Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Frailty and Occupational Therapy in the Emergency Department
(2020-12-07)This paper details a health records review of older adults referred to an occupational therapy (OT) program in the emergency department (ED), examining this population’s prevalence of frailty, and the impact of frailty on ... -
Frames + Fieldnotes: Existential Architectures for the Landscape of Climate Change
(2016-04-08)The transcendental experiences and perceptual insights evoked by good architecture are not merely qualitative outcomes. They form the elements of a way of measuring what is much larger than our selves. This thesis explores ... -
Framework and Enforcement Strategy for Health Professions Regulation in Ethiopia
(2012-12-13)This thesis examines the best system for health professions regulation in Ethiopia with a view to sketch the roles of state and non-state actors in that system. It argues for statist regulation as self-regulation is worrisome ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARING N95 AND ELASTOMERIC FACEPIECE RESPIRATORS ON COST AND FUNCTION FOR USE DURING A PANDEMIC
(2021-12-14)SARS-CoV-2 has posed implications for personal protective equipment (PPE) supply such as N95 respirators. In this research it was examined if elastomeric facepiece respirators (EFRs) are efficacious substitutes for N95s ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR MARINE SHIPPING: A CASE STUDY IN THE KITIKMEOT REGION
(2019-12-12)The shortening of sea ice in the summer season has caught the attention of the global shipping community due to the potential of the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic becoming a shorter and cheaper alternative ... -
Framework For Design: The Study Of Parametrics For Contextually Responsive High Rise Design
(2011-12-16)The following thesis investigates parametric thinking and evolutionary solving principles in the creation of a framework for residential high rise design. Site specific parameters such as site access (pedestrian and ... -
A Framework for Embedded Hardware Security Analysis
(2017-07-05)Embedded computers are unavoidable in our daily life, and our interaction with them only looks to increase as more products include the words `Internet of Thing' in their selling features. Embedded computers can be found ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT IN THE CLINICAL TRIALS INDUSTRY: AN EXTENSION OF THE STATE-OF-THE ART USING CONTEMPORARY SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES AND TOOLS
(2019-01-11)Logistics management in the clinical trials industry is a very challenging undertaking due to multiple stakeholders, complex processes, diverse software applications, intensive white-collar jobs, and onerous quality ... -
A framework for summarization of multi-topic Web sites.
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A framework for the analysis of manufacturing systems controlled by a production authorization card scheme.
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A framework for urban forest naturalization
(2015)The way we design and manage cities directly impacts our quality of life. Urban ecosystems differ markedly from their rural surroundings due to the high density of built infrastructure, and are considered ‘unnatural’. ... -
A Framework of Multiclass Travel Demand Forecasting and Emission Modelling, Incorporating Commercial Vehicle Movement for the Port City of Halifax, Canada
(2018-12-17)This thesis develops a comprehensive Regional Transport Network Modelling framework that generates, distributes and assigns commercial vehicles along with passenger car, and estimates the resulting vehicular emission in ... -
FRAMEWORK TO GUIDE DESIGNING OF INTERACTIVE TOOLS FOR ART GALLERIES
(2019-08-26)The thesis proposes a framework which will help in designing and building of interactive tools for art galleries. The research started with the background analysis of all the factors that influence the planning of an ... -
A Framework to Predict and Mitigate Bycatch for Vulnerable Marine Species
(2021-08-25)Bycatch is a pressing concern impeding the sustainability of fisheries. Yet, bycatch is often not well mitigated due to incomplete monitoring of at-sea. This thesis aims to inform management strategies for bycatch mitigation ... -
Framing Health Assessment: Differences in Subjective Perceptions of Health by Educational Attainment Level
(2016-08-22)Extensive academic study has revealed a positive correlation between educational attainment and health; education is considered a major social determinant of health. Less commonly researched, however is research into how ... -
Framing solutions: Adolescent girls and their relationships with alcohol.
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Framing the Forest: Restoring Nova Scotia's Hidden Landscapes of Extraction
(2022-04-12)Nova Scotia is home to vast areas of ecologically unique and sensitive Acadian forest, almost all of which has been cut down and regrown several times, damaging its integrity as habitat for wildlife and as economic and ... -
Francophone and Acadian Experiences in the Primary Health Care System in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2013-08-26)Objectives: This research explored the experiences of francophones and Acadians who received primary healthcare in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Approach: Semi-structured interviews were completed with 15 self-identified ... -
Free Thinkers Are Dangerous! Millennial Counterculture and the Music of System of a Down
(2016-04-07)System of a Down is an Armenian-American heavy metal band who participated in a counterculture around the turn of the millennium, both through its music and through its members’ participation in activism. I situate both ... -
FREE-RANGING MARINE MAMMALS: THE NEXT ACOUSTIC SHIPS OF OPPORTUNITY?
(2014-11-20)Understanding the nature of species interactions in the ocean is challenging because direct observation is usually impossible. The deployment of dual transmitting and receiving acoustic transceivers and satellite-linked ...