Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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JACK THE RIPPER’S “UNFORTUNATE” VICTIMS: PROSTITUTION AS VAGRANCY, 1888-1900
(2015)In the wake of the series of 1888 murders attributed to the unknown killer called “Jack the Ripper,” Victorian cultural authorities, and newspapers in particular, spent a great deal of time meditating on the social problem ... -
JADOMYCIN B AFFECTS CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 RELATED SIGNALLING AND ACTS SYNERGISTICALLY WITH CELECOXIB TO KILL HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS
(2024-04-08)Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 Canadian women and 10-20% of advanced breast cancers are triple negative. Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) lack receptors required for hormone and targeted therapy and, thus, require ... -
Jane Austen and the virtues.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
Jane Austen and the world of men: A study of male authority and responsibility in the six novels.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Jazz Improvisation as Conversation: A Pragmatics Approach to Jazz Studies
(2023-04-11)The central aim of this thesis is to propose a novel approach to studying jazz music that acknowledges jazz improvisation as a collaborative endeavour. Traditional examinations of jazz improvisation tend to concentrate ... -
JOCULATORES DOMINI: MUSIC AND FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY IN HAGIOGRAPHIC AND LITURGICAL SOURCES
(2020-07-23)This thesis explores music for Francis and Clare of Assisi in hagiographic and liturgical sources, examining how it interacts with aspects of Franciscan spirituality focused on the incarnation. It begins by investigating ... -
John Lehmann editor and arbiter of taste, 1936-1950.
(Dalhousie University, 1984) -
Joint Movement Models for Angus L. Macdonald Suspension Bridge
(2014-09-12)The Angus L. Macdonald (ALM) Suspension Bridge spans the Halifax Harbour linking the Halifax Peninsula with Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The ALM was first opened in 1955 and currently accommodates approximately 50,000 crossings ... -
Jonny Greenwood Scores the Western: Music as Generic Subversion in There Will Be Blood
(2017-09-01)Of all film scores composed by popular musicians, Jonny Greenwood’s score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s western drama, There Will Be Blood (2007), is one of the most counter-intuitive and significant. Greenwood draws on his ... -
Jonson's and Shakespeare's "Comedy of Affliction"
(2011-09-06)This dissertation explores the relevance of recent studies of Aristotle’s comic theory to the central dramatists of early modern England, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Applications of the Poetics to Renaissance English ... -
Juggling a way of being: A grounded theory of how one group of nurses navigates tension among personal and professional values 'in the moment'
(2013-08-22)Despite nursing’s espoused professional values of caring and social justice, some patients are stigmatized and receive discriminatory nursing care. There is a gap in existing literature about how nurses deal with the ... -
Just Apocalypse?: From Apocalypse to Justice in Climate Fiction
(2024-04-10)This dissertation argues that contrary to recent criticism of climate fiction, many works of cli-fi engage with climate justice by exploring the connections between the climate crisis, colonialism, environmental racism, ... -
Just Care: A Relational Approach to Autonomy and Decision Making of Parents Committed to Religious or Indigenous Traditional Practices
(2019-03-29)Hamilton Health Sciences Corp. v. D.H. and B. (R.) v. Children’s Aid Society of Metropolitan Toronto tell important stories about people and relationships—and about parenthood; autonomy; religious believers and cultural ... -
Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Southern Media Depictions of Canadian Sovereignty in the Arctic
(2016-08-24)As climate change opens up the Arctic, Canada’s sovereignty in the region has received increasing attention in both federal politics and the media. Meanwhile, Inuit have lived in the Arctic since time immemorial. Many ... -
Just Trying to Relate: Exploring a Potential Middle Ground Between Relational and Distributive Egalitarian Theories
(2016-08-30)In this thesis, I explore the possibility of an egalitarian theory that reconciles distributive and relational approaches. Although I will not advance a complete and unified theory of equality, I will discuss the advantages ... -
Justice and civil disobedience : a study of Rawls, Kant and the utilitarians.
(Dalhousie University, 1977) -
JUSTIFIED OUTBREAK: BRINGING TOGETHER LAW, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND ETHICS DURING AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE EMERGENCY
(2016-03-02)Infectious diseases have recently found renewed significance in Canadian scholarship, with a corresponding increased interest in Canada’s overall preparedness, including legal preparedness, to combat infectious disease ... -
K-MORPH: Knowledge Morphing via Reconciliation of Contextualized Sub-ontologies
(2011-04-12)Knowledge-driven problem solving demands 'complete' knowledge about the domain and its interpretation under different contexts. Knowledge Morphing aims at a context-driven integration of heterogeneous knowledge sources--in ... -
Ka Cokere (The Meeting Place): Apac’s future rooted in tekwaro (cultural norms and beliefs)
(2024-04-05)In Uganda, Lango culture is endangered owing to its limited study, and reliance on oral traditions, under threat from declining older populations. Preserving and incorporating local knowledge is necessary to provide direction ...