Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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"I am not I": Late Modernism and Metafiction in Canadian Fiction
(2012-08-24)This dissertation argues that a number of works of Canadian fiction usually designated as modernist fit more properly into the category of “late modernism”: a category that has only recently begun to emerge as a bridge ... -
'I Can Be So Much More Than I Think of Myself': Girls' Sport Participation and Discourses of Power and Agency in Windhoek, Namibia
(2010-09-15)This study explores the impact of sport on the lives of 15-19 year old female participants in the Physically Active Youth program in Namibia by examining how they reinforce or resist dominant gender discourses in their ... -
I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION: THE EFFECT OF THE QUEBEC PARENTAL INSURANCE PLAN ON PARENTS’ OVERALL LIFE SATISFACTION
(2019-08-30)Despite the rising labour force participation rates of women and the gender wage gap closing, women are still more likely to take leave following the birth of a child. To promote fathers’ participation in parental leave, ... -
I COULD STAY HERE FOREVER… IF I FIND A JOB: EXPERIENCES OF INTEGRATION AND MARGINALIZATION OF YOUTH FROM REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS IN HALIFAX
(2018-04-27)This study examines the experiences of integration and marginalization of six youth from refugee backgrounds living in Halifax. The research identifies formal and informal supports they access as well as barriers and ... -
“I HATE MY GENERATION”: CANADIAN MALE IDENTITY IN SLOAN’S TWICE REMOVED
(2014-09-05)In the early 1990s, a Halifax band named Sloan broke Into the alternative rock scene with their debut album Smeared (1993), released by Geffen Records, which received critical and commercial success in both Canada and the ... -
“I Shall be Misunderstord if Understood”: The Art of not Understanding James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
(2020-08-21)By investigating and comparing critical responses to James Joyce’s final novel Finnegans Wake, this project attempts to dismantle the idea that the work is difficult and unreadable by demonstrating the ways in which it ... -
“I still felt in the last moment / The unsheathing of the great knife of parting”: Absence, Abandonment, and Maternal Lament as Poetic Theology in Five Poems by Nelly Sachs
(2020-04-30)Images of mothers and children proliferate throughout German-Jewish poet Nelly Sachs’s first two post-World War Two collections of poetry. Compelled by this pattern, this thesis contends that mother and child figures in ... -
I think I can, I think I can: Self-efficacy in the context of pediatric magnetic resonance imaging
(2020-08-31)Procedural distress is common among children and has been shown to interfere with cooperation and response during medical procedures. Predictors of procedural distress have been widely studied in an effort to inform ... -
I WANT TO BUY LOVE. PLEASE, DON’T BE A ROBOT!
(2023-12-12)Understanding consumer responses to online product recommendations is crucial, particularly for handmade products and when the recommender is either a chatbot or a human. Existing research has mainly focused on factors ... -
The idea of justice in Augustine's criticism of Manicheism.
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Ideal Rule in Shakespeare's Romances: Politics in "The Winter's Tale" and "The Tempest"
(2013-08-21)The Winter’s Tale (1611) and The Tempest (1611) are two of Shakespeare’s romances, written under the patronage of James I of England. While Shakespeare’s history plays have received extensive critical attention regarding ... -
Idempotent, direction-consistent anisotropic diffusion.
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Identfying Adolescents' Perceptions of the Facilitators and Barriers to the Promotion of Healthy Sexuality of Adolescents of Prince Edward Island
(2011-09-06)According to several studies, there have been improvements in adolescent sexual behaviour; declining adolescent pregnancies, fewer adolescents having more than one sexual partner, and an increasing numbers of adolescents ... -
IDENTIFCATION OF ROBUST BIOMARKERS USING MICROBIOME DNA SEQUENCING WITH A FOCUS ON THE ORAL MICROBIOME AND CANCER ASSOCIATIONS
(2022-12-15)High-depth sequencing of universal marker genes such as the 16S rRNA gene is a common strategy to profile microbial communities. Traditionally, sequence reads are clustered into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at a ... -
Identification and Aspects of Commercial Production of Anti-Diabetic Peptide(s) from Salmon Protein Hydrolysates
(2020-11-23)A low molecular weight (< 1 kDa) hydrolysate of Atlantic salmon protein has previously been shown to have anti-diabetic effects in vitro and in mouse models. This salmon peptide fraction (SPF) produced using the enzymes ... -
Identification and characterization of an operon affecting detachment of Streptococcus mutans from biofilms.
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Identification and characterization of NOS1APc interacting proteins
(2013-09-09)The current study characterizes novel interacting proteins for the neuronal nitric oxide synthase 1 adaptor protein (NOS1AP) isoform NOS1APc. NOS1APc is a 100kDa isoform of NOS1AP (herein NOS1APa) that contains a unique ... -
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (PML)-ISOFORM 1 SPECIFIC PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS
(2012-09-11)Loss of the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein is associated with genomic instability/cancer. There are several isoforms of the PML protein that localize in PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs). How each individual isoform ... -
Identification and Characterization of SdbA, a Novel Thiol-Disulfide Oxidoreductase in Streptococcus gordonii
(2017-04-03)Disulfide bonds are important for the stability of certain extracellular proteins, including bacterial virulence factors. Thiol disulfide oxidoreductases (TDORs) catalyze disulfide bond formation. Although these enzymes ...