Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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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.
(Dalhousie University, 1995) -
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 ... -
Origin of Diamonds in Chromitites of the Luobusa Ophiolite, Southern Tibet, China
(1999-01)Diamonds and an extensive assemblage of associated minerals were discovered in podiform chromitites of the Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet, China. Thus far, 25 diamonds have been recovered from the mineral separates of ... -
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 ... -
ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK PROCESS AND OPTIMAL SAMPLING FOR ANALYSIS OF MICROBIOME DATA
(2019-08-30)The Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process is a widely used model for stochastic processes, where the value drifts towards a fixed stable value. We examine how well the OU process fits the data by using likelihood ratio tests to ... -
ORP4L IS A PHOSPHO-REGULATED LIPID BINDING PROTEIN REQUIRED FOR CELL GROWTH AND MAINTENANCE OF TGN MORPHOLOGY
(2019-11-28)Oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) and OSBP-related proteins (ORPs) constitute a 12-member family of mammalian lipid binding and transport proteins with variable tissue expression patterns and ligand affinities. The common ... -
Orthognathic Surgery and Peri Operative Antibiotic Use
(2015)Purpose : The purpose of this study was to determine the most effective duration of antibiotic prophylaxis following orthognathic surgery. Methods: A survey of Canadian Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons (OMFS), a retrospective ... -
ORTHOGONAL CHIRP DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TO IMPROVE RELIABILITY OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION
(2023-04-19)Covert underwater communication methods are constantly evolving, and there is a need for more robust techniques. In this thesis, the benefits and detriments of a number of currently in-use single-carrier covert underwater ... -
ORTHOGONAL SIGNAL ALIGNMENT WITH VARIABLE RATE AND POWER IN MIMO Y CHANNELS
(2016-06-29)The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Y channel employs signal alignment (SA) to improve spectral efficiency of wireless networks. In this system of three nodes exchanging data via the relay, cooperation of terminals ... -
Orthographic and Semantic Learning During Shared Reading: Investigating the Extent of Learning and Relations to Early Word Reading
(2023-08-22)During shared reading, pre-school aged children are frequently exposed to novel, low-frequency words. Abundant empirical evidence demonstrates that children can learn the meanings of such words during shared reading, ... -
The Other and Self through the Mirror: Exploring Historical Understandings of the Chinese Medical Concept of 气(Qi) through the Western Vision
(2021-09-07)This study explored how 气- (qi), one of the most fundamental tenets in traditional Chinese medical praxis, has been historically annotated into a“hermeneutic situation” at different historical periods. Spirit(s) and qi, ... -
“Our boys have upheld the honor of their town in the Hockey rink…” The Culture of Amateur Hockey in the Maritime Provinces, c. 1900-1925.
(2020-12-15)From 1900 to 1925, amateur hockey in Maritime communities filled local newspapers and drew thousands of fans to the stadiums. The Acadian, The Union Advocate, The Advertiser, The Weekly Report and Western Annapolis Sentinel, ...