Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MEDICATION INFORMATION TO PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
(2021-07-06)There is a gap between the amount of medication information desired by patients and information provided to them by health care providers at the point of care. To address unmet drug information needs for patients, this ... -
Providing Real-Valued Actions for Tangled Program Graphs Under the CartPole Benchmark
(2020-08-20)The Tangled Program Graph framework (TPG) is a genetic programming approach to reinforcement learning. Canonical TPG is limited to performing discrete actions. This thesis investigates mechanisms by which TPG might perform ... -
The Province of (Substantive) Legitimate Expectation in Nigeria's Tax Administration: A Law and Policy Evaluation
(2020-09-01)The interplay between tax administration and legitimate expectation has been the subject of debate and scholarship in many jurisdictions. Questions around how much discretion tax authorities should be allowed and whether ... -
Provincial Funding for Women’s Non-Profit Organizations in Nova Scotia
(2017-08-31)In Canada, federal funding has been instrumental in the founding of, and survival of, advocacy organizations. Federal budget cuts, however, have jeopardized this funding. In some provinces, funding from provincial government ... -
THE PROVINCIAL GUIDELINES EFFECT ON RISK-BASED ACCESS TO CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH NON-ST ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES IN NOVA SCOTIA (2003 – 2013)
(2018-09-05)Background: For patients with Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTEACS), observational studies have found cardiac catheterization being utilized more in patients at lower risk compared to their higher risk ... -
PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAMS: A FACE OF FOREIGN POLICY
(2011-09-06)The author examines Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) as a face, or tool, of foreign policy used by governments. PRTs are unique organizations that have been created to specifically satisfy the security and development ... -
The Provincial Workmen’s Association of Nova Scotia, 1879-1898
(1979)This thesis examines the history of the Provincial Workmen's Association of Nova Scotia, from iits formation in 1879, until the resignation of the union's ffirst Grand Secretary in 1898. The study begins with a desiscription ... -
ProxemicUI: Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Flexible and Generic Framework for Proxemics Aware Applications
(2021-08-19)Systems that respond to spatial configurations of people, devices, and objects (sometimes called proxemics-aware systems) have long been explored in HCI research and are now finding commercial applications. While ... -
Proximity Table: Exploring Tabletop Interfaces that Respond to Body Position and Motion
(2015-04-06)This thesis presents the ProximityTable framework, an interactive tabletop system that uses a top-down tracker to track users around the display. Based on this tracking data it generates a number of proxemics events that ... -
PRP4K IS A NOVEL HER2-REGULATED MODIFIER OF ANOIKIS AND TAXANE RESISTANCE
(2018-02-08)PRP4K is an essential kinase identified in Schizosaccharomyces pombe for its role in regulating pre-mRNA splicing. In addition to its role in splicing, mammalian PRP4K has also been implicated in mitotic checkpoint signaling, ... -
PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE AS PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC TOOLS: AN OPEN-OCEAN ASSESSMENT OF ALKENONE δDEUTERIUM AS A PALEO-SALINITY PROXY
(2017-12-13)Sea surface salinity (SSS) is arguably the least constrained variable of the past ocean, which is unfortunate because it is a fundamental variable controlling the density of seawater - thus large-scale circulation - and ... -
Pseudo Three-Dimensional MEMS Imaging Using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Technique
(2021-12-14)The study of MEMS devices is highly dependent on the information that imaging techniques can provide. There are two main approaches to observe MEMS devices: Optical and non-optical imaging techniques. Although each of the ... -
Pseudocolimits of Small Filtered Diagrams of Internal Categories
(2022-08-30)Pseudocolimits are formal gluing constructions that combine objects in a category indexed by a pseudofunctor. When the objects are categories and the domain of the pseudofunctor is small and filtered it is known in SGA4 ... -
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Measurement of Agency in Adults with Physical Disabilities in Long-Term Care
(2023-08-02)Background: Evaluations of healthy aging tend to focus on a person’s lived environments, their intrinsic capacities (physical and mental capacities to act), and the interplay between the two, as these factors shape the ... -
Psychometric Properties and Age-Related Effects of the Combined Attention Systems Test
(2023-04-25)Attention is a multifaceted cognitive process that is important for functioning in daily life. The study of attention commonly focuses on three networks: alerting, orienting, and executive control. Despite the rich literature ... -
Psychopathic Traits and Interpersonal Judgment: Examining Accuracy, Tendency, and Influence of Sex of Judge and Target
(2013-11-07)Individuals who are high in psychopathic traits are known to cheat, lie, and manipulate others. One of the factors that may influence this behaviour is interpersonal judgment accuracy and tendency. There is some indication ... -
Psychophysiological Processes in the Connection Between Perfectionism, Stress, and Emotional Distress
(2018-12-11)The perfectionism-stress connection is frequently studied, yet research in this area often overlooks the role of physiological processes. This research helps address this gap by testing two psychophysiological models of ... -
Psychosis and Cannabis: An Investigation of Individual and Combined Effects on Cognition and White Matter
(2020-08-07)Reduced cognitive functioning has been observed in individuals with early phase psychosis (EPP) and is similar to reductions in cognitive functioning in nonpsychiatric populations who use cannabis. Less clear, however, is ... -
A Public Architecture to Encourage Plurality
(2019-08-26)A speculative design illustrates an architecture for plurality. The design rests upon George Baird's proposal that a plurality consists of individuals occupying a range of publicness from the collective distraction described ... -
Public celebrations in Victorian Saint John and Halifax.
(Dalhousie University, 1991)