Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses
Recent Submissions
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MOLECULAR NEUROIMAGING IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: TARGETING BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE (BCHE) FOR POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) AND SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT) IMAGING OF THE BRAIN
Currently, there are no effective means to definitively diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD) during life. Molecular imaging of β-amyloid (Aβ) or tau neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) pathology in the AD brain, though informative, ... -
A Public Architecture to Encourage Plurality
A speculative design illustrates an architecture for plurality. The design rests upon George Baird's proposal that a plurality consists of individuals occupying a range of publicness from the collective distraction described ... -
Stitching the Divide: Reconnecting the Segregated Neighbourhood of Red Hook Back Into the City Fabric of Brooklyn, New York City
Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a neighbourhood characterized by the urban disconnection and urban decay caused by the Gowanus Expressway and Hamilton Avenue expansion. During the 20th century, federally funded highway expansion ... -
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF MOTOR IMAGERY AND THE NATURE OF IMAGERY-BASED SKILL ACQUISITION
Motor imagery (MI), the mental rehearsal of movement, is an effective adjunct to physical practice (PP) for driving skill acquisition. While considered analogous to PP, in that a simulation of movement occurs without overt ... -
“Their Voice is Music to my Ear”: The Role of Women in the Work of John Thelwall
“‘Their Voice is Music to my Ear’: The Role of Women in the Work of John Thelwall” contributes to the rapidly growing field of Thelwall studies by examining the mutual influence and representation of women throughout his ... -
Comparison of Two Methods to Correct for Non-differential Misclassification in Meta-analysis
Like all data, administrative health data are susceptible to bias. In this project I focus on bias due to misclassification of disease outcome in the context of a meta-analysis. I propose a novel approach to random effects ... -
Activating Traces: Reconnecting Tidal Flows and Past Landscapes Through the Reuse of a Post-Industrial Textile Mill
This thesis investigates an adaptive reuse of a former textile mill, a post-industrial ruin built in 1884 in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Natural tidal waters once acted as a means of distribution for the town and ... -
DESIGNING EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROCESSES TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF AMBULANCE OFFLOAD DELAY
Ambulance offload delay (AOD) occurs when the care of incoming ambulance patients cannot be transferred immediately from paramedics to staff in a hospital emergency department (ED). This is typically due to ED congestion. ... -
The Living Yard: Re-Making the Public Square for Community Identity
How do we design and develop in urban areas where we are witnessing the social impacts of gentrification? Through adaptive reuse, this thesis will investigate issues of the gentrification process in the North End of Halifax, ... -
Private Instant Message Groups, Cohesion and Performance in Sport: A Mixed Methods Case Study
Online communication has been related to positive and negative outcomes for users outside of sport, but there is no known work looking at the effects of online communication in team-based sports. Therefore, this mixed ... -
Residual Strain Analysis via a Non-Bonded Interface Technique in Comparison to a Finite Element Model
The determination of residual strains in materials after an applied load is an important quantity for the understanding of the deformation behaviour of materials. There exist many quantifying techniques to measure residual ... -
Efficacy and Utility of Image Quality Metrics in Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction
Quantitative measurement of MRI image quality is a difficult, but important problem that can have direct and indirect benefits to MRI research. Objective image quality metrics (IQMs), such as root-mean-squared-error (RMSE) ... -
Hive Mind: The City in the Age of the Autonomous Automobile
The adoption of autonomous vehicles and the integration of an internet-based general purpose technology platform into urban environments will catalyze the formation of a new system of automobility in the 21st century, ... -
Revisiting the Concept of School Connectedness: Is School Connectedness an Attribute of Schools, and Does Its Protectiveness Against Risky Health Behaviours Vary Between Schools?
Objective: School connectedness has been found to be protective against negative health behaviours for adolescents. This study assesses 1) the extent that school connectedness is an attribute of the school, and 2) whether ... -
MARINE SEARCH AND RESCUE USING LIGHT WEIGHT NEURAL NETWORKS
The research proposes an autonomous solution using deep learning techniques inte- grated on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to effect a rapid and timely search in case of a man overboard (MOB) where a person has accidentally ... -
Awareness of Prosodic Cues in Text: The Missing Link Between Prosodic Sensitivity and Reading Comprehension in Young Readers?
This thesis investigated whether and how prosodic sensitivity and reading comprehension are related in the mid-elementary grades. A total of 151 students in Grades 3 to 5 were tested. Prosodic sensitivity was found to be ... -
Four Architectural Design Methods for the Active Perceiver: A Study of Phenomenology and Place in the Architectural World
Dissecting the work of phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this thesis aims to generate a collection of design methods founded in theories of perception and place. In an effort to comprehend the intangible aspects of ... -
Coercion-Resistant Verifiable Web-based Elections in Linear Time
Voter coercion broadly includes any attempt to influence the secrecy of a voter’s ballot, including bribery, vote stealing, and forced abstention. This risk, which affects the fundamentals of privacy in a democracy, is ... -
Made in Cape Breton: Examining the Relationship Between Craft Practice and Place
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between craft practice and place, situating my case study on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island. I consider the dynamics of how craft is made, marketed, and distributed in relation ... -
Enacting Change: Theatre for Development and Former Child Soldiers
Enacting Change investigated if Theatre be used to activate Psychological processes to change attitudes toward child soldier reintegration and post-conflict community reconciliation. Twenty Lord’s Resistance Army returnees ...
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