Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Attaining Uniformity in User Interfaces across Mobile Platforms - A Developer's Perspective
(2013-01-14)Mobile Application Development encompasses disparate facets such as architectural design, development and deployment, integration with existing web applications and business issues. Cross-platform mobile application ... -
Attempts Toward An Improved Synthesis of Aza-Dipyrrins
(2023-08-04)Compounds built on the 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (F-BODIPY) framework have a wide range of uses stemming from their highly tunable electronic properties. The versatility of this class of compound affords ... -
Attending to the health needs of African Nova Scotians: Exploring the role of district health authorities.
(Dalhousie University, 2005) -
ATTENTION BIASES AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN YOUTH WITH ANXIETY
(2023-07-21)Background: While attentional biases towards negative stimuli have previously been linked to the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders, attentional biases in anxiety remain understudied using dynamic social ... -
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: Constructing a measure of sluggish cognitive tempo.
(Dalhousie University, 2007) -
Attention mediates the relation between catastrophizing and pain.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
THE ATTENTION NETWORK TEST (ANT): INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES? AND ?COMPONENTS OF ATTENTION ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
(2011-04-04)Using orthogonal subtractions of performance in selected conditions the attentional network test (ANT) measures the efficacy of three isolable components of attention: alerting, orienting, and executive control. This ... -
Attitudes Towards Influenza Vaccination During "Wait Times" in the Emergency Department
(2019-04-05)Influenza is a burdensome and preventable infectious disease. Lack of time was the reported reason 15% of Canadians did not receive their influenza vaccine in 2016/2017. Meanwhile, emergency department (ED) wait times are ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
AUGE IN ME ISTA DONEC ME REFORMES AD INTEGRUM: THE RENEWAL OF THE IMAGO DEI IN SAINT AUGUSTINE’S DE TRINITATE AS DEIFICATION
(2024-08-20)The imago Dei is central to Augustine’s De Trinitate. Augustine supports his primary concern of establishing a correct understanding of the Trinity by engaging in a secondary task: the examination of the renewal of the ... -
Augmentation of Financial Datasets and Evaluating Financial Text Generated By A.I.
(2024-06-07)Information is fundamental to decision-making. Yet, data is very sparse for the financial domain, even though, in this era of big data, it seems abundant. The work presented in this thesis addresses that scarcity over seven ... -
Augmented and exact Lagrangian approaches to continuous constrained optimization with evolution strategies
(2022-08-31)We consider variations on Lagrangian approaches to constraint-handling in the context of stochastic black-box optimization. The well-known augmented Lagrangian function transforms a constrained problem into a sequence of ... -
Augmented Knowledge Graphs for Literature-Based Discovery (AKG-LBD): A Novel Framework to Enhance Semantics-Based LBD For Biomedical Knowledge Discovery
(2023-08-28)The biomedical literature is expanding exponentially, generating a vast amount of knowledge that frequently goes unnoticed. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop methods to mine knowledge from published literature ... -
Augmented Reality in Coastal Water Navigation
(2021-08-20)When conducting Coastal Water Navigation, a ship’s Navigating Officer (NavO) has multiple sources of data to consider. In order to obtain the information required to safely manoeuvre the ship, they make use of specialized ... -
Australian, Canadian, and Swedish policies toward Southern Africa: A comparative study of "middle power internationalism".
(Dalhousie University, 1991) -
AUTHENTICATING FAMILY: RE/CLAIMING LEGITIMACY BY THE LESBIAN HEADED STEPFAMILY
(2013-08-23)Family is an integral part of the fabric of society with diverse configurations of people living together, related through blood or kinship. Changes to the Canadian political and legal structures granting access to marriage ... -
Author and Language Profiling of Short Texts
(2020-04-07)Over the past couple of decades, the advancement and growth of digital information and communication technologies have resulted in information explosion and these technologies are profoundly changing all aspects of modern ... -
Author Style Analysis in Text Documents Based on Character and Word N-Grams
(2017-04-27)We describe our research on text analytics methods for detecting differences and similarities in the style of authors of text documents. Automatic methods for analyzing the written style of authors have applications in ...