Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Langevin Equation for Diffusion of Molecules Adsorbed on Surfaces
(2010-09-07)Starting from a classical mechanical model, a set of Langevin equations for the surface diffusion of adsorbed molecules is developed. In contrast to previous work, these Langevin equations take full account of the rotations ... -
Language and Earnings: How Proficiency in Official Languages Affects Immigrants' Earnings in Canada
(2012-12-13)This paper studies how proficiency in host countries’ official languages affects immigrants’ earnings in destination countries. An earnings gap is found between Canadian-born and immigrant workers in Canadian labor market. ... -
The language of abuse: Marital violence in later medieval England.
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The Language of Selling Ethnicity: Satirizing the Commodification of Culture, Theatre, and Identity in the Ali & Ali Plays
(2015)If the exoticization of non-mainstream ethnic groups through the deployment of language and stereotypes is a pervasive, and successful, marketing strategy in today’s Western media, then critical, deconstructive play with ... -
Language's Empire: A Counter-Telling of Administrative Law in Canada
(2018-08-30)This thesis renders the unstated assumptions that animate statutory interpretation in the administrative state. It argues that the current approach is a disingenuous rhetorical overlay that masks the politics of definitional ... -
Language, Literacy and Classroom Participation of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
(2014-08-22)The language, reading and classroom participation of students who were deaf or hard-of-hearing (deaf/hoh), educated in inclusive settings, and served by APSEA were studied. Fifteen students in grades four to eight participated. ... -
Language, Translation, and the Inscription of the Female Body in the Works of Margaret Atwood
(2010-08-30)In The Handmaid’s Tale, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace, Atwood demonstrates that the connection between language, translation, and the female body is evident in the ways in which language is used to control the female body. ... -
LAR's and PLAR's, during SARS
(2022-08-08)The Weak Lefschetz Property (WLP) of polynomial quotient rings is studied in commutative algebra for the implications it has for a ring's Hilbert function, which is a chief object of study in commutative algebra. As ... -
LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS IN TANZANIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON WATER SECURITY
(2015)The surge in large-scale land acquisitions – or ‘land grabs’ – following the financial crisis has provoked a polarised debate centred on the role of foreign investment in African agriculture. A critical and often overlooked, ... -
LARGE-SCALE TRIAXIAL TESTING OF SUSTAINABLE TDA BACKFILLING ALTERNATIVES
(2018-04-03)One billion scrap tires are generated worldwide every year. Advanced countries have a higher rate per capita of generating scrap tires. In 2015, Canadians disposed of 37 million tires; while, nearly 250 million scrap tires ... -
Large-Scale Web Page Classification
(2010-12-09)Web page classification is the process of assigning predefined categories to web pages. Empirical evaluations of classifiers such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), and Naïve Bayes (NB), have ... -
The Larger Pelagic Crustacea of the Gully Submarine Canyon
(2011-09-06)The larger pelagic crustacean fauna of the Gully submarine canyon is described for the first time, based on three annual summer surveys. The larger Crustacea are a significant part of the Gully fauna, and are dominated by ... -
Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processing of Aluminum Powders Containing Iron and Nickel
(2020-08-31)The variety of aluminum alloys currently used in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (PBF-AM) is limited, yet the demand for such materials is growing. The AM community is particularly keen on aluminum alloys ... -
The Lasting Legacy of Munich: British Public Perceptions of Neville Chamberlain During the Phoney War
(2014-08-14)History remembers Neville Chamberlain as the personification of Britain's shame over the 1938 Munich Agreement. Literature that discusses contemporary attitudes towards Chamberlain relies on the misleading satisfaction ... -
Late Carboniferous nonmarine sequence stratigraphy and petroleum geology of the central Maritimes Basin, eastern Canada.
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Late Cenozoic Basin Evolution of the western Canadian Arctic Archipelago: The Beaufort Formation and Iperk Sequence
(2021-04-09)During the Late Miocene to Mid-Pliocene (Messinian to Zanclean), global mean annual surface temperatures (MAT) averaged >1°C warmer than present and transitioned to much cooler climates over the next million years. Today, ... -
Late Cenozoic upper-crustal cooling history of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, southern Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia: new insights from low-temperature multi-thermochronometry and inverse thermal modeling
(2015-04-30)The Shuswap Metamorphic Complex (SMC), located in the southern Canadian Cordillera, transitioned from a contractional orogen in the Early Jurassic to Late Cretaceous to an extensional tectonic province in the Eocene. ... -
The Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Geological History of the Outer Continental Margin off Nova Scotia, Canada: Insights into Margin Evolution from a Mature Passive Margin
(2011-12-19)The continental margin off Nova Scotia (the Scotian margin) forms the northern edge of the North American Basin. The Cenozoic stratigraphy and geological history of the outer margin is not well known. This study examines ... -
Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Reactivation of Central Scotian Slope Salt Bodies and the Impact on Slope Depositional Systems
(2015)The history of younger (Late Cretaceous to present) salt-related deformation is largely unknown on the Scotian Margin. This study investigates the style and timing of Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic salt tectonic rejuvenation ...