Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Circular Economic Approach To Dharavi: Existing Self-Build Framework Intervention
(2023-04-12)Informal settlements are rapidly growing worldwide. This is the result of rural population migration moving into urban capitals like Mumbai leading to a scarcity of space. They establish slum communities within the ... -
Circulating microRNAs Trigger Innate Immune Activation in Polytraumatic Injury
(2023-02-14)Inflammatory responses frequently follow severe traumatic injury and are, in part, a consequence of innate immune activation by endogenous immune triggers such as extracellular and micro-(mi)RNAs recognized by the pattern ... -
Circulation and Associated Variability in the Intra-Americas Sea: the Role of Loop Current Intrusion and Caribbean Eddies
(2010-08-17)Circulation and associated variability in the Intra-Americas Sea (IAS) are examined using observations and numerical models. Vertically integrated transport variations through the Yucatan Channel in the model are found to ... -
CISPLATIN RELEASE CHARACTERISTICS FROM AMORPHOUS CALCIUM POLYPHOSPHATE MATRICES FOR THE ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENT OF ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
(2014-04-01)Cisplatin is an effective chemotheraputic agent for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma particularly in conjunction with radiation therapy. Unfortunately, its cytotoxic profile and associated systemic side effects limit ... -
Citizens' perception of values associated with dykes and dykelands: The case of Nova Scotia
(2013-04-18)Originally built for agricultural purposes by Acadians, dykes and dykelands have now found wider uses in protecting life and property in Nova Scotia and require regular maintenance. This research identifies some values ... -
Citizenship, Memory, Identity: Life Histories of Palestinian Migrants to Canada
(2019-11-28)My thesis describes the significance of refugee camp experiences on Palestinian migrants to Canada. I portray the ways in which political solidarity and individual aspirations relate though life history interviews with ... -
City in Motion: Anchoring Vancouver’s Active Transit Network
(2022-04-19)This thesis examines Vancouver’s transportation networks and their impact on city-building to inform the design of an active mobility trailhead at the False Creek Flats. The proposal argues the social benefits of intersecting ... -
The City Sublime: Enabling the Arts by Engaging With the Urban Environment
(2013-07-26)This thesis explores the ways in which architecture can be used to enhance and support creativity in music by engaging with the urban environment. The investigation will take the form of designing a community scaled ... -
City Within A City: Revitalization Through Connectivity
(2016-04-08)This thesis seeks to revitalize the soon-to-be vacated, iconic Molson Brewery in Montreal. In many instances, the development of the Molson Brewery mirrors that of its urban context. Occupying a footprint roughly equivalent ... -
Civilized Music: Postsecularism and the Humoured Body in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
(2015-04-02)This thesis examines the way in which the representation of laughter, or the represented experience of humour, is postsecular in the contemporary American fiction of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo. ... -
A Clarification of the Secrecy Debate
(1976)This study had three aims: to identify the presuppositions on both sides of the dispute about secrecy; to assess philosophically these presuppositions in terms of stated principles of politics and government; and to ... -
CLASS AND MENTAL HEALTH: AN ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENT HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR
(2019-08-28)There is a disparity between rising levels of mental health problems and low levels of mental health service uptake among Canadian adolescents. While there are resources available for adolescents, they are not accessing ... -
Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Restricted Epitopes in Oncolytic Virus Infection and Therapy
(2021-08-24)Cancer immunotherapies (re)educate the body’s natural defenses to recognize and attack malignant cells. The consequent anti-tumor immunity is highly specific, long-lasting, and often dependent on CD8 T cells, the presence ... -
The Class of Strong Placement Games: Complexes, Values, and Temperature
(2018-08-28)Strong Placement (SP-) games are a class of combinatorial games in which pieces are placed on a board such that the order in which previously placed pieces have been played does not matter. It is known that to each such ... -
Classical conditioning of attack behavior in squirrel monkeys.
(Dalhousie University, 1976)A review of the literature on classical conditioning of pain elicited attack suggested that the use of a bite-tube as a CS should produce strong conditioned attack in Squirrel monkeys. In Experiment I, however, it was found ... -
Classification and Analysis of a Large MEG Dataset using Convolutional Neural Networks
(2019-08-16)Convolutional neural networks were used to classify and analyse a large magnetoencephalography (MEG) dataset. Networks were trained to classify between active and baseline intervals recorded during cued button pressing. ... -
Classification of certain non-commutative three-tori.
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Classification of E-products Under the WTO System
(2013-06-10)The WTO Work Programme on Electronic Commerce was established to deal with the implications of E-commerce in trade in the context of the WTO Agreements. One outstanding issue within the Work Programme is the disagreement ... -
Classifying Horizontal Swimming Behavior of Atlantic Salmon Using Deming Regression
(2022-08-18)As aquaculture production of fish is progressively increasing, we need to understand the relationships between their swimming behavior and external variables in order to improve their welfare. Fish in sea cages normally ... -
The classroom in ancient times.
(Dalhousie University, 1994)