Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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The regulation of synaptic efficacy at regenerated and cultured neuromuscular junctions
(2013-10-28)The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a synapse formed between a motoneuron and a muscle fiber which transmits the signals required to initiate muscle contraction. The functional state of the NMJ is intimately tied to the ... -
The regulation ofc-fos induction in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.
(Dalhousie University, 1996) -
Regulation, Recycling and the Rise of Informality: Deposit Beverage Container Collection on the Halifax Peninsula
(2012-09-04)Why do some people in Halifax, Nova Scotia work collecting recyclables rather than in other—more formal—means of employment? Some scholars argue that informal economic activity is the product of a shift towards flexible ... -
A regulatory role for ATP binding to cytochrome c.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Rehabilitation and reconstruction in Uganda: The political economy of structural adjustment programmes from 1980 to 1994.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Reimagining Fragmented Cities Using Public Space as a Unifier
(2024-07-26)Urban expansion in major Canadian cities often diminishes social value as privatization and economic interests overshadow public spaces. This thesis investigates how monolithic structures with singular motivations and ... -
REIMAGINING MI'KMAQ-STATE RELATIONS: FACING COLONIALISM AT THE MI'KMAQ-NOVA SCOTIA-CANADA TRIPARTITE FORUM
(2015)To date, the literature on Canadian Indigenous-state relations has paid little attention to more localized, informal approaches to dispute resolution. Through ethnographic research on the Mi’kmaq-Nova Scotia-Canada Tripartite ... -
Reimagining Urban Housing: Integrating WikiHouse Technology, and Open-Building Strategies for Resilient and Inclusive Communities
(2023-07-23)By integrating user participation, WikiHouse technology, and open-building strategies, this thesis aims to redefine urban housing by creating sustainable and inclusive communities that prioritize customization, adaptability, ... -
Reinforcement Learning with Real Valued Tangled Program Graphs
(2021-08-27)Tangled Program Graphs (TPG) represents a framework for evolving programs under an explicitly emergent model for modularity. The framework has been very successful at discovering solutions to tasks with delayed rewards ... -
Reinforcement: A test of Premack's differential probability rules
(1972)According to Premack's (1959) basic assumptions, reinforcement will occur only in a contingency relationship where the independent probability of the contingent response is higher than the independent probability of the ... -
Reinstating Play Grounds: Reintroducing Children to their Urban Environment through the Repossession of the Street
(2017-04-10)For children around the world, patterns in their daily lives are solidifying their relationships with their environment and society. This thesis reimagines the role of the street as a medium for children to engage with ... -
Reinventing the Campus: Inclusion for All Through an Understanding of Learning Disabilities
(2023-07-27)Reinventing the campus is about making the university campus more inclusive and welcoming for everyone through better understanding and accommodating individuals with Learning Disabilities (LDs). The thesis tests this ... -
REITS IN TIME OF COVID 19
(2021-12-14)This paper examines the net impact of COVID-19 on US REITs returns by asset class relative to the recession caused by the Global Financial Crisis over the period of 2007-2009. The result indicates that the net impact of ... -
Rejuvenating the Renaissance Sonnet: Writing in a Woman's Voice
(2014-08-21)By looking at the female authored sonnet-letter in Shakespeare’s All’s Well, That Ends Well (1603) and Lady Mary Wroth’s 1621 sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, this thesis contests Arthur F. Marotti’s claim that ... -
Relating overturns to mixing and buoyancy flux.
(Dalhousie University, 1992) -
Relating to Elena: Unexpressed and Unrecognized Feeling
(2023-08-30)This thesis considers what it means to use the academically maligned concept of “relatability” as a critical reading tool. Drawing on Rita Felski’s Hooked, Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic,” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other ... -
The relation among self-reported constructive and destructive anger, verbal behavior and resting blood pressure.
(Dalhousie University, 2000) -
A RELATIONAL DATABASE MODEL OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER SHIPPING NETWORK
(2010-10-19)International container shipping is a complex system of interlocked stakeholders. Obtaining reliable data can be difficult and the data for specific routes and container terminals change over time. Intermodal transportation ... -
Relations and Rivals: The Social Worlds of Benjamin Lester, 1760-1775
(2021-04-01)For eighteenth-century merchants active in Newfoundland trade, competition was fierce. This raises the question of why some merchants succeeded when many failed. To answer this question, this thesis analyzes the diary of ...