Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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MUSIC IN PEACEBUILDING: Examining Music within the Peacebuilding Discipline
(2018-04-25)This thesis will examine the peacebuilding discourse, alongside current findings in the music discourse, to determine whether the integration of music could enhance current peacebuilding practices. Music is an important ... -
Music, Madness, & the Mainstream: The Communication of Bipolar Disorder in the Art and Reception of Kanye West & Mariah Carey
(2024-04-13)Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Mariah Carey are two of the biggest stars of popular music. While they have both earned vast amounts of critical and commercial success throughout their respective careers, this has ... -
Musical Works Without Musical Works: An Essay in Ontology
(2013-08-26)This thesis provides an answer to the question, “what is a musical work?” I begin by canvasing four of the leading accounts in the literature, two Platonist theories and two Nominalist theories. Nominalism is, I suggest, ... -
Mutational analysis of the NS-1 protein of the MVM parvovirus.
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Mutational analysis of the yeast chromatin modulator complex FACT.
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MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR MOBILE RFID SYSTEMS
(2013-04-16)Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are rapidly becoming popular in a variety of applications such as supply chain management, storage management and healthcare. Such a system consists of a tag with a unique ... -
My Brother’s Life Mattered: A Scholarly Personal Narrative of Grief from an African Nova Scotian Woman’s Perspective
(2024-03-30)This qualitative study used Black feminist theory (BFT) and Scholarly personal narrative (SPN) methodology to explore grief from the perspective of an African Nova Scotian woman. Using my personal narrative of the unexpected ... -
My Friends Don't Really Understand Me: Examining Close Friendships of Adolescents with Chronic Pain
(2011-08-22)Chronic pain negatively affects all dimensions of an adolescent’s life. Little is known about the social impact of chronic pain for adolescents, especially on close friendships. More is known about peer acceptance and ... -
My House is Your House: Toward a New Composition of Living and Working in the City
(2023-07-19)This thesis investigates the housing accommodation that combines living with working, commonly referred to today as “live/work.” Expanding on the notion of living and working beyond its literal interpretation as live/work, ... -
"MY vs THEIR World": "OUR World" Learning Network for Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2020-08-28)People with Autism Spectrum Disorder are not properly accommodated in the built environment, societal daily life, and medical services. Autism is a behaviourally defined disorder based on impairments in social-emotional ... -
N and O isotope ratios of NO3- as a tracer for nitrogen cycling and water mass distribution
(2021-01-07)Nitrogen plays a central role in marine biogeochemistry. Its distribution, chemical speciation and ratio relative to other nutrients governs the presence and abundance of microbial communities, and of large scale ocean ... -
An n-gram Based Approach to the Automatic Classification of Web Pages by Genre
(2009-12-16)The extraordinary growth in both the size and popularity of the World Wide Web has generated a growing interest in the identification of Web page genres, and in the use of these genres to classify Web pages. Web page genre ... -
N-gram based keyword topic modelling for Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging survey data
(2018-08-27)Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is a study and platform funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) which focuses on why some people are healthier while others do not. To understand this, the ... -
N-Heterocyclic Bisphosphine Ligands For Use In Nickel-Catalyzed C(sp2)-N Cross-Coupling
(2018-06-06)Notwithstanding the utility of Buchwald-Hartwig Amination (BHA) technology, the cost and scarcity of palladium has prompted a move to base metal catalysis in recent years. Nickel has emerged as a prime candidate in this ... -
N-Phosphinoamidinate Nickel Complexes
(2021-01-07)Society demands cheaper and more abundant metal catalysts to accomplish the tasks previously performed by precious metal catalysts. In turn, chemists have developed ancillary ligands designed to harness the power of first-row ... -
Naming Our Reality: Exploring Racism in Employment
(2011-08-10)The existence of racism in Canada is well documented (Johnson and Enomoto 2007; Henry and Tator 2006; Lopes and Thomas 2006), yet little is known about the employment experiences of those marginalized by race. In a study ... -
NANOCHARACTERIZATION AND HEME-OXYGENASE 1 INDUCTION BY A NOVEL NANOFORMULATED BOTANICAL
(2024-01-08)Plants naturally synthesize nanoparticles to transport cellular materials that contain potential active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Curcuminoids (e.g. curcumin) are the most abundant APIs in turmeric spice (from the ... -
Nanophotonic Silicon Electro-Optic Switch
(2012-09-07)The design procedure for ultrafast silicon electro-optic switches using photonic crystals in order optimize the operation of the electro-optic switch is presented. The material medium selected for propagation of the optical ... -
Nanosecond time-resolved diffuse reflectance studies of reactive carbocations and charge migration in nonacidic zeolites.
(Dalhousie University, 2001)