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Examining the Relationship Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes in the Canadian Population
(2013-09-06)
This thesis examines the associations between substance use/ misuse and mental health outcomes among Canadians with a Traumatic Brain injury (TBI). Its primary aim is to explore whether or not individuals with a TBI have ...
What are they counting on? An investigation of the role of working memory in math difficulties in elementary school-age and university students
(2011-08-04)
Math difficulties (MD) are nearly as common as difficulties with reading. Despite this, MDs have received much less attention from researchers and we have yet to define a core cognitive process for MD. Knowledge about a ...
Batterer Intervention Programs in Nova Scotia: A Qualitative Examination of Offender Experiences
(2015-04-09)
The present study examined the experiences of men court-mandated to one of two batterer intervention programs in Nova Scotia. Eight men participated in 45 minute—1 hour-long semi-structured interviews and spoke to a number ...
Pygmalion inversus – Inversion des Mythos bei Gundolf und Kaiser
(2012-08-30)
Myths are not static, but rather characterised by variation and variability. Thus since classical times and continuing to the present day, one can recognize a mythopoetic freedom in the use of and interaction with the ...
A three-channel model of human binaural sound localization
(2012-03-30)
The most accepted model of mammalian binaural sound localization postulates two neural/perceptual channels with hemifield tuning and overlapping medial borders; the extent to which the two channels are co-activated by the ...
Enhancing The Privacy Framework: An analysis of Privacy in Canadian and Brazilian health care
(2014-12-23)
In the last decade, with organizations’ increased reliance on digital storage of information, privacy laws have been implemented and updated to help govern the collection, use, disclosure, storage and destruction of personal ...
Alloy Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
(2014-07-25)
Sodium-ion batteries could one day be an inexpensive alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Many challenges need to be overcome before commercialization of a sodium-ion battery can take place. One of these challenges is the ...
THE IMPACT OF OVEREDUCATION ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF CANADIAN GRADUATES TAKING CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR JOB OR CAREER PURPOSES
(2013-12-16)
The main purpose of this paper is to explore how the probability of taking continuing education programs towards no degree for job or career purposes after graduation will be affected by overeducation, which can be defined ...
HARMONICS ANALYSIS OF A WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH A PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR
(2015-03-03)
Global energy demands are growing daily, with renewable energy options such as wind power emerging as attractive alternatives to fossil fuels. This thesis is mainly doing simulation using Matlab to filter harmonics which ...
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Union Prospects and Deliberative Debate in Nova Scotia’s Public Sphere, 1863-1864
(2014-08-11)
This thesis explores Nova Scotia’s 1863-1864 public union debates and examines the roles of political liberalism and loyalism in the colony’s deliberative public sphere. It argues that these debates were thematically broad, ...