Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Everything in Moderation?: An Analysis of Foreign Policy Moderation in Left-wing Political Parties
(2023-08-23)Moderation, the shift in parties’ positions towards consensus, has an impact on the range of democratic choices facing voters. For foreign policy, traditionally not a feature of domestic politics, moderation raises certain ... -
Evidence for semantic satiation.
(Dalhousie University, 1985) -
Evidence of fundamental differences between Thy-1- and T cell receptor-associated pathways of T cell activation.
(Dalhousie University, 2003) -
#EvilBoobs: A Case Study of the Evil Queen’s Cleavage in Once Upon a Time and its Female Fans
(2019-08-28)In ABC’s series Once Upon a Time, the Evil Queen is defined in part by her prominent cleavage. Her cleavage exemplifies a trope that I refer to as “evil boobs.” This thesis aims to establish the “evil boobs” trope in ... -
Evolution in response to environmental unpredictability in Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata (Campanulaceae).
(Dalhousie University, 1999) -
The Evolution of Deep-Water Salt-Tectonic Structures, Numerical Modeling Studies applied to the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
(2013-10-28)Salt tectonics is a key player in the evolution of many worldwide sedimentary basins on rifted continental margins. For more than a century, the evolving structures have been studied; but focus remained primarily on the ... -
THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANELLE GENOME ARCHITECTURE
(2010-08-31)Genomic sequence data from the three domains of life have revealed a remarkable diversity of genome architectures. The relative contributions of adaptive versus non-adaptive processes in shaping this diversity are poorly ... -
Evolution of the hydrothermal alteration at the Chuquicamata porphyry copper system, northern Chile.
(Dalhousie University, 2003) -
Evolution, development, and homology of the amniote dermal skeleton and pectoral apparatus.
(Dalhousie University, 2007) -
An Evolutionary Algorithm for Depth Image Based Camera Pose Estimation in Indoor Environments
(2016-08-18)We consider the task of determining the pose of a depth camera based on a single target depth image and a 3D model of the indoor environment that the image was taken in. We identify the quality of a pose estimate with ... -
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF ANADROMOUS, RESIDENT, AND LANDLOCKED ARCTIC CHARR (SALVELINUS ALPINUS) IN LABRADOR, CANADA
(2021-04-28)The breadth of biological forms observed in nature is found in miniature within Arctic Charr (Salvelinus alpinus). This species’ incredible phenotypic variation and distinct morphs makes it highly useful for investigating ... -
Evolutionary dynamics under a stability-constrained model
(2021-08-17)The space of possible proteins is vast. For all but the smallest proteins, the number of sequences exceeds the number of atoms in the observable universe. Evolution—through the forces of natural selection, drift, and ... -
EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS OF A PLASTIC LIFE HISTORY TRAIT: GALAXIAS MACULATUS AMPHIDROMOUS AND RESIDENT POPULATIONS
(2021-08-20)Understanding the molecular mechanisms that differentiate diadromous from freshwater resident (non-migratory) populations can help understand how species adapt to changing conditions. In this thesis, I first review the ... -
Evolutionary rates in nuclear and mitochondrial genes of Chlamydomonas.
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Evolving Hierarchical Structures for Convolutional Neural Networks using Jagged Arrays
(2018-04-04)Traditionally, deep learning practitioners have relied on heuristics and past high-performing networks to hand-craft their neural network architectures because architecture search algorithms were too computationally ... -
EVOLVING OPTIMAL AUGMENTATION POLICIES FOR SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING ALGORITHMS
(2023-06-28)In recent years, self-supervised learning has shown remarkable promise for expanding the capabilities of deep-learning-based computer vision models. In many self-supervised learning approaches, specifically those that ... -
Evolving Policies to Solve the Rubik's Cube: Experiments with Ideal and Approximate Performance Functions
(2016-08-26)This work reports on an approach to direct policy discovery (a form of reinforcement learning) using genetic programming (GP) for the 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's Cube. Specifically, a synthesis of two approaches is proposed: 1) a ...