Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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PAST PENTHOUSE PORNOGRAPHY: A STUDY OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND YOUTH’S CONSUMPTION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT INTERNET MOVIES
(2013-04-30)Sexually Explicit Internet Movies (SEIM) have emerged as a frequently accessed sexual resource by youth; however, SEIM’s potential influences on youth’s sexual health remains an understudied area. This study aimed to develop ... -
Path Planning Models for Mobile Anchor-Assisted Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2018-04-02)As event detection is one of the main purposes of using wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the location of nodes is essential to determine the location of an event when it occurs. Many localization models have been proposed ... -
The Path to Recovery: Accessing Ruins of the Gulf War to Reveal the Lost Narratives of Failaka Island
(2017-08-15)The Gulf War is a tragic moment in Kuwait history, which brought about massive physical, cultural and environmental loss. Memorialization facilitates the processing of trauma through storytelling and can assess the values ... -
THE PATHOS OF KNOWLEDGE: ON THE DIALECTICAL PLAY OF UNITY AND GOODNESS IN PLATO’S STATESMAN
(2022-12-16)In Statesman, Plato stages a dialectical approach on one of his ‘unwritten doctrines,’ “that the good is one,” in the voice of his literary creation, the Eleatic Visitor. Though the dialogue begins by positing political ... -
The pathways involved in cytochrome P450 regulation during LPS-induced central nervous system and peripheral inflammation.
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Patient Education Based on Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations to Improve Shared Decision Making in Healthcare Using Semantic Web Technology
(2012-06-27)Patient education and evidence-based clinical practice are two important issues with respect to improving health outcomes. However, there is a “communication gap” between physicians and patients at the point of care. To ... -
Patient Safety Law: Regulatory Change in Britain and Canada
(2010-09-09)Did governments in different countries regulate common concerns about patient safety differently? If so how and why did they do this? This thesis undertakes a historical comparison of the regulation of patient safety in ... -
PATIENT SPECIFIC PIXEL-BASED WEIGHTING FACTOR DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM
(2018-08-28)This thesis investigates the development and implementation of a novel patient specific pixel-based weighting factor algorithm for dual-energy x-ray imaging. The first chapter of this thesis is an introduction on the ... -
Patient-Specific Collision Zones for 4π Trajectory Optimized Radiation Therapy
(2020-08-17)This thesis presents a system that determined patient-specific collision zones (CZs) to enable safe and deliverable non-coplanar treatment trajectories for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) patients. Full body ... -
PATIENT-SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF PASSIVE AND DYNAMIC KNEE JOINT MECHANICS BEFORE AND AFTER TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY
(2013-07-24)Disregard for patient-specific joint-level variability may be related to decreased functional ability, poor implant longevity and dissatisfaction post-TKA. The purpose of this study was to, 1) compare pre and post-implant ... -
Patients' experience of occupational therapy discharge preparation
(2016-04-01)Discharge planning is intended to assist hospitalized patients returning home. Occupational therapists play an important role in interdisciplinary discharge planning by assisting with the identification of potential barriers ... -
Patriot jurist: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax, 1800-1876.
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Pattern Formation in Atherosclerotic Plaques
(2019-08-14)Atherosclerosis is a disease of the cardiovascular system of humans that can lead to myocardial infarction and stroke. It begins in the arterial walls (intima) as an inflammatory response to dysfunction of the endothelium ... -
Pattern Formation in Bacterial Colonies with Density-Dependent Diffusion
(2017-04-07)Recent experiments have shown that patterns can emerge in bacterial colonies programmed to have a drop in diffusion when population densities (detected via a quorum sensing mechanism) are sufficiently large. We examine one ... -
Patterns and drivers of marine phytoplankton change over the past century
(2013-10-31)Marine phytoplankton produce the vast majority of primary production in the world’s oceans and sustain virtually all marine ecosystems. Despite this importance, it is currently unclear how global marine phytoplankton ... -
Patterns and mechansims of American lobster (Homarus americanus) movement in the Northumberland Strait, Canada.
(Dalhousie University, 2007) -
Patterns and processes of mating in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
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Patterns in Sex Ratios from Villeneuve-sur-Lot, 1610-1711
(2014-03-31)This study analyzes sex ratios garnered from one hundred and one years of baptismal records from the south-western French town of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, between 1610 and 1711. It is the continuation of a larger project ...
