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New Nurses in Charge Nurse Roles: A Narrative Inquiry
(2024-04-24)
The charge nurse role is a leadership position that is found on most acute care units. Due to high turnover of staff in this care setting, and recent shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new nurses are assuming the ...
Innovative Clinical Tools for Objectively Measuring Longitudinal Changes in Knee Arthroplasty Patient Gait Kinematics Awaiting Surgery
(2024-04-22)
Current clinical management of end-stage knee OA lacks objective functional assessments of patients. Markerless motion capture systems are a new technology that have the potential to facilitate efficient, well-integrated ...
Modeling Human Motion-Capture Data for Creativity
(2024-04-16)
Human motion-capture data can be represented, modeled, and generated through computational techniques. This thesis explores representations and strategies for querying, interpolating, and sequence modeling of motion-capture ...
HOW DO CROWDED SHELVES IMPACT CONSUMERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD MINIMAL DESIGN?
(2024-04-24)
This research aims to understand consumers' motivation to purchase products in retail stores
when retail shelves are either crowded or not crowded. Existing research has mostly focused
on social crowding. There is limited ...
EXPLORING LARVAL SETTLEMENT OF THE EASTERN OYSTER (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA) IN ATLANTIC CANADA
(2024-04-25)
An ongoing issue for the Nova Scotia oyster aquaculture industry is the lack of reliable seed sources, which primarily relies on collecting wild seed. This thesis focuses on understanding and predicting the timing of ...
STUDIES ON COW WHEAT (MELAMPYRUM LINEARE DESR.) BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT WITH HERBICIDES IN WILD BLUEBERRY (VACCINIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM AIT.) IN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.
(2024-04-25)
Weeds are the major limiting factor in lowbush blueberry production with stands consisting of a range of woody and herbaceous perennials. However, recent weed surveys have identified an increased occurrence of annual weeds ...
Do healthy diets cost more? A critical re-examination of diet cost methodology and its association with dietary adequacy
(2024-04-25)
This dissertation aimed to critically re-examine diet cost methodology, including the derivation of diet costs, and how diet costs predict dietary adequacy among Canadians. First, a systematic scoping review was conducted ...
Did Diversity Training Enhance Workplace Inclusion and Organizational Outcomes During COVID-19?
(2024-04-25)
Workplace diversity has always been a popular topic, especially in an immigrant country like Canada. Canada’s diverse workforce is likely to increase due to the growing percentage of immigrants. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic ...
External controls on Post-Eocene slope-to-deep-water sediment deposition in offshore Tanzania
(2024-04-27)
The East African Rift System (EARS), a modern example of a divergent plate boundary in its early stages of development, is a natural laboratory to investigate the interplay between rift tectonics and landscape evolution. ...
INVESTIGATING THE GENOMIC COMPOSITION OF OXYRRHIS MARINA, AN EARLY DIVERGING DINOFLAGELLATE
(2024-04-28)
Dinoflagellates are microbial eukaryotes with unique nuclear and mitochondrial genome organization. Their nuclear genomes are large and rich in repetitive elements and redundant gene copies, including retrogenes derived ...