Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Renovating Buganda: The Political and Cultural Career of Apolo Kagwa (c.1879-1905)
(2013-09-03)During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the kingdom of Buganda in East Africa endured rapid changes which threatened its autonomy and power, including repeated civil wars, conversion Christianity, and the gradual ... -
Reorienting Behavioral Interventions: Integrating Spatiotemporal Methods and Behavioral Economic Principles to Strengthen Context Specific Interventions
(2022-12-16)Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a leading cause of death worldwide yet are largely preventable through lifestyle modification targeting risk factors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diets, obesity, high blood ... -
The reovirus FAST proteins: A new perspective on protein-mediated membrane fusion.
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REOVIRUS-DRIVEN MYELOID CELLS IN ONCOLYTIC VIRUS THERAPY AND INFECTION
(2018-04-03)Cancer-associated immunosuppression represents a major contributor to tumor progression and impairment of spontaneous or therapeutically-induced anti-tumor immunity. Myeloid cells are a key mediator of such immunosuppression. ... -
Repeal, Reciprocity, and Commercial Union in Nova Scotian Politics, 1886-1887
(2022-06-15)This thesis which deals with repeal, reciprocity, and Commercial Union in Nova Scotian politics from 1886 to 1888 is based, for the most part, on newspaper sources. In addition, the Debates and Journals of the provincial ... -
Repeatability of Respiratory Impedance and Bronchodilatory Response in Asthmatic Children
(2016-03-23)Asthma is a chronic illness that affects approximately 10% of children in the developed world. Objective assessment is recommended using spirometry to obtain the forced expired volume in 1 second (FEV1), usually combined ... -
Repeated Call Sequences in Long-finned Pilot Whales: Social Setting, Modification, and Behavioural Context
(2016-08-04)Long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) are matrilineal group-living cetaceans. They often produce repeated call sequences: the same call type repeated three or more times, roughly evenly spaced with six seconds or ... -
Repeated, low dose Chlamydia infections trigger aberrant immune responses and weakened host resistance against secondary challenge
(2022-05-03)Chlamydia trachomatis infections endanger women’s health, but translational gaps between animal models and human disease states persist. I compared immune responses in mice receiving repeated, low dose infections (5X) with ... -
Repetitive sequences in the halobacterial genome.
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THE REPRESENTATION OF NATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF NATURE AND ITS CHALLENGES
(2010-09-20)In this thesis, I provide an analysis of the representation within the environmental movement that is based in critical theory. In considering the paradox which involves the awareness of an ecological crisis as wel ... -
Representation of Parenting in Occupational Science and Therapy Literature: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
(2020-10-15)Parenting was little reflected in the occupational science and occupational therapy literature up to the turn of the 21st century. The late 1990’s and early 2000’s saw a growth in the literature with publishing by a number ... -
Representation of self and other in early-elementary school age children as a function of attachment status.
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Representations of drug-related harms in sentencing: Towards evidence-informed, non-stigmatizing approaches
(2024-04-08)This thesis explores how the concept of harm is constituted in case law pertaining to the importation, production, possession, and trafficking of drugs in Canada. A specific focus of analysis is whether judges accurately ... -
Representations of Epitrochoids and Hypotrochoids
(2018-04-06)Representations of a given curve may consist of implicit or parametric equations, along with any envelopes that produce that curve. We will describe the different methods of passing from one of these representations to ... -
Representations of Women and Gender Equality in the Nonprofit Sector in Ukraine
(2021-04-20)The problem of gender stereotypes and lack of gender sensitivity has been a persistent problem in Ukraine. Educating the population and raising awareness about gender equality has been an important focus of many women’s ... -
Representing the Library
(2010-09-10)Approaching the idea of the library as a polyvocal, self-contradictory and even paradoxical dream, this thesis examines five select texts to examine how this dream emerges across vastly different representations in fiction. ... -
REPRÉSENTATIONS DU FAIT POLITIQUE DANS LES PETITS GARÇONS NAISSENT AUSSI DES ÉTOILES D’EMMANUEL DONGALA
(2021-08-24)In this study, we show representations of political events in LES PETITS GARÇONS NAISSENT AUSSI DES ÉTOILES. Indeed, in this novel, Emmanuel Dongala depicts tangible African realities, with a balanced dose of fiction, humor ... -
REPRODUCTIVE (IN)JUSTICE IN CANADIAN PRISONS FOR WOMEN
(2022-06-14)Introduction: The population of people incarcerated in federal prisons for women in Canada increases every year. They experience barriers to reproductive health care and traumatic separations from children. The federal ... -
Reproductive Biology of the Deep-Water Gorgonian Coral Acanella arbuscula from the Northwest Atlantic
(2011-03-18)This thesis examined the reproductive biology of the poorly-known deep-water gorgonian Acanella arbuscula from the Northwest Atlantic. Colonies were collected from The Gully in 2007 and 2010 between 914 and 1860 m depth, ... -
Reproductive ecology of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.
(Dalhousie University, 1999)