Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Heat transfer in circulating fluidized bed boilers.
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Hedging the Return on Equity and Firm Profit: Evidence from Canadian Oil and Gas Companies
(2012-08-29)In this thesis, we analyse the relationship between the hedging activities and return on equity, and the relationship between profit on hedging and other factors. Fully conditional specification is used to impute the missing ... -
Heidegger und Rilke: eine Analyse
(2012-09-10)This work is an attempt to analyse the novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge using a Heideggerian approach, by means of the text Wozu Dichter? by Heidegger. In the analysis of the first part of the novel Malte ... -
Hello, World: The Exploration of a Component-Based, Systemic Approach to the Physicality of Digital Infrastructure
(2015)This thesis explores the interrelationship between digital and physical environments by investigating the Fabrication Laboratory typology as a new form of digital infrastructure. The research conducted herein examines the ... -
HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOURS OF ADULTS FROM SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES LIVING WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
(2019-08-19)Increasing research has highlighted certain health disparities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other gender/sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) peoples, particularly in relation to poorer mental health ... -
Helping Biologists Find Whales: AI-in-the-Loop Support for Environmental Dataset Creation
(2021-12-13)We develop a computer vision system to help biologists detect endangered whales. Given access to a limited dataset of aerial imagery (1544 images of mainly water), we implemented object detection and semantic segmentation ... -
HEMATOLOGICAL PROFILES ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND ESTRUS STATE IN GRASS-FED BEEF HEIFERS
(2017-06-01)Feeding expenses and reproductive success are major drivers impacting profitability in the cow-calf sector. Similarities between feed efficient phenotypes and estrus state may be supported by markers of energetic shifts. ... -
Hepatitis B Virus X Protein Induces Cellular Senescence and Autophagy
(2011-09-06)Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant global threat to human health due to its ability to cause chronic infections that can lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While the process by which HBV increases the risk of ... -
The Herding Behavior in Chinese Stock Markets: Evidence from A-Share Markets during COVID-19
(2021-12-14)This paper studies the presence of herding behavior in Chinese A-share markets using both individual firm and industry-level data before and after the pandemic. Using a sample of all firms listed over the period 10/08/2018 ... -
Heritability estimation with unknown pedigree based on the joint distribution of marker and phenotypic data using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques
(2021-08-12)The heritability of a quantitative trait is a very important parameter to quantify the genetic variation present in a population. Although traditional techniques for estimating heritability require accurate information of ... -
Heritage Tourism The Way Out For Rural Poor? A Case Study Of The Tourism-Poverty Nexus In Anse La Raye, St. Lucia
(2013-08-22)Tourism has emerged as one of the most dynamic sectors in many countries; as one outcome, it has generated widespread hope that this particular industry can bring prosperity to numerous developing nations. Conversely, there ... -
Heuristic Evaluation of Dalhousie Repository Interface
(2013-07-31)The number of Institutional Repositories (IRs), such as DalSpace, has been growing in the past few years. However, most IRs are not widely used by the intended end users. Evaluating the user interfaces is an essential part ... -
HIERARCHICAL LOCATION CLASSIFICATION OF TWITTER USERS WITH A CONTENT BASED PROBABILITY MODEL
(2015-04-01)Extraction of geographical information from the content is gaining importance due to the huge growth of textual data on social media and a phenomenal increase in the location based personalized services. Knowledge of online ... -
Hierarchical Structure and Diversity in a Dendritic Lake Trout (Salvelinus Namaycush) System in Northern Labrador
(2012-10-23)I examined the relationship between landscape attributes and population differentiation among lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) populations inhabiting a hierarchically structured dendritic freshwater system in northern ... -
A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURED MACHINE-LEARNING METHOD FOR LARGE-SCALE MULTI-CLASS PROBLEMS
(2014-08-22)When a clinician diagnoses a patient, they do so by choosing one from many possible diagnoses. This is a laborious process, one that requires input from many different sources of information. It would be useful to have ... -
"Hiersein" in Rainer Maria Rilke's Seventh and Ninth Duino Elegies
(2012-08-29)This thesis is an analysis of the word “Hiersein” according to its meaning in the context of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies. The word “Hiersein”, a noun most accurately translated into English as “being-here”, appears ... -
HIGH EFFICIENCY RF TO DC CONVERTER WITH REDUCED LEAKAGE CURRENT FOR RFID APPLICATIONS
(2013-04-30)This thesis presents a high efficiency RF to DC converter for RFID applications. The proposed circuit has been designed in 90 nm CMOS technology using a single RF source. It exploits an internal Vth cancellation technique ... -
High order adaptive collocation software for one-dimensional parabolic partial differential equations.
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High Precision Clock-Less ADC Using Wavelet Neural Networks
(2017-12-15)A design technique for an asynchronous Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is presented. The proposed design retains a clockless level crossing sampling technique, and then applies a Wavelet Neural Network (WNN) technique. ... -
HIGH PRECISION COULOMETRY AS A TECHNIQUE FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE AND LIFETIME OF LI-ION BATTERIES
(2011-08-25)The aim of this thesis is to develop a better understanding about the degradation mechanisms occurring within lithium-ion cells which eventually lead to their failure. An introduction to the components and operation of ...