Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
Now showing items 4403-4422 of 7610
-
Memorials for the Living: Dynamic, Engaging, and Inclusive Spaces of Remembrance
(2018-07-31)This thesis addresses the vibrant and divisive discourse surrounding architectural memorialisation. Contemporary debates on memorial architecture are often centred on the exclusion of certain groups and their perspectives. ... -
Memories of Home: An Emotional Landscape for Elderly Care
(2024-04-10)Institutional healthcare models are failing Canada’s elderly. A long culture of agism has led to the creation of sterile, visually dominant, and commodified architectural environments that lack the emotional and social ... -
Memories of the Border War: An Interpretive Analysis of White South African Defence Force Veteran Perspectives, 1966-1989
(2012-08-28)Through their stories, South African Defence Force (SADF) veterans of the Border War participate in the historical revival of South Africa’s involvement in the Angolan conflict, 1966-1989. Their engagement in the Border ... -
Memory and Myth:Storytelling as a Design Tool for a Youth Camp in Haida Gwaii
(2012-04-04)Located at Swan Bay on the islands of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) in Pacific Northwestern British Columbia, this thesis uses the mode of ‘storytelling’ to design a cultural education camp for the ... -
MEMS EARTHWORM: THE DESIGN AND TESTING OF A BIO-INSPIRED HIGH PRECISION, HIGH SPEED, LONG RANGE PERISTALTIC MICRO-MOTOR
(2010-11-22)This work examined the design, fabrication, and testing of a bio-mimetic MEMS earthworm crawler with external actuators. The micro-earthworm consisted of a passive mobile shuttle with two flexible diamond shaped segments; ... -
Men and women in a Halifax working-class neighbourhood in the 1920s.
(Dalhousie University, 1990) -
Men and women: Gender relations and the history of Owan communities, Nigeria c.1320-1900.
(Dalhousie University, 1993) -
Men nurses and masculinities: Exploring gendered and sexed relations in nursing.
(Dalhousie University, 2001) -
Mend: Engaging a Divided City
(2018-07-31)At the behest of industrial and government demands in the 1960s, Saint John [NB] engaged in an urban renewal initiative to increase transportation effi ciency and remove urban blight. The resulting impact was a congestion ... -
Mending the Broken City: Grafting the Village Towards Regenerating Damaged Urban Environments
(2021-07-09)Pre-war Beirut was characteristic of a typical Mediterranean urban fabric with its densely packed low-rise buildings and a cultural scene that saw public program mixed homogeneously with dwelling and other civic functions, ... -
Mental Health of Rural Mi'kmaw Youth:Community Based Participatory Research
(2014-07-10)Background: Some Aboriginal scholars explain mental health as a balance of the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of an individual in connection with families, communities and the land. A critical analysis ... -
MENTAL HEALTH OF UNIVERSITY CLUB RUGBY PLAYERS FOLLOWING INJURY: IDENTIFYING RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS
(2017-08-08)Mental health, rather than mental illness, is an important area of focus within health promotion. Although sport participation has many health benefits, athletes are vulnerable to poor mental health following athletic ... -
Mental Health Outcomes for Children Engaging in Home-based Learning During COVID-19: The Role of Routines and Household Chaos
(2021-08-31)The current thesis examined the impact of mandated home-based learning (HBL) on children’s mental health as well as the moderating role of routines and household chaos in this relation. Romantic couples (N = 717) with a ... -
The Mercers of Parma; 1585-1739: A Microcosm of the World of Commerce
(2014-08-13)Examination of 21 inventories and other documents from Parma, ranging from 1585 to 1739, correlating with historical trends over the period, revealed changes in the local and internationally ramified trade in mercery: ... -
MERCURY EXPORT FROM SMALL FORESTED WATERSHEDS IN WESTCENTRAL NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECOLOGICAL MODEL
(2011-03-08)As an efficient filter of airborne Hg compounds, forests retain a significant portion of the Hg deposited to the land. Forested watersheds have been identified as major sources of low-concentration Hg compounds to surrounding ... -
Mesomeric Tuning At Bi Centres & The Reuse Of A Waste Product From Cage Synthesis
(2022-12-06)Over the past decade, there has been a great interest in using the main group elements to do transition metal-like chemistry. Our research group installs ancillary ligands onto heavy main group elements, forcing them to ... -
Mesoporous Silicon Nanoparticles for Solar-Driven Hydrogen Generation from Water
(2021-12-13)Solar-driven hydrogen (H2) production from water (water splitting) by semiconductor photocatalysts has potential as a sustainable and cost-competitive alternative to current H2 production technologies. In recent years, ... -
Messianism in the Heart of Europe: Analysing Poland’s Law and Justice Party, Narratives of Identity, and the European Union
(2023-08-24)This project delves into the contemporary conflict the Polish government under the Eurosceptic and Catholic-nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) finds itself in with the European Union. Within questions of European ... -
Meta-analytical approaches to the study of fish population dynamics.
(Dalhousie University, 2002) -
A META-GREEN A Dynamic Architecture Along the Banks of the Saint John River
(2019-04-04)Through the catalytic theory of cybernetics, this thesis proposes a local intervention within the vast network of synthetic and organic systems that span the watershed of the Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick, Canada. ...