Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMIC INSECURITY AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
(2015-04-06)This dissertation examines the relationship between economic insecurity and health outcomes for Canadians age 25 to 64 using the National Population Health Survey (NPHS) - a longitudinal dataset. Chapter 2 examines the ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Orthographic Processing and Word Reading
(2013-08-26)Relationships between various types of orthographic processing and word reading were explored in a sample of 90 second and third grade students in a one and a half year longitudinal study. Participants were administered ... -
Exploring the Relationships Between Healthy Active Living Marketing and Family Eating and Physical Activity Perceptions and Behaviours
(2010-08-17)Canada’s obesogenic environment is host to the advironment, which bombards children with advertisements for soft drinks, fast foods, confectionary, cereals and savory snacks (‘the Big 5’). Television is the primary media ... -
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF ATTENTIONAL WITHDRAWAL IN ITEM-METHOD DIRECTED FORGETTING THROUGH VISUAL SEARCH
(2023-04-04)We embedded a serial and pop-out visual search into the study phase of an item-method directed forgetting paradigm to assess attentional availability following instructions to remember (R) or forget (F). Study words were ... -
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIAL CHOLESTEROL IN NIEMANN-PICK TYPE C DISEASE
(2016-01-19)Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in Npc1 or Npc2 gene. Npc1 and Npc2 encode a late-endosomal transmembrane and lumenal cholesterol-binding domain ... -
EXPLORING THE ROLES OF TRPML3 IN TNBC PROLIFERATION, MIGRATION, AND BIOENERGETICS
(2024-04-15)Despite advances in diagnosis and cancer therapy, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the deadliest subtype of breast cancer. This high mortality rate is largely attributed to a lack of comprehensive understanding ... -
Exploring the Sensorimotor Network Using Functional Connectivity and Graph Theory
(2014-08-22)Background: Performing a motor task activates the sensorimotor network. Functional connectivity (FC) analysis can determine connections between distinct neural regions of a network. Graph theory can then be applied to ... -
Exploring the Structures and Processes Needed to Support the Development of Collaboration Amongst Public Health Nurses, Family Practice Nurses, and Nurse Practitioners who Work in Breastfeeding Support and Promotion
(2011-12-21)Community health nurses, like all other health professionals, are being called to develop new clinical practices based on collaboration and are faced with the demands of working both interprofessionally and interorganizationally ... -
EXPLORING THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS AND UNDERLYING MECHANISMS IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
(2023-07-25)Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive incurable disease with unclear etiology. Primary cause of death in PAH patients is right (-sided) heart failure, occurring as a direct consequence of ... -
Exploring the use of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate as a treatment for adults with bulimia nervosa: A quantitative and qualitative assessment
(2021-08-26)As part of an open-label eight-week feasibility trial examining the use of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX) for BN, I conducted a mixed-methods sub-project to investigate whether eating disorder symptoms and measures of ... -
Exploring the Utility of Fenton Processes in Wastewater Treatment
(2021-08-20)Fenton processes have been widely studied in environmental and biological systems. However, their underlying mechanisms are ambiguous. This research attempted to better understand these mechanisms. It was determined that ... -
Exploring Transgender Adults' Perceptions of, and Experiences with, Primary and Emergency Care in Nova Scotia
(2016-07-15)Transgender individuals face many barriers to pursuing health care. Current literature focuses on physician-client interactions and the negative effects that barriers have on one's health. Using qualitative research methods, ... -
EXPLORING TRANSIENT NEURAL EVENTS IN HEALTHY POPULATIONS USING NON-INVASIVE NEUROIMAGING
(2022-08-22)Non-invasive neurophysiological recordings, like those measured by magneto/electro- encephalography (M/EEG), provide insight into the behaviour of neural networks and how these networks change with factors such as task ... -
EXPLORING USER STRATEGIES IN DETERMINING TRUSTWORTHINESS OF WEBSITES
(2017-02-10)Phishing attacks and breaches in online security are increasing at a high rate, irrespective of current security indicators which aim to warn users against those attacks. We conducted a user study to explore and understand ... -
Exploring Variables that Predict Nova Scotia Children’s Physical Literacy Progression from Year to Year
(2017-07-21)Physical literacy (PL) describes the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for physical activities (PA) for life. Although PL has become a popular area ... -
Exploring Visually and Hearing Precluded Free Throw Trials Among Elite Basketball Players: A Practical Training Method?
(2015)The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a visually and hearing precluded free throw training intervention on lower and higher skilled university level free throw shooters. The study examined athlete’s shooting ... -
EXPLORING WAYS TO VISUALIZE NEWS OVER GEOGRAPHICAL MAPS
(2012-08-27)Online news sites are some of the most useful and popular information retrieval systems in use today. Thousands of articles in different languages and on a variety of subjects are posted every day and updated every hour. ... -
Exploring women's experiences regarding postpartum physical activity: A qualitative research study
(2022-01-05)Although recovery after birth can be promoted through body movement, many women do not engage in postpartum physical activity. However, a limited number of studies were carried out to explore how postpartum physical activity ... -
EXPLOSIBILITY OF MICRON- AND NANO-SIZE TITANIUM POWDERS
(2013-04-25)The current research is aimed at investigating the explosion behaviour of hazardous materials in relation to particle size. The materials of study are titanium powders having size distributions in both the micron- and ... -
EXPONENTIAL POTENTIALS IN KANTOWSKI-SACHS EINSTEIN-AETHER SCALAR FIELD COSMOLOGICAL MODELS
(2020-09-22)A class of positive curvature spatially homogeneous but anisotropic cosmological models within an Einstein-aether gravitational framework is investigated. The mat- ter source is assumed to be a scalar field which is ...