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SMALL AREA VARIATIONS IN UNPLANNED REPEAT HOSPITALIZATION IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2018-04-25)
Objective: Unplanned readmission to hospital is widely used as an indicator of hospital performance. Community-based primary health care systems likely also play a role in unexpected returns to hospital. Our objective was ...
“They Have Continuous Long-Term Observations, They Know What's Going On, and They Are Concerned”: Connecting Community Stewardship to Water Governance and Social-Ecological Systems in Nova Scotia
(2018-04-03)
Despite ongoing efforts to involve stewardship groups in decision-making around water, there is still no clear understanding of the importance of or potential roles for stewardship in shaping overall water governance in ...
The Polyvalent Ruin: Reconciling Time and Place in Rural Nova Scotia
(2018-04-04)
The thesis examines the effects of depopulation in Canso, Nova Scotia and articulates a response to the challenges of building in a socially and economically precarious community.
In examining the fluxuations in historical ...
Exploring a Methodology for Creating Flood Risk Vulnerability of Land Use Classification using Professional Opinions from Municipal Planners and Emergency Management Official in Nova Scotia
(2017-08-31)
While climate change increases the need for disaster prevention, insufficient municipal budgets limit efforts to protect coastal residents. Assessing flood risk using land use vulnerability is useful for municipalities as ...
Infrastructural Landscapes: Integrating Renewable Energy with Landscape and Community in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
(2018-07-31)
The Bay of Fundy is home to the highest tides in the world and among the strongest currents. The Minas Passage is a narrow body of water in the upper Bay of Fundy with a 13-metre tidal range and water speeds of 7-8 knots, ...
SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE JURASSIC ABENAKI MARGIN, AT COHASSET-MIGRANT, AND POTENTIAL FOR DISTAL ORGANIC-RICH FACIES
(2018-04-25)
This study uses well data, extensive 3D seismic data and geologic analogs to test and extend stratigraphic concepts and models in a mixed clastic-carbonate depositional setting: the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of ...
REALIZING RESETTLEMENT: EXPERIENCES OF PRIVATE SPONSORS OF SYRIAN REFUGEES IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2021-08-31)
While Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program has existed since 1976, it has seen a notable resurgence in the Canadian imaginary since 2015. Drawing on data collected through fifteen qualitative interviews ...
Trends, Patterns, and Drivers of Freshwater Aluminium Concentrations: Revisiting the Conceptual Model of Freshwater Acidification
(2020-08-20)
Aluminium (Al) is toxic to freshwater and terrestrial flora and fauna. Al can cause reduced primary productivity, species mortality and extirpation, reduced bird nesting success, reduced forest health resulting in reduced ...
Integrated Lithostratigraphic, Formation and Structural Evaluation of the Migrant Structure, Sable Subbasin, Offshore Nova Scotia.
(2021-04-12)
Well data and 3D seismic are integrated to investigate the impact of sand-on-sand juxtaposition across a crestal fault in the Migrant Structure previously missed in 2D seismic. Pressure and petrophysical analysis of well ...
Women of the Healing Arts: Domestic Medicine in Nova Scotia, 1750-1850
(2021-06-23)
This thesis addresses the history of British settler women’s encounters with health and medicine in Nova Scotia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Medicinal remedies used in the Northeastern Atlantic region reveal ...