Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Probiotic effects on adult anxiety and systemic inflammation after exposure to Western diet
(2019-08-16)Research shows that the microbiome-gut-brain axis affects physiological systems related to food intake, obesity, anxiety, and inflammation. These disorders are related to stress exposure and stress responding is influenced ... -
PROBIOTIC METABOLITES OF OLIGOMERIC PROANTHOCYANIDIN REDUCE NICOTINE-DERIVED NITROSAMINE KETONE ACETATE-INDUCED DNA DAMAGE IN HUMAN LUNG EPITHELIAL AND FETAL HEPATIC CELLS IN VITRO
(2018-08-10)Potential of proanthocyanidin (PAC) in cancer risk reduction is dependant on the biotransformation process by colonic microbiotia. Seven selected microbial metabolites of proanthocyanidins (MMP) were evaluated for their ... -
Probiotics, Pregnancy and The Postpartum Period: Effects of Diet and Probiotic Treatment on Maternal and Offspring Health Outcomes in a Long-Evans Rat Model
(2024-08-28)The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis is largely focused on elucidating the mechanisms by which gestational events affect offspring health. This area of research has recently begun examining the interplay ... -
Problem Definition in Engineering Design: Using the Universe of Problems Approach to Aid Novice Performance
(2022-03-28)This thesis describes the importance of the problem definition phase of the engineering design process. The key finding of this study is that when novices are provided with schemes (or design prototypes), their ability ... -
A Process of Innovation: Technological Development in Wood Construction
(2012-04-05)This thesis explores the use of small diameter, round timber in the construction of lightweight gridshell structures. The project intention is to develop a simple and accessible construction method, based on locally available ... -
The Process of Teaching Caring as a Multidimensional Phenomenon in Undergraduate Nursing Programs
(2016-12-14)Caring is the foundation of nursing knowledge and nursing practice. It is a moral ideal involving commitment, knowledge, and action. To study nursing is to study caring, which includes growing in understanding of ‘self’ ... -
PROCESS TIMES IN PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION: WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?
(2015)ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a medical emergency and the treatment of choice, if available in a timely manner, is primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). It is in the best interest of the patient ... -
Processes reinforcing regime shift to turf-forming algae in a kelp bed ecosystem
(2018-03-19)Canopy-forming brown algae (kelps and fucoids) that provide habitat structure on temperate rocky reefs increasingly are replaced by assemblages of low-lying and pervasive turf algae, driving concerns that these shifts ... -
PROCESSING OF ALUMIX 321 PM ALLOY AND ITS CORROSION BEHAVIOUR IN 3.5 WT% SALINE SOLUTION
(2013-04-08)Aluminum powder metallurgy (PM) parts have found applications in automotive, aerospace and transportation. Sintered aluminum parts have been developed and compete with traditionally fabricated ingot metallurgy (IM) products ... -
PROCESSING OF CAMELINA SATIVA OILSEED TO EVALUATE DIGESTIBILITY FOR POTENTIAL INCLUSION IN DIETS FOR COLDWATER CARNIVOROUS FISH.
(2016-12-19)Camelina sativa is an oilseed with potential to be processed into several novel plant-based protein or lipid rich by-products for use in fish feeds. Digestibility values are needed to formulate balanced diets using these ... -
Procession in Process: Finding Place in Fruit Breeding
(2014-04-03)The modern disconnect between agricultural producers and consumers in Canada is a result of an increasingly smaller percentage of society taking part in the ‘making’ of food. Fruit breeding —the practice of selectively ... -
Procuring a Victory at Home: Halifax Women Respond to the Butter Ration, 1939-1946
(2015)This thesis explores the ways in which women both complied with and resisted government intervention in the form of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board’s ration regulations. By examining a number of different sources, and ... -
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AS FIRM CAPABILITY
(2012-11-20)Product management as an organizational system has a long history of practice, which predates most modern academic management research. Its activities span the external environment of the firm, while simultaneously spanning ... -
The production and detection of optimized low-Z linear accelerator target beams for image guidance in radiotherapy
(2012-08-28)Recent work has demonstrated improvement of image quality with low atomic number (Z) linear accelerator (linac) targets and energies as low as 3.5 MV compared to a standard 6 MV therapeutic beam. In this work, the incident ... -
The production and use of verbal irony: An examination of expectations and the asymmetry of affect.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Production and Utilization of SRC Willow Biomass in Nova Scotia
(2022-05-02)Short rotation coppice (SRC) is a promising alternative to forestry. Within Nova Scotia and across Canada, the biomass industry is heavily focused on forestry products for biomass energy generation but is significantly ... -
A PRODUCTION CAPACITY INVESTMENT DECISION-MAKING TOOL FOR THE INDOOR VERTICAL FARMING INDUSTRY
(2022-12-14)Indoor vertical farming (VF) systems are a form of controlled environment agriculture, making use of modern technology to improve food availability and security. Commercially, it is a young industry set to disrupt the food ... -
Production dynamics of a marine flatfish population: an energetics model.
(Dalhousie University, 1972)