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LEARNING LESSONS THROUGH EXPERIENCES WITH DISASTERS: Exploring Institutional Memory-Building and the Informing of Disaster Relief in Nova Scotia and Beyond
(2020-12-16)
This thesis explores the central research question: how are lessons learned from experiences with disasters? Based on three case studies detailing Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office’s experiences responding to the ...
'Much More Than Chocolate': A Mosaic of Identity in Moirs Advertising, 1830 to 2007
(2020-05-06)
The Moirs chocolate company operated as early as 1815 and continued operation into 2007, seeing various changes in ownership and leadership. Throughout the duration of the Nova Scotia based company numerous methods of ...
Applying Geographic Information Systems to the Study of Honey Bee Diseases and Pests
(2020-06-11)
The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is one of the most valuable pollinators in the global agriculture industry. However, recent years have seen a decrease in the worldwide honey bee population through colony collapse, ...
IDENTIFYING SEASONAL ENVIRONMENTAL TRIGGER EVENTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SOIL MICROBIAL RESPIRATION AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN A NOVA SCOTIA AGRICULTURAL SOIL
(2020-04-13)
N2O is released from agricultural soils as a result of nitrification and denitrification. These microbial processes are affected by environmental conditions. This study developed a method of predicting trigger environmental ...
Evaluation of Active-Set Evolution Strategies for Optimization with Known Constraints
(2020-07-21)
Evolution strategy (ES) is most often used to solve unconstrained black-box problems, while active-set methods focus on solving constrained optimization problems. A recent algorithm combines (1+1)-ES and an active-set ...
Synthetic Space (and the Architecture of Play)
(2020-08-10)
This thesis is about the kinetic relationship between body and space. It attempts to read the world as a continuous experience rooted in bodily sensation and investigates relationships between human bodies in the conception, ...
Connecting the Storied Landscape of the Shubenacadie
(2020-08-19)
For more than 100 years, the Shubenacadie has been forgotten by the collective consciousness of many Nova Scotians.
This thesis examines the cultural practices of the Mi’kmaq, the Acadians, and the British as they engaged ...
Characterizing Arsenic Speciation and Metallomic Profiles in Toenail Samples of Atlantic Canadians: A Matched Case-Control Study of Breast, Cervical, Prostate, Urinary, and Skin Cancers
(2020-08-31)
Chronic exposure to arsenic and metals has been associated with cancer risk. The research objectives were to 1) characterize the profiles of arsenic speciation and metallomes in the toenails of several cancer groups and ...
Colonial Sentiments: Examining Canadian Depictions of Indigenous Suicide
(2020-08-25)
Colonialism has long impacted the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and has had an unquestionable relationship with Indigenous suicide rates. In this thesis I hypothesized that contrary to popular conceptions, forms ...
Sustainable Ethics and Delinquent Consumers: Environmentalist Discourse and the Apparatus of Ecological Crisis
(2020-08-28)
This project analyses the dominant environmentalist preoccupation with “sustainable consumption” to account for the failure of this discourse to address the structural causes and genocidal harms of our environmental policies, ...