Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Negotiating Uncertainty: Advance care planning in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
(2012-06-27)Physical and psychosocial symptoms in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are cumulative and profound; global financial and human costs are huge. COPD in late stages runs an unpredictable downward course ... -
Negotiating ‘Gastro-anomie’: Exploring the Relationship Between Food, the Body & Identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the relationship between food and identity. Drawing on the concept of ‘gastro-anomie’, or ‘food normlessness’, it asks how individuals’ make sense of food and eating in the context of an increasingly ... -
NEIGHBORHOOD CLUSTERING TO ANALYSE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN BACTERIAL GENOMES
(2021-08-19)Valuable insight into gene function and evolution can be obtained by analysing the order of genes in prokaryotic genomes, as neighboring genes often share related functions and evolutionary histories. Obtaining precise ... -
Neighbourhood Impacts on Stress: Perspectives of Adolescent Girls
(2011-11-18)The physical and social environments of a neighbourhood can cause and/or reduce stress for residents. However, we know relatively little about the neighbourhood-level stressors and stress-relievers experienced by adolescents, ... -
"Neither the Morning, Nor the Evening Star is So Fair": Virtue and the Soul of the World in Plotinus, Treatise 19 (I, 2) and Treatise 20 (I, 3)
(2013-08-21)In Treatises 19 (I, 2) and 20 (I, 3), Plotinus unfolds several ‘grades’ of virtue by interpreting the Platonic dialogues. Beginning with the goal of Theaetetus, “likeness to god”, Plotinus frames his discussion with a ... -
Neo-orientalism in the Operas of Tan Dun
(2015-04-02)As the most active neo-orientalist composer, Tan Dun is known for using instruments constructed from organic materials, and fusing Western avant-garde compositional techniques with Asian cultural traditions. Forming part ... -
NEOGENE EXHUMATION OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA FROM ZIRCON (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND 3-D THERMO-KINEMATIC MODELLING
(2014-08-21)Erosion and exhumation of upper crustal material in active orogens, like the Himalaya, result from a combination of both tectonic and surface processes. Although recent studies have well defined the Miocene-Pliocene ... -
The Neoplatonic Prehistory of Augustine's Doctrine of The Trintiy
(2001-09)This thesis examines the Neoplatonic philosophical history of the first principle which leads up to and includes Augustine's doctrine of the Trinity. While contemporary scholarship of this history shows how scholars often ... -
Network Reliability, Simplicial Complexes, and Polynomial Roots
(2020-04-02)Assume that the vertices of a graph G are always operational, but the edges of G fail independently with probability q ∈ [0, 1]. The all-terminal reliability of G is the probability that the resulting subgraph is connected. ... -
Networked Multi-Manipulator System and Its Teleoperation Using Adaptive Non-Singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control
(2020-11-03)Teleoperation of multiple robot manipulators has been one of the most popular research areas in the robotics research community for the last couple of decades. Such complex systems can be decoupled into two subsystems, ... -
Networking, Belonging and Identity: Highly Skilled Turkish Immigrants in Halifax and Toronto
(2012-04-10)This thesis is an exploratory work into the migration and settlement experiences of highly skilled Turkish migrants who have settled in Canada. It is a qualitative study conducted with sixteen immigrant respondents living ... -
Neural and muscular development in a gastropod larva.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Neural control of parental behaviour in California mice, Peromyscus californicus.
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Neural Correlates Of The Production Effect: Insights From Univariate And Multivariate Analyses Of fMRI Data
(2024-06-19)The production effect is a simple phenomenon in human memory: words that are read aloud are more likely to be remembered on a subsequent memory test (e.g., a recognition task) compared to words read silently. This effect, ... -
NEURAL MARKERS OF FAMILIAL RISK FOR DEPRESSION
(2022-08-29)Depression is associated with structural and functional abnormalities of the brain. It is not known whether these brain abnormalities are precursors or consequences of depression. Study of offspring of parents with depression ... -
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF MOTOR IMAGERY AND THE NATURE OF IMAGERY-BASED SKILL ACQUISITION
(2019-08-23)Motor imagery (MI), the mental rehearsal of movement, is an effective adjunct to physical practice (PP) for driving skill acquisition. While considered analogous to PP, in that a simulation of movement occurs without overt ... -
A Neural Network Growth and Yield Model for Nova Scotia Forests
(2011-07-06)Forest growth models are important to the forestry community because they provide means for predicting future yields and exploring different forest management practices. The purpose of this thesis is to develop an ... -
Neural Population Dynamics in Porcine Stellate Ganglion in Normal and Heart Failure States
(2022-10-21)Neural populations in the sympathetic nervous system are involved in hierarchical closed loop control of the heart involving multiple intrathoracic ganglia. This thesis expands on their processing capabilities with a focus ... -
Neuritogenic modulation by serotonin in the central nervous system of the snail.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
Neurobiological and Epigenetic Substrates of Learning, Memory, and Behavioural Flexibility in Three Songbird Species: the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia castanotis), and European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
(2023-08-29)Songbirds rely on learning, perceiving, and producing complex vocalizations to perform critical functions such as conspecific identification, mate selection, and territory defence These cognitive processes are influenced ...