Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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HOW THE FRAMING OF SUPERVISED INJECTION SITES CAN HINDER IMPLEMENTATION
(2022-04-27)This thesis looks at the contradictory discourse surrounding supervised injection sites (SISs) in Canada. I define two major political camps with differing perspectives regarding the efficacy and safety of SISs and a third ... -
How to 'Orient' a Theory of Justice: Rawls and the Ideal/Non-Ideal Distinction
(2019-12-12)This thesis deals with two broad questions: (1) “What makes a theory of justice ideal as opposed to non-ideal?”, and (2) “what are the consequences of taking one or the other approach?”. In the first part of the thesis, I ... -
"How To Be a Man": American Masculinities, 1960-1989
(2020-08-07)The editors of Esquire, America’s longest-running men’s interest magazine, announced the publication’s mission statement in its inaugural issue: “Esquire aims to be the common denominator of masculine interests—to be all ... -
How To Eat A Lobster [& Other Sea Adventures]
(2016-04-08)Rural communities are declining in population and opportunity in many parts of Canada and the world. The loss of rural communities and their craft and culture causes damage to societal diversity. The Maritime provinces are ... -
How to Lose a Queen in Three Comic Poems: A Discussion of Arthur’s Kingship and His Loss of Guinevere
(2018-08-31)King Arthur’s legacy as a great man and ruler is widespread across various medieval texts, yet despite his apparent greatness he constantly finds himself dealing with the loss of control over his queen, either physically, ... -
Hsp90 in Artemia franciscana During Development and Diapause
(2017-07-05)Females of the extremophile crustacean, Artemia franciscana, either release motile nauplii via the ovoviviparous pathway of development or encysted embryos (cysts) via the oviparous pathway. Cysts contain an abundant amount ... -
HUMAN CENTRAL AUTONOMIC CARDIOVASCULAR REGULATION DURING EXERCISE: BRAIN REGIONS INVOLVED WITH CENTRAL COMMAND
(2013-12-16)Background: Isometric handgrip (IHG) exercise increases heart rate (HR) and mean arterial pressure (MAP); MAP can be sustained after exercise via post-exercise ischemia (PEI). HR and MAP responses are mediated by feed-forward ... -
HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS: ANALYZING THE EXPERIENCES OF IRANIAN RESIDENTS IN TORONTO AND HALIFAX ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
(2013-08-20)This study will examine the impact of the hotly-debated sanctions against Iran from the perspective of the civilians who live in a country other than their sanctioned homeland, yet keep ties with their country of origin, ... -
Human error probability index for offshore platform musters.
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Human Health Risks Associated With Wastewater Treatment in Arctic Canada
(2020-08-27)This dissertation provides the first estimates of microbial health risks attributable to wastewater treatment systems in Arctic Canada. A participatory quantitative microbial risk assessment was designed to model a range ... -
HUMAN MAST CELL RESPONSES TO RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS
(2012-11-20)Mast cells reside at tissue sites closely interfacing the environment and play a role in host defense against pathogens. Mast cell responses to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a major cause of severe respiratory tract ... -
Human Sensitivity to Minimal Auditory Temporal Irregularities
(2014-07-23)The objective of the present study was to characterize the temporal processing abilities of healthy adults using a modified jitter paradigm in which only a single click in 25-click train stimuli had been displaced. It was ... -
Human Systems Integration and Situation Awareness in Microworlds: An Examination of Emergency Response within the Offshore Command and Control Training System
(2010-12-21)Existing guidelines detail assessment criteria that should be used to evaluate offshore emergency response (ER) team members’ performance; however, minimal research has investigated this testing. Therefore, using a Human ... -
Human-in-the-loop Classification for Multi-page Administrative Documents
(2022-12-14)Real estate administrative documents present a unique challenge where each condo corporation's documents come from multiple sources and in varying formats. Moreover, each record has varying sizes, making it very time-consuming ... -
Humanitarian Military Interventions in the Decade 1990-2000: Remodelling the Concepts of Impartiality and Political Independence.
(2012-08-29)The concept of Humanitarian Military Interventions has become a core issue within the international community since the 1990s. Human rights violations carried out on a massive scale are no longer perceived as purely domestic ... -
The Humanitarians: Understanding the Crisis of the Humanitarian Field
(2018-06-14)Faced with increasingly protracted armed conflicts, multiplying natural disasters, and new risks posed by climate change, rapid urbanization, and international migration, many observers believe that the international ... -
HUMPBACK WHALE SINGING BEHAVIOUR IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC: FROM METHODS FOR ANALYSING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING DATA TO UNDERSTANDING HUMPBACK WHALE SONG ONTOGENY
(2020-12-23)Marine passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a valuable tool to assess the distribution, habitat use, and behaviour of marine mammals including the acoustically prolific humpback whale. With increasing amounts of data ... -
A Hunhu-Ubuntu Informed Critique of Patriotic History Discourse and Chimurenga Nationalism
(2016-04-08)This thesis critiques the political discursive hegemony of Patriotic History and Chimurenga Nationalism from the year 2000 from the perspective of the ethics of Hunhu-Ubuntu philosophy. I ask, while claiming to offer ... -
THE HURDLES OF MEDIATING WITH HUMANITARIAN LENS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY AND DEVELOPMENT’S FAILED SOUTH SUDAN 2015 PEACE AGREEMENT
(2019-05-03)This thesis examines IGAD humanitarian focused mediation in the South Sudanese conflict that blames the warring parties entirely for failing to end the war. It particularly looks at mediation strategies deployed by IGAD ... -
A HYBRID FUZZY/GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR INTRUSION DETECTION IN RFID SYSTEMS
(2012-01-04)Various established and emerging applications of RFID technology have been and are being implemented by companies in different parts of the world. However, RFID technology is susceptible to a variety of security and privacy ...