Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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CHILD OUTCOMES IN THE CONTEXT OF PARENTAL CHRONIC PAIN: EXAMINING SOCIAL TRANSMISSION PATHWAYS
(2019-04-23)Parents play a crucial role in children’s pain experiences. Theory and empirical studies have highlighted the association between parental chronic pain and children’s pain and mental health. The current dissertation aimed ... -
CHILDREN AND PARENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH DISTANCE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
(2011-04-12)Timely access to child mental health services is a widespread concern. Many children with diagnosable disorders do not receive help. Untreated disorders can cause significant child and family impairment. Barriers to treatment ... -
Children with Medical Complexity in the Maritimes: A Mixed Methods Study
(2023-01-31)Introduction: Developments in the medical field have improved the survival rates and management of children with complex chronic conditions. To date, policy and program design has primarily relied on findings from either ... -
A Children's Library: Designing Spaces for Play and Imagination
(2013-12-10)Children’s understanding of space is a fusion of reality and fantasy, in which the physical environment, play, and imagination assume important roles. The boundary between the imaginative realm of the child and the physical ... -
CHILDREN’S MEMORY FOR PAIN: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ROLE OF ANXIETY IN CHILDREN’S PAIN MEMORIES AND THE INFLUENCE OF PAIN MEMORIES ON SUBSEQUENT PAIN EXPERIENCE
(2012-05-31)Children are often required to repeatedly undergo painful medical procedures (e.g. immunizations) and their memories for pain are predictive of their health behaviours across the lifespan. ... -
A Chilling Embrace : Workholding With Ice
(2012-03-27)This thesis explores the usage of ice as a fixturing medium in CNC machining of fragile components. Ice is used both as an adhesive and a potting compound to hold and support work during cutting. Measurements of ice adhesion ... -
CHINA's FUTURE ECONOMIC GROWTH STRATEGY: EXPORTS and/or DOMESTIC DEMAND?
(2011-07-22)This thesis examines China's future growth strategy. During the last 20 years, an export-oriented strategy has led to significant economic growth. However, with increases in labor costs and appreciation of the RMB, China ... -
China's Role in African Integration
(2021-08-30)China has surpassed the United States to become the largest source of development finance in Africa. China boasts a policy of non-interference in the national affairs of foreign countries, but their investment in African ... -
CHINESISCHE LANDSCHAFTSMALEREI UND DEUTSCHE ROMANTIK
(2016-09-01)In the first instance, the theoretical principles of Chinese landscape painting are disclosed regarding to a philosophical undertone of the human-nature relationship. In Europe, the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich are ... -
Chlorination genes of chloramphenicol biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Choice or Circumstance? An exploration of breastfeeding practice among Nova Scotian mothers classified as overweight or obese and income-related food insecure
(2017-02-27)Breastfeeding is a complex, relational practice spanning bio-physiological, social and structural considerations. Consistently, mothers across Nova Scotia report lower rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration of ... -
Chondrogenic differentiation from membrane bone periostea and its molecular regulation.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
Choreography on the Sea: Decision Making, Synchrony, and Formations in Groups of Long-finned Pilot Whales
(2024-08-31)The goal of my thesis is to improve our understanding of the group lives of social cetaceans through the quantitative exploration of collective decision making, synchrony and formations in long-finned pilot whales (hereafter ... -
Chromatographic detectors: Novel operational modes, characteristics and correlations.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of polycyclic aromatic compounds.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Chronic Noise Exposure has Context-dependent Effects on Nestling Stress Physiology in Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
(2020-04-14)Anthropogenic noise is increasing in intensity and scope, resulting in changes to acoustic landscapes and largely negative effects on a range of species. In birds, noise can mask acoustic signals used in a variety of ... -
CHRONIC, MULTI-GENERATIONAL EXPOSURE TO LOW DOSES OF IMIDACLOPRID: ITS EFFECTS ON CHEMICAL PRECONDITIONING AND MUTATION INDUCTION IN NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS IN MYZUS PERSICAE (HEMIPTERA: APHIDIDAE)
(2016-12-19)Hormesis is a phenomenon whereby exposure to low or sublethal doses of a chemical, physical, or biological stressor stimulate or enhance biological processes in an organism. Hormesis is an evolutionarily conserved process ... -
The Chronicle of Current Events and the Soviet Human Rights Movement
(2017-03-31)Samizdat is a specific textual culture that existed in the Soviet Union from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. Through the production and circulation of texts outside of official institutional frameworks, the practice of ... -
Chronostratigraphy of the Beaufort Formation, western Canadian Arctic Archipelago
(2015-05-04)The Beaufort Formation (BF) braided river deposit contains exceptionally well-preserved logs, leaves, peat, insects, and vertebrate fossils that provide key evidence for Arctic environmental conditions during the Pliocene. ...