Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Open secrets: Fetishicity in the poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen.
(Dalhousie University, 2001) -
Operant conditioning of central nervous system electrical activity implications for research on brain stimulation reward.
(Dalhousie University, 1985) -
OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES OF A DIRECT FILTRATION WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN LIGHT OF LAKE RECOVERY
(2020-02-13)There are many direct filtration plants across North America and around the world that continue to provide safe drinking water. One of the biggest challenge they have faced in recent times is changing water quality due to ... -
Operational Parametric Study of a Prototype Tesla Pump
(2016-05-02)A parametric study of a prototype Tesla pump was performed for various disk pack spacings and rotational speeds. The 15 thou spacing was the most effective disk pack spacing. A 40/60 weight percent mixture of propylene ... -
OPERATIONALIZING “WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT” AS AN APPROACH TO STATE FRAGILITY AND INSTABILITY: CASE STUDIES FROM OTTAWA, CANADA AND LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
(2016-09-02)Whole-of-Government (WoG) is a form of collaboration that occurs between any number of government departments; however, over the past 20 years the word has been adopted by international security and development actors as ... -
The Opioid Crisis and Canadian Public Libraries: Before and During COVID-19
(2022-08-10)This pilot study examines the impact of COVID-19 and the opioid crisis on Canadian public libraries. Views on these issues were gathered using a mixed methods process including a survey of Canadian library workers and ... -
Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Prolonged Opioid Use in Opioid-Naive Adults after Surgical and Emergency Care in Nova Scotia
(2022-05-03)I conducted three studies about opioid prescribing and prolonged opioid use - an important outcome of opioid prescribing for acute pain. In the first study I employed systematic review methodology to summarize risk of ... -
Opioid receptor rhythms and the control of sexual maturation.
(Dalhousie University, 1986) -
Oppression and the Struggle for Hope
(2017-08-23)This dissertation aims to understand how hope is formed and lost in human lives; particularly, by revealing the ways in which patterns of privilege and oppression can affect the hopes we come to form, and those that are ... -
Oppression: A conceptual analysis.
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Oppression: Exploring Conceptual Potential in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
(2020-04-29)Oppression-related concepts can deepen understandings about the ways in which occupational potential (Wicks, 2001) can become narrowed. Using these concepts incorporates philosophy and theory developed by Bourdieu, Collins, ... -
OPTIC NERVE INTERGRITY FOLLOWING RETINAL INACTIVATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF POST-CRITICAL PERIOD AMBLYOPIA
(2020-07-16)In animal models, monocular deprivation (MD) by lid closure mimics the effects of unilateral amblyopia in humans. In cats, inactivation of the fellow (non-deprived) eye, with intraocular administration of tetrodotoxin has ... -
Optical coherence gratings and lattices and their propagation properties
(2015-04-23)Partially coherent sources have been widely used in speckle-free imaging, distortion-less information transfer and optical communications in free space. In this thesis, we introduce a novel class of partially coherent ... -
OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR CLINICAL OTOLOGY
(2021-05-05)The potential utility of OCT for diagnostics in otology has been acknowledged for nearly two decades, but studies have focused largely on application to understanding basic physiology where animals and cadavers can be used, ... -
Optical Control of Exciton Qubits in Semiconductor Quantum Dots Using Pulse Shaping Techniques
(2015)Semiconductor quantum dots have been featured in a number of proposals for quantum computing because of the advantages afforded by confinement on the nanoscale, such as well separated, discrete energy levels and ease of ... -
Optical Rogue Waves and Nonlinear Effects in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers
(2018-05-01)In this dissertation, we theoretically study nonlinear optical effects inside hollow core photonic crystal fibers (HCPCFs). In particular, we explore the formation of optical rogue waves near resonance in stimulated Raman ... -
Optical Surface Plasmons in Semiconductors
(2012-09-04)A theoretical treatment is presented of a plasmonic interaction at an interface between a semiconductor and a dielectric, as opposed to the more traditional configuration whereby a metal/dielectric interface is investigated. ... -
OPTIMAL ANNEALING PATHS FOR ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION
(2011-12-16)Shor’s algorithm shows that circuit-model quantum computers can factorize integers in polynomial time – exponentially more efficiently than classical computers. There is currently no analogous algorithm for Adiabatic Quantum ... -
Optimal control of piecewise deterministic Markov processes.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SIZING AND PLACEMENT VIA SINGLE- AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES
(2013-07-24)Numerous advantages attained by integrating Distributed Generation (DG) in distribution systems. These advantages include decreasing power losses and improving voltage profiles. Such benefits can be achieved and enhanced ...
