Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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TRACKING GLOBAL FISHERIES FROM SPACE: PATTERNS, PROBLEMS, AND PROTECTED AREAS
(2018-09-05)Fishing is one of the largest and most widespread ocean uses affecting marine ecosystems and biodiversity. From small-scale coastal vessels to industrialized high-seas fleets, the footprint of modern fisheries extends over ... -
Tractatus: Logic and the Challenge of Ethics
(2013-08-29)The subject of this thesis is primarily the ethical point of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. In the work, Wittgenstein investigates the connection between ethics and the world by examining the nature of the proposition. In the ... -
Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labour
(2017-08-30)The effect of trade openness and FDI on the incidence of child labour is ambiguous because the substitution effect and income effect are considered to work in the opposite direction. This study uses a panel of 120 developing ... -
TRADEOFFS IN GOOGLE DISTANCE ONLY VS A WORDNET HYBRID FOR QOS-ENABLED WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION
(2012-08-10)This thesis proposes a hybrid approach in using Google Distance and WordNet together in a new method, called the Domain Independent Quality of Service (DIQOS) method for QoS-enabled web services discovery. Comparisons, ... -
Tradition and Authoritarianism as a Solution to Social Decay- An Analysis of Canadian Right- Wing Extremism Online
(2020-04-29)Recently, Canadian researchers have turned their attention to online right-wing extremism. For this research I conducted a content analysis of 300 Facebook and Twitter posts from the accounts of three Canadian right-wing ... -
Traditional approaches to citizenship education, globalization, towards a peace education framework.
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Trailblazing: Empowering Rural Youth Through Mobile Architecture
(2013-08-09)This thesis proposes a network of small-scale architectural interventions to address a growing issue of youth substance abuse in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Thorburn, a hub of a larger region of dispersed communities, acts ... -
Trajectory of Disenchantment. A Freetown Writer and the Insolubility of the Creole Problematic
(2010-12-16)The Sierra Leonean Creoles, formed by a conglomeration of black returnees to Africa, arrived over the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century from Britain, Nova Scotia, the West Indies, and other parts of Africa. Heavily ... -
A TRANSATLANTIC SECTION OF SHIPBOARD DIC CONCENTRATION AND δ13C-DIC MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS FROM A WORLDWIDE INTER COMPARISON STUDY
(2018-08-28)I developed and optimized a Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy based method for simultaneous determination of dissolved inorganic carbon concentration ([DIC]) and its stable carbon isotope composition (δ13C-DIC) in seawater. ... -
Transcript profiling and genome mapping in black spruce (Picea mariana).
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TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EB REGULATES APOPTOSIS, DNA REPAIR, AND CELL PROLIFERATION IN TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER CELLS
(2022-05-03)Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women in Canada. Molecular heterogeneity among breast cancer patients dictates survival outcomes and treatment selection, with triple-negative breast cancer ... -
Transcriptional repression by adipocyte enhancer binding protein 1.
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TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL REGULATORS INVOLVED IN PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH AND REMODELLING OF LACE PLANT LEAVES (APONOGETON MADAGASCARIENSIS)
(2022-12-06)Programmed cell death (PCD) is a highly controlled, regulated process of deleting cells. Plant PCD is either developmentally regulated or environmentally induced due to biotic or abiotic stress. Leaves of the lace plant ... -
THE TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILES AND MARINE MIGRATION SUCCESS OF ATLANTIC SALMON SMOLTS (SALMO SALAR) FROM FIVE POPULATIONS IN CANADA
(2021-09-01)Atlantic salmon smolts frequently experience high mortality during the marine phase of their migration, especially during the initial period after entering the sea. However, the mechanisms underlying marine mortality are ... -
Transculturation in Black Jazz Scenes from Ontario and Nova Scotia During the Interwar Period: and Its After-Effects
(2020-09-14)Jazz music and culture are almost entirely forgotten on Canadian radio and television today as a popular music form, yet they are still vibrant ingredients in urban Black culture in the East and persist on the fringes of ... -
Transfer matrix approach to the statistical mechanics of single polymer molecules.
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Transfer of Nitrogen from Legumes to Grasses in Perennial Forages
(2015)Nitrogen (N)-fixing legumes are important in forage production not only for the high-quality herbage they provide, but also for their ability to provide a portion of their fixed N to surrounding non-fixing plants, such as ... -
Transformative Landscapes: Deinstitutionalizing Mental Healthcare Through the Urban Park
(2024-04-29)People are a product of their environment; the psychological and physical well-being of individuals are continually shaped by life experiences, relationships, community culture, and environmental conditions. Historical ... -
A TRANSFORMER-BASED GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AGGREGATION FRAMEWORK FOR 5G RADIO LINK FAILURE PREDICTION
(2023-08-31)The prediction of Radio Link Failures (RLF) in Radio Access Networks (RANs) is crucial to ensure smooth communication and meet the demanding requirements of high data rates, low latency, and improved performance in 5G ... -
Transforming the eukaryotic tree of life through isolation, characterisation, and phylogenetics of novel free-living protists
(2022-12-16)The overwhelming majority of eukaryotic diversity is microbial and protistan. Major new groups are discovered nearly every year up to this day. I established several dozen cultures of heterotrophic protists comprised of ...