Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Aging by Design
(2017-04-28)This thesis seeks develop a programmatic strategy that integrates seniors into existing communities by identifying the existing amenities and public services offered, understanding the gaps in services for seniors, and ... -
Aging in an Era of Change: Contextualizing the Upcoming Demographic Shift in Marich Pass, North Western Kenya
(2010-12-13)Research on aging in low income countries tends to overlook socio-cultural dimensions, including the significance of change. Because countries like Kenya are expected to witness a demographic shift in coming years, and ... -
Aging in Place: Evolving Architecture for an Aging Population within Established Inner City Neighborhoods in Calgary
(2011-04-08)This thesis examines how current demographics and evolving family dynamics act as a catalyst for the evolution of a building in response to how the elderly can successfully age in place. Through the design of a ... -
Agricultural Land Endowments, Agricultural Sector Productivity and Food Exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2023-08-25)This research work investigates the association between agricultural land endowments, agricultural sector productivity, and food exports in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using a fixed effects model, the analysis reveals a ... -
Agricultural Land Use Planning in Nova Scotia: A Case Study in Kings County
(2016-04-28)As part of an ongoing national research project, this thesis examines the nascent policy regime of food sovereignty, along with global competitiveness and farmland preservation, to gain a better understanding of their ... -
Agricultural Transparency: Reconnecting Urban Centres With Food Production
(2012-04-03)In North America, industrial agriculture has led to cheap abundant food while separating direct links between the city and countryside. This thesis attempts to use architecture to reconnect people in Manhattan, New York ... -
Agroecological Farms: A Living Strategy for Caramanta Coffee Growers in Colombia
(2010-12-21)Colombia occupies a prominent position among world coffee producers and exporters. The coffee sector has counted on the support of many institutions; however, this support was not sufficient to effectively face times of ... -
Agronomic Evaluation of Novel Green Manures for Organic Grain Production in Eastern Canada
(2015)Green manures (GrM) are used to meet organic crop-N needs. Productivity and N-accumulation of three spring-planted full-season GrM in Nova Scotia and two in Québec were compared. Hairy vetch-oats accumulated 123-292 kg ... -
Aiding with Architecture: Exploring the Role of Collaborative Design in Healing and Empowering Northern Saskatchewan Communities
(2018-04-13)In northern Saskatchewan, colonialism has caused a disruption between people’s cultures and land, resulting in many social woes. This thesis aims to use architecture to aid in healing and empowering communities along the ... -
Aircraft Cockpit Accommodation: A Pilot Study
(2021-07-30)Anthropometric measures are the cause of the majority of pilot rejection from the Royal Canadian Air Force (RACF). Though the fit mapping procedure is rigorous, it is not free from error. The purpose was to test a novel ... -
Airway Impedance, Heterogeneity and Variability in Adult Asthma
(2015-04-14)While bronchodilator (BD) reversibility is a feature of asthma, the relative contributions of small and large airways to BD is unclear, and the effect of small-airway heterogeneity on respiratory system impedance, Zrs has ... -
ALBERTA WELFARE REFORM AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS AND SINGLE-MOTHERS
(2011-06-30)Though the economic literature generally agrees on the positive labour supply effects of welfare reforms in the 1990s; there have been few studies that evaluate how these reforms might have affected employment outcomes of ... -
The Alcohol Paradox: Consumption, Regulation, and Public Houses in Three Maritime Colonies of Northeastern British America, 1749-1830
(2015)Despite the prominent role of alcohol in the culture of Atlantic Canada, we know remarkably little about the rise of rum and other alcoholic beverages prior to the rise of the temperance movement in the nineteenth century. ... -
Algebraic and Logical Methods in Quantum Computation
(2015)This thesis contains contributions to the theory of quantum computation. We first define a new method to efficiently approximate special unitary operators. Specifically, given a special unitary U and a precision ε > ... -
Algebraic Properties of Monomial Ideals
(2015)In this thesis we first study a special class of squarefree monomial ideals, namely, path ideals. We give a formula to compute all graded Betti numbers of the path ideal of a cycle and a path. As a consequence we can give ... -
Alignment and Contradiction in Social Justice Non-Profit Work
(2021-08-13)This thesis investigates social justice non-profit employees' experiences of alignment and contradiction in their work. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 20 people who work for non-profits with a social justice ... -
The Aliment of Anxiety: Nutritional Advice Pertaining to Sugar in Post-WWII Canada
(2014-08-25)This thesis traces changes in dietary recommendations regarding sugar from WWII to the 1970s, considering the ways advice was shaped, disseminated, and digested as it related to three competing but interconnected factors: ... -
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter: Plainness and Eloquence in Jonson, Donne, and Herbert
(2011-09-06)This thesis traces a stylistic development from the dichotomy of plainness and eloquence in Elizabethan style, through the stylistic innovations of Ben Jonson and John Donne to the ultimate synthesis of the two styles ... -
“ALL THE POWER TO THEM”: EXPLORING PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES OF INTIMACY AND SEXUALITY AMONG OLDER LONG-TERM CARE RESIDENTS
(2016-08-30)The present study explored the lived realities of LTC residents to gain a better understanding of their intimate and sexual needs. A qualitative descriptive approach gave voice to the experiences of ten residents in a LTC ...
