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Risk factors for surgical site infection following Caesarean section in Nova Scotian women
(2015)
Surgical site infections (SSIs) can be serious complications after Caesarean section. Therefore, we determined among women undergoing a Caesarean section in Nova Scotia: 1) the incidence of SSI to hospital discharge, 2) ...
MODEL-PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A HYDRAULIC ACTIVE HEAVE COMPENSATION SYSTEM WITH HEAVE PREDICTION
(2015)
This masters thesis presents the results of tracking ship heave motion with a heave prediction model-predictive controller (MPC) in the experimental actuation of a nonlinear, unloaded, full-scale active-heave compensation ...
Comparison of Inline Produced Water Monitors
(2015)
Produced water represents the largest waste stream in the oil and gas production industry. Water drawn up from oil and gas formations contains many substances, the disposal of which is heavily regulated. Offshore oil ...
Touchstone: Narratives in Contemporary Canadian Inuit Art
(2015)
This thesis is an exploration of the origins of contemporary Canadian Inuit art with a special emphasis on the Houston family. It touches on continued and competing narratives on the creation of Inuit art, with a theoretical ...
MICROBLOG TEXT PARSING: A COMPARISON OF STATE-OF-THE-ART PARSERS
(2015)
Parsing is a natural language processing task in which relationships between words are
deduced. It is essential for higher levels of semantic analysis, especially when predicates
are required to be extracted from the ...
Multi-path Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification
(2015)
Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated high performance in the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenges contest. Nevertheless, the published results only show the overall performance for all image classes. ...
Centering Women and Newborns in Health Human Resources Planning: A needs-based approach to primary maternity health care in Nova Scotia
(2015)
With a global health human resources (HHR) crisis and increasing health needs, new ways of designing health care in all clinical settings, including primary maternity health care is required. The purpose of this sequential ...
Ecosystem Services, Context and the Social Basis for Conservation: The Case of Insect Pollination Benefits to Lowbush Blueberry
(2015)
The conservation of ecosystems is increasingly justified on the basis of the human welfare they generate. Since many of the “services” supplied by ecosystems are not currently captured in markets, advocates of ecosystem ...
Zinc-Silicate Glasses for Transarterial Chemoembolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
(2015)
Drug eluting bead transarterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) has emerged as the gold standard therapy for patients diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. ...
The Case of the Triggered Memory: Serendipitous Discovery and the Ethics of Clinical Research
(2015)
Should researchers take advantage of unexpected opportunities to make valuable discoveries when these opportunities arise in the context of research involving human participants? The pursuit of knowledge sometimes requires ...