Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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PROTECTING WOMEN’S RIGHTS? PROSPECTS UNDER THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY ON INDIA 2005-2017
(2018-07-19)The establishment of the United Nations Treaty System was the fundamental step for the protection and enforcement of women’s rights. The system is designed to monitor the human rights standards in countries that have ... -
PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF CYANIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE-RICH HASKAP (LONICERA CAERULEA L.) BERRY AGAINST NITROSAMINE-INDUCED LUNG CARCINOGENESIS
(2023-08-24)Despite pre-screening programs and novel therapeutics, lung cancer is the most common and foremost cause of cancer death among men and the second diagnosed cancer among women. Primarily, cigarette smoke constituents alter ... -
Protective Ventilation vs. Hypercapnia for the Attenuation of Ventilator-Associated Lung Injury
(2011-09-06)Mechanically ventilated patients are at risk of developing Ventilator-Associated Lung Injury (VALI). Improved ventilation strategies by lung-protective settings may cause hypercapnia. This study investigated whether ... -
Protein tyrosine kinase involvement in the regulation of cardiac chloride channels.
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Protein-mediated membrane fusion: New insights from the reptilian reovirusp14 fusion protein.
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Proteomic and functional studies of the influenza A virus PA-X protein
(2019-04-12)Viral RNA endonuclease activity is required for influenza A virus (IAV) replication. This activity resides in the polymerase acidic (PA) protein, which assembles into viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) complexes and ... -
Proteomics of Downstream Responses to Growth Signals in Proliferating Cells
(2011-05-02)Some of the most profound changes elicited by cell growth stimuli influence dramatic rewiring of metabolism. Intriguingly, rapidly dividing cells with aberrant growth factor signalling, such as cancer cells, tend to rely ... -
A Protestant Seafarer's Testament to the Atlantic World, 1778-1795: The Memoir of Samuel Kelly
(2022-04-19)This thesis analyzes the seafaring career of Samuel Kelly, a late-eighteenth century merchant mariner from Cornwall, using his published autobiography. It chronicles the development of Kelly’s career and how his experiences ... -
Protestantism in the Origins of Seventeenth-Century Barbadian Servitude and Slavery
(2017-09-08)Seventeenth-century Barbados drew on centuries of Christian tradition to help develop its reliance on plantation slavery and servitude. The majority of its indentured servants were “cordially loathed” Irish Roman Catholics, ... -
THE PROTISTAN ORIGINS OF MULTICELLUARITY: TIMING AND EVOLUTION OF CELL ADHESION MOLECULES
(2015)Multicellularity has evolved many times within eukaryotes. Comparisons between various multicellular groups and between multicellular groups and their unicellular relatives help illuminate how this transition happened. I ... -
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 ...