Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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OPTIMIZING OUTCOMES: HOW LONG-TERM CARE POLICIES CAN BALANCE INFECTION PREVENTION WITH MAINTAINING HOME-LIKE ENVIRONMENTS FOR RESIDENTS WITH BEHAVIOURAL SYMPTOMS
(2023-08-24)The health benefits of homelike care environments are well established in the literature and but may become challenging to maintain during outbreaks of infection in long-term care settings. The aim of this research is to ... -
Optimizing Response Strategies to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nova Scotia
(2021-08-26)Epidemics require dynamic response strategies that encompass a multitude of policy alternatives to effectively balance health, economic, and societal considerations. Due to the complexity and wide array of policy alternatives, ... -
Optimizing the Purification and Investigating the Function of Rhodoquinone Biosynthesis Enzyme A
(2023-08-29)Organisms require a constant supply of energy to survive, and they store this energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Cellular respiration is the major source of energy; however, in many organisms it requires ... -
Optimizing the Removal of Natural Organic Matter in Drinking Water While Avoiding Unintended Consequences Following Coagulation
(2011-08-03)Over the past decade, the objectives for coagulation based drinking water treatment processes have changed significantly. These changes are a result of stringent goals related to natural organic matter (NOM) removal to ... -
An Option Pricing Model with Regime-Switching Economic Indicators
(2013-08-26)Although the Black-Scholes (BS) model and its alternatives have been widely applied in finance, their flaws have drawn the attention of many investors and risk managers. The Black-Scholes (BS) model fails to explain the ... -
Optogenetic Tachypacing-induced Heart Failure in Larval Zebrafish
(2023-07-25)Chronic tachypacing is commonly used in mammals to model heart failure (HF). Alternative methods of chronic tachypacing involving the use of light-activated ion channels (‘optogenetics’) have been explored in cultured heart ... -
Oral administration of alloantigen prolongs kidney allograft survival by generating intragraft regulatory cells.
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Orbifold Atlas Groupoids
(2013-04-05)We study orbifolds and strong maps of orbifolds. We begin with introducing a representation for orbifolds that consists of internal categories in the category of topological spaces. These categories are built from atlas ... -
ORDER-PROMISING AND PRODUCTION-PLANNING METHODS FOR SAWMILLS
(2013-12-18)This thesis focuses on the development of order-promising and production-planning methodologies for sawmills. Two types of demands are considered: contract and spot demands. Contract demands are those known commitments ... -
Ordinal Variable Imputation for Health Survey Data: A Comparison between Machine Learning and non-Machine Learning Methods
(2021-08-31)Introduction: Large amounts of data are available for analyses from survey datasets. However, missing data can potentially reduce statistical power and/or introduce bias into analyses when not addressed correctly. Data ... -
ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS: INTEGRATING NON-FULLERENE ACCEPTORS INTO SOLUTION-PROCESSED DEVICES
(2017-08-18)In recent decades the demand for low-cost and sustainable energy sources has fueled the growth of photovoltaic research. Among the various photovoltaic technologies, organic semiconductors offer a light-weight and ... -
Organization and evolution of minisatellite VNTR's in the tilapiine genome.
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ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS AND BARRIERS TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: ADDRESSING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, LANGUAGE, AND MENTAL MODELS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
(2011-08-16)The current state of organizational environmental management is inadequate to face the risks posed by the natural environment such as resource scarcities resulting from natural, social and/or economic processes such as ... -
Organized Crime Outlaws: An Evaluation of Criminal Organization Legislation in Canada
(2012-09-06)This thesis explains how some organized crime outlaws, such as anti-Prohibitionists, the North American Mafia or La Cosa Nostra, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and Aboriginal street gangs, come to exist and thrive in Canadian ... -
Organizing the bench: Medical laboratory workers in the Maritimes, 1900--1950.
(Dalhousie University, 1999) -
ORIGIN AND STRATIGRAPHIC SETTING OF THE SACKVILLE SPUR BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR, OFFSHORE NEWFOUNDLAND
(2017-04-10)Bottom Simulating Reflectors (BSRs) may represent free gas trapped below gas hydrates or a diagenetic transition such as that of opal-A to opal-CT in biosiliceous sediments. Determination of the origin of BSRs is important ... -
Origins and evolution of mitochondrial transcription and replication machinery.
(Dalhousie University, 2006) -
Origins and evolution of the archaebacterial and eukaryotic DNA replication apparatus.
(Dalhousie University, 1997) -
Ornament for Serious Purpose: Mina Loy and Gaudy Consumer Culture
(2011-08-25)Mina Loy’s work explores the gaudiness of consumer culture in its spectacle, extravagance and underlying falsity. “Giovanni Franchi,” “Three Moments in Paris” and “Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots” question the perceptive ...