Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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‘"IT'S NOT MY STORY": THE DEVELOPMENT DISCONNECT BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE NARRATIVES OF COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY MINING IN PERU'S ANDES’
(2013-05-06)This thesis examines the disconnect between the stated intentions of mining companies and narratives of hegemonic dispossession from mining-affected communities in the Andean region of Peru. The study focuses on Barrick ... -
It's Not You, It's Me: Individual Factors Associated with Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction
(2023-08-16)Relationship satisfaction is positively correlated with higher levels of happiness, lower risk for depression, and greater overall well-being. Research on individual predictors of relationship satisfaction points to ... -
Iterative Decoding of Spatially-Coupled Product Codes using Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding Algorithms
(2022-09-22)Forward Error Correction Codes (FEC) in Coding Theory, Information Theory and Telecommunication is used to control the errors in information that was transmitted over a noisy channel. Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes ... -
Iterative Estimation and Demodulation for Improved Joint Random Access Satellite Communications
(2016-01-04)This thesis investigates high throughput random access communications in the satellite up-link environment. In this environment it is typical for a large number of un-coordinated, mobile transmitters scattered over a large ... -
Iterative Interference Cancellation, and Channel Estimation for Underwater Acoustic and Unsourced Random Access Communications
(2021-08-13)The work in this thesis is dedicated to design and analysis of iterative interference cancellation systems with applications in underwater acoustic communication and random access communications over terrestrial wireless ... -
℞ITUAL OBJECTS: SPIRITS, HEALTH & DECOLONIZING THE STUDY OF AFRICAN POWER FIGURES
(2020-08-27)Composite ritual power objects are used throughout West and Central Africa and across the Black Atlantic. These sacred objects are composed of a material figure, medicines, and spirit power, and can be constructed to ... -
It’s Five O’Clock on a Farm: Deriving Architecture from Agriculture on an Annapolis Valley Winery
(2022-04-12)Wine regions around the world lack authenticity. Authentic and healthy farming practices are abandoned and replaced with a monocrop approach, solely focusing on yields, destroying natural ecosystems. Narratives are relied ... -
“It’s in the Tough Times You See Who the Vulnerable People Really Are”: The Perceived Health Influences of Hydroelectric Development Along the Lower Churchill River Among NunatuKavut Adults in Labrador, Canada
(2015)Many Indigenous people around the world have a strong connection to the natural environment, which is, in turn, connected with their health and well being. This connection, which can be thought of as spiritual or personal ... -
JACK THE RIPPER’S “UNFORTUNATE” VICTIMS: PROSTITUTION AS VAGRANCY, 1888-1900
(2015)In the wake of the series of 1888 murders attributed to the unknown killer called “Jack the Ripper,” Victorian cultural authorities, and newspapers in particular, spent a great deal of time meditating on the social problem ... -
JADOMYCIN B AFFECTS CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 RELATED SIGNALLING AND ACTS SYNERGISTICALLY WITH CELECOXIB TO KILL HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS
(2024-04-08)Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 Canadian women and 10-20% of advanced breast cancers are triple negative. Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) lack receptors required for hormone and targeted therapy and, thus, require ... -
Jane Austen and the virtues.
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Jane Austen and the world of men: A study of male authority and responsibility in the six novels.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Jazz Improvisation as Conversation: A Pragmatics Approach to Jazz Studies
(2023-04-11)The central aim of this thesis is to propose a novel approach to studying jazz music that acknowledges jazz improvisation as a collaborative endeavour. Traditional examinations of jazz improvisation tend to concentrate ... -
JOCULATORES DOMINI: MUSIC AND FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY IN HAGIOGRAPHIC AND LITURGICAL SOURCES
(2020-07-23)This thesis explores music for Francis and Clare of Assisi in hagiographic and liturgical sources, examining how it interacts with aspects of Franciscan spirituality focused on the incarnation. It begins by investigating ... -
John Lehmann editor and arbiter of taste, 1936-1950.
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Joint Movement Models for Angus L. Macdonald Suspension Bridge
(2014-09-12)The Angus L. Macdonald (ALM) Suspension Bridge spans the Halifax Harbour linking the Halifax Peninsula with Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The ALM was first opened in 1955 and currently accommodates approximately 50,000 crossings ... -
Jonny Greenwood Scores the Western: Music as Generic Subversion in There Will Be Blood
(2017-09-01)Of all film scores composed by popular musicians, Jonny Greenwood’s score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s western drama, There Will Be Blood (2007), is one of the most counter-intuitive and significant. Greenwood draws on his ... -
Jonson's and Shakespeare's "Comedy of Affliction"
(2011-09-06)This dissertation explores the relevance of recent studies of Aristotle’s comic theory to the central dramatists of early modern England, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Applications of the Poetics to Renaissance English ... -
Juggling a way of being: A grounded theory of how one group of nurses navigates tension among personal and professional values 'in the moment'
(2013-08-22)Despite nursing’s espoused professional values of caring and social justice, some patients are stigmatized and receive discriminatory nursing care. There is a gap in existing literature about how nurses deal with the ...
