Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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“They are named Flowers because Fruit follows ”: The Foundation of Singlewomen’s Medical Distinctiveness in the Seventeenth Century
(2015)While historians’ discussions of singlewomen in the early modern period have outlined their legal and social distinctiveness, this thesis draws upon medical literature to demonstrate that contemporaries believed singlewomen ... -
“They Come in Wearing Their Rank”: The Dynamics of an Inter-professional Proposal Writing Team
(2011-11-08)Working on teams with professionals from other fields is often challenging. Researchers from the fields of Management and Writing Studies have frequently emphasized the tension and conflict experienced in such inter-professional, ... -
“They Have Continuous Long-Term Observations, They Know What's Going On, and They Are Concerned”: Connecting Community Stewardship to Water Governance and Social-Ecological Systems in Nova Scotia
(2018-04-03)Despite ongoing efforts to involve stewardship groups in decision-making around water, there is still no clear understanding of the importance of or potential roles for stewardship in shaping overall water governance in ... -
THEY/THEM/THEIR: GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUNS ON NAMETAGS AND CONSUMERS’ MICROAGGRESSIONS TOWARDS THEM
(2022-12-15)This study draws on theories from psychology and sociology to examine how consumers will react to non-binary individuals in sales and service situations. Results from an online experiment show that consumers tend to evaluate ... -
THICKNESS VARIABILITY EFFECTS ON THE PROPERTIES OF UNSTABILIZED FULL DEPTH RECLAIMED AGGREGATES
(2014-04-17)Inadequate financial allocation for road maintenance is a threat to the impaired rural highways in Atlantic Canada. The conventional means of pavement rehabilitation has been to place a hot mix asphalt concrete overlay on ... -
THINKING THROUGH MAKING: Material and Process Intelligence Revealed in Architecture Through Design and Fabrication
(2017-08-18)This thesis explores the potential for a detail or joint to be the generator of form. By thinking through making – this requires to create, to gain tacit knowledge (in addition to explicit knowledge), and to translate ... -
Thinking with the Body: How Morphine, Alcohol, and Other Intoxicants Intersected Bodies and Minds in the Emergence of the Biological Subject
(2022-08-17)Substances of intoxication can be found quietly skulking in every nook and cranny of our society, not only guests of honour in the peaks and troughs of our cultural imaginary, but constant companions in the everydayness ... -
“THIS IS ONLY A LOVE STORY:” DEFINING LOVE AND ITS POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S IN THE SKIN OF A LION
(2017-09-01)This thesis will examine how Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion formulates an ethic of love for social connection. Using Sara Ahmed’s theories on “encounters” and “touch,” as well as Alain Badiou’s ideas on the event ... -
THIS IS SACKVILLE CALLING: A MEDIA ARTS CENTRE ON THE FORMER SITE OF THE RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION STATION, SACKVILLE, NB
(2014-08-08)This thesis explores how the loss of the Radio Canada International Shortwave Radio Transmission Station may inform a new architecture that builds upon the collective memory of a place while introducing program that ... -
THOMAS RADDALL AND THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC HISTORIAN IN NOVA SCOTIA, 1945 - 1958
(2024-04-14)Nova Scotia's history and heritage sector transformed in the mid-twentieth century. This thesis argues that Thomas Head Raddall played a vital role in these transformative processes and was a valued member of the historical ... -
Thoracic Aortic Disease in Nova Scotia: Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Remoteness From Tertiary Centre on Disease Outcomes
(2021-07-16)The effect of socioeconomic status and remoteness from the tertiary care centre on outcomes in patients with thoracic aortic disease is unknown. This thesis sought to determine the effect of socioeconomic deprivation and ... -
Three Essays on Asset Pricing in Regime and ESG Environments
(2019-12-19)Asset pricing has been a focal point among a broad range of financial studies. Traditional asset pricing models are encountering challenges by empirical data and sustainable compliance. For example, the Black-Scholes-Merton ... -
Three Essays on Determinants of Child Developmental Outcomes
(2013-05-01)This dissertation consists of three essays examining the determinants of child developmental outcomes using the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). The first essay estimates the relationship ... -
Three essays on earnings inequality in Canada during the 1980s.
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THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC INSECURITY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(2017-08-21)Studies of economic insecurity often neglect children. This dissertation examines the effects of parental economic insecurity on children’s development. In Chapter 2, I investigate the causal relationship between parental ... -
Three Essays on Industrial Policy, Income Inequality and Economic Development – A Case Study of South Korea
(2023-04-14)This thesis examines the relationship between the state’s intervention of a different nature – industrial policy and pro-competitive reforms – and income inequality dynamics, using the Korea’s heavy and chemical industry ... -
Three essays on inflation and stabilization in Argentina: 1976--1988.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Three essays on intertemporal substitution of labour supply: Annually, quarterly and hours-wage simultaneously.
(Dalhousie University, 1992)