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In The Red: A private economic cost and qualitative analysis of environmental and health implications for five menstrual products
(2015-04)Almost all women menstruate at some point in their lives, and as such there is a large and constant market for menstrual products. The objective of this research is to collect and present existing data about the impact of ... -
Incentives to Winter Cycling
(2011-04)Dalhousie University’s recent Greening the Campus Movement has included many steps to reduce carbon emissions and promote sustainability. One way to continue this process is to encourage active (non-fossil fuel sourced) ... -
Indigenous Flora on Campus: A Feasibility Study
(2004-04)Students at Dalhousie University Studley campus poorly identified indigenous plants of Nova Scotia. We propose that students are unable to identify native species because much of the Studley campus landscape consists of ... -
Infraspecific Variation in Arcellacea (Thecamoebians) from Eastern Canada and a Selected Biostratigraphic Study
(1984-04-15)Clones of several morphotypes of the arcellacean species Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg) were established and the range of variation in individual clones was examined. Considerable morphological variation was noted, ... -
Inorganic Carbon Cycling in Scotian Shelf Waters
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An insight into the breakup of Gondwana: Identifying events through low-temperature thermochronology from the basement rocks of Madagascar
(2004-06)Fission track analysis was applied to the Precambrian suites of Madagascar in order to identify the lower-temperature cooling histories and their relationships to the Phanerozoic events that affected the island. Apatite ... -
Interpretation and modelling of gravity data within the Meguma Terrane, central Nova Scotia
(1996-04-15)Gravity methods can be used to identify geological features that exhibit sufficient density contrasts with the surrounding country rock. Collection and reduction of new gravity data in central Nova Scotia, combined with ... -
Investigating Indoor Green Space at Dalhousie University
(2015-04)This research project explores the various benefits of indoor green space on human health and aims to increase the ability of Dalhousie students to reap the benefits of nature exposure. Through reviewing the concepts of ... -
Investigating pyrite genesis and relation to gold at the Lone Star Deposit, YT
(2023-04)The Klondike region of the Yukon Territory, Canada, is famous for extensive placer deposits, recovering over 20 million oz since discovery, but lacks any major defined bedrock resources. As a result of a surge in exploration ... -
Investigating student exposure to Mi'kmaq Traditional Knowledge through Dalhousie University courses
(2024-04)The implementation of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (TK) is important because it can improve social, economic, and environmental sustainability across the world (Spee et al., 2021) and can enhance student learning. In ... -
Investigating Student Perspectives on Dalhousie’s Fossil Fuel Investments
(2023-04)Global warming has been increasingly worsening over the last several decades, with fossil fuels being the leading cause of climate change. Large businesses and educational institutions still invest billions of dollars into ... -
Investigating Student Satisfaction of Food Security Services at Dalhousie University
(2023-04)This paper aims to determine the level of satisfaction Dalhousie University students associate with free food security services on campus. With food prices and the rates of food insecurity increasing, it was important for ... -
INVESTIGATING STUDENT-RUN CO-OPERATIVES IN NORTH AMERICA
(2009-04)The goal of the Dalhousie Student Food Co-op Initiative is to establish a student-run food cooperative on Dalhousie‟s Studley Campus. Currently, all food choices on Studley Campus are managed by corporate food service ... -
Investigating Sustainability Professors’ Conceptualizations of Sustainability and Sustainable Universities at Dalhousie University
(2011-04)The consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources has increased across the globe since the industrial revolution, largely due to a growing human population. This rapid expenditure of resources has several negative ... -
Investigating the carbon sequestration and storage capacity of trees in a university campus environment
(2017-04)Rising anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are well established as the main driver of climate change, which has led to concentrated global and regional efforts to mitigate emissions. At a localized level, individual ... -
Investigating the role of call similarity in a tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) parent-offspring recognitionmechanism
(2011-03)Parent-offspring recognition is a mechanism that allows parents and offspring to recognize each other by specific cues. The mechanism is predicted to be well developed in species that are at a high risk for misdirecting ...