOU ARE AFFECT WHAT AND WHY YOU USE?
(2018-10-29)My dissertation sought to better understand the ways in which personality confers vulnerability for substance misuse. Four traits have been reliably implicated: anxiety sensitivity, hopelessness, sensation seeking, and ... -
Personality, Motives and Patterns of Prescription Anxiolytic and Sedative Misuse
(2014-04-01)Misuse of prescription anxiolytic and sedative medication is a widespread phenomenon in Canada and a topic of increasing concern among health care providers. While anxiolytics and sedatives have important therapeutic uses ... -
Personality, Motives, and Substance Use among Opioid Agonist Therapy Clients
(2022-07-19)Background: The Four Factor Personality Vulnerability model (Castellanos-Ryan & Conrod, 2012; Conrod, Pihl, et al., 2000) implicates four personality traits in conferring vulnerability to substance misuse: sensation seeking ... -
Personality-Based Model-Driven Persuasive Application to Promote Mental Health and Well-Being
(2023-02-13)Persuasive mental health applications (apps) are effective tools for promoting mental health and emotional well-being using various persuasive strategies. However, despite increasing interests, there is a lack of studies ... -
Personalized Medicine: Development of a Predictive Computational Model for Personalized Therapeutic Interventions
(2013-08-19)Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men and women. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) constitutes the most common type of lung cancer and is frequently diagnosed at advanced stages. In the past ... -
PERSONALIZED TOPIC MODELLING OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS
(2023-04-10)Topic modelling refers to the discovery of abstract topics in a document collection. The abstract topics are often described by a statistical model that models the probabilistic relationship between topics, documents and ... -
Perspectives of northern researchers, residents and educators on science education and outreach in Yukon, Canada
(2012-04-16)International Polar Year 2007-2008 renewed interest in and funding for circumpolar research. One unique element of this International Polar Year was the focus on education and outreach initiatives. This study explores ... -
THE PERSPECTIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY STUDENTS AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ON THEIR EDUCATIONAL PREPAREDNESS TO PRACTICE WITH CHILDREN WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORERS
(2016-03-23)Background/Purpose: There is a small body of literature examining the perceptions of occupational therapy students and graduates regarding their education preparedness for practice worldwide, but specific areas such as ... -
Perspectives on Music, the Environment, and Sustainability Education from Recording Artists Featured on the David Suzuki Foundation Playlist for the Planet, 2011
(2016-07-21)The arts have the power to evoke emotion, spark dialogue, encourage innovative thinking, present diverse perspectives, cope with ambiguity and non-linearity, and influence the development of cultural norms. Increasingly ... -
Persuasive Data Visualization and Interactive Narrative for Climate Change Awareness
(2022-10-17)Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects every living being on our planet. We have been observing drastic changes to our climate since the last few decades. This has raised concerns among people from all works ... -
Petrogenesis of the podiform chromitites in the Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet.
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PETROLEUM SYSTEM MODELLING OF POTENTIAL LOWER JURASSIC SOURCE ROCKS ALONG THE SCOTIAN MARGIN
(2019-11-28)This thesis presents the results of 2D Petroleum System models using PetroMod software on four shelf-to-slope regional seismic lines (NovaSPAN 1100, 1400, 1800 and 2000), by incorporating new data from the Nova Scotia ... -
The petrological evolution of the late Paleozoic A-type granites of the Cobequid Highlands, Canada
(2015)A-type granites comprise a distinct group of granitoid rocks the origin of which is well-debated. Their major alkaline characteristics are well-defined, however, little is known about the origins of the trace element and ... -
Phanerozoic Exhumation History of Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island: Insights from Apatite and Zircon (U-Th-Sm)/He Thermochronology and 3D Thermokinematic Modeling
(2016-04-29)The eastern Canadian Arctic Rim (eCAR) is a rugged, high-relief landscape extending along the continental margin from northern Labrador to southeastern Ellesmere Island. While much of the relief along the eCAR may be related ... -
Phantasmagoria: Between Waste and Ritual
(2024-04-05)This thesis centres the idea of waste as a socially produced characteristic not inherent to material objects, but rather, created through ambiguity and their inability to be assimilated into existing social, cultural, and ... -
PHARMACISTS AS IMMUNIZERS IN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: IDENTIFYING IMMUNIZATION PRESCRIBING TRENDS AND PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS
(2023-12-15)The study objectives were to 1.) describe demographic characteristics of individuals prescribed immunizations by pharmacists in Nova Scotia, comparing characteristics pre- and during COVID-19 and against the provincial ...