Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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LIMITING LYME DISEASE: USING SYSTEM DYNAMICS SIMULATION TO TARGET HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
(2016-04-08)Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. However, little is known about the impact of public and physician awareness and behaviour on health outcomes. In order to address this limitation, ... -
The limits of judgment: On the shape of Yvor Winters' poetic career.
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Limits of the Liberal Utopia: Žižek as a Critic of Rorty
(2014-12-12)This essay takes as its starting point the belief that Richard Rorty and Slavoj Žižek are two of the most popular, accessible and important recent philosophers writing on the Left. Its aim is to bring their texts into ... -
Line bisection and visual orienting within and beyond arm's reach in patients with visuospatial neglect.
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A Line in the Sand: A Sustainable Hydrological System for the Sahara Desert
(2019-08-19)Water scarcity is a concern in the Sahara Desert, which has been amplified by climate change and, combined with ever-expanding agriculture, has caused an unprecedented rate of desertification. The region cannot strain water ... -
Linear Landscapes
(2011-08-03)A recreational urban trail runs through the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick with little interaction between adjacent buildings or the parallel riverfront of the Saint John River. As the two de?ning landscape elements ... -
A Linear Programming Framework for Models of Forest Management Strategy
(2013-10-29)Results found in this thesis draw attention to limitations in the conventional approach to modelling forest management strategy, where models have insufficient spatial resolution and ignore industry. Addressing these ... -
A linear wrapper method for detection of atypical points in classification.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
Linearly constrained convex programming of entropy type: Convergence and algorithms.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Linking Jellyfish and Leatherback Sea Turtle Distributions in Atlantic Canada
(2018-08-15)Every year, endangered leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) migrate to Atlantic Canadian waters to feed on gelatinous zooplankton (‘jellyfish’). This thesis examined spatio-temporal patterns, and environmental ... -
Linking PRP4K Cytoplasmic Functions to Tumour Suppression
(2021-06-18)Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers faced by Canadian women today. These carcinomas arise from epithelial cells in mammary tissue, and therefore processes and signaling pathways that regulate tissue homeostasis ... -
Linking short and long-term effects of nature-based tourism on cetaceans.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
Lipase-catalyzed synthesis of omega-3 vegetable oils
(2010-08-18)The effects of temperature, reaction time, and substrate concentration on the incorporation of decanoic acid (DA) and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), into cocoa butter, were compared, using an immobilized enzyme derived from ... -
Lipid class specific production of EPA and DHA in Phytoplankton Dinoflagellate Heterocapsa Triquetra
(2019-05-08)Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) with a range of health benefits. Phytoplankton are the primary marine producers of EPA and DHA through the process ... -
Lipids and development : deposition and metabolism of phosphoinositides in chicken central and peripheral nervous systems.
(Dalhousie University, 1977) -
LIQUID BRIDGE TO STABLE FIBRE: POLYMER ENTANGLEMENT DRIVES FIBRE FORMATION FROM HIGHLY CONCENTRATED DEXTRAN SOLUTIONS
(2020-10-20)Liquid bridges have been studied for over 200 years, due to their countless natural and industrial occurrences. Majority of these studies focus on Newtonian fluids between coaxial discs, where the dimensions of the liquid ... -
Literacy and the pedagogy of liberation: Nicaragua in the Latin American context, 1979-1989.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Literary Speculations: Postmodern Dystopia and the Future of Books
(2012-08-30)This thesis identifies a trend in recent postmodern dystopian fiction for writers to metafictionally dwell on the place of literature in a future context. This trend springs from similar concerns present in the two most ... -
LITHIUM AND OXYGEN UNDER HIGH PRESSURE: FINITE-T PHASE STABILITY AND MELTING
(2015)Understanding the phase diagram of materials as a function of pressure and temperature is one of the most fundamental problems in condensed matter physics. When materials are compressed, modifications of their electronic ... -
Lithium insertion in hard carbon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
(Dalhousie University, 1998)