Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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) -
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. ... -
The circadian clock of the Drosophila melanogaster eye regulates morning anticipation and is selectively linked to the circadian neuronal network
(2023-11-23)How multiple circadian clocks within the circadian neuronal network (CNN) converge to regulate behaviour remains elusive. Circadian behaviour is an organism’s response to environmental cues (e.g., day/night cycles), regulated ... -
Circle as pedagogy: Aboriginal tradition enacted in a university classroom.
(Dalhousie University, 1996) -
Circular Dichroism Studies of Spin Dynamics in 4-Aminomethyl Piperidinium Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Quantum Wells
(2021-01-07)Two dimensional perovskites are planes of perovskite octahedra confined by an organic spacing layer, making a multiple quantum well structure. The structure of the organic spacing molecule causes distortions to the ... -
Circular Economic Approach To Dharavi: Existing Self-Build Framework Intervention
(2023-04-12)Informal settlements are rapidly growing worldwide. This is the result of rural population migration moving into urban capitals like Mumbai leading to a scarcity of space. They establish slum communities within the ... -
Circulating microRNAs Trigger Innate Immune Activation in Polytraumatic Injury
(2023-02-14)Inflammatory responses frequently follow severe traumatic injury and are, in part, a consequence of innate immune activation by endogenous immune triggers such as extracellular and micro-(mi)RNAs recognized by the pattern ...