Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Losses of carbon from mineral-associated soil organic matter pools in podzolic horizons following soil climatic changes associated with forest clear-cut harvesting
(2019-12-05)Losses of soil organic matter (SOM) from mineral soils through depth have been documented following intensive forest harvesting practices such as clear-cut harvesting, and this has implications for global carbon cycling. ... -
Lost and Found: Anchoring Infrastructures of Queer Belonging in Hamilton, Ontario
(2022-07-27)LGBTQ2+ people have long used queer spaces to orient themselves in the world and create a sense of belonging in a community. Years of systemic oppression have formed inequities within and outside the LGBTQ2+ community that ... -
Lost in Transition? Health Service Utilization of IWK Mental Health and Addictions Patients on Transition to Adult Services
(2021-08-09)The objective of this thesis was to improve our understanding of transition aged youth accessing public Mental Health & Addictions (MHA) services in Nova Scotia and identify potential inequities using routinely collected ... -
Lost in Translation: The Impact of International Institutions’ Gender Norm Diffusion Practices on Post-Conflict States
(2022-04-29)This thesis analyzes the impact of gender norm diffusion practices employed by international institutions on post-conflict states. This project uses constructivism and feminist institutionalism to explore how the United ... -
Louisbourg’s Labourer-Soldiers, 1720-1743: Labour and Empire Building in an Era of Peace
(2014-08-25)This thesis explores contributions of Louisbourg’s soldiers as non-combatants between 1720 and 1743 to the building of a French Atlantic Empire. Louisbourg’s garrison was the main construction force used to build the ... -
“The loveliest lies of all”: Death, Closure, and the Banishment Tale in Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall
(2021-08-24)This thesis is a poststructuralist examination of Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall television miniseries and graphic novels Tome of the Unknown and Distillatoria (termed the “primary canon”) as a postmodern adaptation ... -
Low Back Pain Prognostic Factors in the Canadian Armed Forces
(2014-05-01)Summary: Low back pain is the most common reason for referral to musculoskeletal care in the Canadian military. With healthcare seeking for musculoskeletal care rising over the past five years, and healthcare easily ... -
LOW COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEAD VIDEO ENCRYPTION FOR WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA DEVICES
(2014-10-06)Selective encryption is a promising technique which provides privacy protection for multimedia technology. In this thesis we propose a scheme to optimize computational cost for energy critical wireless multimedia applications. ... -
A LOW COST 2-AXIS PLC CONTROLLED FILAMENT WINDING MACHINE WITH SIMPLIFIED FIBER WINDING ANGLE AND TENSION CONTROL SYSTEM
(2011-03-30)Designing a filament winding machine involves two major components. First component is the designing of the mechanism which delivers appropriate winding pattern as specified by the user (i.e. the winding angle). The ... -
LOW CYCLE RESPONSE OF DENTED PIPELINES SUBJECT TO CYCLIC AXIAL AND BENDING LOADS
(2017-12-15)In the present thesis, the ratcheting and low cycle fatigue responses of dented pipes undergoing quasi-static cyclic loads are investigated through a series of experiments conducted on small-scale pipe samples, and performing ... -
LOW POWER PHOTO-VOLTAIC HARVESTERS AND CHARGERS WITH IMPROVED RELIABILITY, SUITABLE FOR HEAVILY OVERCAST OPERATIONS
(2022-09-06)Photo-voltaic (PV) power harvest can have decent efficiency when working with high irradiance power. A DC-DC boost converter is a vital part of any power harvesting module. When PV operates with a DC-DC boost converter ... -
Low Velocity Impact Response of a Novel Class of Fiber Metal Laminates Consisting of a 3D Fiberglass Fabrics
(2017-11-30)The most important concern in automobiles collision is their crashworthiness. From an engineering point of view, the term “crashworthiness” provides a metric of the abilities of a vehicle and its components to prevent the ... -
Low voltage CMOS analog circuit design using body-driven techniques.
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A Low-Cost and Resilient Flow Monitoring Framework in SDN
(2019-08-06)Network measurement and monitoring are essential for learning the current network state and act accordingly. Moreover, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) makes the measurement and monitoring more accessible and flexible. ... -
Low-Cost Submersible Fluorometer for Fresh and Marine Water Environments
(2022-12-15)Fluorescence technology is a powerful tool for the detection of harmful algal blooms, oil spill response, oceanographic tracer experiments, and much more. Two ways of fluorescence detection are presented here, a novel ... -
Low-dose pesticide effects in Apis mellifera: testing hormesis and reviewing changing trends in honey bee toxicology research
(2022-08-30)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) dominate crop pollination worldwide and are often considered the most important pollinator of agricultural crops. As pollinators, honey bees are likely to encounter insecticides in the field. ... -
Low-Frequency Hydrophone Calibration Using Elastic Waveguides
(2023-08-08)Modern hydrophone calibration techniques typically require sensors to be placed in a free field or within a hydrostatically varying chamber. Between 1 kHz and 10 kHz, the wavelength in water is too long for free-field ... -
Low-Power Staircase Encoder Implementation for High-Throughput Fiber-Optical Communications
(2020-09-11)This thesis presents a very large scale integration (VLSI) architecture of a high-throughput, low latency and power staircase forward error correction (FEC) encoder. The designed encoder achieves low latency and memory ... -
Low-temperature hydrogen-atom ordering in NaOH in relation to the deuterium-induced phase transition in NaOD.
(Dalhousie University, 1998) -
Low-Voltage and Low-Power Analog Integrated Filters implementing Current-mode Bulk-Driven Differentiators
(2016-08-31)This work introduces a CTCM Gate-driven (GD) and Bulk-driven (BD) differentiators using the TSMC 65 nm CMOS technology as an alternative to existing integrator circuits. This CM differentiator exhibits higher stability and ...