Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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A DATA MINING FRAMEWORK FOR PRODUCT BUNDLE DESIGN AND PRICING
(2016-12-06)Product bundling is a marketing strategy that has been widely studied in research literature and extensively used in practice. With the growing quantity of products and huge possible bundling combinations, it is necessary ... -
Data Mining in Social Media for Stock Market Prediction
(2012-09-05)In this thesis, machine learning algorithms are used in NLP to get the public sentiment on individual stocks from social media in order to study its relationship with the stock price change. The NLP approach of sentiment ... -
Data Science Strategies for Modelling Total Knee Arthroplasty Patient Variability
(2021-03-30)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) can present through self-reported patient symptoms and joint-level manifestations, impairing mobility and function. Symptom relief and functional restoration of end-stage OA is typically treated ... -
Data Structures for Colored Counting in Grids and Trees
(2023-08-31)In this thesis, we design data structures for colored counting queries. First, we consider the colored 2D orthogonal range counting problem and present four different time-space tradeoffs. Second, we consider the batched ... -
DATA STRUCTURES FOR GEOMETRIC RETRIEVAL IN TREE-LIKE TOPOLOGIES
(2020-12-21)This thesis studies the generalizations of orthogonal range searching to the case in which one of the dimensions is replaced with a tree topology. We design data structures for efficient support of path queries, which ... -
Database querying with direct manipulation.
(Dalhousie University, 1997) -
DataBurst: Interactive Analysis of Hierarchical Data Using Radial Space-Filling Diagrams
(2010-09-16)Radial visualization methods have been used frequently in the field of information visualization due to their compact design and aesthetic layout of data items that can often aid in the communication of relationships between ... -
"Day by day, day by day": A study of immigrant women's entrepreneurship and settlement in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2012-08-13)This research illuminates the gendered nature of immigration and business ownership in the Atlantic Canadian context. A feminist analysis of semi-structured interviews with 15 immigrant women entrepreneurs in Halifax, ... -
A Day in the Life: Live/Work Architecture Utilizing Autism-Based Inclusive Design
(2019-08-09)This thesis explores architectural implications of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and tests design strategies in a live/work complex on the waterfront of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Manifestations of ASD differ enormously between ... -
DAY- AHEAD MARGINAL PRICE FORECASTING OF ELECTRIC POWER SPOT MARKET USING INNOVATED FORECASTING APPROACHES
(2011-03-30)Over the past several decades, many techniques and approaches have been proposed and implemented for load and price forecasting. The objective of all of these methods was load and price forecasting with minimal error. ... -
DDOS DETECTION MODELS USING MACHINE AND DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
(2021-01-27)Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are considered to be a major security threat to online servers and cloud providers. Intrusion detection systems have utilized machine learning as one of the solutions to the ... -
De(mock)ratizing the Nova Scotia Legislature: A Socio/Architectural Deconstruction
(2014-08-15)This thesis explores architecture as a mode of criticism. The project interrogates the western neoliberal status quo through an architectural deconstruction of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the heart of downtown Halifax. ... -
De-capitalizing San Francisco’s Waterfront through the Collective Memory of Resistance
(2023-07-14)For over two centuries, San Francisco’s Waterfront has been a mechanism for capitalism, fostering an environment of economic “advancements” that harbours capital greed. As a line of exchange, the Waterfront is a capitalist ... -
[De]constructing Rikers Island: Confronting Architectures of Harm through Reflective Remediation
(2021-04-12)Designed environmental, social, and physical inequalities in American cities have produced sites, systems, and architectures of harm. Rikers Island is at the center of this condition in New York City. The Penitentiary ... -
Dealing with dual destabilisation in Southern Africa: Foreign policy in Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, 1975-1989.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
A DECADE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION ON TED TALKS : A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
(2021-07-30)Researchers involved in communicating their works with the general public and other scientists for various reasons, including but not limited to citations, publications, or funding. Robert K Merton identified four norms ... -
DECEPTION AND THEODICY IN AENEID 1-4
(2017-08-31)The theme of deception, or dolus, is undeniably central to the Aeneid, both as a frequent vehicle for the unfolding narrative and as a means by which the poet explores more complex themes. Ultimately, this thesis aims to ... -
DECIPHERING THE INDUCTION AND PATTERNING OF THE CONJUNCTIVAL PAPILLAE IN THE CHICKEN, GALLUS GALLUS
(2017-02-02)The conjunctival papillae (CP), epithelial thickenings on the surface of the conjunctiva, are required for the induction of the underlying neural crest-derived, intramembranous scleral bones. Induction of the CP begins ... -
Decision under Complete Uncertainty: Bridging Economic and Philosophical Research
(2012-08-28)This thesis explores the topic of decision under conditions of complete uncertainty, advocating an interdisciplinary perspective that benefits from the insights of both economists and philosophers. Thus far, most of the ... -
DECISION-MAKING IN LOCAL AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE UTILIZATION OF BIOMASS RESOURCES
(2017-08-30)Agricultural biomass fulfils several important functions essential for the sustenance of human societies; it is used for the production of food, feed, biomaterials and bioenergy. Although biomass is renewable, there is ...